WELCOME TO HIGH TECH CONNECTIONS
Building on the successful launch of High Tech Connections (HTC) in Silicon Valley in 2004 and its follow-up success at the HTC Forum in Boston in 2005, the third High Tech Connections Forum took place in San Francisco, USA on September 23-25, 2007. The 2007 edition attracted nearly 300 delegates from the Netherlands and the USA.
HTC was created by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the US Embassy in the Netherlands. It is a unique public and private consortium dedicated to promoting technological exchanges to drive innovation and pioneer new business matchmaking among American and Dutch companies, institutions and universities. With a track record of three years, HTC is going strong, particularly due to the commitment of HTC anchor companies including ASML, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Philips.
HTC III featured numerous networking opportunities. The program included keynote speeches by government and industry leaders, elevator pitches by U.S. and Dutch delegates, matchmaking activities, and parallel breakout sessions on HTC themes:
- NANOTECHNOLOGY: turning nanotechnology into big business
- HEALTHCARE SECTOR TRENDS: the transformations in the healthcare sector and the need for innovation
- PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE: technological innovation in the preventive healthcare sector
- HOMELAND SECURITY POLICY: homeland security policy trends and the consequences for strategies in the areas of innovation and new technologies
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