Invitation - Turning Challenges into Opportunities in Healthcare and Life Sciences

The HKCBA Ottawa chapter invites you to join us as we bring together industry leaders, business partners, and policymakers for a timely discussion on crucial emerging trends. We connect key stakeholders in diverse sectors, i.e., finance, investment, healthcare, life sciences, R&D, legal, and IP.

Companies must leverage Ottawa's and Hong Kong's unique position as global hubs for applied research, ground-breaking innovations, disruptive products, and services.

During this session, speakers from both the private and public sectors will:

1. Discuss up-to-date information and business development opportunities in Hong Kong and Asia;
2. Offer an open competition to win licenses of patented technology from multinational corporations, such as Panasonic and Nokia, so that organizations & teams can jumpstart their R&D projects and scale up business, for example, in digital healthcare, wearables, data analytics, AI/AR/VR, financial tech, smart navigation, smart productivity, and more;
3. Offer the opportunity to participate in the Asia Summit on Global Health in 2022;
4. Show how Canada adopted flexibility and innovative approaches to provide reliable solutions to hospitals, medical and research centers worldwide;
5. Show how Canada is developing innovative treatments to address unmet medical needs and accelerating its COVID-19 therapeutic development.

Participated organizations in the panel were Invest HK, Piece Future, JN Nova Pharma Incorporation, and Best Theratronics. 

• Piece Future aims to create positive economic, environmental, and social impacts. Piece Future's IPHatch program bridges patented technology with high-growth companies and emerging start-ups. It boosts business expansion and funding opportunities. It turns healthcare and life sciences challenges into opportunities with tech innovation and business intelligence. The IPHatch program is an open-innovation competition looking for innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs to bring business plans to fruition by commercializing one or more Intellectual Property (IP) / Technology portfolios from renowned MNCs. Mr. Pan Wong has valuable working experience from Fortune 500 listing IT vendors and leading professional service providers for legal and financial professionals. For contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wongpan/. For more information, visit: https://www.iphatchday.com/ 

• COVID-19 is a complex disease that causes damage to multiple organs, including the lung, heart, blood vessels, and brain. JN Nova Pharma Incorporation is working with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to co-develop a therapeutic platform for COVID-19, benefiting Canadians and people with Acute Kidney Injuries. Dr. John Gillard is one of Canada's precision medicine biotech pioneers. Dr. Nathan Yoganathan is the recipient of numerous awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Thyroid Foundation of Canada. They developed the JN2019 molecule that has three functions: 1) replaces the loss of ACE2 enzyme essential for lung, heart, and kidney, 2) treats Acute Kidney Injuries (AKI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), and 3) traps COVID19 virus. Their discovery and development benefit Canadians and people worldwide. For contact: john@jnnova.com. For more information: https://jnnova.com/index.html

• Best Theratronics is located in Ottawa, Canada. It is part of the TeamBest family of companies. TeamBest has been proudly developing, manufacturing, and delivering reliable medical equipment and supplies for over 40 years. TeamBest includes over a dozen companies offering complementary products and services for brachytherapy, health physics, radiation oncology, blood irradiation, vascular therapy, imaging, and medical particle acceleration. TeamBest is the single source for an expansive line of life-saving medical equipment and supplies. TeamBest is constantly expanding and innovating to provide the most reliable and cutting-edge medical equipment and supplies to the global healthcare and research industries. Mr. Krish Suthantrian, Founder and CEO of TeamBest, also started the Best Cure Foundation. One of its goals is to reduce the cost of healthcare worldwide by 30%. For more http://www.teambest.com/about.html