Drug & Medical Device Litigation
Waldorf Astoria
New York, NY, United States
The must-attend products liability conference for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Every year, hundreds of your colleagues gather in New York to network and hear from top-notch, senior faculty on the latest enforcement trends, emerging plaintiffs’ theories, and advice on what works in the courtroom.
Online registration and additional information.

13th Annual International Partnering Conference
Congress Center Hamburg (CCH)
Germany
BIO-Europe is Europe's largest and most successful partnering conference. You will find a forum where international decision makers in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and financial sector can meet to initiate or develop partnerships among their companies. Over the years, many deals have been made, thanks to the pre-scheduled meetings and networking opportunities offered by BIO-Europe. The BIO-Europe Partnering Program provides the means and space for scheduling private, 30-minute one-on-one meetings between biotech and pharmaceutical executives, investors as well as leading academic research institutions. To facilitate partnering the organizers have developed an industry-specific, web-based interactive software which enables participants to move efficiently from the identification of prospective partners to discussion and negotiations.
Online registration and additional information.

Society for General Microbiology - The 161st Meeting
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9LE
The plenary is entitled: Food, fluids, fingers, faeces and flies: food and waterborne pathogens. Hot topic symposium: Post-genomic analysis of microbial function in the environment. Anaerobe 2007: Changing perceptions and patterns of anaerobic infection. Other sessions include: Ecology of viruses; Physiology of no-growing microbes; Monitoring in bioprocesses; Getting it right in microbiology education; Eukaryotic microbial pathogens: attack and counter attack; Innate immunity and diarrhoeal diseases.
Online registration and additional information.

Auditorium Maximum, 27 août 2007 de 17h-19h
EPFZ
Zurich
Conférence organisée par le Forum place scientifique & économique suisse (FSES), avec Mme Doris Leuthard, Conseillère fédérale, cheffe du Département fédéral de l'economie.
Additional information.

Swiss Invest Forum
Kongresshaus Zürich
Gotthardstrasse 5
8022 Zurich
An initiative of the Swiss Organisation for Facilitating Investments (SOFI) focused on the topic of "Adding Local Value to Natural Resources through International Investment". Its specific regional emphasis will be on Africa and the Middle East. The Plenum and workshops presentations will address topics related to investments in agricultural, mineral and forest resources and also in tourist destinations in these regions. The Forum 2007 will offer an excellent opportunity to showcase comparative advantages of target regions, and present to a broad audience of private sector enterprises specific investment projects in various business sectors and countries. Forum 2007 includes an Experts Marketplace where the participants can consult specialists in different fields and get insight of specific investment proposals. The stands at the Marketplace will be staffed by representatives of investment promotion agencies, advisory bodies, law offices, venture capital funds, banks, insurance companies, etc.
Online registration and additional information.

TECHNOPARK®
Technoparkstrasse 1
CH-8005 Zürich
Today everyone is encouraged to think out of the box and move beyond the usual business strategies. BioDevice Partnering will allow you to meet and network with visionary colleagues from various healthcare sectors to explore interdisciplinary collaboration. Are you looking for …
• innovative technologies in the medical technology field?
• next-generation products?
• potential partners in the drug, medtech, nanotech, biomaterial industries?
• new diagnostic tools and technologies?
• prime networking opportunities to share your ideas in the convergence space?
• investors from the venture, corporate and angel communities?
… and are you also interested in …
• gaining an overview of the European advanced medical device market?
• interpreting regulatory guidelines?
• finding medtech companies with platform technologies for your drug?
• finding biotech companies with drugs for your platform technology?
• the latest trends in the convergence space?
Online registration and additional information.

Centre de Congrès "Le Manège"
331 rue de la République
73000 Chambéry
Le programme innovation et le Réseau Montagne de la CCI Savoie organisent une "journée de l’innovation" le 24 mai 2007 au Manège à Chambéry sur le thème de la montagne. Cette journée permettra aux acteurs de ce secteur de rencontrer, le même jour et en un même lieu, des experts techniques et/ou financiers au cours de rencontres individuelles, d’approcher des réseaux et d’échanger entre eux le temps des deux conférences qui ponctueront cette journée. L’objectif étant que chaque participant puisse trouver des informations et des ressources utiles et bénéfiques au développement de leurs projets nouveaux ou innovants.
ARIST et le Centre Relais Innovation participeront à cette journée à travers des congérences et des RV individuels
Pour toute information : A. Dancer et Ph. Ligot

18ème Forum européen sur la sécurité des systèmes d'information
Espace CAP 15
3, Quai de Grenelle
F-75015 Paris
Conférence Européenne de référence sur la sécurité des systèmes d’information. Près de 400 participants issus de tous domaines d’activités confronteront leurs expériences et attentes sur la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information. Volets managérial, fonctionnel, humain, technique et scientifique :
- plus de 80 interventions en tables rondes et conférences,
- carrefour entre la sécurité, l'intelligence économique, la conformité, la continuité d'activité et le management du risque,
- contenu centré sur les retours d'expériences pratiques,
Sessions et thèmes phares :
- Sécurité sans frontière : les approches française, danoise, européenne et mondiale,
- Cyberterrorisme : la vision du Juge Jean-Louis Bruguière,
- Intelligence économique : outil incontournable ou pur cauchemar, avec l'IHEDH, la FEPIE, le CIGREF, AREVA et le LERM,
- Continuité d'activité : une vision à 360°.
Inscription et informations complémentaires

Base Militaire
Quartier Jayat
Versailles - Satory (France)
Xème Rencontre biennale acheteurs et fournisseurs.
Additional information.

The 8th Anniversary Meeting - Bio€quity Europe 2007
Radisson SAS Hotel
Glasgow, Scotland
Bringing together professional investors, bankers and analysts with leading public and late-stage private companies. Dedicated to expanding the capital markets for investment in the life sciences in Europe.
Online registration and additional information.

Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Salle RE48
Espace Louis-Agassiz 1
2000 Neuchâtel
"Histoire de l’informatique: volonté de puissance et circulation des connaissances", par M. Pierre-E. Mounier-Kuhn, Ingénieur CNRS, Centre de recherches en Histoire de l’Innovation, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
Conférence organisée par la Maison d’analyse des processus sociaux (MAPS).