The 79th China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF Spring 2018)
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Date:
11-14 April, 2018 (Wednesday to Saturday)
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Venue:
National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) |
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Organized By:
Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions |
China International Medicinal Equipment Fair (CMEF), launched in 1979, is held twice annually – spring and autumn. After over 38 years of continuous innovation and self-improvement, CMEF has become the largest fair of medical equipment, related products and services in the Asia-Pacific region. The fair widely covers 15,000 products such as medical imaging, IVD, electronics, optics, first aid, rehabilitation nursing, medical IT and outsourcing services, and it serves the entire value chain of medical devices from the source to the end in a direct and all-round way. At each fair, almost 4,200 medical device manufacturers from over 28 countries, and about 120,000 people who are government procurement agencies, hospital buyers and dealers from over 100 countries and regions gather in CMEF for trading and exchanges; With in-depth professional development of the exhibition, CMEF has initiated conference forums and established a series of sub-brands in medical field including CMEF Imaging, CMEF IVD and ICMD.
Startup Launchpad 2018 – Consumer Electronics
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Date:
11-14 April, 2018 (Wednesday to Saturday)
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Venue:
AsiaWorld-Expo |
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Organized By:
Global Sources |
Startup Launchpad brings together the hottest new IoT, AI, smart home, robotics, 3D printing, wearables, VR/AR and other high-growth hardware startups. If you’re looking for latest shelf-ready innovations, Startup Launchpad is the show for you.
Challenges in Patenting FinTech, IoT and Blockchain Inventions
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Date:
22 March 2018 (Thursday)
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Venue:
Chen Kuan Cheng Forum (LT-H), HKUST |
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Organized By:
Technology Transfer Center |
Are you innovating in the FinTech or IoT space? Does Blockchain offer solutions to problems you are wrestling with? Do you want to protect such innovations? This presentation on how to meet and successfully carve out your space in FinTech, IoT and Blockchain areas is a must attend event. Patenting FinTech inventions has a number of hurdles and challenges that must be successfully met if you are to obtain a valuable IP asset in the FinTech space, including software patentable subject matter issues in the US and other jurisdictions. Many aspects of IoT has been patented; this presentation will discuss how to obtain IoT patents and extract value from such IP assets. As to Blockchain, many uses of Blockchain have yet to be discovered and the diversified encryption nature of Blockchain can provide advantageous solutions which you can protect……and we will explain how.
MakeITHongKong3-2-1 Go!
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Date:
21 March 2018 (Wednesday)
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Venue:
The Square (Underneath the Golden Egg), Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks |
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Organized By:
Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) |
Themed “MakeITHongKong3-2-1 Go!”, HKSTP aims to gather members of partner companies, industry associations, academia, media friends and students to visit its campus, and witness the progress accomplished collectively by all the R&D professionals inside Science Park.
The Startup "Make or Break" Series
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Date:
Workshop 1 (March 9, 2018 in Cantonese)
Workshop 2 (March 23, 2018 in Cantonese)
Workshop 3 (April 13, 2018 in Cantonese)
Workshop 4 (April 27, 2018 in English)
Workshop 5 (May 4, 2018 in English)
Workshop 6 ( May 18, 2018 in English)
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Venue:
HKPC Building 78 Tat Chee Avenue Kowloon |
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Organized By:
HKPC Academy |
Details of each workshop:
Workshop 1 (March 9, 2018 in Cantonese),
Workshop 4 (April 27, 2018 in English):
How to prepare the entrepreneurial mind-set and systematically work on market identification and business modeling
Workshop 2 (March 23, 2018 in Cantonese),
Workshop 5 (May 4, 2018 in English):
How to do an Elevator Pitch, a1-page teaser and a PowerPoint pitch deck for investment
Workshop 3 (April 13, 2018 in Cantonese),
Workshop 6 ( May 18, 2018 in English):
How to prepare a full business plan and due diligence for VCs
These "Startup Make or Break" workshops are highly practical, recognizing and addressing the importance of financial resources for survival as well as careful business planning and put special emphasis on fund-raising from potential investors such as business angels and early-stage venture capitalists. They focus on several major topics related to starting and growing business ventures, which include (i) readying the entrepreneurial mind-set, (ii) planning the business – via market identification, business/revenue modeling, and (iii) obtaining the external investment money, using an elevator pitch, a 1-page teaser and a powerful pitch deck, particularly on ventures with innovative ideas and technology.
