Winter Reception 2015

The Winter Reception took place on Thursday, February 12th in the Canada Room of the Embassy of Canada.  The evening’s theme was Festivals of Canada

to highlight the variety of world class events hosted in Canada annually including the Dragon Boat Festival, Calgary Stampede, Caribana, Toronto International Film Festival, Quebec Winter Carnival and Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.  Adding to the evening’s festivities was excellent Canadian wine from both the Niagara and Okanagan regions.  The reception was rounded out with a prize draw that gave away a poster size Canadian flag, a one litre bottle of maple syrup, a bottle of ice cider, a Dying Light video game collectors‘ boxset, a dinner for two at Mielżyński and an air ticket to Canada

We wish to give warm recognition to our event sponsors and prize sponsors for their support to make the Winter Reception a successful event.

Event Sponsors:

Bergman Engineering

CFE Polska

Kan-Bud

Miedzi Copper

Perła Browary

 

Prize Sponsors:

Air France/KLM

Embassy of Canada

Mielżyński Wine and Bar

PJM Shipping and Trading

Techland

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Bernhard Otterstein was born and educated in Vancouver, Canada, where he graduated with honours from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He has worked with numerous corporate, governmental, and institutional entities in North America, Europe and Asia in the areas of economic analysis, strategic project and investment planning, new market development, as well as cross-cultural communications. He has been directly involved in projects in the fields of real estate, engineering, energy, biotechnology and IT/telecommunications.

Over the past 15 years, Mr. Otterstein has gained first-hand experience in identifying and promoting innovative, emerging technologies and related business opportunities, taking them from early stage to market via private equity investment and the active co-management of several start-up ventures.