BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CALAsia DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:CALAsia. Representatives of the international biotechnology community, including established and emerging companies, pharmaceutical companies, investors,academic and research institutions and delegations representing several Asian and Pacific Rim countries will meet face-to-face in February of 2009, when BIOCOM hosts its first global conference, CALAsia. The conference is aimed at helping trade groups from these regions tofurther explore how to interact with the California life science community and highlight the growth of biotechnology in these regions. CALAsia will feature plenary sessions and panel discussions on cutting-edge biotechnology topics including"Lessons from Asia's Biotech Entrepreneurs," also Trans-Pacificpartnering, bioinformatics and genomics, and biotechnology investment opportunities between countries in Asia, the Pacific Rim and the United States. See http://www.biocom.org/event/calasia/ DTSTART:20090223T120000 DTEND:20090223T130000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR