Entrepreneurship

WorldSourcing 2009 Conference

lrousseau — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:23:24 -0400

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Neptune Theatre
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Learn about leading-edge products, methods, technologies and solutions and gain insights from industry leaders on how organizations are maximizing the business benefits associated with worldsourcing, including:

The most significant trends, drivers, business models, issues and risks that have an impact on worldsourcing decision making

How creating extended organizations will assist firms to stay ahead of the competition and the role that worldsourcing plays in this new organization design

Assessing the comparative benefits of various regions and cities drives the balancing of risks and benefits and creates an optimal fit based on the company’s specific business requirements

How a combination of a talented labor pool, rapidly developing infrastructure, a burgeoning domestic market and rapid investment is quickly making China a credible alternative to India

How some regions and countries are emerging outsourcing hotspots with great future potential, niche capabilities and unique differentiators, but for different reasons

How worldsourcing creates business value by developing globally dispersed yet collaborative teams that increase risk mitigation and improve productivity

Keynote speakers include:

Suhas Bhide, Partner & Vice-President, Global Delivery, Global Business Services, IBM India
Wayne Gudbranson, President and CEO of Branham Group Inc.
Brian T. Keane, President and CEO of Dextrys

For more details and registration, visit WorldSourcing 2009 Conference website.

Hosted by BalancedViewPoint

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Peter Lindfield is Managing Director of Balanced Viewpoint, a provider of research and executive events on structural challenges to the global information and telecommunications industries.

A customer-centric approach to online experiences

lrousseau — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:42:44 -0400

Start: 2008-12-16 06:30

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Join us in Moncton at 6:30 pm for a meeting of the Third Tuesday NB meetup group!

Studio 7 Hundred
700 Main St
Behind Kramers Lounge
Moncton, NB E1C 1E4
506-871-7451

What does customer-centricity really mean and how does social media play a part?

Organizations are being forced to reconsider their websites as consumers get increasingly comfortable online, expectations grow for site functionality, content freshness and format, and cost and bandwidth become more attainable. How do organizations make the most of online budgets, while ensuring they are staying current, guarding against the trend du jour, and pleasing users.

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Interactive Advertising: Balancing Industry Expansion and Consumer Demands for Privacy and Data Protection

Jeff Roach — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:44:17 -0300

Start: 2008-10-22 16:00

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While the market for interactive advertising continues to expand rapidly, the debate about consumer privacy and data protection rages on. What do technology, media, and telecommunications companies need to know? We'll discuss:

The primary forms of interactive advertising and where the key privacy issues exist.
Views of leading regulators and standard-setters versus those of the interactive advertising industry.
Leading practices to identify and mitigate privacy risks associated with your interactive advertising.

Gain insights on privacy risks that interactive advertisers need to understand and actively manage if they are to leverage this emerging medium.

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2008 National Angel Summit - Networking, Strategy, Leadership: A Forum for Smart Investing

Jeff Roach — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:40:15 -0300

Start: 2008-10-15 11:00

End: 2008-10-18 01:30

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This year, the 2008 National Angel Summit will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia - marking the first time that the Summit has been held in Atlantic Canada!

This year's Summit, themed "Networking, Strategy, Leadership: A Forum for Smart Investing" will focus on a variety of Angel specific topics. The Summit will also play host to a series of world-class speakers and panelists discussing salient topics on Angel investing. Full Agenda

Don't miss out on the premier networking and educational event for Angels in Canada!

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StartupNorth - Canada’s Conference for Startups

Jeff Roach — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:40:50 -0300

Start: 2008-11-13 09:00

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For more information visit http://startupnation.ca/

What is it?	Canada’s conference for Startups
Who will be there?	Students, Entrepreneurs and Funders
When is it?	November 13th and 14th, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario

Day 1: Practical hands-on workshops and speakers to help entrepreneurs learn how to get started or, for those with a startup, how to take it to the next level. Workshops will include:

» Asessing your market opportunity	» Why should I use your product? Strategies for getting users
» Presentation skills for developers	» Legal pitfalls for startups
» Shaking the money tree	» Pricing Models
» Product Design	» First customers and other business development pitfalls

Day 2: Networking, speakers and in-depth panels with a focus on Canada’s role in the international startup ecosystem.

Speakers include:

Howard Lindzon - www.howardlindzon.com / www.wallstrip.com / www.kbcpartners.com
Austin Hill - www.akoha.com
Lane Becker - www.getsatisfaction.com
Charlie O’Donnell - www.path101.com
Leila Boujnane - www.ideeinc.com
Rick Segal - www.jlaventures.com / ricksegal.typepad.com
Christopher Golda, Michael Parkatti, Mike Marrone, Michael Montano - Canadians in the YCombinator Summer’08 class
...more to be confirmed

We will be making announcements here over the next few months as we get closer to the conference. We are still working on bringing on more great speakers and a day of pragmatic, hands-on, workshops.

We are going all out to give you a world-class conference right here at home, and we will be asking you for your help, a lot. In the next few days and weeks we will taking your votes on what sessions and workshops you want to see and really need.

Can’t wait to see you there, this is going to be fun!

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Almost Famous: Using Video to Connect With People Online (Third Tuesday New Brunswick)

Jeff Roach — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:18:33 -0300

Start: 2008-09-16 21:30

End: 2008-09-16 23:00

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Sign up for this Hands on Crash Course in Social Media

Plan to be in Moncton on September 16, 2008. Former G4Tech TV hosts and webcelebs Amber MacArthur, Jeff MacArthur, and Christopher Dick will be hosting a workshop about engaging an audience online using video and other Web 2.0 tools. The team will also be shooting an episode of commandN.tv on location.

For more information visit: http://www.thirdtuesdaynb.com/

Cameras are welcome so don't be shy.

Click here to check out
The Third Tuesday New Brunswick (Social Media Meetup)!

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ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Research Expo 2008

Jeff Roach — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:55:42 -0300

Start: 2008-10-02 15:00

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Wu Conference Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB

The first annual ECE Research Expo will be held on Thursday October 2, 2008 at the Wu Conference Centre on the UNB Campus in Fredericton. The purpose of the Expo is to create an awareness of the leading edge research conducted within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the R&D interests of industry practitioners, and to explore opportunities for collaboration. The Expo will feature speakers from UNB and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as invited presentations. There will also be interactive and poster presentations with hands-on computer simulations and demonstrations.

As a researcher or practitioner you are invited to present your results and experiences as well as opportunities for R&D collaborations.

The Expo will cover a broad range of topics relevant to industrial applications including photonics and electromagnetics, signal processing and biomedical engineering, power converters for renewable energy generation systems, robotics and control systems, communication systems, electronics and computer engineering, and software engineering.

Held in cooperation with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Expo brings together people with an interest in the fields of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering.

Contact Information and Registration
To register visit: http://www.ece.unb.ca/Expo or call 506-452-6141. Admission is free with registration - lunch
will be provided.

Key Dates
Deadline for all submissions and proposals: September 25, 2008.
A summary of presentations will be available on the website in advance of the Expo.

Preliminary Program
12:00-12:45 pm Lunch (Wu Conference Centre, rooms 203 and 204)
12:50-1:00 pm Welcome and Introduction (Kent Auditorium, Wu Conf. Centre) – Chris Diduch, Chair
1:00-1:10 pm UNB Office of Research Services – David Foord, UNB Research Services
1:10-1:25 pm UNB Electromagnetics Research Group – Bruce Colpitts
1:25-1:40 pm Invited Presentation
1:40-1:55 pm UNB Sustainable Power Research Group – Liuchen Chang
1:55-2:10 pm Invited Presentation
2:10-2:25 pm UNB Biomedical Research Group – Kevin Englehart
2:25-3:15 pm Interactive Demonstration and Poster Session and Refreshments (Lobby area)
3:15-3:30 pm UNB Software Systems Research Group – Howard Li
3:30-3:45 pm Invited Presentation
3:45-4:00 pm UNB Robotics and Automation Research Group – Yevgen Biletskiy
4:00-4:35 pm Round Table Discussion
4:35-4:45 pm Presentation of “Best Poster Awards” and Closing Remarks.

Summaries of the presentations will be available at http://www.ece.unb.ca/Expo

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Manning Innovation Awards Banquet - Halifax

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:46:15 -0300

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Find out more about the Awards Banguet

The Annual Awards Banquet is the culmination of celebrating Manning Innovation Award winners each year. It is an opportunity to expose our Young Canadian Innovators to the amazing achievements of great Canadians with matured innovations and vice-versa. It gives the community at large an opportunity to hear about the amazing talent we have in this country. It gives the recipients an opportunity to feel and express their pride of accomplishment.

The 2008 Awards banquet will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 3, 2008. The banquet is moved around the country to gain exposure across the nation; varying locations are selected to optimize award winner exposure and/or to build Foundation awareness.

Learn more about our Award Winners and view videos of recent winners to get a feel for the excitement generated at the awards gala.

Scotiabank has been the sponsor of this invitational banquet for a number of years.

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Manning Innovation Awards

Hands on Crash Course in Social Media #2 - Third Tuesday New Brunswick

admin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:33:49 -0300

Start: 2008-07-22 18:00

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Sign up for this second Crash Course in Social Media

The next meet up will be held in Fredericton at radian6, 285 Canada Street.

Learn first hand with a web circuit set up to give people a hands on crash course in some cool social media and web based applications like flickr, Google Analytics, Facebook Ad targeting, linkedin and web based collaborative software like basecamp and freshbooks.

Also, learn how to produce and use a social media news release, with services like prweb so your business gets picked up internationally and in search engines.

We'll be firing up the grill for sausages and drinks in the new office location of radian6.

We hope to see you there!

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Third Tuesday New Brunswick

Social Media & Start-Ups - Third Tuesday New Brunswick

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:00:00 -0300

Start: 2008-06-17 17:30

End: 2008-06-17 19:30

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Sign up for this Meetup on Social Media & Start-Ups

The next meet up will be held in Moncton this June 17th at 6:30pm, Studio 7 Hundred, 700 Main St Behind Kramers Lounge.

This meetup is for anyone who's curious on how to leverage Social Media to kick-start your business or start-up. This month we'll be inviting start-ups to talk about how they've used Social Media to promote their products and services. We've even got Venture Capitalist invited to meet some of the upcoming/ established businesses and share some wisdom. See you here on Tuesday!