ACCP Professional Development Seminar Series:
Approaches and Challenges of Doing Business in Canada: Case Studies of Two Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs
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In this unique seminar, two successful Chinese Canadian business owners with professional backgrounds will share their experience, approaches and strategies to help you build and succeed in your business.
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Special Topics:
- How being ethnic Chinese has affects one’s approach to business: any benefits or challenges;
- How to best market yourself and obtain work, even in midst of an economic downturn;
- Top three tips on how to start and run a successful business.
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Speakers:
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1. David Wong
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Vancouver born Wong was a founding partner of one of Singapore's largest design firms. He was recently recognized by the Vancouver Sun as one of 'BC's 100 influential Chinese-Canadians', and also by the Victoria Chinese Commerce Association on their 'Chinese-Canadian Heroes' list. Wong has designed Airports and Green buildings on several continents, and has lectured at Universities, including SFU's CityPlan, KSK (Japan's largest Design Institute) and BCIT's Architecture & School of the Environment.
He is currently working on:
Urban design of the new Capital City, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates); sustainable new town Centres in Sydney & Melbourne (Australia), and is completing some of China's first Green residential towers.
Other distractions:
Advisor on various Magazines, CGI & Film companies, Political Parties and NGOs.
Proudest achievement:
Support on the international efforts in designating the Diaolou (fortress towers) his ancestral home, Kaiping, as an UNESCO 2007 World Heritage site
His family has deep roots in Canada, and are proud Canadians.
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2, Edmond Wong, Ph.D.
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Dr. Wong was born in Vancouver, B.C. He obtained his B.Sc. in biochemistry from McGill University, and received his doctorate from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at U.B.C., where he studied the fundamental mechanisms of gene expression that lead to disease.
Dr. Wong is a co-founder and executive director at Genetrack Biolabs, Canada's largest commercial DNA testing facility by volume, and is a co-founder and president of Healthcord Cryogenics, one of the largest accredited cord blood stem cell processing facilities in Canada, among other ventures.
In his spare time, Dr. Wong is an industry advisor to the U.B.C. Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program and is a past director of the ACCP, where he�continues to spearhead the ACCP 'glass ceiling' initiative.
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Event Details:
Saturday February 21, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm−3:00 pm
Location: S.U.C.C.E.S.S. 200−1755 W. Broadway, Van.
Language: English
Admission:
$10 for ACCP members & SUCCESS
$20 for General Public
Everyone can bring a guest for free!
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Co-organized with SUCCESS Business & Economic Development
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