Event: Business Innovation Summit 2015

Conference Board of Canada Business Innovation Summit, 2015 – Connect, Collaborate, and Innovate Together

‍Please join Irene Sterian, Executive Director, ReMAP at the Conference Board of Canada’s annual event where she will be sharing her insights at the Business Innovation Summit 2015 April 29 from 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. The conference is located at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON.Summit Overview Today, Canadian businesses need to innovate to stay competitive, yet they are often faced with unique challenges that are difficult to overcome on their own. Business leaders excel at generating new ideas—but often struggle to commercialize them—and spur new innovations.The Business Innovation Summit 2015 is featuring some of North America’s leading innovators to share their candid advice and insights on how you can navigate the innovation-commercialization stream, commercializing your ideas faster, seizing market share, and driving sustainable and continuous innovation over time. Interactive delegate-expert sharing sessions with speakers and peers provide you with the latest thinking and best practices on:

• accessing funding and capital markets
• managing the innovation process
• finding sales and marketing partners and collaborators around the world
• creating a collaborative culture of innovation
• dealing with risk and failure
• measuring and benchmarking results.

About the Conference Board of Canada The Conference Board of Canada (CBC) is Canada’s foremost independent and not-for-profit applied research organization. For the past 60 years, they have been bringing together ideas across research disciplines and people across sectors of society in order to address the complex issues that matter most to Canada’s future. They are specialists in the areas of economic trends, industry and business strategy, leadership and human resources, and public policy.

Date: April 27-29/2015

Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre