Angel Forum
Introducing Emerging BC Companies to Private Investors
October 26, 27
Vancouver, B.C.
Do you know of a company looking for an investor! Many small companies require additional
equity, but don't qualify for the average venture capital investment of $2.4 million.
The 6th Annual Forum in Vancouver is a solution.
For further information contact:
Bob Chatworth
Strategies for Business Growth
October 28, 1999
British Columbia Medical Device Industry Association in collaboration with with the Canadian
Consulate General in Seattle is presenting this half day seminar and an opportunity to learn about
immigration, business planning and taxation issues for doing business in the U.S. Plus, hear from
the Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Medtronic Physio-Control in Redmond,
WA about strategies for market identification and product introduction.
For further information please contact:
Sean Irvine
Secretariat BCMEDIA
The ASI Exchange 2000
March 14, 2000
Robson Square Conference Centre
Vancouver, B.C.
The ASI Exchange is the one-day event for BC's advanced technology community. It is the event
where the entire range of "players" in BC's advanced technology community comes together. It attracts
over 1600 participants - not only hundreds of high-tech industry professionals, but also hundreds of
university researchers, plus industry associations, investors and others who support and assist the
industry.
The Exchange is the showcase for research, new technologies, prototypes and products. There will
be over 200 exhibits - industry displays of new products and services, research displays by applied
science and arts graduate students and academic laboratories, and more by financial and industry
support organizations and undergraduate students.
The Exchange is free of charge - but you must pre-register.
For more information contact:
Carol Hassell or Lisa Welbourn
The BC Advanced Systems Institute
Infocus 2000
International Health Information Conference
June 24-27, 2000
The conference will be co-sponsored by a variety of Canadian national stakeholder organizations
along with several international organizations.
INFOcus 2000 is a forum for sharing between and amongst the multiple disciplines within the broad
field of health information.
Conference Topics will include:
- ISO standards
- Electronic Health Record Symposium
- Information Management in health organizations
- Evidence based health services
- ELSI ( Ethics, legal and social issues) Policies
- Security and confidentiality
- Telehealth
- Organizational htmlects of health information (including business process design/redesign)
- Knowledge transfer: Education and Training
The program will emphasize approaches that are multidisciplinary, community based, population
health oriented in addition to integrated delivery networks and acute care.
There will be five categories of offerings:
- Invited presentations
- Contributed papers - refereed
- Research
- Theoretical
- Opinion
- Contributed papers - non refereed
- Tutorials
- Demonstrations
The conference will also include a major exhibit and trade show.
For further information please contact:
Conference Coordinator
Steven A. Huesing
7th Pacific Rim Biotechnology Conference and BioExpo
Hosted in Partnership by BC Biotechnology Alliance and BIOTECanada
November 13 - 18, 2000
