Innovation and Enterprise Week 2009
Exploit Technologies, the strategic marketing and commercialization arm of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, will be organizing it’s first ever Innovation and Enterprise Week 2009 from 19th October to 23rd October 2009. The multi-faceted event aims to discuss topics spread out over 3 platforms: Technology Marketplace, Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and Industry Engagement Sessions.
Themes Platforms
Technology Market Place is the platform for local companies to “shop” for technologies to boost their product offerings. The Innovation and Enterprise Week event will showcase a whole suite of technologies from Infocomm Technology and Electronics, Engineering and Manufacturing, Materials, Chemicals and Energy and Biomedical Sciences.
The Entrepreneurship Ecosystems platform aims to bring together angel investors and venture capitalists together to discuss the increasingly important role in value creation led by high-technology industries, especially in the smaller initial funding stages. This will comprise an angel investment conference as well as a venture capital forum. One of the startups presenting will be iTwin, which was recently featured at TechCrunch50.
The Industry Engagement platform will be hosting a series of industry roundtables to discuss issues and elicit feedback on emerging technologies in infocomm technology, engineering and manufacturing, and materials, chemicals and energy.
Distinguished Speakers
The event features a lot of distinguished speakers. Some of the speakers include:
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Dr. Michael Hayden is a Killam Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine. He is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) in Vancouver, Canada; a gene research center under UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, located at the Child and Family Research Institute (Click here for more info) |
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Phillip I. Overmyer is the Chief Executive of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce (SICC) and took on this position in June 2003. He is responsible for the overall management of the Chamber, which serves approximately 800 member companies engaged in international businesses. The SICC provides a wide range of trade services, business information, networking opportunities, and government advocacy programs for its members. (Click here for more info) |
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Mr Cheng is responsible for designing and implementing the IP infrastructure master plan to ensure a conducive environment to sustain IP growth in Singapore. These include public awareness and education initiatives, capability and capacity development of IP professionals and the build up of IP management capabilities in both the private and public sectors. (Click here for more info) |
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Melissa Clark-Reynolds is widely recognised as an inspirational role model and entrepreneur.In 1980, Melissa was the youngest woman to attend University in New Zealand. In her early 20’s, she went to the United States to attend Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she completed a combined Masters Degree in Health & Environmental Studies. She returned to New Zealand and became a sought after consultant in these fields.Melissa established a health and safety and ACC (Workers Comp) consultancy which became New Zealand’s largest private accident compensation insurer – Fusion. (Click here for more info) |
Event Details
The event will be taking place at Level 4 of the Matrix Building at the Biopolis. Registration is FREE and you can RSVP at this link.
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