Bill Kalivas has clearly found a formula for successful, innovative  events that connect people and businesses, this time at last week's "How Technology & Innovation Are Changing Business."

Around 200 entrepreneurs, innovators and interested folks attended the event at Liberty Lake's Meadowood Technology Campus (was it just me, or is that beautiful facility under-utilized?).

Rebecca Lovell, Chief Business Officer for GeekWire, started everyone off with her great tips on…

A large-scale clinical trial of a vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline with support from the Gates Foundation has apparently demonstrated effectiveness in safely protecting large numbers of children against malaria, according to the Washington Post.

Glaxo has spent $300 million to get to its phase 3 trial fo the drug, plus another $200 million from Gates. More than 15,000 infants and children under the age of 18 months were…

October is breast cancer awareness month, and there are so many good causes to support. As a survivor, I appreciate all that all you LaunchPad members do to help find the cure.

This month I'm supporting Every Woman Can because it helps women who otherwise can't afford to receive mammograms. EWC is sponsored by Inland Imaging and if you want to donate, have a question, or know someone who needs this service, contact EWC at…

Providence Health Care and EWU will present T. R. Reid speaking on "A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care." The event is from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Tues., Oct. 4, 2011 at the Spokane Convention Center. IT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

The Governor's Life Sciences Summit and Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association have teamed up for the second time.

Mark your calendar for Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA. I attended and was among 800 other people interested in life sciences. To register contact WBBA at www.washbio.org.