Upcoming Events:
February 25, 2008, 8:30am - Maryland's Computer Services Tax. Hear experts discuss the new Maryland computer services tax and efforts by Maryland's technology community to address it. This breakfast briefing will be held at the Howard County Center For Business and Technology, 9250 Bendix Road North, Columbia, MD. The event is free to MIDC members and $15 to non-members.
February 27, 2008, 8:30am - Breakfast Briefing with Equivio Ltd. with Warwick Sharp, Co-Founder and Marcel Katz, Director of US Operations. Learn about Equivio's unique technology that detects "near-duplicate" files, which represent 50% of email and document repositories. By grouping near-duplicates, Equivio helps optimize the document review process, thereby reducing the cost, time and risk of error involved in handling large document repositories. Equivio's technology is used in legal discovery, email archiving and records management, compliance and risk management, homeland security, internal investigations and military intelligence. The briefing will be held at THE ASSOCIATED, Room 201, 101 W. Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21201.
March 11, 2008, 8:00am - Israel Business Opportunities Breakfast Briefing, with featured speakers Eitan Yudilevich, Director, BIRD Foundation, Ohad Cohen, Commercial Attache', Embassy of Israel, Larry A. Blue, CEO Hi-G-Tek Inc.and Rami Scharf of Paraxel Consulting. Hear about Israel’s burgeoning high tech and life science industries, opportunities to do business in Israel, and funding programs that support U.S.-Israel R&D collaborations at this members-only program for the Technology Council and MIDC. This event will be held at the 111 Rockville Pike, Suite 837, Rockville, MD, 20850.
To RSVP for any of the above events please contact Eta Kushner at 410-767-0695 or ekushner@MarylandIsrael.org.
May 26 – June 2, 2008 – The Maryland/Israel Development Center will be taking a delegation to the Israel BioMed 2008 conference in Tel Aviv www.kenes.com/biomed/conference/home.asp. For more information on this trip, please contact Eta Kushner at 410-767-0695 or ekushner@MarylandIsrael.org.
For more information on MIDC events, please contact Barry Bogage at 410-767-0681 or bbogage@MarylandIsrael.org