FLY OFF TO INDIA WITH KEY QUEBEC HEALTH ACTORS

Building on the success of their 2011 activities focusing on India, the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and its team of international trade experts, the World Trade Centre Montréal, in partnership with Export Québec, a unit of the Ministère du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l’Exportation (MDEIE), will arrange a trade mission to India from January 27 to February 4, 2012. MEDEC will collaborate to the Health tier of this mission.

To date, our activities, including the January 2011 trade mission and the May 2011 Indian buyers visit, helped us confirm the huge potential of this market in the fields of health and related technologies. Indian stakeholders entertain a growing interest for Quebec’s health expertise, products and services.

The 2012 trade mission to India is part of an ongoing and structured initiative. It aims to enable companies to take advantage of established contacts and opportunities, more specifically with the state of Maharashtra and large private health groups.

Companies, research centres and institutions active in the fields of health and related technologies who offer exportable products and services.

The following lines of business are especially targeted:

• Health education and professional training
• Medical equipment and instruments
• Equipment, materials and expertise for the construction of health institutions
• Personalized medicine
• Public health
• Mobile health solutions
• Prevention specialists
• Diagnostics technologies
• ITCs related to life sciences and first-line care
• Telemedicine

Please note that this mission also includes ITC and multisectorial tiers.

• To discover the Indian health market trends;
• To be “in the right place, at the right time” and assess your business’s potential for development on location;
• To take advantage of an expansive pool of already established contacts with business people who are difficult to reach otherwise;
• To meet face to face with prime contractors and potential partners in order to promote your products and services.

The mission will stop by Mumbai (3 days) and Delhi (2 days), two key cities driving the growth of India.

Other cities could be added based on the personalized needs of each of the participants and the business opportunities they offer.

A preparatory meeting will be organized with each participant to better grasp their respective objectives and requirements.

The mission to India program includes:

• Individual meetings focusing on the individual needs of the participants
• Information seminars
• Industrial visits
• Networking activities of scale

Registration fees for this activity include:

• The organization of personalized individual meetings focused on each business;
• Coaching throughout the trip;
• The logistics of the trip;
• The few group meals scheduled in the mission program;
• Foreign group ground travel and individual meeting travel;
• Air transportation while in India (2 domestic flights);
• Participation to seminars, breakfasts, cocktails and other networking activities scheduled as part of the mission;
• A preparatory meeting;
• The mission binder.

Please note that air travel between Quebec and India, fees to obtain visas, accommodations and personal expenses are not included.

However, qualified participating businesses could be eligible to additional financial support from Export Québec.