Need funding? Your personal Invitation to meet on October 28

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Dear Valued Member,  

You are invited to a meeting for company owners or managers who are looking toinnovate and expand, who provide high quality products for demanding standards or require special skills or assistance on process development.

 

There is a new, effective and streamlined process that may assist you - available through UBC Okanagan and Mitacs; who would like to partner with you to meet these challenges.

 

Jennifer Tedman-Jones, Director of Business Development with Mitacs, is based in the Okanagan and may be able to link you to R&D funding or expertise. Jennifer is in a unique position to link post grad students to a variety of industries by match makingindividuals, who are the right fit to the company (who may not even have a job description but an under defined need) and is also able to offer cost-sharing and identify expertise.

 

Meet Jennifer, and learn more about the program options.

 

Date:  October 28^th, 8:30am to 10:00am

Where:  Kelowna Chamber of Commerce, 544 Harvey Avenue (alley entrance)

No cost: Pre-register here  or email Sarah@kelownachamber.org or call 250 861-3627

 

 

Who is Mitacs Inc.?

Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that has designed and delivered research and training programs in Canada for over 15 years. Mitacs is committed to its core vision of supporting research-based innovation and works to connect all sectors of industry, with all academic disciplines from engineering to arts to address business challenges through research-led internships.

 

Mitacs Accelerate 

Solve your organizations challenges with research expertise, matching funds, and one-to-one support from Mitacs. Individual interns or teams can come together from all disciplines to work on projects identified across all sectors from private industry to not-for-profit partners. Details here.

 

Mitacs Converge

Mitacs Converge is a pilot program which aims to grow small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and other companies in Canada by connecting them with multinational sponsor companies and talented researchers at Canadian universities to collaborate on industrial research challenges of mutual interest. The resulting research, development and commercialization projects - cost-shared and administered by Mitacs - provide economic benefit for both. Brief overview here

Regards,

Caroline Grover

Chief Executive Officer

Kelowna Chamber of Commerce

544 Harvey  Avenue

Kelowna, BC, V1Y 6C9

Direct line 250 469-7356