BELGIAN ECONOMIC MISSION to the USA (Seattle) and CANADA (Vancouver)

Headed by H.R.H. Prince Philippe of Belgium

8/14 March 2008


BRUSSELS-CAPITAL REGION / The participants

Brussels Export +

Private / Public Organizations

• Federation of Enterprises in Belgium • Agoria - Federation for the Technology Industry • Agoria Renewable Energy Club • Healthcare Belgium • Brussels Enterprises Commerce & Industry

Research Center / University

• Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy • Université Libre de Bruxelles

14 INDUSTRIAL & SERVICE COMPANIES

Advanco Belgacom Bird & Bird Carlson Wagonlit Travel Dynamic Resources Consult Fragomen Global Immigration Services Homes International Hôtel Bentley Lydian Lawyers SABCA Silversands Associates Suez Energy International (Suez Tractebel) Vitalsys Voice-Insight

Mr Olgun YENERSOY, President - CEO Mrs Yasmin YENERSOY, Assistant

ADVANCO is an end-to-end solution integrator for manufacturing, logistics and retail processes enabled by automatic identification technologies (RFID). We have also software development activities based mainly on Microsoft technologies. Advanco has certified partnerships with SAP, SIEMENS automation and devices and MICROSOFT. In 1992 Dr Yenersoy won the "Entrepreneurship Award" in Belgium. In 2005 Advanco won the "Most innovative BPM application". In 2007 Advanco won the "Most important deployment using RFID Award". The main software product of Advanco is ARC™ (Advanco RFID Controller). ARC is one of the two products certified by SAP in Europe. This "Integration Software" is presented as a component of the solution integration philosophy and methodology of Advanco. Contact Rue de la Fusée 66 • B - 1130 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 726 88 00 • Fax: + 32 2 / 726 40 39 Email: info@advanco.be • Web: www.advanco.be

Mr Didier BELLENS, President & CEO

The BELGACOM Group (Euxonext: BELG) is the benchmark Belgian provider in the field of integrated telecommunications services. Backed by its experience as the country’s national operator and its capacity to innovate, the Belgacom Group, through the strong brands of its subsidiaries (Belgacom, Proximus and Telindus) provides a full range of offers, solutions and expertise in the areas of fixed and mobile networks. The Belgacom Group propose a complete quadruple-play solution comprising fixed and mobile telephony, the Internet and television. For the fiscal year ending 31 December 2006, the Group posted a total revenue of € 6.1 billion and a net operating profit before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of € 2.15 billion. Contact Boulevard Albert II 27 • B - 1030 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 202 81 53 • Fax: + 32 2 / 217 99 66 Email: concetta.fagard@belgacom.be Web: www.belgacom.be

Mr Paul HERMANT, Managing Director

BIRD & BIRD is an international law firm that provides a full range of legal services and manages cross-border activities across Europe and Asia. The firm has established a long relationship with several prominent "best friends" law firms in Seattle, Vancouver and other North American cities. Our practices cover: • The full range of intellectual property law (including a.o. patents, licensing, trademarks and copyrights); • Information technology law (including a.o. outsourcing operations, privacy and data protection aspects); • EU & competition law (including a.o. trade and customs, all EU regulatory aspects and public affairs); • Corporate transactions (including a.o. mergers and acquisitions and incorporation of new companies); • Commercial agreements (including a.o. licensing, leasing, sales & marketing, advertising, franchising, distribution); • Finance (including a.o. project finance and marketing and distribution of financial products); • Employment, real estate and dispute resolution. Contact Avenue d’Auderghem 22-28/9 • B - 1040 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 282 60 00 • Fax: + 32 2 / 282 60 11 Email: brussels@twobirds.com • Web: www.twobirds.com

Mr Baudouin GILLIS, Vice President BeLux

Worldwide leader in travel distribution, CARLSON WAGONLIT TRAVEL realized in 2007 a business volume of approximately 26 billion USD. In Belgium, CWT represents a business volume of 420 million €. CWT is active in Business Travel and Leisure Travel and is organizing the Belgian economic missions. Contact Boulevard de la Woluwe 34 • B - 1200 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 258 10 05 • Fax: + 32 2 / 258 13 08 Email: bgillis@carlsonwagonlit.be • Web: www.cwt.be

Mr Michel COURTIN, President Mrs Jacqueline HUBERT, Director Mrs Rachel CLAESSENS, Counsellor

Founded in 2003, DYNAMIC RESOURCES CONSULT - DRC is specialized in foreign trade consultancy. The company helps the small and medium sized enterprises in search of partnerships, personnel or business contacts. Even though we are mainly focused on Canada and Luxembourg, we are also interested in working in/with other countries. Our fields of expertise are the food and the renewable energy industries, but we can be dealing with other economic sectors as well. We also organise business missions in Belgium for Canadians interested in the Belgian and Luxembourg markets. Contact Rue Blockmans 8/9 • B - 1150 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 734 57 57 • Fax: + 32 2 / 648 66 62 Email: info-drc@skynet.be • Web: www.dynamicconsult.be

Mr Dirk NUYTS, Practice Leader / Member of the Brussels' Bar

FRAGOMEN is the largest law firm in the world dedicated exclusively to providing corporate immigration services. We represent a broad range of clients, including a majority of Fortune 500 clients, and we assist them in their recruiting, hiring and retaining foreign workers. Every aspect of our firm, from our practice model to our proprietary technology, has been developed specifically and exclusively to support the practice of immigration. Our firm is made up of a large and diverse group of professionals who maintain key leadership roles in the field of immigration, many of whom have held positions at major governmental agencies. This team provides our clients with detailed knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements, to enforcement procedures and potential penalties that may applicable in different countries. Contact Kunstlaan 44 • B - 1041 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 550 10 20 • Fax: + 32 2 / 550 10 29 Email: globalinfo@fragomen.com • Web: www.fragomen.com

Mr Jean-Louis VAN de WOUWER, Managing Director

HOMES INTERNATIONAL specializes in land transport and aerospace law and economics under two aspects: publishing and consultancy. Recent publishing includes: 1. One Sky for Europe? World-wide Challenges 2. European Trajectories in Space Law Outside promotion of our publications, we would like to professionally represent North American aerospace interests with the European Institutions, be it industrial companies, trade associations or regional authorities. Contact Froissartstraat 119/5 • B - 1040 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 230 21 87 • Fax: + 32 2 / 230 42 07 Email: homes.eurocis@skynet.be Web: www.homesinternational.be

Mr Hakan ERBAS, Managing Director

The BENTLEY HOTEL is happy to welcome you right in the centre of the capital of Europe within recently renewed surroundings. Our hotel counts 30 luxurious rooms with bath or showers, fridge, TV-set and phone in each. Contact Avenue Rogier 51 • B - 1030 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 511 52 65 • Fax: + 32 2 /513 61 65 Email: erbas.hakan@gmail.com

Mrs Jane MURPHY, Lawyer

LYDIAN, founded in 2001 as Lontings & Partners, is one of the leading independent law firms in Belgium, driven by 50 motivated and highly competent lawyers. "Lydian" is a term used in jazz music and means "note system" or "touchstone", the backbone on which jazz musicians rely in jam sessions. In the same way, the firm seeks to be the backbone of its clients’ business ventures. Lydian is a full service law firm, providing its clients - large and medium-sized Belgian and international companies - with prompt assistance and to-the-point advice, both in domestic and cross-border files. The firm is structured around four departments: • Commercial & Litigation; • Corporate & Finance; • Employment, Pensions & Benefits and Real Estate; • Environment & Regulatory. Contact Tour & Taxis • Av. du Port 86c/113 • B - 1000 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 787 90 66 • Fax: + 32 2 / 787 90 99 Email: jane.murphy@lydian.be • Web: www.lydian.be

Mr Marc HUMBLET, Marketing & Sales Director

SABCA is a major Belgian aerospace company active since 1920 in the design, development, production and support of civil and military aircraft, as well as space programs. Among the company’s specialties: • Large metallic and composite structures as a partner for civil aircrafts and space launchers; • Advanced thrust vectoring systems for space launchers, including electro-hydrostatic and electromechanical actuators. Final assembly including flight testing, heavy maintenance and upgrades of military aircraft and helicopters (F-16, A10, Mirage, Alphajet, F5, Seaking, Agusta 109, etc..). Contact Chaussée de Haecht 1470 • B - 1130 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 729 55 49 • Fax: + 32 2 / 729 58 96 Emails: patrick.de.wilde@sabca.be / marc.humblet@sabca.be Web: www.sabca.com

Mr Frederik VAN LIERDE, Manager

SILVERSANDS ASSOCIATES - Information & Communication Technology - ICT. Contact Weilandstraat 24/2-6 • B - 1082 Brussels Tel.: + 32 477 / 25 64 66 (Mobile) Email: frederik@blueoceansgroup.com

Mr Marc JOSZ, Head of Strategy & Portfolio Management

SUEZ ENERGY INTERNATIONAL is the division of SUEZ responsible for the Group’s energy activities outside Europe. It develops and manages electricity and gas projects, providing energy and related services to industry and commercial customers. Headquartered in Brussels, it employs 4,946 people and operates in four areas: North America, Latin America, Middle East-Asia & Africa. Its assets represent more than 27,000 MW of power generation capacity. In 2006, SUEZ Energy International achieved a turnover of EUR 6,242 million. Based in Houston, SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. is the business unit of SUEZ Energy International responsible for managing SUEZ’s positions within the energy value chain in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, including electricity generation and cogeneration, natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), asset based trading and origination, and retail energy sales and related services to commercial and industrial customers. Contact Troonplein 1 • B - 1000 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 510 70 69 • Fax: + 32 2 / 510 75 91 Email: katia.damman@suezenergyint.com Web: www.suezenergyint.com

Mr Paul GEERINCKX, President of the Board of Directors Mr Diederick GEERINCKX, Managing Director

VITALSYS is a dynamic company that specializes in innovative medical technologies. Vitalsys develops, sells and maintains highly efficient telemedicine solutions and infrastructures. Vitalsys' mission is to provide technology to improve patients' quality of life. The complete range of medical services and equipment that Vitalsys provides enables healthcare professionals to monitor patients in real-time from home. With this technology, healthcare professionals can follow their patients suffering from chronic disease ensuring prompt notification as conditions change. Vitalsys is the most important player in the area of medical telemonitoring in the Benelux countries. Vitalsys is partnering with the main insurance and telecom providers. Contact Paleizenstraat 44 • B - 1030 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 211 34 26 • Fax: + 32 2 / 218 89 73 Email: info@vitalsys.be • Web: www.vitalsys.be

Mr Charles KEMPEER, CEO Mr Rajeev VARSHNEYA, President Voice-Insight USA

VOICE-INSIGHT - In 1999 the founders of this Belgian company invented a new mobile user interface technology called VQL™ (Voice Query Language). What VQL™ really does is interfacing existing speech engines available from the shelf to existing database content for queries and updates in natural language. It is not a speech engine (recognition nor synthesis), nor is it a database application on its own. It is a middleware enabling automatic voice activation of any existing database application. As such it allows fast deployment of voice-activated applications in any language, supporting any device (telephone, GSM, microphones, PDA (personal data assistants), television, remote controller, etc.), in a server-client or in an embedded architecture. This approach has been internationally patented. The company has developed solutions based on the SDK in different vertical niches: GIS, GPS, Logistics, Maintenance, Security, e-Government. Contact Avenue J. Wybran 40 • B - 1070 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 529 58 12 • Fax: + 32 2 / 529 59 83 Email: info@voice-insight.com • Web: www.voice-insight.com

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Mr Rudi THOMAES, CEO Mrs Elizabeth DE WANDELER, Advisor

The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium - FEB is the only multisector employers' organisation representing companies in Belgium. FEB has 31 full members, all of which are professional sectoral federations - in addition to its applicant and corresponding members. All in all, it represents more than 30.000 businesses, of which 25.000 are small and medium-sized firms. In job terms, it represents some 1.5 million workers. The main activities of the FEB in Belgium are: • Promoting and stimulating entrepreneurship; • Defining common positions of Belgian employers; • Ensuring representation in many national and international advisory and administrative committees and institutions; • Acting as an intermediary between employers and government, administration, trade unions, consumers,..; • Providing a flow of informations to its members and the general public. Contact Rue Ravenstein 4 • B - 1000 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 515 08 11 • Fax: + 32 2 / 515 09 99 Email: info@vbo-feb.be • Web: www.vbo-feb.be

Mr François de HEMPTINNE, Advisor - Area Manager

Agoria, the Multisector Federation for the Technology Industry is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association representing 1.550 members, active in the following 13 sectors that form the pillar of the Belgian economy – the technology industry: • Aerospace; • Automotive; • Construction products; • Contracting & maintenance; • Electrical engineering; • Industrial automation; • Information and communication technologies (ICT); • Mechatronical engineering; • Metals & materials; • Metal processing; • Mounting & cranes; • Plastics; • Security & defence. Agoria member companies supply goods and provide services for many international projects abroad: equipment for large-scale infrastructure works, oil, gas and petrochemical plants, international sports events, environmental infrastructure, construction, renewable energy, ICT solutions for the financial sector, equipment and services for the medical and paramedical sectors, textile machinery, R&D, etc. Contact Diamant Building Boulevard Auguste Reyers 80 • B - 1030 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 706 79 39 • Fax: + 32 2 / 706 71 43 Email: francois.dehemptinne@agoria.be Web: www.agoria.be

Mr François de HEMPTINNE , Director

The Agoria Renewable Energy Club is a network of experienced Belgian Companies who provide solutions, products & services in renewable energy projects with a dedicated focus on Wind energy, Solar energy (thermal & photovoltaic) & Biomass. We offer a structured overview of solutions and references and serve as focal point of contact. The Agoria Renewable Energy Club regroups the most prominent Belgian companies with particular know-how and experience related to innovative solutions for renewable energy projects. Contact Diamant Building Boulevard Auguste Reyers 80 • B - 1030 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 706 79 39 • Fax: + 32 2 / 706 71 43 Email: francois.dehemptinne@agoria.be Web: www.agoria.be

Mr Rudi THOMAES, Chairman Mr Falk BEERTEN, General Manager Mr Stefaan GRYSPEERDT, CEO VCTC

Healthcare Belgium (HCare.be) is a non-profit organization established by 11 of the most reputable and important Belgian hospital groups with the support of the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium and Agfa Healthcare. Healthcare Belgium’s objectives are to promote Belgian telemedicine and to organize and encourage the delivery of medical services to foreign patients and foreign health care providers in an ethical and coordinated way. Due to the combined offer of the centres of excellence of the member hospitals, Healthcare Belgium is able to offer high quality medical care for a very wide range of treatments. Telemedicine applications such as teleradiology and virtual colonoscopy have already been successfully presented to healthcare stakeholders in South Africa and Canada during previous economic missions. Contact Rue des Sols 8 • B - 1000 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 515 09 38 • Fax: + 32 2 / 515 09 39 Email: contact@healthcarebelgium.com Web: www.healthcarebelgium.com

Mr Olivier WILLOCX, Managing Director

In 2007, the Chamber of Commerce of Brussels (CCIB) and the Brussels Business Federation (UEB) decided to achieve their cooperation by a mutual image and a shared name: BECI - Brussels Enterprises Commerce and Industry. BECI has 3000 company members - SME’s and large companies, Belgian and International companies - located in the Brussels’ Region. The Brussels Business Federation is the interprofessional organisation regrouping the businesses in the Brussels-Capital Region. The Brussels Chamber of Commerce and Industry offers its services to businesses and self-employed workers in the Brussels-Capital Region. BECI, private partner in the Brussels Export initiative, has an international department to promote foreign trade and international relations of the Brussels’ businesses. This department provides a broad range of services: • Information: export lunches, seminars, publications, counselling; • Promotion actions: business trips, business clubs, welcoming of foreign economic delegations; • Administrative formalities: ATA booklets and certificates of origin. Contact Avenue Louise 500 • B - 1050 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 648 50 02 • Fax: + 32 2 / 640 93 28 Email: info@beci.be • Web: www.beci.be

RESEARCH CENTER / UNIVERSITY

Mr Noël PARMENTIER, General Director

The main tasks of the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy are public service and research in the field of: • The physics and Chemistry of the Earth and planet(s) atmospheres and its effect on Climate, Ozone, Air Quality, Aerosols …, through research, modeling and forecasting (chemical weather); • Space plasma, and the Sun-earth effect on the earth environment: "Space weather". Contact Avenue Circulaire 3 • B - 1180 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 373 04 13 • Fax: + 32 2 / 375 93 36 Email: noel.parmentier@aeronomie.be Web: www.aeronomie.be

Mr Serge JAUMAIN, Vice-Rector - European Politics & International Relations

The Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB is a multicultural institution which has 7 faculties and a range of schools and institutes and is, at the same time, a comprehensive university providing academic tuition in all disciplines and study cycles. With its 20,000 students, 27% of whom come from abroad, and its very cosmopolitan body of staff, the university is an intrinsically international institution open to both Europe and to the whole world. The ULB is a multicultural institution which has 7 faculties and a range of schools and institutes and is, at the same time, a comprehensive university providing academic tuition in all disciplines and study cycles. With its three Nobel Prize winners, a Fields medal, a Wolf Prize for physics, two Marie Curie Prizes and 29% of the Francqui prizes awarded, the ULB is also a major research centre which is recognised by the academic community the world over. Founded on the principle of free-thinking analysis which advocates independent reasoning and the rejection of dogma in all its forms, the ULB has remained true to its original ideals – an institution free from any form of control which is committed to defending democratic humanist values, an approach it also extends to the way that it is run. Contact Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50/131 • B - 1050 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 650 42 45 • Fax: + 32 2 / 650 49 65 Email: serge.jaumain@admin.ulb.ac.be • Web: www.ulb.ac.be

FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT

Mrs Isabelle LAVERGE, Attaché

Brussels Export, the Foreign Trade Department of the Brussels-Capital Region is a public body, which aims to enhance and improve the export capacity of Brussels companies. To develop the export potential of Brussels companies, the Foreign Trade Department: • provides information about foreign markets to Brussels companies, through its network of economic and trade attachés; • organizes trade missions and group stands of international exhibitions; • supports the prospect initiatives of Brussels companies through financial incentives. The FT Department of the Brussels-Capital Region also guides and helps foreign companies interested in Brussels products, services and techniques, to make the right contacts meeting their demands and to find business partners in the Brussels Region. Contact Avenue Louise 500/4 • B - 1050 Brussels Tel.: + 32 2 / 800 40 00 • Fax: + 32 2 / 800 40 01 Email: infos@brussels-export.irisnet.be Web: www.brussels-export.be / www.brussels-exporters.be