New Brunswick BioSciences Day
As part of National Biotechnology Week, New Brunswick is hosting a BioSciences Day from 8:30 am until 2pm on September 22 in Fredericton.Lobby - Centennial Building
670 King Street, Fredericton
- 08:30 am - Welcome & Opening Remarks:
- Master of Ceremony: Mr. Yvon Belliveau, Director of Innovation, Business New Brunswick
- The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency) [bio]
- The Honourable Victor Boudreau, Minister of Business New Brunswick [bio]
- 08:45 am - "Let's Chat about BioSciences" Exhibit Opens - displays by over a dozen New Brunswick companies and institutions on the latest bioscience technologies [details]
- 09:15 am - Keynote address - The Emerging BioEconomy
Speaker: Dr. Rainer Engelhardt, Chairman of BIOTECanada [bio] - 09:30 am - Refreshments
- 11:15 am - Closing Remarks
John Argall, Executive Director, BioAtlantech
Crowne Plaza Fredericton
Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, 659 Queen Street, Fredericton
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Welcome from The Honourable Victor Boudreau, Minister of Business New Brunswick [bio]
- 2009 New Brunswick BioSciences Achievement Award [description]
- Lunchtime speaker: W. Steven Burke, President and CEO, Biofuels Centre of North Carolina "Twenty years of nurturing the biotechnology endeavor in North Carolina" [bio]
- Closing remarks
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