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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:50:13 -0700
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Dear Swiss-Listers,
Please find below the list of May events at swissnex San Francisco !
We look forward to welcoming you ...
the swissnex team
TUESDAY MAY 13, 2008, 7.30am-9.30am (breakfast meeting)
"Healthcare : Removing Reimbursement Barriers & Improving Access"
THURSDAY MAY 15, 2008, 6.30pm-9.30pm
"The Search for a World Like Our Own : Imagine Earth 2.0 !"
FRIDAY MAY 16, 2008, 7.00pm-10.30pm
"New Experimental Music, Art, Performance (NEXMAP)"
SAVE THE DATES :
- Tue July 1st, "Energy Savings and Sustainable Development"
- Sept. 4-6, "Different Democracies, Same Media Power"
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TUESDAY MAY 13, 2008, 7.30am-9.30am (breakfast meeting)
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«« Healthcare : Removing Reimbursement Barriers & Improving Access »»
Today’s healthcare environment is moving rapidly toward greater costs
control, making it more and more challenging to bring new therapies to
market. Even the most promising pharmaceutical products or medical
devices are costly to launch and market, due to the high pricing
models used to maximize return on investment and fund future
discoveries. At the same time, payers’ reimbursement policies have
grown more stringent, creating hurdles for manufacturers,
distributors, and specialty pharmacies, as well as providers and
patients. Our speakers will share their experience on the
reimbursement environment, issues and latest trends as well as help us
better understand how to build value through innovative access &
reimbursement strategies and services. With :
- Susanne Machacz, Senior Director, XCenda
- Vikrant Karnik, VP LS Capgemini
- Bruce Quinn, MD, PhD, Senior Health Policy Specialist, Foley Hoag LLP
In partnership with the French-American Chamber of Commerce FACCSF
Details : http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/activities/events/Healthcare_Removing_reimbursement_barriers
Registration : http://www.faccsf.com/Events/LSB_May08.htm
Location & Parking : http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/aboutus/contact
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THURSDAY MAY 15, 2008, 6.30pm-9.30pm
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«« The Search for a World Like Our Own : Imagine Earth 2.0 »»
The two leading planet hunters Didier Queloz, University of Geneva,
and Debra Fischer, San Francisco State University, will talk about
their search for planets outside our solar system (exoplanets) and the
possibility of finding an earth-like planet, with liquid water on the
surface. Discuss with them your ideas on what such a planet would look
like, what would grow on it, and what kind of life could exist on it.
Lynette Cook, well-known portraitist of planets, will paint the
outcome of this discussion live on the imagined surface of one of the
most recent discoveries: Gliese 581 c. At the same time, swissnex will
host an exhibition of Lynette Cook's work.
6.30pm Doors open, registration and exhibition
7.00pm Presentations + Discussion and creation of Earth 2.0 painting
by Lynette Cook
8.45pm Reception, networking and exhibition
Details & Registration : http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/activities/events/exoplanets
Location & Parking : http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/aboutus/contact
With support from ThinkSwiss (www.thinkswiss.org) and the University
of Geneva
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FRIDAY MAY 16, 2008, 7.00pm-10.30pm
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«« New Experimental Music, Art, Performance (NEXMAP) »»
An evening of new music where composition and improvisation join in a
collaborative performance with video and mixed media. François Houle
and Benoît Delbecq's collaborative performances include pieces for
piano or prepared piano and clarinets, solo improvisation, with
electronic manipulations. As the music unfolds, composition and
improvisation seem to flow together into a continuum where jazz, new
music and world music fuse. This collaborative performance with video
and mixed media by Frédéric St-Hilaire (aka Cinétik) inspires the
audience to listen to a world in constant evolution and
transformation. Delbecq's contemplative piano "fabrics" draw on Cage,
Ligeti, and African timbres and polyrhythms. Houle's approach has been
inspired by Evan Parker and clarinetist William O. Smith's multi-
layered sonic explorations.
7.00pm Doors open / mixer
8.00pm Performance
9.00pm Reception with the artists (hosted bar)
Details : http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/activities/events/nexmap
Registration : http://www.nexmap.org/events/080516bios.htm
Location & Parking : http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/aboutus/contact
In partnership with NEXMAP, the Consulate General of France, the
British Columbia Arts Council and FACE
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Christian Simm, PhD
Executive Director and Founder
swissnex San Francisco
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111 (USA)
T (415) 912-5901 x104
F (415) 912-5905
mail : christian.simm_at_swissnexSanFrancisco.org
web : www.swissnexSanFrancisco.org
ThinkSwiss - Brainstorm the Future
www.thinkswiss.org
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