CIX 2009 Schedule
Wednesday | | Show Descriptions
Wednesday, December 2
+ - 07:30-08:30
CIX Meeting Forum
Facilitated face to face meetings between key players in the innovation economy. Meetings are pre-booked and pre-qualified in order to allow people with similar aims to exchange ideas, evolve partnerships and investment opportunities. Only registered delegates can book meetings.
Patty Watt Room
+ - 07:45-08:30
Roundtable Breakfast Briefing
Capitalizing Innovation: How to Finance a Company ?
The Innovation Economy is fueled by a unique blend of bootstrap, venture, angel, public and other forms of capital. It has never cost less or otherwise been more efficient to develop, implement, test and scale technology-based innovations. Meet the key players who are behind innovative companies, learn about the different means of capitalization, and understand the nature of the returns hoped for.
Spaces are limited; please register to reserve a place.
• What are the different public sector-supported sources of capital & who and how do you access them?
• Who are the angel investors, what are they looking for, how do you connect with them, and are they right for your company?
• How do different forms of capital co-exist and what is the right term sheet for the different types of companies?
• How and at what stage can entrepreneurs work with larger corporations?
• What is venture debt and when and how should it be deployed?
Boardroom
+ - 08:40-09:00
Who's in the Room?
Take the opportunity to identify potential partners, funders or customers and arrange to meet subsequently. Join Canadian and US investors and innovative companies actively looking for new deals and relationships.
The following are a few of the key players who will introduce themselves.
Trading Floor
+ - 09:00-09:30
You Can Make Gold and Other Myths about Innovation
Keynote
One of the reasons that we so often fail in trying to innovate is that we believe much of the nonsense that is stated as “obvious” and “truth” about the subject. Perhaps the most repressive is the myth of the genius inventor which is perpetuated by our obsessive need for super heroes – be it in sport, art, business, science, etc. Get over it. Edison did not invent most of the stuff that he is credited with. He was an amazing person, for sure, but he was as much, if not more, the Simon Cowell of his day than the Peter Gabriel. He and his lawyers. Until we dive deeper and try to understand what was really behind past success and failure, we are more likely to base our decisions on myth than data – to the ultimate loss of us all.
Trading Floor
+ - 09:30-11:00
CIX Top 20 - Canada’s Innovation Leaders - ICT
Partner Introduction Christina Dorey-Gray, Senior Account Manager
Welcome to the CIX Top 20, where 5 innovators, inventors or entrepreneurs showcase live to our CIX expert commentators. Who will be voted winner of the CIX award for “Canadian Innovation Leader?”
Expert Commentators will introduce the session, discuss the relative merits of presenting companies and offer advice.
Delegates will vote to choose who should ultimately receive the CIX award for Canadian Innovation leader.
Presenting Companies
1. EnStream LP
2. IGLOO Inc.
3. Rypple
4. YOU i Labs Inc.
5. D-Wave Systems Inc.
6. Dayforce
7. Aeryon Labs Inc.
8. Morega Systems Inc.
Trading Floor
+ - 11:00-11:30
Networking Break
Partner Introduction: Chris Carder, President
Trading Floor
+ - 11:00-12:00
CIX Meeting Forum
Facilitated face to face meetings between key players in the innovation economy. Meetings are pre-booked and pre-qualified in order to allow people with similar aims to exchange ideas, evolve partnerships and investment opportunities. Only registered delegates can book meetings.
Studio
+ - 11:20-12:00
The Growing Role of Governments in Venture Capital
In today’s market, Governments have become the major source of capital, directly and indirectly, behind most of the venture funding in Canada.
• Who are these key players and how do investors access their funds?
• What is the appropriate role for Governments to play in the Canadian venture market?
• How does Government participation affect those funds who receive it, and the market as a whole?
• How do US and other non-Canadian funds interact effectively with these sources of capital?
Trading Floor
+ - 11:30-12:00
Building an Asset and Realizing its Value
Partner Introduction: Raymond D. King, MBA, Senior Manager, Global Diversified Industrials Listings Business Development Toronto
Join a potent mix of entrepreneurs who have made it happen, as well as key intermediaries who have facilitated exits as they examine what you need to do to build a substantial asset and realize its value in 2010.
• What is most important: great technology, great management or great investors?
• What are the key factors to understand when building a technology-based asset?
• What lessons were learned in funding?
• What are the valuation parameters for innovative technology-based companies?
• What are the options for exits - IPO, trade sale, dividend - and what are their relative merits?
Patty Watt Room
+ - 11:30-12:00
TiEQuest Business Venture Competition: 2010 Launch
Started in 2005, TiEQuest has become the one of the largest business ventures competition in Canada. Attend this session to find out how you too can win an opportunity to present to well-known angel investors, venture capitalists and fund managers. TiEQuest offers over $150,000 in prizes to the winners. In addition; the top teams receive an Expression of Interest for up to $1,000,000 investment from sponsors. Turn an innovative idea into a real business with TiEQuest 2010.
Boardroom
+ - 12:00-12:30
The State of the Public Markets in Canada
Ungad Chadda, SVP, Toronto Stock Exchange discusses the opportunities for high growth tech and cleantech companies in the context of the recent positive trends in Canada's public markets.
Patty Watt Room
+ - 12:00-12:30
Meet the Strategic Investors and Acquiring Executives
Partner Introduction: Sara Diamond, President
Find out who is acquiring, purchasing and partnering with innovative companies and what they are looking for from a trade sale, partner, or licensor?
• What do innovative companies look for when acquiring, partnering with or licensing technology?
• What is the state of corporate venturing and how will this impact the development and commercialization of technologies?
• How do corporations co-exist in the innovation eco-system with entrepreneurs and investors and what are the prevailing trends?
• Which segments of the innovation economy are underserved and show promise and opportunity?
• What are some key transactions between corporations and emerging companies, and what attributes and structures did they reveal?
Trading Floor
+ - 12:00-12:30
Roundtable: Cleantech State of the Nation
Join a leading group of clean technologies investors and players as they examine the state of the cleantech market, highlight great innovations and shine the light on evolving opportunities.
Boardroom
+ - 12:30-13:30
Lunch Break & Networking
Partner Introduction: Perry Voulgaris, Director, Digital Programming (Content), CBC Digital Programming and Business Development
Trading Floor
+ - 13:30-14:00
Roundtable: Investing in Ontario-Based Innovation
An overview of Ontario Centres for Excellence (OCE), a not-for-profit corporation that drives economic prosperity and global competitiveness through innovation, with a specific focus on the Investment Accelerator Fund (IAF) – a $27.5M seed and early-stage fund, and the Centre for Commercialization of Research (CCR) – a $15M initiative to support high-potential companies.
Speakers will outline:
• The commercialization continuum and how to fund it
• How to succeed in commercializing innovations
• How to work with CCR and IAF
• Success stories
Boardroom
+ - 13:30-14:00
Roundtable
Going Green - Tax opportunities & implications
The federal and provincial tax implications of going green, including carbon trading and environmental fees.
• The federal and provincial tax and other incentives available to companies looking to go green
• Understand how tax can impact your green strategy
• Understand some of the incentives available as you go green
• Find out where to get more information on "green incentives"
Patty Watt Room
+ - 13:30-14:00
US Investors: The View From America
Key venture investors from the US gather to give us their views on innovation and help us understand what they’re looking for and how they would engage with Canadian companies.
• What are some examples of companies they have funded or exited which highlight the value creation associated with innovation?
• What kinds of opportunities are hot right now and why?
• How are Canadian innovative technologies, companies and executives perceived by their US counterparts?
Trading Floor
+ - 14:00-15:00
CIX Top 20 - Canada’s Innovation Leaders - Clean Tech
Partner Introduction: Duncan Stewart, Director, Deloitte Canada Technology, Media & Telecommunications Research
Welcome to the CIX Top 20, where 5 innovators, inventors or entrepreneurs present to our CIX expert commentators. Who will be voted winner of the CIX award for “Canadian Innovation Leader?”
Expert Commentators will introduce the session, discuss the relative merits of presenting companies and offer advice.
Delegates will vote to choose who should ultimately receive the CIX award for Canadian Innovation leader.
Presenting Companies
1. GaN Systems Inc.
2. NIMTech Incorporated
3. Sixtron Advanced Materials Inc.
4. Skymeter Corp
5. Remco Solid State Lighting Inc.
Trading Floor
+ - 15:30-16:00
Lessons from the Den
Arlene Dickinson is CEO of integrated marketing firm, Venture Communications and one of the panelists on the CBC's hit series, the Dragons' Den. In this talk, learn the top ten pieces of advice that innovators should have in their back pockets when marketing themselves and their businesses in order to raise capital.
Trading Floor
+ - 16:00-17:30
CIX Top 20 – Canada’s Innovation Leaders - Digital Media
Welcome to the CIX Top 20, where 5 innovators, inventors or entrepreneurs present to our CIX expert commentators. Who will be voted winner of the CIX award for “Canadian Innovation Leader?”
Expert Commentators will introduce the session, discuss the relative merits of presenting companies and offer advice.
Delegates will vote to choose who should ultimately receive the CIX award for Canadian Innovation leader.
Presenting Companies
1. Metranome
2. Peerset Inc.
3. GlassBOX Television Inc.
4. Darwin Dimensions
5. PostRank Inc.
6. CognoVision Solutions Inc.
Trading Floor
+ - 17:30-18:00
Innovation with Commercialization – The Foundation of a Leading Economy
Partner Introduction: David Wismer, Managing Director, Head of Technology Investment Banking
To continually develop innovate solutions is paramount. However, without the opportunity to commercialize these solutions, great ideas can be left to ‘wither on the vine’. In his speech Terry Matthews, who, during his distinguished career, has either founded or funded over 80 companies will discuss the importance of balancing innovation with commercialization to be able to grow companies, ecosystems and economies.
Trading Floor
+ - 18:15-19:00
Closing Cocktails
Partner Introduction: David Crow, User Experience Evangelist or Gladstone Grant, Vice President, Developer & Platform Evangelism
Trading Floor
* Note: we reserve the right to change this schedule at any time.