36 - Sunday, September 15, 1991 - North Shore News

NEWS photo Neli Lucente

MAURICE BELLEMARE puts some muscle into it as he stirs a
pot of sauerkraut during Edgemont Village’s Bavarian Fest
heid last weekend. This year’s event celebrated North Van-

couver District's 100th birthday.

Caregivers support group
resuming weekly meetings

NORTH SHORE Caregivers Sup-
port Society will resume its weekly
meetings in September through to
early December.

The North Vancouver support
group is holding its first meeting
1:15-3:15 p.m. Sept. 17 at 8-103
West 3rd St., North Vancouver.
Wendy Ross will be the group

facilitator.

The West Vancouver support
group will hold its first meeting
1:30-3:30 p.m. on Sept. 25 at 275
2ist St., West Vancouver. Lorna
Lloyd-Jones will act as the
facilitator.

For more
983-2141.

information, call

BUSINESS

Software forum bridges
the ideas/marketing gap

Softworld Sept. 22 - 25

CANADIAN SOFTWARE
innovators link with inter-
national buyers, investors,
marketing managers and in-
formation suppliers at an
upcoming software trading
forum and conference.

Michael
Becker

HIGH TECH

The Softworld event is set for
Sept. 22 to 25 at the Coast Plaza
Hotel in Vancouver and will focus
on connecting North American
and Asian Pacific Rim software
players. Organizers anticipate at-
tendance by more than 300 soft-
ware companies — _ including
multinationals —- and national
delegations.

The Pacific Northwest, both
sides of the border, counts over
1,300 software companies. In B.C.
alone about 300 software service
and design companies employ
5,000 people.

The trading/networking side of
the event is enhanced by a full
roster of guest speakers.

The Financial Impact

A one evening seminar exploring some
"tricks" to stretch your family income.

Thursday, September 26, 7:0€ to 10:00 p.m.

J Building, Room 101

Fee: $35

Seminar topics include:

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nanny

@ Advantages & disadvantages

of registered education

savings plans

@ The financial planning

Among the scheduled guest
speakers: Norm Francis of North
Vancouver-based PenMagic Soft-
ware Inc.; 1970s Apple marketer
and author of The Regis Touch,
Regis McKenna; Washington
State’s Digital Systems manager
Michael Darland; venture capital
expert George Fells; Aldus Corp.
director of international business
Steve Clemons; CSI Development
Corp.’s jack Grushcow; Steve
Bingham of Alias Research.

Among the conference topics:
protecting your intellectual prop-
erty; market opportunities in
Asia-Pacific countries; financing
se:ftware companies in the 1990s;
strategic alliance opportunities in
North America.

Federal Minister for Industry,
Science and Technology Michael
Wilson is scheduled to be the

keynote speaker at the conference.

Said Softworld and Information
Technology Association executive
director Dr. ann levi-lloyd, ‘It’s a
vehicle for communicating and
bridging gaps between developers
who have greai ideas and investors
and business management and
marketing people who know how
to make those ideas work and get
them out into the marketplace.””

Representatives from Japan,
Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and
mainland China are among the
national delegations looking to tap
North American software exper-
tise.

Apple, IBM, DEC, Fujitsu and
C.ltoh join the multinational
group attending the conference in
search of strategic partnerships.

For more information about
Softworld call 682-2034,

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