We are most grateful to the following sponsors of our 2012 annual meeting, scheduled for Friday, May 18th in Buffalo. Our meeting follows the two-day 2012 Venture Forum that combines for the first time the SmartStart/UNYTECH Venture Forum and the Bright Buffalo Niagara Angel Forum.

These sponsors are over and above the valued sponsors of our website and newsletter, listed at the top of the left-hand column of this website. Please show all our sponsors your strongest support.

The Business Incubator Association of New York State, Inc., announces its 2012 annual meeting for Friday May, 18, 2012, in Buffalo at the UB Center of Excellence. 

Come discuss innovative seed-funding models (like the state's new InnovateNY Seed Capital Fund, mission investments by private foundations and innovative angel groups) with incubator managers and private-sector and government leaders. Also tours of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (sponsor of our member the Thomas Beecher Jr. Innovation Center).

Our meeting will cap half a week of entrepreneurial and investor activity in Buffalo that begins with the SmartStart/UNYTECH Venture Forum presented jointly with the Bright Buffalo Niagara Forum, and concludes with our own meeting. Draft agenda for our own meeting is attached.

For our meeting in context of these other events, please see SmartStart/UNYTECH or Bright Buffalo Niagara or the complete joint news release issued by our member CEG.

These sponsors are over and above the valued sponsors of our website and newsletter, listed at the top of the left-hand column of this website. Please show all our sponsors your strongest support.

The Thomas Beecher Jr. Innovation Center at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, a member of BIA/NYS for the past year, has voluntarily stepped up to "Supporting Member" status in our association, a recognition of its leadership in the field of business incubation statewide.

Housed in the renovated former Trico Products manufacturing plant at 640 Elicott St., the Thomas Beecher Jr. Innovation Center offers a combination of short-term leases and incubation spaces targeting life-science companies, and has created innovative models for mutual support among its tenant/clients.

The BNMC as a whole comprises 4.5 million square feet of research, clinical and support space for nine major healthcare and research institutions, and more than 40 life-science companies. For more information see http://www.bnmc.org.

Our executive director has been named to a vacant board slot at the New York State Economic Development Council, the state's principal organization representing economic-development professionals. For more information, please see the news release from NYSEDC.