On September 18th, OBIO organized a workshop with two industry experts and provided the CFO perspective on budgeting for start-up and growing health science companies.

John Jordan (CFO, RNA Diagnostics) and Jim Cooke (Partner, Stoneybridge Partners) addressed 3 main areas – how to build a robust budget, how to present a budget to the board and to investors and how to manage a budget.

On Wednesday, September 5th, OBIO hosted Toshio Sugano, the Chief Investment Officer of the Biomedical Development Board of Taiwan, who met with a collection of Canada’s most esteemed investors and some of its highest potential health science companies.

On Tuesday, August 27th, OBIO hosted a delegation of distinguished scientists from National Cheng Kung University to meet with representatives from the Ontario health science industry including OIRM and CCRM, and the provincial government.

Last week, OBIO hosted a day of meetings with Dr. Jonathan Shieh, Executive Director, Science and Technology Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office which brought Dr. Shieh together with officials from the Ontario government, Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, as well as high-potential Ontario health science companies.

On May 10, 2018, Medical Device Playbook 2018 Toronto, co-hosted by Starfish Medical and OBIO, drew a standing-room only audience of 170 health science industry professionals, from company executives, to QA, regulatory and R&D engineering experts from start-ups, manufacturers, consultancies, regulatory and academic organizations.

On May 3, OBIO welcomed health science leaders, CEOs and the investment community to the tenth annual OBIO Leadership Event, also saw the launch of Use It or Lose It: Industry Solutions to Ontario's Commercialization Gap, OBIO's 2018 Industry Report.