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March 27, 2010

Guelph Partnership for Innovation Breakfast March 25

Filed under: Uncategorized — Trudy @ 7:55 pm

Last Thursday I was very happy to attend the bi-monthly GPI breakfast that was titled “Show me the money!”.

We heard from 2 Guelph area of companies as well as the University of Guelph who all successfully sniffed out and received Canadian funding $$$.

Shout outs go to:

Dr. Steven N. Liss: Associate Vice-President for Research Services at the University of Guelph who spoke about funding from Going Global Innovation and Partnership for Tomorrow which have helped their group bring people and innovations in research together from around the world.

Terry Moore, PhD (ABD): Founder and President of MMTR Health Inc. who was able to use SR&ED funding to grow his technologies to the next level which is pretty neat by the way how his innovative medical systems can help people living with various disabilities.

Andrew Graydon: Chief Operating Officer of Netsweeper Inc. Andrew gave an enthusiastic talk on the benefits that IRAP has had on Netsweeper; explaining how they started out in 2002 with an IRAP YEP grant (Youth Employment Program) and then moved on in subsequent years to get IRAP project funding that enabled them to develop very innovative and what sounds like potentially very profitable technologies in the Internet content filtering area.

Take home keywords:
BE INNOVATIVE, THINK GLOBAL and BE PERSISTENT

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March 24, 2010

StartupCampWaterloo8

Filed under: democamp,events — Dave @ 2:14 am

I was a little late to StartupCampWaterloo 8 last night, so I missed the first 2 presentations, this time seemed to be mostly from VeloCity (University of Waterloo).

I liked DitchThePillow, who asked me specifically not to link to them, who still care about those of us with dumb phones. Alex from SnapSort was there as well. Eric from Allerta showed a watch with a 96×128 display taht could be pushed data from your blackberry. Jay presented Cadmus a clustering Twitter client. NeverBored Studios spoke, and tinyHippos presented a development tool for mobile applications. My new favourite tool of the night: Prezi.

See everyone at StartupCampWaterloo 9 in June.

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March 22, 2010

March 12, 2010

Trudy at Communitech

Filed under: events,trudy — Dave @ 5:05 pm

Trudy was at Thursday’s Communitech Peer2Peer event at the Red Brick on Westmount. The open mic format was great, and after two talks by Arni of Northern Village and Jasper Harlaar from the Laurier Group, she lead a discussion on social media.

Shoutouts for this event go to Chris from Communitech who got Trudy to talk, and Regg of eLEAD.

In other event news Dave & possibly more of us will be at the next StartupCampWaterloo at the Waterloo Accelerator Centre on March 23rd.

And a belated happy pi day to all.

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Career Day

Filed under: events education — Dave @ 4:27 pm

I was invited to give a career talk at St John Catholic School in Guelph yesterday. Sandwiched between a police officer and a nurse, I think I was supposed to represent all of the nerdier professions — and an alarming number of my questions from the audience revolved around how good I was at Call of Duty (spoiler: not very). But it was surprisingly fun, with some real questions thrown in as well (co-op got a serious shout out).