SPEAKERS

BCIS "Around-the-table" Meeting and Panel of Experts

The Members of the Panel were:
-Susan Ben-Oliel, Lawyer at Barrister & Solicitor; Patent & Trade-mark Agent
-Kelvin Chiddick, President of Sandys Holdings Ltd.
-Ernest Codrington, Owner & President Trican Industries Ltd.
-Andrew Dewberry, Inventor; Founder of Vancouver Tool Corp.
-Brad Madu, Project Development Manager, Source Design Group Ltd.
-Sanford Tuey – Inventor, www.Playdigm.com

Robert Allen - Founder and president of Window Stick Alarms, www.windowstick.com

The name of his talk is: “From an idea to the shelves of Wal-Mart”

Clint Lee, Partner in Nexus Law firm.

Mr. Lee will give a brief introduction and then answer questions on patenting.

Liz Gaige: Smart Marketing in Tough Times

Liz Gaige offers clients the benefit of nearly a decade of senior marketing experience in a variety of industries, including products, retail, non-profit, insurance, professional, and financial services. She knows that the key to success for any business is a clearly defined direction and a concrete action plan.

Liz works closely with clients to understand their business and map effective marketing plans aligned with business objectives. She understands the resource limitations that small businesses face and tailors each company’s marketing mix to optimize available time, money, and skills.

In addition to her work with clients and their marketing teams, Liz is a sought after speaker, coach, and consultant. She speaks to business groups on a variety of topics related to getting the most out of marketing and learning how to navigate new and changing business landscapes.
Check out her website: Market Navigators

Dave Martens of First Choice Products Inc. Dave's talk will be: "Inventions, from Vision to Reality"

Dave is a successful inventor and businessman. He started First Choice Products 7 years ago and now employs staff of seven. Dave invented or designed 15 products and holds 5 patents. He will be sharing on how he comes up with ideas, prototypes and then develops them for the market.

Brad Madu - Design Consultant, Source Design Group Ltd. From Idea to Inventory – The Steps you need to take.

Your $1,000,000 idea is worth nothing if you don’t turn it into inventory that you can sell. But there are many questions that you will need answered before you can get to that point. Have you considered the following: Am I ready to patent? How do I make a prototype? Who can manufacture this for me? What type of volume am I willing to commit to? What type of upfront costs can I expect? Who owns the molds? Should I consider offshore production? Should my package hang on the wall or sit on a shelf? What do I put on the package? Do I need an instruction sheet? Do I include batteries? What kind of margins do I want? What kind of margins do I need?

Ian MacDonald - "BRINGING PRODUCTS TO MARKET".

Ian will talk about idea, prototype, product, developing sales and sell-off of the entire product line cycle.
Ian has successfully invented a product called TABLE SHOX www.tableshox.com. With that idea he formed a company, built up sales to a point that he received an offer to sell the company to an American competitor. That was 18 months ago.
Now, Ian has gone onto developing other products. You can contact Ian at ian@softcinch.com Polygon Wire Management Inc., the world’s largest supplier of Velcro cable management.

Information to come

Dean Palmer - “Here Comes the Law" - Top Ten Ways to Get Bushwacked When Selling Your Invention”

Dean will touch on ten pitfalls to avoid when selling or commercializing your invention. Question period will follow.
Dean Palmer is an Intellectual Property lawyer. His practice encompasses the acquisition, protection, commercial exploitation, and enforcement of intellectual property (trademarks, copyright, patents, industrial designs, etc.) and related matters such as Internet and technology law.
Dean serves on the Canadian-Latin American Amicus of the International Trademarks and instructs Business Law and International Law at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
His practice focuses on patent drafting and prosecution and international strategic intellectual property portfolio issues.
You can contact Dean at info@iproperty.ca

Ernie Codrington,Inventor.

A successful inventor and founding member of the British Columbia Society, Ernie will come to share with us his from his vast experience. You can contact Ernest at Trican Industries, ernestrc@telus.net

Tony Lloyd, Inventor and business owner.

A successful inventor with his own business, Mr. Lloyd will be speaking to the members about his experiences. He is the owner of Peak Performance Products Inc which manufactures and sells sporting equipment for the golf and tennis industries. He is also a Director of the BC Inventor Society. You will have the opportunity to ask him questions based on his experience.
www.practicehit.com

Mr. Kelvin Chiddick,Inventor.

A successful inventor, Mr. Kelvin will speak from his vast experience, on the importance of "Building a team around you to make your invention marketable". Before his retirement, Mr. Chiddick created and sold several companies that he built around his inventions. During his long career in his professional field as an Industrial Chemist, he invented, among other things: a special nail varnish remover; non static tack cloth; friction modifiers and so forth.