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

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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.

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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.

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Fee: $35

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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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