OCRI Global Marketing

Wireless Mission to San Diego
November 12-14, 2007
San Diego, California

Don't miss this once a year opportunity!
Ottawa Companies invited to participate in Wireless Mission to San Diego!

On behalf of the Consulate of Canada-San Diego, OCRI Global Marketing and the Ottawa Wireless Cluster, we are pleased to announce that Ottawa has been chosen as the focus city for this year’s wireless mission to San Diego, November 12-14, 2007.

The objective of this mission is to provide Ottawa wireless companies with opportunities to develop their market in the San Diego region. The Consulate of Canada will work closely with companies to identify potential customers, partners and investment objectives.

The mission is being organized to coincide with two major ICT events organized by Commnexus: GadgetFest and MarketLink.

GadgetFest is an exhibition that highlights the newest technology to come out of San Diego . Participating companies have the opportunity to showcase their technology during the exhibition part of the event, as well as chance to compete for the award of Greatest Gadget. GadgetFest is a great opportunity to meet and network with those from all parts of the industry

MarketLink is an event where a selected number of companies are paired with multinational corporations (Samsung Electronics in this case), hoping to discover new business interests and partnerships. Selected Ottawa Companies will have the unique opportunity to present their technologies to SAMSUNG Electronics executives in a personalized one-on-one session.

What Samsung is looking for:
Samsung is interested in engaging and partnering with firms that have next-generation or disruptive technologies in the following areas:

Ad-Hoc/Mesh Networking
Bio Sensors
Cognitive Radio
Language Translation
Multimedia Recognition and Search Engines – Image, Music, Video
Natural Language Processing
Reconfigurable RFIC (Digital RF)
Semiconductors - (e.g. Ultra low power architecture, novel device structures, ultra high speed > 10 GHz, etc.)
Smart Antennas

Speech Recognition - speech to text, text-to-speech
Tunable RF Front-End
Wearable Computing
Web-Based Health Management
Display Technology - (e.g. Flexible displays, e-paper, 3D, new materials or concepts, etc.)
Robots - [e.g. Intelligence (decision making, inference, knowledge bases), Power Source (batteries and fuel cells), Recognition]

THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT THE APPLICATION IS:
October 19, 2007
Time: 5:00 pm.

Besides Gadget Fest and MarketLink, the program for the Mission includes a full day of market briefings, bilateral company-to-company meetings (organized by the consulate) and a wrap-up reception .

Last year’s mission was organized in cooperation with WiTec Alberta, and included the following companies: BlackLine GPS, Dynastream Innovations Inc., Emscan Corporation, Murandi Communications Ltd, NEWT/TRLabs, NexAira Inc., Alberta Venture Channel, WiTEC Alberta. Participants rated the value participating in the mission brought to their organizations as 4.6 out of 5 (a score of 5 indicated that the mission was extremely valuable). Please click here to read testimonials from Companies.

If you are interested in participating in this mission or to have information on the Gadget Fest and MarketLink events, please contact:

Mario M. Diez
Trade Commissioner
Information and Communications Technologies
Consulate of Canada in San Diego
Tel: (619) 615-4288
Email: mario.diez@international.gc.ca

For further information, contact:

Sandra Matthews
Manager Business Development
OCRI Global Marketing
Tel: (613) 828-6274 x 252
Email: smatthews@ocri.ca