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A monthly-publication of the GTMA, the GTA HOTNEWS is designed to keep you current on the GTMA’s initiatives, as well as promoting the economic development activities of our public and private sector partners.
SUBMIT NEWS! If you have an interesting news item, announcement or event that you would like to promote in the next edition of the GTA HOTNEWS, please contact Tony Romano, Director, Corporate Affairs at tromano@greatertoronto.org. Copy deadline for the May 2008 Edition is
May 26.
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GTMA International Leadership Breakfast Club
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Thursday, June 12| Interactive Digital Media Industry Panel Discussion
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Keynote Speaker
STAN SHAPSON
Vice President
Research Innovation,
York University
Chairman of CONCERT
Moderator
GERALD PISARZOWSKI
Vice President, Business Development
Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance
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RON ESTEY
President
Core Digital
TRACEY JENNINGS
Canadian Leader,
Entertainment and Media Practice
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
WOJTEK KAWCZYNSKI
Senior Vice President & General Manager
SilverBirch Inc.
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TOPIC:
Transformational Investment of the Interactive Digital Media Industry in the Greater Toronto Area
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Location:
Ontario Investment and Trade Centre
250 Yonge Street, 35th Floor, Toronto
Start Time: 7:30 a.m.
End Time: 9:00 a.m.
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GTMA Annual General Meeting and Luncheon Event
10th Annual General Meeting & Luncheon
June 4th Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West
On Wednesday June 4th, the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance is pleased to be hosting its 10th Annual General Meeting and Luncheon event featuring Mr. Michael D. Brown, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security as the luncheon guest speaker.
TOPIC:
MANAGING CRISIS!
"The world is crumbling around you. Customers, shareholders, employees and the public want to know what’s happening and how you’re handling things.
How do you manage it?”
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Keynote Speaker:
Michael Brown
Former Undersecretary of Homeland Security
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Nominated by President George W. Bush to several U.S. Homeland Security positions, Mr. Brown was twice confirmed by the United States Senate. full bio
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A prominent public figure, Michael Brown has garnered over 25 years in public service focused primarily on public safety, preparedness and emergency management. Mr. Brown led the U.S. federal response to over 160 Presidential declared disasters, which have included some of the largest and worst in human history:
- 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City and the Pentagon
- Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003
- Hurricane Katrina
- the tsunami in South Asia
- Bam Iran earthquake
- the unprecedented string of hurricanes that swept the Southeastern United States in 2004 and 2005
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Location
SHERATON CENTRE TORONTO HOTEL
123 Queen Street West, Toronto MAP
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Annual General Meeting,
City Hall Room
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m., Networking Reception, Dominion Ballroom
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., Luncheon
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GTMA Celebrity GOLF TOURNAMENT A CELEBRATION OF GTA COMMUNITIES
Thursday, September 11, 2008
at Ontario’s Best New Golf Course - Copper Creek
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Mayor David Miller
City of Toronto
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Mayor Hazel McCallion C.M.
City of Mississauga
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Hosts:
Regional Chair
Roger Anderson
Region of Durham
Regional Chair
Gary Carr
Region of Halton
Regional Chair
Bill Fisch
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In 2008, the GTMA will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary as the lead marketing agency for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). In recognizing this milestone anniversary and the contribution made by our regional, municipal and private sector partners to our success in attracting international investment and new jobs to our region, we are hosting our Inaugural GTMA Celebrity Golf Tournament. The funds raised in this event will provide economic development internship opportunities for GTA universities and colleges.
Join Mayor Miller, Mayor McCallion and other V.I.P guests at Copper Creek for an extraordinary day of golfing and networking, capped by a personalized, white glove service event with our celebrities at a fantastic gala dinner. |
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Location:
Copper Creek Golf Club
11191 Highway #27
Kleinburg, ON L0J 1C0
Event Schedule:
Welcoming Reception & BBQ Lunch 11:30 a.m.
Tee-Off! 1:30 p.m.
Networking Reception& Gala Dinner 6:30 p.m. |
For more information or sponsorship opportunities please visit www.gtmagolf.com or contact Luigi Presta, Compass Promotions at (905) 264-8884 ext. 22 or by email at luigi@compasspromotions.com |
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Consular Corp Presentation & Reception, May 29
GTMA to host a consultation session, sponsored by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, for Consuls General and Trade Commissioners and Chambers of Commerce. The consultation will allow the GTMA to learn how its public and private partners can enhance the Consulates’ effectiveness with visiting delegations, bi-lateral briefings, inbound missions in search of partnering, joint ventures, licensing and distribution leads and how we might help ensure that our network learns about them and how to best access opportunities. The presentation will be followed by a networking reception..
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GTA Launch of the BRANHAM 300 - Canada's Leading IT Companies, April 23
On April 23rd the GTMA was pleased to co-host with the York Technology Association the GTA launch of the Branham 300 - a ranking of Canada's leading IT companies ranked by gross revenue. The event was a sell-out, with over 200 registered guests from the IT community, government and academia attending the luncheon presentation in Markham. Now in its 15th year, the Branham 300 is considered the authoritative listing of Canadian software and IT services firms and represents a truly unique piece of intelligence on the Canadian Information Technology market.
The keynote address by Wayne Gudbranson, CEO of The Branham Group, looked at how the IT industry has evolved and adjusted to Canadian and global economic climates, examining export data of companies involved in IT hardware, professional services, software development and xSP. This year’s Top 250 organizations collectively generated over $65.0 billion in revenue. Ontario leads all other provinces with over 55% of the 250 companies profiled this year located in the province.
Participating as members of the panel discussion were:
- Michael Kavanagh, Partner, ICE Practice, KPMG – Moderator
- Sam Chebib, President & CEO, Nightingale Informatix
- Geoffrey Rotstein, President & CEO, Cyberplex
- William Mougayar, Vice President, Cognizant Technology Solutions
The GTA ranks 3rd in terms of employment in ICT with over 140,000 workers and more than 350 foreign subsidiaries located in the Toronto Region. The GTA accounted for 55% of the growth of all Top 250 companies and the region’s ICT sector generates over $32 billion of revenue. With over 35 percent of the TOP 100 Canadian technology companies and 90 percent of the TOP 25 multinational tech companies, the Greater Toronto Area continues to be one of the world’s technology hotspots.
“Information & Communications Technologies is one of the GTMA’s key sectors that we actively promote internationally. Having such a large concentration of Canada’s top technology companies in the GTA presents a compelling message, and one that we will continue to deliver to international investors from the U.S., India, Europe and Asia,” said Lou Milrad, Chair & CEO, Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance view Branham 300 Presentation
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GTMA International Leadership Breakfast Club, May 7 | Waterfront Toronto Panel Discussion
The International Leaders Breakfast Club (ILBC) presentations continue to attract sell-out audiences as over 130 guests registered for the May 7 presentation by John Campbell, President and CEO, Waterfront Toronto. John Campbell was jointed during the panel discussion by Bill Hutchison, Chair, iWaterfront Committee and Joe Berridge, Partner, Urban Strategies. The session focused on the Waterfront Toronto as an economic driver for attracting jobs, investment and talent to the Greater Toronto Area. The panel also shared their experience at MIPIM (Marché International des Professionnels de 'Immobilier) which 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. The GTMA coordinated the Waterfront Toronto, City of Toronto and Provincial government participation at MIPIM.
To view May 7 presentations click on the following links:
John Campbell – Waterfront Toronto
Bill Hutchison – iWaterfront- Toronto’s New Intelligent Waterfront Community
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GTMA’s Asia Exploratory Business Initiative
The program covered South Korea, Japan and Taiwan and included some incredible opportunities for the GTMA’s delegation headed by Mayor Hazel McCallion with support by Mayor Gordon Krantz, their EDOs and GTMA partners. One of the highlights for the delegation was a 40-minute meeting with the new President-elect of Taiwan, the former Mayor of Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou. The Mayor of Mississauga was also able to tie in a program of meetings with Mississauga’s Sister City in Kariya, Japan during the mission as well as meet with several Asian companies that are located in Mississauga. In one of these meetings, an announcement for an expansion from one of the firms was greatly welcomed by the delegation. The delegation also met with business leaders, entrepreneurs, banks, automotive companies, intermediaries as well as mayors and senior level legislators during their exploratory mission. Presentations were organized in each city, the largest at the Tokyo Embassy where over 140 company representatives attended the GTMA’s presentation, organized by GTMA Partner TSI International. Another highlight was the GTMA’s presentation hosted by the First Commercial Bank in Taipei. Also known as First Bank, this is one of the firms assisted by GTMA to come to the Toronto area from Taiwan. It was an opportunity to meet the bank’s business contacts in Taipei, yielding several positive leads for the GTMA. In addition to the meetings with the Canadian Consulate officials in each country, the GTMA’s VP of Business Development met with several companies who expressed interest in investing in the GTA. The delegation felt that the exploratory trip was highly successful and more than met its goals to better understand the business, political and cultural dynamics in Asia as well as promote the GTA in this region and to meet with potential leads interested in investing in the GTA. Enroute back to Canada, the GTMA’s President and COO and the GTMA’s VP of Business Development briefly stopped in Hong Kong to deliver several presentations and meet with intermediaries and investment leads. |
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A Call to all Realtors: Laboratory Space in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
The Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) recently created a new search engine on their website under the Industrial Space category for Laboratory Space. This initiative is the result of industry and government's efforts in finding a resolution to the challenges faced when new and/or existing companies are seeking lab space in the GTA. The catchment area is from Newcastle in the east to Burlington in the west and north. Thus, a call to all realtors and/or those working closely with realtors - lets work together to populate and maintain the site to secure more investment opportunities requiring lab space. |
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Doug Penrice
Appointed to the position of Economic Development Officer for the Town of Halton Hills. more… |
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Kyle Benham
Appointed executive director of the Burlington Economic Development Corporation beginning April 21. Formerly, Benham was the director of business development and retention with the City of Toronto’s economic development department. He has also worked as a planner for the city and provincial government. more... |
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Laurier Explores Opportunity to Create a University Campus in Milton
The Town has taken a major step in its effort to bring a university to Milton by converting hopes for a satellite campus into plans for the Milton Education Village neighbourhood. more…
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City of Burlington Ranks 8th
The May 2008 issue of Money Sense magazine featured an article naming Canada's top 10 communities to live in. The City of Burlington ranked eighth out of 154 communities. Each community was ranked in four categories: weather, affordable housing, prosperity and lifestyle. I have included the article for your convenience. more… |
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The Art of... Sales Event • May 12th
This one day event features an exceptional line-up of best-selling authors, sales experts and speakers. This event promises to be a remarkable learning and networking opportunity for you and your sales team! more… |
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Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)Discovery Conference • May 12 - 13
The theme of Discovery 08 is Challenging the Formulas for Commercial Success, and it promises once again to be Canada’s premiere innovation and commercialization 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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14th Annual CME Global Business Reception • May 13
COME join CME and our partners for a valuable networking opportunity! Keynote speakers include the Hon. Sandra Pupatello, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, CME President Dr. Jayson Myers and Chair Dr. David Fung. more… |
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Canada-China-India Partnership Dinner • May 27
For the first time ever, two major national associations representing Canada and two of the world’s upcoming economic power houses, have joined up to invite you to a major dinner networking event. China and India are two markets that strongly influence the business of Canadian companies, and this event is designed to look at the three sides of the triangle made between the three countries. more…
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Urban Leadership Awards Luncheon • May 27
The Urban Leadership Awards (ULA) program honours those that have made a profound and lasting impact on the quality of our urban life. more…
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Emergency Preparedness - Best Practices and Critical Legal Issues • June 2 - 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.
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Innovation Forum 2008 • June 5
Got a great idea or innovation? Want to improve your creative thinking skills? Want to learn how to develop an innovative idea into a successful business venture? Or just looking for ways to finance your innovation? Then don't miss Innovation Forum 2008. more… |
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India Calling 2008 • June 16 - 17
India Calling 2008 is an outreach initiative of the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC), a premier business and trade organization headquartered in Mumbai. The two-day event will bring together elected representatives, officials and industry leaders in Toronto to explore cross-border opportunities of a commercial nature.
The delegation includes over a hundred officials and senior industrialists from India to participate in a series of sectoral sessions, and pre-arranged one-on-one business meetings. Focus sectors for Toronto include Education, Science & Technology, Infrastructure, Energy, ICT, Life Sciences and Transportation & Logistics. For more information contact Murray Jans at maj@cogeco.ca or 905 877 7474. |
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2008 Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto, June 16 - 18
SES Toronto, June 16-18, features presentations and panel discussions covering all aspects of search engine-related promotion, including Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and Mobile Marketing. Learn the tricks of the trade, from best practices and tactics to strategy and branding. Delegates at this event will be granted access to network with the largest gathering of Search professionals in addition to the most comprehensive SEM/SEO learning opportunity in Canada. more… |
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