Industry Recognition

Nominate a Rising Star!

johnsgunn — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:43:20 -0300

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Nominate a Rising Star!

Nominations are now open for the New Brunswick “Rising Stars” Awards. Now in their 6th year, these annual awards honour those who have made an outstanding contribution to New Brunswick’s thriving Knowledge industry. If someone you know has demonstrated outstanding results at the office, shown a strong work ethic and commitment to citizenship, please consider nominating them as a Rising Star. Visit http://www.risingstars.ca/English/index/nomination_form.cfm to nominate a colleague or friend.

You may also nominate a Junior Star. Junior Stars are high school students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in fields related to science and technology.

Nominations are open until Friday September 4, 2009. For more information, please visit www.risingstars.ca.

Start: Tuesday, August 4, 2009
End: Friday, September 4, 2009

What: Rising Stars Awards Gala
Where: Delta Beauséjour Hotel, Moncton, NB
When: Thursday October 1, 2009

Soumettez vos candidatures Étoiles Montantes !

Le portail de mise en candidature des « Étoiles Montantes » du Nouveau Brunswick est maintenant ouvert. Nous célébrons les individus qui ont faits d’importantes contributions au sein de l’industrie du savoir du Nouveau Brunswick. Nous vous invitons à mettre en candidature la personne qui atteints des résultats remarquables au bureau, qui possède des bonnes morales du travail et ont un impact positifs au sein de leur communauté. Visitez http://www.risingstars.ca/Francais/index/nomination_form.cfm pour proposer une personne digne de reconnaissance.

Vous pouvez aussi mettre une candidature dans la catégorie Jeunes Étoiles un étudiant du secondaire qui on connu d’importants accomplissements dans le domaine des sciences et technologies.

Le portail de mise en candidature est ouvert jusqu’au vendredi 4 septembre, 2009. Pour plus d’information veuillez visiter www.etoilesmontantes.ca.

Début: Le mardi, 4 août, 2009
Fin: Le vendredi, 4 septembre, 2009

Quoi: Gala des Étoiles Montantes
Où: Hôtel Delta Beauséjour, Moncton, NB
Quand: Le jeudi 1er Octobre, 2009

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Nominate a rising star!

Rowser — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:26:18 -0300

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Nominate a Rising Star!

You may also nominate a Junior Star. Junior Stars are high school students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in fields related to science and technology.

Nominations are open until Friday September 4, 2009. For more information, please visit www.risingstars.ca.

Start: Tuesday, August 4, 2009
End: Friday, September 4, 2009

What: Rising Stars Awards Gala
Where: Delta Beauséjour Hotel, Moncton, NB
When: Thursday October 1, 2009

Soumettez vos candidatures Étoiles Montantes !

Vous pouvez aussi mettre une candidature dans la catégorie Jeunes Étoiles un étudiant du secondaire qui on connu d’importants accomplissements dans le domaine des sciences et technologies.

Le portail de mise en candidature est ouvert jusqu’au vendredi 4 septembre, 2009. Pour plus d’information veuillez visiter www.etoilesmontantes.ca.

Début: Le mardi, 4 août, 2009
Fin: Le vendredi, 4 septembre, 2009

Quoi: Gala des Étoiles Montantes
Où: Hôtel Delta Beauséjour, Moncton, NB
Quand: Le jeudi 1er Octobre, 2009

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Fredericton February Cybersocial - Warming up the IT community to a network of opportunities!

lrousseau — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:17:53 -0400

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WHERE: Crowne Plaza Hotel (Lord Beaverbrook)in the James Joyce Pub, 659 Queen Street, Fredericton

Shubenacadie Sam saw his shadow predicting six more long weeks of winter. Come shake those winter blue at this month's Cybersocial!

What better way to network with the Fredericton IT industry then attending the next Cybersocial. Last month included great prizes and over 50 Cybersocialites made an appearance! Don't miss your chance to meet the best and brightest in the Fredericton region.

February has never been sweeter! Be sure to mark this event in your calendar.

Have you got some industry news to share with us? Keep us in the loop! We're giving 5 people 1 minute at the mic to spread some news. Sign up to speak at the door or email Lucas Roze.

Thank you to our February sponsor: The KIRA Awards
Visit: www.kiraawards.com

KIRA first began as an idea in the winter of 1998 as a way of acknowledging the Knowledge Industry in Fredericton. For the first three years, Knowledge Industry Recognition and Achievement Awards was a Fredericton area event; however, over time this event evolved to become the prestigious provincial wide recognition event that it is today. KIRA Gala will be held on May 7th, 2009 at the Delta. The nomination categories are as follows:

Export-Product
Export-Service
Technological Advancement / Innovation [Private Sector]
Technological Advancement / Innovation [Public Sector]
Employment Growth
Most Promising Start-up
Industry Person of the Year

Nominations for KIRA Awards 2009 open February 16th, 2009. For ticket information to the 11th Annual KIRAs, contact Enterprise Fredericton @ 506-444-4686.

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Remembering Bill Davis

lrousseau — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:55:26 -0400

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Tribute & Benefit Dinner with Silent and Live Auction

January 30, 2009
Delta Brunswick

6:00 pm
Reception & Silent Auction

7:00 pm
Dinner & Tribute

8:30 pm
Live Auction

9:30 pm
Closing Remarks

Tickets are $50.00 each.
Tickets are available at Chandler by calling 658-8000 or by e-mail at tickets@chandlersales.com.

If you can not attend this event donations can also be made by contacting Chandler as indicated above.

All funds raised on this evening will go to an Education Fund for the Davis’ Children.

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Bill Davis

ThinkNB 2008 ICT Showcase

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:31:20 -0300

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It is official...thinkNB – penserNB ICT showcase

Trade & Convention Center
Saint John – New Brunswick – Canada
October 29-30, 2008

See details at www.thinknbpensernb.ca

Be sure to check out the “Take a glimpse back at ThinkNB 2007!”

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ThinkNB 2008

propelsj Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Mixer

admin — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:21:09 -0300

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Arrive early - first 40 attendees receive a free beverage!

Members, partners, stakeholders, and supporters of propelsj are invited to join us at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Mixer on Tuesday May 27th, 4:30pm at Sebastian, 43 Princess Street, Saint John.

Thanks to our sponsor Aliant, this will be a very social event but we will also be presenting an overview of propelsj's initiatives to grow the ICT industry in New Brunswick including Energy, eHealth, the ICT Talent Pool, and the Catalict accelerator for early stage ICT companies.

The attention and support of our community is very much appreciated and we look forward to welcoming you all on Tuesday!

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Security Research Efforts -Superheroes at UNB to battle cyber crime/cyberspace villains by Dr. Ali Ghorbani & Greg Sprague

Derrick Walsh — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:57:34 -0300

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CIPS - Loyalist May 2008 LUNCHEON

PREPAYMENT ONLINE IS NOW AVAILABLE SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS

Our topic this month for our Trends and Changes in ICT Series. is “Research Efforts to Enhance Information Privacy and Security”

TOPIC: “Current Efforts to Enhance Information Privacy and Security - superheroes at UNB to battle cyber crime and cyberspace villains”

Speakers:
Dr. Ali Ghorbani, Professor and Assistant Dean (Research and Outreach) UNB Faculty of Computer Science, Fredericton

Greg Sprague, Privacy, Security and Trust Research Team
National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Information Technology, Fredericton

Event Overview

Dr. Ghorbani will discuss his work as Director of the UNB Information Security Centre of Excellence, a lab for graduate students to test, research and develop technology to fight computer viruses, hackers and network attacks. This lab is the new headquarters for Internet superheroes at UNB to battle cyber crime and cyberspace villains. The Center is a joint project between Q1 Labs, the University of New Brunswick, and the Government of Canada. Dr. Ghorbani will also discuss his Information and Network Security (INS) research group. Research projects in the group focus on various aspects of information and network security. Currently, the group is mainly focused on network survivability and intrusion detection & response systems.

Greg Sprague will discuss two exciting IT privacy and security related events being held back to back in Fredericton this fall! HTCIA Professional Development Day (September 30, 2008) is a one day IT Security Training event that will be of special interest to all IT professionals who to deal with Privacy and Security issues. Privacy Security & Trust Research Conference (PST2008 October 1-3, 2008) provides a three day forum for researchers from around the globe to present their latest work and for the private sector to explore collaboration opportunities with the research community. It also includes the Atlantic Privacy & Security Summit (October 1, 2008) which this year addresses privacy and security issues related to information sharing and electronic records in healthcare.

Dr. Ghorbani is the chair of PST2008. Greg Sprague is helping to organize both events.

Dr. Ali Ghorbani

Professor and Assistant Dean (Research and Outreach)UNB Faculty of Computer Science, Fredericton

Ali Ghorbani, BSc(Tehran), MSc(CS) (GWU), Ph.D. (UNB)

Ali A. Ghorbani has held a variety of positions in academia for the past 28 years. Since 1991 he has been at the faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton, Canada, where he is currently a Professor and Assistant Dean (Research & Outreach). He holds UNB Research Scholar position, co-Editor-in-Chief of Computational Intelligence, an international journal, and Associate Editor of International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. His current research focus is Web intelligence, Network Security, complex adaptive systems, trust & security, and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He authored more than 220 reports and research papers in journals and conference proceedings and has edited 8 volumes. He was Guest Editor for a number of Special Issues, General Chair and Program Chair/co-Chair for 6 International Conferences, and organized over 10 Workshops in conjunctions with International Conferences.

Dr. Ghorbani is the Director of Information Security Centre of Excellence (www.ISCX.ca). He is also the coordinator of the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) network, University of New Brunswick. In ISCX, researchers, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students work on research projects that will advance the current state of threat detection algorithms, attack simulation, correlation techniques, network application discovery, Privacy and Trust and Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Greg Sprague

Privacy, Security and Trust Research TeamNational Research Council of Canada, Institute for Information Technology

Greg Sprague, BSc(UNB), MSc(CS) (UNB)

Greg has more than 30 years experience as an ICT manager in industry, academia and the public sector. Greg joined NRC IIT from UNB where he was the Executive Director of Integrated Technology Services. Prior to that he was an Assistant Vice-President (Academic) at UNB and taught Management Information Systems in the Faculty of Administration. Greg started his career with IBM and has also served as the Director of Computing at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania.

Greg has published papers in the fields of information literacy, computer simulation, local area networking, and multimedia. He holds the Canadian Information Processing Society's ISP designation (Information Systems Professional of Canada) and is a member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).

Date: Wednesday, May . 28th , 2008
Time: 12:00 Noon - 1:00 PM
Location: The Union Club (125 Germain Street, Saint John)

Schedule of Events

12:00: Registration
12:10: Luncheon
12:15: Speaker
1:00: Adjournment

Please register for this event by Noon on Tuesday, May .27th , 2008. This allows us to notify the Union Club of the number of meals required by at least the business day before. You may register by paying online with the "ORDER NOW" button at http://cips-loyalist.eventbrite.com/

"For non-paypal orders -replacements are welcome but no-shows will be invoiced"

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TODAY! Arrive Early! propelsj Mixer/Launch32 36 Month Celebration

admin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:42:50 -0400

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Thanks to Diageo, the first 40 attendees will receive a complimentary beverage. Please join us TODAY, 5:00 to 7:00pm in the foyer of CenterBeam place, 14 King Street, in presenting new Launch32 businesses and celebrating the 36 month milestone of Launch32 and the success of participating businesses in our growing ICT sector.

5:00pm Networking
5:45pm Launch32 Update
6:00pm Networking

Meet a new colleague, learn new ideas, and enjoy the energy of our growing ICT sector!

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Join our sponsors: CenterBeam, Ambir, and Deloitte

Rising Stars - Celebrating the Strength of New Brunswick’s Knowledge Industry!

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:50:42 -0400

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The strength of the Knowledge Industry is based on its ability to attract and retain a high calibre workforce. During the past five (5) years, the Rising Stars program has recognized over one hundred (100) individuals for their achievements in their profession.

Join us for the Rising Stars Gala & Awards Ceremony on Thursday, January 17th in Greater Moncton and meet New Brunswick’s TOP twenty five (25) IT professionals nominated by peers and managers for their superlative work and contribution to the industry and their community.

Ten (10) winners will be awarded the coveted Rising Stars trophy and will be enrolled in the year-long Rising Stars mentorship program with the Knowledge Industry’s most prominent leaders and entrepreneurs.

When: Thursday, January 17, 2008, Reception at 5:30 pm, Dinner from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Where: Delta Beauséjour Hotel, Moncton
Keynote: Nancy Mathis, Executive Director, Wallace McCain Institute of Business Leadership
Tickets: $75 per person, $600 per table of 8

The ticket request form is attached and also available at www.risingstars.ca.

What is Rising Stars?
The Rising Stars program is a province-wide recognition and mentoring program for individuals working within our Knowledge Industry. The key objectives of the Rising Stars program are to:

Recognize the accomplishments of individuals working in the Knowledge Industry
Provide mentorship opportunities to the individuals recognized
Generate networking opportunities with the Knowledge Industry’s most prominent leaders and entrepreneurs!

For more details on the Rising Stars program visit www.risingstars.ca or contact Patrick Goguen at patrick.goguen@greatermoncton.org

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Nancy Mathis, Executive Director, Wallace McCain Institute of Business Leadership

propelsj Mixer/Launch32 - 36 Month Celebration

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:07:57 -0400

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Please join propelsj, Catalict, and our sponsors Ambir and CenterBeam in celebrating the 36 month milestone of Launch32 and the success of participating businesses in our growing ICT sector. In the foyer of CenterBeam place, 14 King Street, propelsj will host the first After Hours Mixer of 2008 and briefly present new Launch32 companies, the outcomes of the program to date, and plans for the future.

Learn more about the campaign and watch for new growth announcements in our local ICT sector in the coming weeks.