The presentation shares the perspectives on cultural sensitivity in biobanking through personal experiences, lens as an ISBER Director-at-large for the IPR region and reflections in my biobanking journey. We also appreciate that understanding and embracing cultural differences is not only important for our own biobanking work at global scale but also for connecting biobanking professionals from across the region, even within ABNA landscapes. We have to be calm, be patience and be ‘demure’!