Background
Sanotron has received an unsolicited request for assistance with programing a one day event for HealthGames Denmark, a not-for-profit organization that is planning to visit Vancouver on June 18-19, 2012. This is a EU-sponsored consortium of public and private organizations from Denmark and Germany who are looking at the potential of games and gamification in the healthcare sector.
The one day event includes corporate presentations, visits of some of the leaders in the BC health games space, partner meetings, exchange of knowledge and best practices, discussions for potential collaboration, innovation, business development, trade and investment between Denmark and BC’s digital health industry/community.
Suggested program - Tuesday, June 19th
7:30 - 9:30am Breakfast, presentations, visit and network
1. Sanotron & BC Sector Overview
2. Health Games Denmark
3. Visit W2 Multi Media Centre
Address: W2 Media Cafe 111 West Hastings Street
Expected: 20-25 people
9:30 - 9:45am Interview local newspaper, W2 social media
10:00 - 10:45am Visit: Ayogo Games
Address: #210 - 314 West Cordova Street
Meeting: Michael Fergusson, CEO Paul Prescod, CTO and the team
11:00 - 11:45am Visit: Digido Interactive or IgnitePlay Health Games
Address: TBD
Meeting: Alan Price, CEO or Lisa Andres, CEO
12:00 - 12:45pm Visit: Silicon Sisters Interactive
Address: 311 Water Street (Gastown)
Meeting: Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch, CEO
1:00 - 2:00pm Visit: The Centre for Digital Media + Lunch
Address: 577 Great Northern Way Campus
Meeting: Management team and students working on relevant projects
in health and wellness
2:00 - 4:00pm One-on-one partner meetings @ The Centre for Digital Media (25 min/each)
Address: 577 Great Northern Way Campus
Meeting #1: BC Institute of Technology - eHealth Accelerator
Meeting #2: GRAND Nat’l Centre of Excellence
Meeting #3: NeuroDevNet Nat’l Centre of Excellence/Univ Fraser Valley
Meeting #4: UBC MAGIC Lab or BC Children’s Hospital
4:30 - 6:00pm Casual gathering and business networking
Address: Edible Canada on Granville Island
Expected: 15-20 executives from industry, research, gov’t
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