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|  IFIA M agazine - S ept ember 2019
                      4th International Invention




                        Innovation Competition in



                                         Canada (iCAN)







            The  4th  International  Invention  Innovation Competition  Finals” in Toronto, Canada.
            in Canada, iCAN 2019 “The Finals” took place on August  The jury committee of iCAN 2019 “The Finals” featured
            24th at North York Memorial Community Hall in Toronto  both local and international, endorsed individuals and pro-
            where Finalists from 20 countries were in attendance from  fessionals in the field of invention, innovation, scientific
            around the world. The overall participation for the com-  research, intellectual property, new product promotions,
            petition this year marked a record-breaking 50 countries  business authentic branding, university professors of engi-
            entering more than 500 inventions. The Finals featured ex-  neering and science, trade show experts, representatives
            hibitors from all North American countries: Canada, USA  of inventor associations, networks, forums – from 10 coun-
            and Mexico; and also from Asia, Europe, the Middle East  tries altogether as a joint committee of North America,
            and Africa: China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand,  Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and Africa which maxi-
            Vietnam, Sri  Lanka,  Poland,  Romania, Uzbekistan,  Iran,  mized the Finals standard level of judging and evaluation.
            Turkey, Austria, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, and Cyprus. All ex-  Following the exhibition & judging was the annual semi-
            hibitors performed oral presentations of their inventions  nar by Mr. Howard Lim, President of “HOW Creative”. This
            and innovation projects to the jury members for the Finals  year’s topic covered “Breaking Boundaries for an Irresist-
            evaluation and award selections.                    ible Customer Brand Experience”. Since the first edition of
            The exhibition had a total of 165 inventions & innovations  iCAN in 2016, Mr. Lim has been taking a major role in the
            on display which were introduced to the jury, international  event as the main speaker of the seminar as well as the co-
            delegations,  co-exhibitors,  and  other  attendees,  visitors  chairman of the jury in the exhibition.
            and guests that gathered from multi-continental sectors  The award ceremony was conducted as the last function
            of the world. The event featured 3 major programs: inven-  for the participants as the highlight of the event, starting
            tion exhibition & judging, seminar, and award ceremony.  with the presentation of iCAN Special Inventor Award Win-
            iCAN 2019 as the 4th annual edition marked new records  ners of the Finals followed by international delegations’
            for the number of inventions, countries, exhibitors, and  Special Awards, Best Invention Awards for national, conti-
            also most meaningfully received the best post-event feed-  nental and individual categories; and finally the winners of
            back and positive responses from the majority of partici-  the Semi-Grand Prize, and the Grand Prize.
            pants who were there on August 24th in iCAN 2019 “The



















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