Ecosystem Development

TODAY: Trends Support ICT Growth in NB - propel ICT Annual General Meeting (AGM), Keynote and Mixer

Jeff Roach — Sat, 09 May 2009 09:40:00 -0300

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Location: Mary Oland Theatre, New Brunswick Museum, Market Square, Saint John, NB

Members, partners, stakeholders, and supporters of New Brunswick's ICT industry are invited to join propel at our Annual General Meeting and Mixer.

propel has been up to a lot this past year and we will provide information on what we have all done together to build our industry and where we intend to go. Members will be asked to vote on some key changes during the short business section of the program so please attend to make sure your vote counts for your business. If your business is not yet registered as a member of propel (or if you're not sure), please visit: http://propelict.com/signup/

Marcel Lebrun, CEO of Radian6 to Keynote: Trends Support ICT Growth in NB
The top trends reshaping entrepreneurship in the tech sector and why these changes are good for the future of ICT entrepreneurship in the region.

Marcel will discuss major disruptive changes taking place in such areas as media, communications, marketing, and social technologies and how these trends are revolutionizing the future of business and entrepreneurship. He will also draw from the Radian6 story, a local company that has experienced accelerated growth and a rapid rise to market leadership in its field.

Join us for drinks and appetizers, and news of new growth trends for our sector.

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Marcel LeBrun, Chief Executive Officer of Radian6

54Hours Startup Weekend: No Talk, All Action

Jeff Roach — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:00:32 -0300

Start: 2009-05-08 15:00

End: 2009-05-10 19:00

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54Hours is an intense event bringing brilliant minds (developers, designers, marketers, accountants, lawyers, etc.) together to create a company (or as many as companies as the participants decide) from concept to launch!

Interactivity and forging positive, value-added relationships is the core philosophy of a 54Hour Weekend. 54Hours provides guidance, structure and an advisor, but the success of your weekend relies on your support.

For details and answers to all of your questions, please visit http://54hours.com
Location: Delta Brunswick Ballroom, Brunswick Square Complex, Saint John, NB

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54Hours is a community building startup event. Join local developers, designers and entrepreneurs on May 8th, 9th, 10th at the Delta Brunswick.

'Nine Shift' Author, Futurist William Draves to Keynote at Faces of Fusion

Jeff Roach — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:24:03 -0300

Start: 2009-05-01 13:30

End: 2009-04-28 17:00

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Practical Changes Needed for Leadership and Emerging Leaders to Respond to the 21st Century

The Lawson Creamer Faces of Fusion Networking Dinner will feature a keynote address by William Draves, author of Nine Shift, on how the way we live, work and learn is changing before our very eyes. Discover each of the major nine shifts currently taking place and find out the implications of each shift for work and life. Then explore the practical changes needed for leadership and emerging leaders to respond to the 21st century.

Location: Saint John Trade and Convention Centre
Tickets are $50 and can be purchased online at http://tr.im/jEmR
Accept this event on facebook: http://tr.im/jW2G
Please take five minutes to go to the link below and fill out this very short, three question survey, for a chance to win 2 free tickets for Faces of fusion Annual Event on May 1st.: http://tr.im/jWch

Each attendee will have a chance to win a Fairmont Algonquin Prize package!

This year’s event celebrates Fusion’s 5th anniversary featuring a look into the past, present and future of Fusion. Faces of Fusion is the largest networking event for civic-minded individuals of Greater Saint John. The event provides an opportunity to discover new connections and make an impact on the future of our city.

About William Draves
William A. Draves, CAE, is an internationally recognized teacher, author and consultant and President of LERN. He is one of the most quoted experts on lifelong learning and online learning by the US media, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, NBC Nightly News and Wired.com. Bill holds a masters degree in adult education from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and has authored six books.

About Nine Shift
In just twenty years, between 2000 and 2020, some 75% of our lives will change dramatically. We know this because it happened once before; Between 1900 and 1920, life changed. Nine Shift explores the uncanny parallels between today and 100 years years ago, between the two transition periods and the forces that restructure society in the new economic era.

Discover each of the major nine shifts currently taking place and find out the implications of each shift for business and work, life and education. Nine Shift describes how your own work organization should change and transition into the Internet Age in order to remain viable and successful.

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William A. Draves

Online Power Plays to Double Results in Three Months

lrousseau — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:35:43 -0400

Start: 2009-02-19 13:15

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Location: Propel Board Room, Saint John
Time: 1:15 - 2:15

Register:
http://www.flowtown.com/online-power-plays-saint-john/

Overview
Most companies build nice (pretty) websites. It’s like hiring a supermodel instead of a salesperson. In this session, we’ll discuss three high-impact techniques to double your results, whether your objective is to increase memberships, leads or sales, within the next three months.

Presented By:
Dan Martell, Co-Founder
Flowtown (www.flowtown.com)

Bio:
Dan Martell (www.danmartell.com) is an award winning entrepreneur and co-founder of Flowtown (www.flowtown.com).

A New Brunswick native with over a decade of experience in the technology industry, Dan has applied the principles he teaches to successfully launch two companies in the past five years that each produced a million dollars within the first 24 months. In his last company, Spheric Technologies (www.spheric.ca), he worked with large organizations (Procter & Gamble, Dole Foods, Yale University ) to help them make sense of Web 2.0 and create social applications focused on employees and partners. Dan now lives in San Francisco, investing in startups and focusing on building a bridge between Atlantic Canada and Silicon Valley.
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Introduction to ACEnet

owenkaser — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:45:37 -0400

Start: 2009-01-22 12:15

End: 2009-01-22 13:00

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Location: Hazen Hall 124, UNB Saint John campus.

The ACEnet Consortium provides high performance computing resources for researchers in Atlantic Canada, and ACEnet equipment has recently been installed at UNB Saint John. This workshop will introduce attendees to the computing resources, video-conferencing resources and other resources available. No registration required. For questions, call 458-7273.

About ACEnet
Over the last five years, universities across Canada have been organising themselves into regional groups to acquire and operate large-scale high performance computing (HPC) facilities for research. Several of these "HPC Consortia" now exist and each has received tens of millions of dollars in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), provincial matching funds, and corporate partners.

ACEnet ("Atlantic Computational Excellence Network") is Atlantic Canada's entry into this national fabric of HPC facilities. It is a partnership of seven institutions, including Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of New Brunswick, Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University, St. Francis Xavier University, St. Mary's University and the University of Prince Edward Island. Further information can be found at http://www.ace-net.ca

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Atlantic Computational Excellence Network

WorldSourcing 2009 Conference

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

Start: 2009-01-12 07:00

End: 2009-01-12 20:00

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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

End: 2008-12-16 09:30

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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

End: 2008-11-04 12:00

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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.

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