Date: September 11 to September 13, 2024
The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service in Singapore, in partnership with Ontario and Alberta is supporting Canadian client attendance at Medical Fair Asia and Medical Manufacturing Asia 2024.
This event is now in its 15th year and is the platform of choice for the industry as it brings together medical and healthcare innovations, technologies, equipment and supplies to a centralised marketplace. Thought-leadership and knowledge exchange run central to the event with a series of seminars and conferences by industry experts.
Canadian companies joining the trade delegation will benefit from:
- Tailored business-to-business meetings
- Access to a meeting space within the Canada Pavilion
- Market briefing on the Medical Technology sector in Singapore
- A networking reception
- Site visits
- Access to the exhibition and conference
Singapore has a dynamic and innovative MedTech landscape including considerable public/private sector collaboration, government funding and academic partnerships. SGInnovate and partners lead the way with their Deep Tech Central (DTC) a cross vertical strategic investment programme.
The current top 5 therapeutic areas of focus in Singapore are:
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Diabetes mellitus and other metabolic / endocrine conditions
- Oncology/Cancers
- Infectious diseases
- Neurological and sense disorders
As a result, the Trade Commissioner Service in Singapore sees medical and healthcare opportunities in the following areas:
- AI driven technology particularly descriptive and predictive analytics, chatbots for wellness coaching and imaging analysis.
- Leveraging Mobile technology to monitor and share health information is rapidly increasing and MedTech companies are leveraging devices such as smartphones and smartwatches to provide medical information and allow better health monitoring.
- Wearable technology to allow remote monitoring of patient's vital signs by the physician and hence avoiding the need to visit a clinic/freeing clinician time.
