5. WHERE IS THE B.C. LIFE SCIENCES SECTOR HEADED? WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT?

Some leaders are scaling and growing their second or third company, which is fantastic because you get all that learning, and it’s also about recycling of talent. We have some amazing assets: our academic institutions, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Genome BC, Clinical Trials BC and the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. So with all of the science and some very successful business leaders, there is so much we can do.

The other interesting thing is that you see great strength in the medtech and digital health space. Increasingly, I see an overlap from our strong gaming industry and the skills that have helped to propel that sector moving into the digital health space.