Every September, innovators from across the Pacific NW come together at VertueLab Impact Summit (formerly BEST FEST), the Pacific Northwest’s premier cleantech innovation conference. Now in its10th year, VIS2018 brings together the doers, thinkers, and innovators working in clean technology across the region. VIS2018 is about learning, inspiring, networking, sharing ideas, and shaping our future. We convene a diverse audience of business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, partners, corporates, university researchers, students, and scientists— who have the common goal of accelerating solutions to environmental challenges, then create opportunities to engage.

Do you have an early-stage project or innovative idea but need to learn the basic components of biomedical product development? The Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute is pleased to offer the Biomedical Innovation Program fastPACE, a four-week course that provides scientists with the basic knowledge and tools to initiate the innovation and commercialization process.

The program is modeled after the successful National Science Foundation I-Corps program and adopted from University of Michigan’s Fast Forward Medical Innovation program. fastPACE combines in-person and online experiential education to help researchers and clinicians learn the basic components of biomedical commercialization and prepare a successful business case to secure funding, partnerships and further research opportunities. This course is appropriate for faculty, researchers, students, and industry scientists with an early stage idea or team with an idea. fastPACE instructors are experts from across the bioscience industry and academia with experience bringing healthcare technologies and therapeutics to market.

fastPACE is free. Registration is now open and seats are limited.
Sept. 26: Seminar and breakout sessions
Oct. 5, Oct. 12, Oct. 19: Webinars
Oct. 26: Team presentations

The Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute offers the program in collaboration with OHSU’s office of Technology Transfer and Business Development and the Oregon Bioscience Incubator.

See our website for more details: ohsu.edu/fastpace

The Portland Creative Conference is an exploration and celebration of the creative process across all creative industries. This single-track event features presentations from leading creatives who take you inside their creative process and talk about their projects, challenges, influences and inspirations; showing samples of their work along the way.

For complete details, including this year’s amazing presenters, visit http://cre8con.com

This is an opportunity for attendees to network with other creative industries professionals, get inside the heads of visionary speakers and to be inspired and motivated in entirely new ways, viewing their own world with a fresh perspective as a result. All while raising money to support K-12 arts education in Oregon.

Many companies send teams of people to this conference so we have team discounts available.

Doors open @ 8:00am for Check-in / Registration and Networking (get there early if you need to register still)

Program starts @ 9:00am and ends at 5:00pm.

Wrap Party! Receptions for all attendees will take place at Wieden+Kennedy and the Wacom Experience Center from 5:30pm – 7:30pm. You must have a badge to attend the conference and the reception.

Benefits of attending:

• Learn from our creative industries-leading speakers
• See samples of their work and hear the stories behind it
• Network with other creative industries professionals
• Leave inspired and motivated in new and unxpected ways, with fresh ideas
• Proceeds go to provide financial support to various K-12 arts education programs in Oregon through Keeping the Arts, a non-profit organization.

Thank you to our Sponsors: Wacom, Oregonian Media Group, Ideas Collide, City of Hillsboro, Cambia Health Solutions, Art Institute of Portland, Charles Schwab, and Oregon Film.

To see the most up-to-date speaker list, visit http://cre8con.com

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is final and no refunds will be processed. However, you can transfer a registration to a different person.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific through loans, grants, research and technical assistance to its member countries, as well as investments in private companies. The ADB finances projects for its member countries based off local need and advertises these projects through its website and network.

This event will focus on how to identify and pursue ADB business opportunities as well as how to bid successfully for ADB-financed projects. The speaker will also provide an overview of economic climate in Asia and how ADB supports investment and trade.