The Redefining Early Stage Investments (RESI) Conference is going abroad for the first time. RESI on MaRS will take place on June 23rd in Toronto, the heart of Canada's financial and health industries, where early stage investment in life sciences and digital health is on the cusp of a major breakthrough.

Take the launch of Johnson & Johnson's JLABS @ Toronto in May - also a first outside the United States, and in the very same building RESI will take place, the 1.5-million-square-foot building that is MaRS Discovery District. Or the recently announced centre for advanced therapeutic cell technologies, the first of its kind in the world, which is also moving into MaRS thanks to a $40-million collaboration between the government of Canada, GE Healthcare and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM)...

LSN is laser focused on the early stage investment dynamic; the ever changing relationship between buyer and seller, between investor and fundraising CEO/scientist-entrepreneur. LSN staff program the content to be specifically about investors detailing their investment processes to the entrepreneur audience - RESI's panels and workshops are selected for relevance to early stage investment.

After the investor landscape morphed, LSN created RESI to be a venue to feature all the players in the early stage investment arena. LSN tries hard to present current state-of-the-state content relevant to the investor marketplace. It's not just about venture capital firms; there are nine other categories of investor that LSN invites to RESI, including Angels, Corporate VCs, Family Offices, Large Pharma/Med Device corporations, and Foundations...