Canon Launches Electronics-Focused DesignMed Events

Canon Communications has announced that it will launch three DesignMed events dedicated to the innovative medical electronic imaging, diagnostics and interventional device industry sectors. Electronics Design News (EDN) magazine, recently acquired by Canon, will sponsor the events at MEDTEC and MD&M shows in Japan, China and the United States this year.

The DesignMed series will co-locate with Canon’s established Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) shows in the United States and MEDTEC shows elsewhere around the world. In 2010, the pairings will be with MEDTEC Japan in Yokohama, MEDTEC China in Shanghai and MD&M Midwest in Rosemont (Chicago). In 2011, the franchise is expected to expand to additional Canon medical events around the world.

“The conferences at DesignMed will bring to medical electronics OEMs the very latest in emerging electronics to allow for smaller, faster, smarter and more precise imaging and diagnostic tools for healthcare providers. In the wake of a changing electronics industry landscape, medical is now a focus for leading suppliers, and medical electronic device designers are going to really benefit,” commented Kevin O’Keefe, Senior Vice President of Canon’s events division. “The concurrent DesignMed exhibitions will work to support the great content delivered to delegates in the conference with hands-on, face-to-face meetings with top suppliers.”

Valued at nearly US$60 billion worldwide in 2009, the lucrative medical electronics sector is a key target for major electronics suppliers faced with declining return on their investments in other electronics sectors that have moved into the cost-driven commodity arena.

It is gratifying that our acquisition of EDN could be instrumental in bringing global electronics suppliers–the publication’s advertisers–together with Canon’s worldwide medical manufacturing audience,” said Canon CEO Charles McCurdy.  “The result should be even stronger, more vibrant MD&M and MEDTEC events, significant new business for our EDN customers, and a wave of new medical electronics device technology for healthcare providers–a winning proposition all around.”

Canon Communications, which publishes the medtechinsider blog and newsletter, is a portfolio company of Apprise Media LLC. Canon Communications produces trade events, publications and electronic media for the US$3 trillion advanced, technology-based manufacturing industry, including medical device, packaging, design engineering, process technology, automated assembly, electronics, quality control and plastics processing.

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