The P.E.I. BioAlliance, the organization that promotes the life sciences industry in the province, has issued the following press release:
Animal Health and Nutrition Businesses Converge on PEI
Charlottetown, PEI (May 25, 2015) – North America’s premier International Animal Health and Nutrition Business Conference – VetHealth Global – will convene in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 8-10, 2015.
Since 2007, this biennial conference has generated international interest for its ability to attract senior executives, investors, inventive startups, regulators, and researchers from around the world.
VHG 2015 is expected to draw close to 200 delegates from five continents to examine market trends, global regulatory issues, economic geopolitics, and innovations for companion animal and food animal health and nutrition.
Committed to helping new technologies achieve commercial success, VetHealth Global 2015 will also showcase international emerging companies with new products and innovative solutions for both food animal and companion animal markets.
A venture development seminar for early-stage companies will focus on issues of leadership and financing and provide one-on-one guidance and support. The program will feature many opportunities to network, establish sales channels, and explore investment prospects.
This year’s honourary chair is Richard R. DeLuca, Jr., President of Merck Animal Health, a $3 billion+ animal health business with employees in more than 50 countries and products available in over 150 markets.
“VetHealth Global 2015 offers a unique opportunity for leaders of animal health and nutrition companies to assess the current state of our dynamic sector, identify emerging trends and to discuss the global future of our industry. We have the opportunity to help shape the future of our industry by connecting customers, researchers, regulators, investors and other partners,” says DeLuca.
The theme of VetHealth Global -- “Innovation, Partnering and Commercialization” – is timely for animal health and nutrition business leaders striving to incorporate these tenets into a wide-ranging strategy to feed a global population of 9 billion people by 2050.
Conference presenters will include keynote speakers Roland Klober, Senior Program Officer for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discussing “Social License and Food Animal Production” and international journalist, columnist and documentarian Gwynne Dyer exploring “Geopolitics and International Business.”
“VetHealth Global has become a seminal part of the international animal health and nutrition business ecosystem,” says Rory Francis, Conference Chair and Executive Director of the PEI BioAlliance -- recently recognized as one of Canada’s top accelerators and incubators for helping companies bring bioscience-based technologies to commercial success. “We take very seriously our role in providing a venue for animal health businesses, large and small, to take stock of the ever-changing marketplace, new business models, new technologies and new externalities.”
Known for their innovations in fish vaccines, animal feed additives, diagnostics, and veterinary medicines, Prince Edward Island companies already have a reputation as an innovation catalyst with the credibility to attract a global audience.
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Registration for the Conference, the Venture Development Seminar and keynote luncheons is available at www.vethealthglobal.com.
About PEI BioAlliance:
The Prince Edward Island BioAlliance was incorporated in 2005 to accelerate the growth of PEI's bioscience sector and enable next generation prosperity. Since that time, the BioAlliance has coordinated the work of leaders in bioscience business, research and government organizations in PEI, providing strategy, focus, and alignment among the partners. This collaboration has been the driver of bioscience growth to date and has given the PEI Bioscience Cluster a reputation nationally and internationally. PEI is currently home to over 40 bioscience-based companies now employing some 1300 people and generating more than $150 million in private sector revenue annually.
