Learn more about the PNWER BIC competition & sponsorship opportunity

Learn more about the PNWER BIC competition & sponsorship opportunity

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Don't wait!

Register NOW for the PNWER Summit!

The early bird rate expires April 30, 2013!

PNWER is visiting during the height of the Alaskan tourism season, and flights and hotels are quickly filling up! Please register, book your accommodations and flights, NOW!

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Glacier tour at the PNWER Summit - Spots filling up!

Anyone interested in going on the glacier tour must sign up by:

MAY 15, 2013!

Registering is easy! You sign up and pay for the glacier tour when you register for the PNWER Summit here.

The tour is $100.

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The 2013 Annual Summit is generously presented by our 2013 Premier Sponsors. Thank you!

From let to right: Whitman College faculty advisor Lee Sanning; Elliott Crane '14; Signe Burke '14; Murugappan Venkat '12. Bootcamp mentor, Christian Hölljes, founder and CEO of Newgent technologies.

"A career-changing experience. I learned so much and made some unbelievable contacts."

- Student comment from 1st PNWER-BIC Entrepreneurial Boot Camp

The Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) - Business Ideas Competition is an interactive challenge for innovative business ideas from students in the Pacific Northwest. The competition is a result of discussions during the University Presidents' Roundtable held at the Annual PNWER Summit. Now in its second year, this exciting competition will continue to reward business innovations that hold promise for the region that we (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories and Yukon)

collectively call home by inviting winning teams to an Entrepreneurial Boot Camp at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC on May 1 to 3, 2013.

The Entrepreneurial Boot Camp is a two-day event where students receive elite coaching and mentoring from high-flyers in the business scene. Experts will provide advice in areas such as: finance/accounting; negotiation skills, intellectual property and legal issues; marketing and venture capital.

To participate in the competition, educational institutions of PNWER are invited to hold an internal competition identifying the best video elevator pitches from a team of students, which they submit to Royal Roads for to be judged. A panel of international business leaders selects the four best business ideas from all of the videos submitted. To learn more about how to get involved, go to ecdc.royalroads.ca/pacific-northwest-economic-region-business-ideas-competition.

As an added bonus, teams are given free admission to the Canadian Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship Conference (CCSBE 2013) that will run concurrently with the boot camp.

Additionally, we are looking for sponsorship for the PNWER-BIC Entrepreneurial Boot Camp which would offset costs of the event. You will have the opportunity to build your brand in this innovative international educational space. The Boot Camp will have an audience of top business students and future leaders as well as academic professionals and successful business people.

This sponsorship opportunity will give your organization a chance to showcase your offerings to some of the greatest young business minds in the region.

To learn more about this opportunity and how to sponsor, please click here.

We're appreciative of Royal Roads' Leadership on this, and President Allan Cahoon, whose vision for this has been a benefit to the region.

Thank you to our additional early 2013 PNWER Summit Sponsors!