Bio2Device Group, Tuesday Morning, Feb. 19, 2013 Topic: “Bay Area Biomedical Industry: Current Trends and Future Outlook” Speaker: Audrey Erbes, Ph.D., Principal, Erbes & Associates and www.AudreysNetwork.com, part-time instructor UC Berkeley Extension Date and Time: Tuesday morning, Feb. 19, 2013, 8:30am Location: Sunnyvale City Council Chambers, 456 West Olive Ave., Sunnyale, CA Cost: $0 No registration is required. Topic Description Have you been wondering what’s behind the less than rosy trends picture for the Bay Area pharmaceutical, molecular diagnostics and medical device space this past year? And why the Boston cluster seems to be enjoying more good news lately than California? Audrey Erbes will discuss the factors, trends and events driving the paradigm shifts in financing, R&D development and staffing levels along with providing the potential outlook for the future. She will share some promising new efforts that potentially will lead to positive changes in the sectors that we would like to see. Speaker Bio Audrey Erbes, Ph.D., Principal, Erbes & Associates and Audreysnetwork.com is a life-science business development and marketing consultant serving emerging biotech companies, industry educator, and organizations leader who teaches bioscience business development and marketing courses at UC Berkeley Extension. She has 25 years of corporate managerial experience in the biopharmaceutical industry including Executive VP and Co-founder of Kowa Research Institute and U.S. and international man¬agement positions at Syntex Corporation (acquired by Roche) in market research, product management, strategic marketing, and business development with a special emphasis on Europe and Asia/Pacific/Canada. : free; no registration required