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GTMA Activities & Announcements:
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GTMA’s International Leadership Breakfast Club
- GTA Launch of the BRANHAM 300 – Canada’s Leading IT Companies, April 23
- Toronto in New York City Day, March 4, 2008
- Connecting with Consulates, MaRS Centre, February 12, 2008
- GTMA Helps Uline Establish Canadian Presence: Uline Opens Brampton Facility
- MIPIM 2008, Cannes France, March 10-14, 2008
- International Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, February 19-22, 2008
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GTMA’s International Leadership Breakfast Club
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Tuesday, April 15 | Energy & Environment Panel Discussion
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Keynote Speaker
MICHAEL ANGEMEER
President & CEO
Veridian Corporation
Moderator
MAYOR DAVID RYAN
City of Pickering |
CARA CLAIRMAN
Vice President of Sustainable Development
Ontario Power Generation
KAMIEL GABRIEL
Chair, Durham Strategic Energy Alliance
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
JOHAN KRAMER
Consul General
Consulate General of Netherlands
LARS HENRIKSSON
Honorary Consul
Consulate of Sweden
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GTA’s Energy and Environment Value Proposition-An Incentive for Foreign Direct Investment and for Regional Economic Growth
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Al Dente Restaurant & Banquet Hall
1305 Pickering Parkway, Pickering
Start Time: 7:45 a.m.
End Time: 9:00 a.m.
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GTA Launch of the BRANHAM 300 – Canada’s Leading IT Companies, April 23
The GTA Launch of the Branham 300 is presented in partnership by the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance and York Technology Association (YTA) at a luncheon event on April 23, 2008. Now in its 15th year, the Branham 300 is widely considered the authoritative listing of Canada’s Top 300 software and IT services and represents a unique piece of intelligence on the Canadian Information Technology market. As such, the listing has become the pre-eminent the world over as the authoritative indicator for the health of the Information Technology industry in Canada.
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Wayne Gudbranson
President & CEO, Branham Group |
J. Wayne Gudbranson is President and CEO of Branham Group Inc. An IT industry strategist, Wayne actively advises many of the established and emerging brands in the global IT Industry. He has been instrumental in launching and re-launching companies and/or products in the United States, Europe, Canada, and other parts of the world. Wayne has an encyclopedic knowledge of key players in all segments of the IT industry and an extensive network of senior contacts in the global IT sector. Wayne is a passionate promoter of Canada's IT industry and has been invited to speak about Canadian IT capability in more than 25 countries.
Fourteen years ago, he launched an ambitious initiative to raise the visibility of Canadian IT companies with the Branham300 project. The Branham300 is highly regarded as the most comprehensive database of privately held and publicly traded Canadian IT companies ranked on total revenues (www.branham300.com).
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“Branham 300 – Annual Review of Canada’s ICT Sector: Growth, Players and Future Opportunities”
- Sought out speaker Wayne Gudbranson will review the Branham 300 including the top 20 “movers and shakers” for 2007
- How the IT industry has evolved and adjusted to Canadian and Global economic climate
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“IT CEOs: Views and Perceptions of the Branham 300 Report and Doing Business in the Toronto Region”
Moderator: Michael Kavanagh, Audit Partner
KPMG LLP, Information, Communications and
Entertainment (ICE) Practice
Panelists: Geoffrey Rotstein, President & Chief Officer
CYBERPLEX, Toronto.
#155 in the Top 250 Canadian Tech Companies
#3 in the Top 20 Movers and Shakers
Sam Chebib, President & CEO
NIGHTINGALE INFORMATIX, Markham
#165 in the Top 250 Canadian Tech Companies
#2 in the Top 20 Movers and Shakers
William Mougayar, VicePresident
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, Toronto
GTA's value proposition for global IT companies
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LeParc Conference & Banquet Centre
8432 Leslie Street (at Hwy 7), Thornhill, ON., L3T 7M6
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Individual purchase GTMA/YTA Member $45.00
Individual purchase Non-Members $55.00
Table of (8) Sponsor $450.00 table sponsorship benefits
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Seating is limited: For more information contact Michelle Cortez of GTMA at 416-360-4223 or email at mcortez@greatertoronto.org or register here.
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Toronto in New York City Day, March 4, 2008
On March 4, 2008 the GTMA in partnership with the Toronto Financial Services Alliance, MEDT, the Canadian Consulate in New York City and many private sector partners organized a one-day event in NYC in the financial services sector that attracted over 130 participants, including 60 that traveled from Toronto to attend. The event featured presentations by the Hon. Dwight Duncan, Finance Minister of Ontario; the Hon. Frank McKenna, Deputy Chairman, TD Bank Financial Group; the Hon. Dan Sullivan, Consul General of Canada in NYC as well as testimonials by senior executives from Merrill Lynch (NYC) and UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) who have already established operations in Toronto.
The program was MC’d by Janet Ecker, President of the TFSA and closing remarks were given by GTMA’s President & COO, John G. Jung, which was taped for later presentation. Workshops followed the main luncheon. A reception at the Consul General residence in NYC was also held honouring the presence of this large delegation including Mississauga Mayor, Hazel McCallion and Brampton Mayor, Susan Fennell who supported the delegation by attending the event in New York City.
This unprecedented event was the first time such a partnership has been assembled together in NYC to promote the Toronto area’s financial services sector and it exceeded all expectations with respect to awareness building, relationship development and lead generation. A special thanks to the Canadian Consulate in NYC for their support, to Anne Kayman and her team at New York Grant Company for helping to organize the event, to the folks at MEDT for their support and to TFSA for their contribution to the program. |
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Connecting with Consulates, MaRS Centre, February 12, 2008
The TRRA in partnership with the GTMA sponsored the “Connecting with Consulates” event as an opportunity for foreign consulates in the GTA to learn more about the TRRA – Toronto Region Research Alliance; GTMA – Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance; City of Toronto Economic Development Division and MaRS. The key speakers at the event included: Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto; Courtney Pratt, Chairman and CEO, TRRA; Lou Milrad, Chairman, GTMA; Ilse Treurnicht, President, MaRS; Stephen Green, Partner, Green & Spiegel; Ron Wandel, Manager Investment Attraction, City of Toronto; and Gerald Pisarzowski, Vice-President Business Development, GTMA. The event attracted close to 50 participants from the various foreign consulates and government offices to learn about how the sponsoring organizations can help them help their clients as they examine investment opportunities in the GTA. The reception, that followed provided an opportunity to engage in lively one-on-one conversations with representatives from the hosting organizations. A special thanks to George Hanus and the folks at TRRA who organized this excellent event.
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GTMA Helps Uline Establish Canadian Presence: Uline Opens Brampton Facility
The GTMA's relationship with Illinois-based Uline Shipping Supply Specialists can be traced back to February 2004 when the company first contacted the GTMA.
In March 2004, company representatives made the treck north to meet with the GTMA and conduct their due diligence on what would become their first Canadian operation. Over the last four years, the GTMA has continued its relationship with Uline to provide its support and services. With the 2006 opening of Uline's initial sales office in Mississauga, to its newly constructed warehouse in Brampton, Uline is happy to announce the official opening of Uline Canada Corporation. view press release
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MIPIM 2008, Cannes France, March 10-14, 2008
MIPIM (Marche International des Professionnels de' Immobilier) held in Cannes, France from March 10-14, 2008 is the world's largest property and development show (www.mipim.com), attracting over 29,000 participants and senior decision makers from around the world. A "Team Toronto" delegation representing Canada, Ontario, Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area as well as private sector representatives and Waterfront Toronto actively participated. This initiative was coordinated by the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance, in association with our coordination support team F.D. Tamesis in the UK and assistance by staff at the City of Toronto.
This initiative provided an opportunity to raise the awareness of the Toronto area as a place in which to invest and to target potential leads and prospects. Key projects were identified, but in addition to the promotion of real estate and infrastructure in the GTA, key industry sectors were also addressed and actively promoted as well as our quality of life, tourism and the opportunities to locate their businesses in tile Toronto region as a gateway to North America and NAFTA.
The initiative was supported by all levels of government and the private sector. The purpose of Team Toronto's participation was to showcase the city and region's opportunities including the Province's award-winning growth strategy for the Golden Horseshoe region as well as specific projects like the $1 Billion opportunity to develop tile East Bayfront area of the Toronto Waterfront through a booth with targeted messages in an extra-special video display, as well as through collateral materials, on-site meetings, presentations and related networking and strategically targeted pre-qualified meetings. GTMA Board Member Carl Knipfel of the City of Toronto and his staff did an excellent job with tile booth and video promoting the city and region. |
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International Game Developers Conference, San Francisco, February 19-22, 2008
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) was held in San Francisco from February 19-22 and is the official trade event "by developers for developers" of computer, console, mobile, arcade, online games, and location based entertainment. The GDC attracts over 12,500 attendees and is the main global forum for those involved in the development of interactive games to exchange ideas, network, and shape the future of the industry.
The GTMA participated in this forum as a member of the Ontario Technology Corridor (OTC), a partnership involving the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance (Toronto Region), Canada’s Technology Corridor (Waterloo Region), OCRI (Ottawa Region) and Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade (MEDT).
This year the OTC partnered with the federal government, Interactive Ontario and the Ontario Media Development Corporation and participated in the Canada Pavilion at the Expo as well as the “Hockey Night in Canada” networking event. In addition, the OTC Team conducted pre-qualified meetings with companies and worked the booth meeting a number of firms interested in expanding into the North American market and willing to consider the Corridor as a location for their investment.
The GTMA would like to thank all of the partners involved in this event who did such a great job in organizing the booth and setting up the pre-qualified meetings, including MEDT, OMDC, the Canadian Consulate in San Francisco and Canada’s Technology Corridor. |
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2008 People's Choice Award - Vote for Your Favourite Designexcellence Winner!
You are invited to cast your vote until April 11, 2008
Everyone is invited to vote for their favourite building from the 2008 OAA Design Excellence Winners. Click on the People's Choice logo (to the right). Pick your favourite and help choose this year's People's Choice Award winner. more… |
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Mayor Ryan Welcomes Norwegian Company Aker Kvaerner to Pickering
Mayor Dave Ryan announces to over 100 Board members that international engineering powerhouse, Aker Kvaerner ASA, will be relocating and expanding its process technology company, Aker Kvaerner Chemetics, from Toronto to Pickering. more…
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Durham Region’s 2008 Discovery Guide
Attractions, event listings and more are at your fingertips with Durham Tourism’s new 2008 Discovery Guide
Durham Region’s Economic Development and Tourism Department recently launched the new 2008 Discovery Guide, highlighting the region’s unique tourist destinations and attractions.
With a focus on all eight regional municipalities in Durham, the guide features an extensive calendar of events and detailed sections, including accommodations and meeting spaces; farm fresh; heritage; arts, culture and recreation; attractions; shopping and dining. The publication also offers a seasonal itinerary outlining opportunities for enjoying Durham Region through spring, summer, winter or fall. more…
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Economic Development and Tourism Department Wins First-Place Marketing Award
Whitby Economic Development and Tourism Department Commissioner, Patrick Olive appeared before Durham Regional Council today to showcase the department’s first- and second-place honours from the 2007 Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) awards. more… |
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Durham Tourism Launches 2008 Campaign
Durham Tourism launched its 2008 campaign at the Whitby Centennial Building in Whitby. The Honourable Peter Fonseca, Minister of Tourism, Regional Chair Roger Anderson, and several Durham Region dignitaries and tourism stakeholders attended for the event. more… |
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CMM - First Economic Development Accreditation Awarded
 Patrick Olive, Commissioner of Economic Development & Tourism for the Regional Municipality of Durham is the “first” Economic Development Professional awarded in the OMMI/EDCO partnership creating an Economic Development “enhancement” to the Certified Municipal Manager (CMM) designation. more....
From left to right: Regional Chair Roger Anderson; Durham Region's Economic Development and Tourism Department Commissioner Patrick Olive; and Bill McKim, Executive Director of the Ontario Municipal Management Institute.
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Let’s Talk Exports, Peter Hall, Vice-President and Deputy Chief Economist, Export Development Canada • April 22
The Let’s Talk Exports event provides the most up-to-date information available on the global economy and its implications for Canadian trade and investment opportunities. This event is hosted to provide in-depth knowledge to Canadian exporters and investors to help them succeed in the global marketplace. more… |
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How Far East? Rethinking Canadian Corporate Presence in Europe • April 22
The event will feature industry leaders and experts from both Eastern Germany and the Toronto area. Our speaker, Ian MacLellan, Vice-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer ARISE Technologies Corporation will discuss his company’s success in Eastern Germany and point out strategies as to how other Canadian businesses can profit from Eastern Germany’s economic potential. more… |
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Second Annual Kids’ Internet Safety Alliance Founder’s Fundraising Gala • May 1
Featuring Actor Robert Davi, National Spokesperson for “iSafe America” & other special guests at The Liberty Grande Entertainment Complex. Join the GTMA and ITAC as sponsors of this event. more… |
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Video Gaming: Technical, Social and Legal Dimensions • May 13
The purpose of this event is to showcase the breadth of research underway at University of Toronto in areas related to video gaming, and to promote post-secondary activities in Ontario, with a focus on the GTA. This day-long event will feature presentations from University of Toronto researchers and will provide opportunities for networking throughout the day and over lunch at our Networking Fair. We are inviting researchers, industry, government and academic institutions to the event. more… |
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Emergency Preparedness - Best Practices and Critical Legal Issues • June 2 and 3
Disaster can freeze government, bankrupt business, halt transportation, disable and separate people in an instant. Join leading experts and representatives from all levels of government, private sector and legal community as they address best practices and critical legal issues for emergency and disaster preparedness management and recovery. more... |
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