Ecosystem Development

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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The Answer to Talent Pool Expansion

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:57:33 -0300

Start: 2008-10-30 06:30

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Breakfast with Paul Mansz of Ambir and Anita Punamiya of CompreCultures.

Recruiting and retaining an internationally-educated workforce is the strategy that can solve the human resource demands of our growing economy, especially over the short term, and is the strategy that many of the companies in our region are most reluctant to embrace. Are the underlying barriers perceived or real and can they be overcome?

Join the Saint John Board of Trade, and Mariner to kick off your morning at ThinkNB with an informed and experienced perspective of the great challenge at our doorstep for growing our talent pool in New Brunswick.

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The xwave Green Roadshow - Fredericton

Richard Jones — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:26:23 -0300

Start: 2008-11-04 08:30

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Green IT
The xwave Green IT Seminar is a good place to start. Part of a four-city roadshow, the Green IT Seminar is hosted by one of Canada's largest business-solutions providers, along with partners Microsoft, HP and IBM. Together their experts will discuss some of the tools and strategies available to help improve IT management, with a focus on:

Doing More With Less—Consolidating your data centre: Less hardware, more output, better resource allocation and productivity
Security and Compliance—Virtualizing your desktops to centralize protection of your assets and maintain data integrity
High-Performance Storage—A simplified, more flexible environment for data backup, archiving, recovery and migration

Tuesday, November 4th
Place: Forestry Complex Theatre Room, 1350 Regent Street, Fredericton
Time: 8:30 am - Registration/Breakfast
9:00 am - Seminar begins
12:00 pm - Wrap up
RSVP to Donette.Mccarthy@xwave.com

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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

End: 2008-10-22 17:00

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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.

Dbriefs – Webcast series for Executives
Staying on top of all the latest issues and strategies is a challenge. That’s why Deloitte & Touche offers Dbriefs, live webcasts that provide valuable insights on important developments affecting your business.

To join Dbriefs

          1. Visit www.deloitte.com/us/dbriefs
          2. Click on “Join Dbriefs” in the right navigation
          3. Enter your profile information
          4. Using the menus, select the Webcast series that is right for you
          5. Submit your profile

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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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Atlantica Forum on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)

Jeff Roach — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:02:52 -0300

Start: 2008-10-06 10:30

End: 2008-10-06 20:30

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View the News article describing the event.

View the conference agenda.

Time is short. Any ICT businesses interested in participation are to please contact Brent Sansom with your application.

The Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce (APCC), in cooperation with the Economic Development Council of Northern Vermont (EDCNV), will co-host an Atlantica Forum on ICT at Smugglers Notch Resort, Vermont, on Monday, October 6, 2008, from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The forum’s focus will be on the business of information and communications technologies and will provide business leaders who attend a very unique opportunity to discover hidden growth opportunities for their organizations.

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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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R3 GALA Featuring Richard Florida

Jeff Roach — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:59:00 -0300

Start: 2008-10-01 20:30

End: 2008-10-01 22:00

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Purchase your tickets online at www.nbif.ca or call 1-877-554-6668

On October 1st, the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and Aliant present R3 GALA to showcase the work of some of the top commercially-driven researchers in New Brunswick at the Saint John Trade & Convention Centre – 6:30 PM.

With a keynote by New York Times best-selling author Richard Florida, the event is set to be one of the “must-attend” events of the season. Dr. Florida presently heads the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Tickets include a cocktail reception and dinner plus four documentary-style presentations of some of the province’s top commercially-driven researchers.

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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