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City of Markham Presents: Women, Cultivating Innovation for Business Success
When and where
Date and time
Wed, Dec 3, 2014 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM EST
Location
IBM Lab Auditorium 8200 Warden Avenue Markham, ON Canada
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Description
Women: Cultivating Innovation for Business Success
Innovation is critical.
Energize your business and apply it now. Learn from other women who are living innovation.
Join us on December 3rd to learn how fellow women entrepreneurs and executives from leading high tech organizations across the GTA are cultivating innovation in their organizations.
Wednesday December 3rd, 2014
IBM Lab Auditorium, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham
Agenda
7:30 am Registration, networking and light breakfast 8:30 am Welcome remarks by the City of Markham8:35 am Welcome to IBM, Pat Horgan, Vice-President, Manufacturing, Distribution and Operations, IBM Canada; Director, Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) 8:45 am Keynote Speaker: Sarah Prevette, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at BRANDPROJECT 9:10 am Q&A 9:20 am
“Lightning” Talks
Joanna Ng, Head of Research at IBM Canada Software Laboratories, Centre for Advanced Studies
The value of Industry-Academic Collaboration
Lucia Mariani-Vena, Co-Founder, Digital Director & COO, Feast Interactive
Online Marketing
Tracy Milner, CEO, Brain FX
Importance of Sales
Closing Summary
Lally Rementilla – VP Finance and Administration, Nulogy Corporation; Director, Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC)
End of Formal Program, Networking in Atrium
For more information, please visit: www.venturelab.ca/markhampresents
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About the organizer
ventureLAB is a leading global founder community for hardware technology and enterprise software companies in Canada. Located at the heart of Ontario’s innovation corridor in York Region, ventureLAB is part of one of the biggest and most diverse tech communities in Canada. Our initiatives focused on raising capital, talent retention, commercializing technology and IP, and customer acquisition have enabled thousands of companies to create over 4,000 jobs and raise more than $200 million in investment capital. At ventureLAB, we grow globally competitive tech titans that build-to-scale in Canada, for global markets.