The third edition of BIAT, the lab for innovative technologies and start-ups, will take place in Catania on March 2 and 3, 2017 and will bring together foreign venture capitalists, incubators and accelerators and the most promising Italian start-ups and projects from Southern Italy.
The main goal of BIAT is to foster  international cooperation at various levels, by means of a matchmaking mechanism between supply and demand in the commercial, industrial and technological fields.
The focus areas of BIAT 2017 are new materials, biotechnology, nanotechnology, mechatronics, renewable energies, environment and smart technology.
BIAT, funded under the Cohesion Action Plan of the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, is a program designed to enable the enterprises and research systems of Italy's so-called Convergence Regions - Campania, Calabria, Apulia and Sicily - to express their full potential for innovation and excellence. Indeed, Convergence Regions host some of the most important technological and industrial districts in Italy and in the European context.
The Italian Trade Commission is inviting North American companies, research centres, universities, venture capitalists and investors to attend the event.  For further information on BIAT, please contact info [at] machinesitalia.org (subject: Machines%20Italia%20e-newsletter)