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LIFE Sciences CANADIAN INNOVATION AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP PROMOTING ECONOMIC STRENGTHS TO MEET WITH PURPOSE IN CANADA #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 1
CANADA DISCOVER CANADA FOR BUSINESS EVENTS IN FOCUS “ Canada is one of the safest, affordable and most welcoming destinations. When you convene in Canada for meetings and conventions you’ll be connected with the innovators who are shaping the future, the thought leaders who are leading the way and the 36.7 business and research architects who elevate Canada’s position on the world stage across a spectrum of industries. Research tells us meeting in Canada makes delegate engagement soar; MILLION connecting with Business Events Canada is the TOTAL POPULATION first step to your best conference ever.” 18.4 CANADA RANKS — Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, Executive Director, Global 1ST IN THE G7 FOR Business Events Canada Business Events Canada is a division of Destination Canada, our national tourism marketing agency Democracy charged with growing Canada’s share of MILLION “ (The Economist Intelligence Unit) international business events. TOTAL WORKFORCE Economic Freedom Canada is an alluring destination for 1.3 (The Heritage Foundation) global meetings and business events. By showcasing our industry expertise, we Social Progress provide meeting planners and decision (The Social Progress Imperative) makers with important context to make MILLION Overall Reputation (Reputation Institute) their case for meeting in Canada, and fresh content to augment their agenda that is only BUSINESSES available here. When you couple that with the $2.14 Quality of Life unique conference locations and experiences (OECD) Canada is known for, it's a win for everyone.” — Virginie De Visscher, Director of Business Development Economic Sectors, Business Events Canada TRILLION TOTAL GDP SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA CANADAʼS CLUSTER EXPERTISE The Quebec-Ontario corridor The Montréal InVivo life sciences Canada offers is North America's second-largest and health technologies cluster is businesses the in terms of the number of life sciences comprised of more than: MOST EDUCATED companies, and represents: talent pool among • More than 1,100 companies 11 OECD countries • 66,000 qualified people POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS • 490 undergraduate and graduate programs in biological and biomedicine sciences 620 ORGANIZATIONS • The majority of Canadian sales and exports in life sciences 41,000 • Access to the majority of SKILLED WORKERS Canadian venture capital 1st in Canada for number of research centres and total university research funding 2 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA
BUSINESS EVENTS DRIVE ECONOMIES AND INNOVATION Business Events Canada is focused on attracting conferences and business events from across the key economic sectors in which Canada excels. With more than $918 million in active R&D, the life sciences sector is a key driver of Canada’s economy and one of the country’s top priority economic sectors. By focusing on the whole By converging diverse, creative and commercial ecosystem, aligning Canada’s interests across industries, global life sciences-focused key economic drivers, conferences have the power to transform communities academia, vibrant destinations with their subsequent legacy impacts, also known as and conference infrastructure, “beyond tourism benefits.” More than a marketing tool Business Events Canada to attract conferences, Business Events Canada's creates a recipe for innovative, priority sector strategy is a long-range economic authentic and engaging development strategy with far-reaching benefits that conferences and events. will last long after each conference has concluded. #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 3
CANADA’S LIFE SCIENCES CENTRES VANCOUVER • Cardiology EDMONTON • Dermatology TORONTO • Cardiology SASKATOON • Genomics • Diabetes • Biopharmaceuticals • Infectious Diseases • Biotechnology Research • Health Training & • Health Research • Metabolic Diseases Simulation • Cyclotron Sciences • Imaging & Medical Devices • Nanomedicines • Medical Imaging • Reproductive Health • Neuroscience • Neuroscience • Medical Technologies/ • Patient-oriented Medicine • Oncology • Oncology Biotechnology • Synchrotron • Pharmaceuticals • Patient-oriented Medicine • Oncology • Tele-robotics Health • Regenerative Medicine/ • Pharmaceuticals • Organ Transplantation • Vaccines and Stem cells • Regenerative Medicine • Virology Infectious Diseases 4 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA
OTTAWA MONTRÉAL QUÉBEC CITY HALIFAX • Biopharmaceuticals • Biotechnology • Biopharmaceuticals • Medical Technologies • Cardiology • Cardiology • Cosmeceuticals • Digital Health • E-Health • Contractual Research/ • E-Health • Pharmaceuticals & • Medical Devices Medical Technology • Medical Technologies Vaccines • Oncology • Endocrinology • Nutraceuticals • BioProducts • Immunology • Pharmaceuticals • Natural Health Products • Neurology • Vaccines & Diagnostics • Oncology • Pharmaceuticals BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 5
LIFE SCIENCES INNOVATION IS IN OUR DNA Canada’s life sciences sector boasts a solid track record of health-care innovation characterized by cutting-edge research, innovative thinking and cross-industry collaboration. $918.2 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA CAPABILITIES MILLION TOTAL R&D BY PATENTEES BIOLOGICS MEDICAL DEVICES THE NUMBER OF R&D PATENTEES INCREASED 5.7% VACCINES IMPLANTABLE BIOMATERIALS COMPANIES BETWEEN 2015 AND 2016 SOURCE: PMPRB 2016 ANNUAL REPORT PER SECTOR IN CANADA CANADA’S LIFE SCIENCES SECTOR • Supplier & Engineering 1,239 companies (29.1%) Focused on life sciences R&D, manufacturing medical • Public/Non-profit Organizations/ devices and diagnostic equipment, and developing Medical Facilities 726 companies (17.1%) pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals. • Professional Services & Consulting Segments/subsectors include: Canada is the 564 companies (13.2%) • Biopharmaceuticals • Medical Technologies lowest-cost • Biotechnology/R&D Services • Biotechnology • Medical Technologies/Biotech 380 companies (8.9%) • Cardiology • Metabolic Diseases G7 country in • Medical Technology 370 companies (8.7%) • Contractual Research/Medical Technology • Nanomedicines biotechnology, • Natural Health Products • Biotechnology–Other • Cosmeceuticals • Neurology/Neuroscience product testing 312 companies (7.3%) • Cyclotron Sciences • Dermatology • Nutraceuticals and clinical • Biotechnology– Therapeutics & Diagnostics • Oncology 247 companies (5.8%) • Digital Health • Organ Transplantation trials industries • Drug Reformulation • HealthTech • Patient-oriented Medicine 205 companies (4.8%) • E-Health • Pharmaceuticals • Endocrinology • Pharma • Regenerative Medicine/ Did you know... 112 companies (2.6%) • Genomics Stem Cells Frederick Banting and Charles Best • Investor • Health Research • Reproductive Health revolutionized diabetes treatment 83 companies (1.9%) • Health Training and Simulation • Synchrotron in the 1920s by developing • Media • Immunology • Tele-robotics Health a method to extract insulin from 20 companies (0.5%) • Infectious Diseases • Vaccines & Diagnostic a donor pancreas. Total # companies: 4,258 • Medical Devices • Virology • Medical Imaging 6 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca
IMPROVING GLOBAL HEALTH ONE BREAKTHROUGH AT A TIME Innovative lifesaving treatment protocols, pharmaceutical drug The world’s 2nd highest number of biotechnology companies therapies and medical devices developed here contribute are concentrated in Canada. The 10th largest market for to Canada’s place as a world leader in health sciences. pharmaceutical sales, it is Canada’s infrastructure, talent and From creating the world’s first pacemaker and discovering the ready access to key markets that draw the world’s largest potential of stem cells in revolutionary therapies, to battling life sciences companies here. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Gilead, some of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, Canadian Novartis, Johnson & Johnson and others are among the researchers forge a path toward a healthier world. Canada’s global leaders conducting research, running clinical trials and leadership in digital technology and robotics is changing patient manufacturing new drugs in Canada. care through future-focused advancements in everything from medtech to medical manufacturing. Canada is home to North America’s 2nd largest life sciences corridor. With hotspots for cancer research, radiation therapies, regenerative treatments, brain and vascular health across the country, multinational organizations recognize that incredible advancements in patient care are happening here. In Canada, sparks of inspiration often become life-changing discoveries and treatments. It’s also where life sciences leaders connect people and purpose in conferences from coast to coast. LEARN MORE businesseventscanada.ca
SUBSECTOR SPOTLIGHT PHARMACEUTICALS & BIOPHARMACEUTICALS HOTSPOTS VANCOUVER QUÉBEC CITY MONTRÉAL OTTAWA TORONTO Emerging fields: $1.1 LEADING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN CANADA biologics and subsequent entry BILLION biologics (SEBs) ANNUAL R&D CANADA SUCCESS STORIES $15.5 Canada is the world’s With 45 resident companies, 10TH LARGEST market Johnson & Johnson for pharmaceutical sales Innovation’s JLABS incubator BILLION in Toronto is the largest of its 2% share of the global market ANNUAL REVENUE CANADA kind, offering 45 emerging companies the environment to 50% of Canadian production catalyze growth and optimize is exported to the US SOURCE: PMPRB 2016 ANNUAL REPORT SOURCE: IMS PHARMAFOCUS 2021 their R&D. ONCOLOGY SUCCESS STORIES Canada's global leadership in The test identifies roughly one-third stem cell and regenerative of early breast cancer patients HOTSPOTS medicine research goes back whose tumours are of a low-risk more than 50 years to when Drs. subtype, thus helping patients James Till and Ernest McCulloch avoid unnecessary chemotherapy. EDMONTON first proved the existence of stem The University of Saskatchewanʼs VANCOUVER cells (hematopoietic). Their Lasker state-of-the-art cyclotron is being QUÉBEC CITY Prize-winning work contributed used to produce the radioactive MONTRÉAL to the development of several OTTAWA tracer FDG for cancer diagnosis TORONTO lifesaving therapies, from and treatment. This breakthrough bone-marrow transplantation allows more patients to receive to cancer treatment. PET/CT scans close to their homes PAM50 is a test developed by and families instead of travelling out Dr. Torsten Nielsen to measure key of province for treatment. genes expressed by breast cancer. 8 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca
INFECTIOUS IMAGING & DISEASES MEDICAL DEVICES 7TH HOTSPOTS Did you know... VANCOUVER The world’s first practical SASKATOON QU ÉBEC CITY LARGEST artificial pacemaker was developed in Canada in IN THE WORLD 1950 thanks to the efforts of John Hopps, an electrical $3.1 ACCURATE AND engineer with the National SUCCESS STORIES RAPID DIAGNOSES Research Council. The University of Saskatchewan's BILLION Vaccine and Infectious Disease CANADA’S LEADING Organization–International MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY BD Diagnostics GeneOhm EXPORTS COMPANIES* Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) produces in vitro polymerase was the first to develop a swine chain reaction (PCR) tests • 3M Canada $8.6 model for the study of Zika virus used to identify infectious • Agfa-HealthCare infection. In 2013, when the agents in record time. • Bausch & Lomb Canada Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus • Bio-Rad Laboratories spread to North America, VIDO- InterVac developed an improved BILLION • Getinge Canada • Merge Healthcare vaccine before the virus infected IMPORTS Canada. A commercial partner is DiagnoCure develops • Siemens Canada SOURCE: GLOBAL TRADE ATLAS manufacturing the vaccine and molecular diagnostic • Sparton Electronics seeking regulatory approval for tests for detecting and • STEMCELL Technologies use in the US and Canada. monitoring cancer. HOTSPOTS * Revenue over $100 million Appili Therapeutics is SOURCE: CONTACT CANADA AND MEDEC working with the National Research Council to develop GenePOC's “lab on a chip” EDMONTON the ATI-1701 vaccine to protect carries out diagnostic tests for against tularemia, a highly pathogen genes in a doctor’s infectious disease and a QU ÉBEC CITY office within 70 minutes. potential bioterror threat. OTTAWA HALIFAX TORONTO SUCCESS STORIES Robert Burrell, a University of Alberta engineering professor, Québec City ̓s Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) invented Acticoat, a nanotech silver-coated wound dressing at Laval University is 1st in Canada and 5th worldwide. As part that creates an optimal antimicrobial environment and is of an international consortium, IDRC has completed all stages in remarkably effective with burn patients. the FDA regulatory approval process and is conducting the first clinical trials for its Zika vaccine. Did you know... bioLytical Laboratories Inc., based in Richmond, British Columbia, developed the INSTI® HIV Self Test used in the diagnosis of HIV infection. It is the fastest HIV diagnostic test in the world at 60 seconds. #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 9
VANCOUVER EDMONTON The Vancouver region has developed a reputation for research Edmonton is the headquarters for Alberta Health Services (AHS), excellence in oncology, infectious diseases (such as HIV, SARS and Canada's largest province-wide, fully integrated health system, prions), neuroscience and regenerative medicine and is home to the responsible for delivering health services to more than four million world's only quantum computer. residents. AHS is the largest contributor to Alberta's GDP. “ LIFE SCIENCES IN EDMONTON Vancouver-based University of British Columbia is home to the largest academic life sciences institute in Canada. We can help 66,000 4,500 $13.6 your organization tap into Vancouver’s world-leading community of Life Science researchers working in academia, government and industry.” PEOPLE WORKING IN HEALTH HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES BILLION ALBERTA GDP COMPANIES —Andrea Heaney, Manager, Meetings and Conventions, Tourism Vancouver SOURCE: EDMONTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (EEDC); HEALTH LIFE SCIENCES Did you know... SECTOR ANALYSIS, EDMONTON GLOBAL IN BRITISH The Vancouver-based Centre for COLUMBIA Drug Research and Development is $14.4 “ Canada’s national drug development BILLION and commercialization engine. Edmonton’s success in health innovation is the result of a number of interrelated strengths at work. With an SECTOR GDP intellectual edge, an ecosystem ripe for growth and strong INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP 178,000 partnerships in place, Edmonton is a leader in health innovation.” —Edmonton, Health City EMPLOYED 450+ University of British Columbia- Broadway Corridor: A world-class COMPANIES life sciences cluster. COMPANIES SOURCE: THE LIFE SCIENCES SEC- TOR IN BC REPORT, OCTOBER 2015, PwC AND LIFESCIENCES BRITISH • Aris MD COLUMBIA • DrugBank Innovation Boulevard: A partnership • Exciton Technologies between Fraser Health, Simon Fraser COMPANIES • MagnetTx University and the City of Surrey to develop a life sciences cluster. • Metabolomic • ABM Applied Biological Technologies Materials Inc. • Nanostics • Arbutus Biopharma • Pri-Med • Celator Pharmaceuticals Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator: • Tevosol • Kardium Inc. • Merck A national organization created to help • Neovasc Inc. new health sciences companies obtain the resources for success. • Response Biomedical SUCCESS STORIES Corp. • STEMCELL Technologies • Xenon Pharmaceuticals University of Alberta breakthroughs: Northern Alberta Institute • Zymeworks of Technology (NAIT) AMERICAN SOCIETY OF • A new heart transplant HUMAN GENETICS is home to the protocol for children Nanotechnology Systems October 20–24, 2026 • The world’s first oral anti-viral treatment for Hepatitis B program—the first such Est. 8,000 attendees • The Edmonton Protocol, a diploma in Canada. SUCCESS STORIES revolutionary treatment for NAIT is one of only Type 1 diabetes three certified CAE • Robotic-assisted beating Healthcare Centres of Augurex and its partners developed a 14-3-3 eta blood test called heart surgery Excellence worldwide. JOINTstat that looks for extracellular protein, which can lead to early • Clarity DX, a blood test to diagnose and diagnosis and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and improve clinical predict prostate cancer outcomes. Clinical labs worldwide have adopted JOINTstat. • Discovering the Nodal protein, a key identifier in treating ovarian cancer 10 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca
SASKATOON TORONTO This Prairie city is among the top biotechnology centres Situated at the midpoint of the Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences in the world, attracting more than 30% of biotechnology Corridor, Toronto is an industry trailblazer and home to nearly 50 research spending in Canada. global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as 16 of the world's top 25 medical device companies. LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH VIDO-InterVac is responsible for several world firsts in animal 36,000 LIFE SCIENCES IN TORONTO CLUSTER vaccines EMPLOYED Innovation Place Saskatoon 8 commercialized vaccines 55% $200+ million in biocontainment OF CANADA’S Canada's LARGEST Canadian Light Source infrastructure PHARMACEUTICAL biotech cluster University of Saskatchewan COMPANIES 150 infectious disease and VIDO-InterVac vaccine studies annually 65% OF CANADA’S Canada's LARGEST “ PHARMACEUTICAL JOBS pharmaceutical cluster Saskatchewan is recognized as a world leader in biotechnology and life sciences with some of the most $1 BILLION+ IN R&D advanced facilities in Canada. Saskatoon’s research infrastructure North America's and talent pool is among our city’s strategic competitive advantages. Hosting your congress here will foster further sharing and 1,400+ SECOND LARGEST life sciences cluster advancement in this area.” CLINICAL TRIALS SOURCE: TOURISM TORONTO — Brad Peters, Director International Sales, Tourism Saskatoon Did you know... INTERNATIONAL Toronto’s Discovery District is Canada’s ASSOCIATION FOR largest concentration of hospitals, research THE STUDY OF LUNG PHOTO: TOURISM SASKATOON, CANCER institutes, business incubators and CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE business support services. The district is September 23–26, 2018 home to a network of 22,000 medical- 7,000 attendees related professionals and more than 30 medical and related research centres. Canadian Light Source “ Toronto is known for its dedication to innovation and COMPANIES commitment to R&D in the life sciences. As the largest 5TH INTERNATIONAL • Fytokem combined life sciences sector in Canada, employing more than ONE HEALTH CONGRESS • Med-Life Discoveries 36,000 people in areas such as biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, June 22–25, 2018 • Prairie Plant Systems meetings benefit from the conversations that are happening in 1,000 attendees `Canada’s Downtown.´ ” • Quantum Genetix — Tara Gordon, VP, Sales & Service, Business Events Toronto SUCCESS STORIES SUCCESS STORIES COMPANIES The Canadian Light Source is a cutting-edge synchrotron Leading tissue engineering researchers at • Amgen the University of Toronto have developed a • AstraZeneca radiation facility. Used by scientists from around the globe, biodegradable “scaffold” that facilitates and research ranges from mine tailing remediation to cancer • Baxter speeds regeneration of human bone tissue. research and materials development. • Bayer Researchers at Toronto General Hospital's Lung • Gilead Sciences The radioactive tracer FDG is being produced for the diagnosis Transplant Program have devised a method to test the viability of a donor lung before transplantation. • GlaxoSmithKline and treatment of cancer, allowing patients to receive PET/CT scans The XVIVO Lung Perfusion System mimics the • Johnson & Johnson closer to their homes and families instead of travelling to health human body temperature and environment. • McKesson centres in other provinces. Toronto-based eSight has created the only • Pfizer clinically validated electronic eyeglasses that • Roche restore functional sight to the visually impaired. #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 11
OTTAWA MONTRÉAL A hub for discovery, development and commercialization With a critical mass of industry leaders, workers and students, plus in the life sciences sector, Ottawa’s proximity to federal cutting-edge facilities, Montréal is an innovation hotspot. Montréal government bodies and world-class research partners ranks sixth among 20 of North America's largest cities in terms of make this an ideal location for innovation life sciences and health technologies employment. LIFE SCIENCES R&D ACHIEVEMENTS LIFE SCIENCES IN MONTRÉAL IN OTTAWA $5.6 56,000 650 35 BILLION EMPLOYED COMPANIES CANADA World-leading clinical trials SECTOR GDP RESEARCH CHAIRS including stem cell therapy for 5 septic shock and double-virus therapy for cancer 10,000 300 GRADUATES RESEARCH MAJOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS HOSPITALS ANNUALLY 3,900 Nerve transfer SOURCES: MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL; MINISTÈRE DE L’ÉCONOMIE, DE LA SCIENCE ET DE L’INNOVATION, 2017; INVIVO 2017; STATISTICS CANADA, 2016 AND BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS (BLS), 2016, KPMG, 2017 EMPLOYED surgery in Canada 140 “ COMPANIES When it comes to R&D, the competition is global. We have to make a business case to headquarters for each In Canada for high-tech SOURCES: INVEST OTTAWA; project to explain why we should invest in North America instead surgical suites for less-invasive TOURISM OTTAWA of a fast-growing emerging economy. What gives our new clinical vascular surgery research centre its advantage is the fact that Greater Montréal has a one-of-a-kind life sciences ecosystem.” —Frédéric Fasano, CEO, Servier Canada ANNUAL MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PAEDIATRIC COMPANIES ONCOLOGY INTERNATIONAL • Bristol-Myers Squibb SOCIETY FOR October 14–17, 2020 • GlaxoSmithKline MAGNETIC RESONANCE Est. 1,500 attendees • Merck Frosst IN MEDICINE • Novartis May 11–16, 2019 • Pfizer 7,000 attendees COMPANIES SUCCESS STORIES • Pharmascience • Abbott • Roche Diagnostics Abbott Point of Care has • Clearwater Clinical • Sanofi-Aventis pioneered portable handheld 1ST IN CANADA • DNA Genotek • Servier technology for rapid blood for R&D investments • Dynacare analysis. A boon in multiple • Valeant Pharmaceuticals and research centres • Montfort scenarios—emergency • Nordion care, operating rooms, North America̓s 3RD LARGEST • Spartan hospital bedside or physician RESEARCH HUB after Boston • Thermo Fisher office—the i-STAT System and San Francisco • Turnstone Biologics delivers lab-quality results SUCCESS STORIES within minutes. During the 1980s, McGill “ University grad and renowned The nation’s capital is a global leader in the life sciences sector, chemist Dr. Bernard Belleau offering access to world-class hospitals, research centres discovered an anti-AIDS and federal government departments directly responsible for health molecule that ultimately led regulation, protection and promotion. Combined with the country’s to the commercialization of most intelligent meeting facility, Ottawa is the ideal meeting destination 3TC with Montréal company for organizations involved in health and life sciences.” Biochem Pharma. Today, —Nina Kressler, President & CEO, Shaw Centre 3TC is included in most HIV drug treatments. 12 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca
QUÉBEC CITY HALIFAX The presence of leading players in the biopharmaceutical, medical Home to a significant life sciences community, Halifax is a leader equipment and technology, cosmeceutical and natural health product in Ocean based Natural Health Products. Local players include sectors has enabled the region to develop advanced niches in these Acadian Seaplants, the world’s largest manufacturer of seaweed- high-potential industries. A hub for vaccine R&D, Québec City also based specialty products; DSM, the world’s largest producer of boasts several successful firms specializing in the development of Omega-3 supplements; and Nature's Way Canada, which has the medical diagnostic tools. largest share of Canada's omega-3 market and is headquartered in Halifax. LIFE SCIENCES IN The province of QUÉBEC CITY LIFE SCIENCES IN COMPANIES Quebec is 4th in North HALIFAX $1.3 America for number of $300 • Acadian Seaplants BILLION • Appili Therapeutics biotechnology firms ANNUAL REVENUE MILLION • Nature's Way Canada • BlueLight Analytics ANNUAL EXPORT SALES SUCCESS STORIES 6,370 (NOVA SCOTIA) • Adaptiiv • Densitas JOBS The Quebec Heart and Lung Institute Research Centre has 15,000 • BioVectra 121 achieved a major breakthrough in C. difficile management strategy EMPLOYED (NOVA SCOTIA) • Panag Pharmaceuticals • Alentic Microscience COMPANIES • BioMedica Diagnostics 100+ by using DNA technology SOURCES: CENTRE DE RECHERCHE to reduce the time it takes INDUSTRIELLE DU QUÉBEC; INSTITUT DE COMPANIES LA STATISTIQUE DU QUÉBEC, 2016 to identify microbes to one hour, compared to 48 hours SOURCE: BIONOVA AND HALIFAX PARTNERSHIP SUCCESS STORIES previously. “ Adaptiiv This Halifax-based company We want to maintain Québec City as our headquarters is taking on the fight against because we can do everything here: research, production cancer with their advanced and commercialization. Québec City’s core strength is its specialized The Brain Repair Centre software solution that enables and highly educated workforce, which makes it one of the most is internationally renowned the creation of customized competitive cities in which to do business.” for Parkinson’s treatment 3D personal medical devices, —Fernand Labrie, Founder & CEO, Endoceutics effectively improving treatment outcomes and patient experience. COMPANIES LAVAL UNIVERSITY Highest number of RESEARCH LEADERSHIP neuroscientists per • BD Diagnostics capita in Canada • Feldan Therapeutics IUCPQ, Québec Heart and Lung “ • GenePOC University Institute, is the leading • GlaxoSmithKline research centre for the treatment • IFF - Lucas Meyer of heart, lung and obesity-related With access to some of the world’s best researchers, Cosmetics diseases, with 545 clinical studies universities and government labs such as Dalhousie and • Medicago currently underway. The Brain Repair Centre, Halifax continues to make significant • Nestle/Atrium Innovations investment in R&D specifically in the areas of neuroscience, marine Laboratoire d'organogénèse • PetalMD biotech, biochemistry and biomedical engineering. This and our expérimentale (LOEX), is one of • SiliCycle reputation for being exceptional hosts the first laboratories in the world • Syneos Health of major conferences makes to perform organ reconstruction • Steris Halifax an ideal location through tissue engineering with to bring a conference normal human cells. focused on life sciences.” The world's top 10 The L’Oréal Innovation & SOCIETY FOR — Michelle Brenton, VP, Sales, Discover Halifax OBSTETRIC pharmaceutical Research Chair in Digital Biology ANESTHESIA AND companies all is the first bioinformatics research PERINATOLOGY chair at Laval University. It will have operations be a centre of excellence in the June 12–18, 2020 Est. 700+ attendees in Quebec development of Omics technologies. #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 13
WHY CANADA FOR LIFE SCIENCES CONFERENCES Canada excels in life sciences and leads the world in research and innovation in pharmaceuticals, infectious disease therapies, medical devices, medtech and more. Attracted by Canadian infrastructure, talent and ready access to key markets, the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world conduct research and clinical trials, and manufacture their products in Canada. The corridor running between the provinces of Quebec and Ontario is North America’s 2nd largest cluster of life sciences research and manufacturing activities. The region boasts internationally acclaimed meeting locations including Québec City, Montréal, Ottawa and Toronto. Academia thrives here, including in Toronto, North America’s 3rd largest research hub after Boston and San Francisco. Toronto, Ontario 14 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca
In the Canadian Prairies, Saskatoon’s VIDO-InterVac conducts some 150 infectious disease and vaccine studies annually, which has led to advanced vaccination protocols and several world firsts. Some of Canada’s most innovative urban centres are also favourites of world travellers—from the European flair of Montréal and Québec City to Toronto’s dynamic downtown waterfront and Vancouver’s coastal mountain vibe. Announcing Canada as a host destination always fuels attendance. A uniquely Canadian concept, national Biotech 17 medical schools, 100+ teaching hospitals and Week began here in 2003 countless institutions conducting envelope-pushing and subsequently expanded into Global Biotech research equals plenty of local expertise to champion Week, raising awareness your conference, aid in membership recruitment and of biotech industries among policy-makers and sponsorship, and provide expert guest speakers. influencers across North America, Europe and Asia. Advancements in Canada’s artificial intelligence, deep learning and reinforcement learning technologies are steering the future of medtech, including robot-assisted surgeries. #meetincanada BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA 15
NO ONE KNOWS CANADA LIKE WE DO! The Business Events Canada team offers in-depth knowledge of all Canadian destinations from industry content to conference facilities. Contact us for solutions and support on the fundamentals of meeting in Canada, including introductions to our extensive cross-country network of meeting and event partners. Business Events Canada is your first point of contact when considering Canada for your group! FIND OUT MORE businesseventscanada.ca #meetincanada Virginie De Visscher Director of Business Development, Economic Sectors virginie.devisscher@businesseventscanada.ca +1 204-802-0920 October 2019 This document is a collaborative effort between Destination Canada, Business Events Canada, Canadian tourism and economic development agencies and partners, and MNP. For more information on data and sources, contact Destination Canada Research at: research@destinationcanada.com. 16 BUSINESS EVENTS CANADA businesseventscanada.ca
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