Taking place the week of February 21-25, the first day will include a site visit in Osaka followed by two days of company presentations and panel discussions before the forum moves to Kobe and then Kyoto to round out the week.
Dedicated to promoting the development of innovative medical, diagnostic and analytic devices and businesses, the World Forum for Bio/Medical Device brings the foreign industry leaders together for a week to exchange their recent findings with the Japanese bio/medical device community. This year representatives from the following overseas locations will be on hand to participate:
Assistive Medical Equipment Corp. (Illinois)
BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota
Boston Scientific Corporation (Massachusetts)
Brown Medical Industries (Iowa)
Devicix (Minnesota)
Fredrikson & Byron Attorneys (Minnesota)
Gnarus Medical Consulting (Minnesota)
Johnson Matthey Medical (Pennsylvania)
Lake Region Medical (Minnesota)
Invetech (Melbourne, Australia)
Burster (Germany)
Contec GmbH (Germany)
Philips Electronics (The Netherlands)
For more information about the forum, please click here for details in English and Japanese.
As one of the core industries in Kansai, the region is making headway towards becoming the place in Asia for one's bio/medical device needs. It will be interesting as to what affect the forum has on the community here in Kansai.
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