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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.

Albright

Arsenault

Catalfamo

Hurwitz

Kerdman

McQueen

Rokkos

Varghese

Participants
John Albright, Founder and Managing Partner - JLA Ventures and Blackberry Partners Fund
Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner - iNovia Capital
Joe Catalfamo, Managing Director - Summerhill Venture Partners
Stephen A. Hurwitz, Partner - Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Bryan Kerdman, Partner - EdgeStone Capital Partners
Mark McQueen, President and CEO - Wellington Financial LP
Peter Rokkos, Partner and General Counsel - Comcast Interactive Capital
John S. Varghese, Chairman - VentureLink LP

Patty Watt Room

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?

Usher

Varma

Wilkes

Moderator
Suzanne Dingwall Williams, Founding Partner - Venture Law Associates LLP

Participants
Mark Usher, Partner - Wellington Financial LP
Amar Varma, Managing Partner - Extreme Venture Partners
Andrew Wilkes, Founder - Management Initiatives Inc.

Boardroom

Miller

Montgomery

Nathan

Speaker
Mayor David Miller, Mayor - Toronto
Robert Montgomery, CEO - First Maximillian Associates and Achilles Media Ltd.
Rick Nathan, Managing Director - Kensington Capital Partners

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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.

Albright

Arsenault

Banks

Buxton

Catalfamo

Fan Munce

Furneaux

Hnatiuk

Hurwitz

Kerdman

Lax

Marcus

McQueen

Rokkos

Romoff

Ruffolo

Shore

Varghese

Varma

Wilkes

Wilson

Wormald

Participants
John Albright, Founder and Managing Partner - JLA Ventures and Blackberry Partners Fund
Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner - iNovia Capital
Jordan Banks, Managing Partner - Thunder Road Capital
Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher - Microsoft Research
Joe Catalfamo, Managing Director - Summerhill Venture Partners
Suzanne Dingwall Williams, Founding Partner - Venture Law Associates LLP
Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director and Vice President - IBM Venture Capital Group and IBM Corporate Strategy
Dave Furneaux, Founder & Managing Partner - Kodiak Venture Partners
Steve Hnatiuk, Founder and Partner - Yaletown Venture Partners
Rubsun Ho, Co-Founder - Cognition LLP
Stephen A. Hurwitz, Partner - Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Bryan Kerdman, Partner - EdgeStone Capital Partners
Charles Lax, Managing General Partner - GrandBanks Capital
Larry Marcus, Managing Director - Walden Venture Capital
Mark McQueen, President and CEO - Wellington Financial LP
Joe Milstone, Co-Founder - Cognition LLP
Peter Rokkos, Partner and General Counsel - Comcast Interactive Capital
Mark Romoff, Corporate Director and former President and CEO - Ontario Centres of Excellence
John Ruffolo, Leader of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications - Deloitte
David Shore, Head of Technology Group - Research Capital
John S. Varghese, Chairman - VentureLink LP
Amar Varma, Managing Partner - Extreme Venture Partners
Andrew Wilkes, Founder - Management Initiatives Inc.
Roger Wilson, Director - BDC Venture Capital
Chris Wormald, Vice President Alliances - Research In Motion

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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.

Buxton

Speaker
Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher - Microsoft Research

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In Partnership with:
RBC Royal Bank

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.

Arsenault

Banks

Catalfamo

Greenspan

Romoff

Usher

Host
Mark Greenspan, Vice President of Digital Media - Achilles Media Ltd.

Expert Commentator
Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner - iNovia Capital
Jordan Banks, Managing Partner - Thunder Road Capital
Joe Catalfamo, Managing Director - Summerhill Venture Partners
Mark Romoff, Corporate Director and former President and CEO - Ontario Centres of Excellence
Mark Usher, Partner - Wellington Financial LP

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In Partnership with:
ThinData

Partner Introduction: Chris Carder, President

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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.

Furneaux

Hogue

Lee

Olivier

Ruffolo

Scarborough

Shore

Usher

Wormald

Participants
Dave Furneaux, Founder & Managing Partner - Kodiak Venture Partners
Benoit Hogue, Founder - Propulsion Ventures
Paul Lee, Managing General Partner - Vanedge Capital Partners Ltd.
Joe Olivier, Vice-President Commercial Financial Services for Knowledge Based Industries (KBI), Ontario - RBC Royal Bank
John Ruffolo, Leader of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications - Deloitte
Michelle Scarborough, Vice President Investment and Commercialization - OCRI
David Shore, Head of Technology Group - Research Capital
Mark Usher, Partner - Wellington Financial LP
Chris Wormald, Vice President Alliances - Research In Motion

Studio

In Partnership with:
First Maximilian Associates

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?

Nathan

Bernier

Charko

Marshall

Simoneau

Moderator
Rick Nathan, Managing Director - Kensington Capital Partners

Participants
Jacques Bernier, Managing Partner - Teralys Capital Fund
Rod Charko, CEO - Alberta Enterprise
John Marshall, President and CEO - Ontario Capital Growth Corporation
Jacques Simoneau, Executive Vice President, Investment - BDC

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In Partnership with:
TMX

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?

Hulsman

Brody

Carder

Hyatt

Shore

Staikos

Moderator
Noel Hulsman, Small Business Editor - Globe and Mail

Participants
Leonard Brody, Co-Founder and CEO - Now Public
Chris Carder, President - ThinData
Michael Hyatt, CEO and Co-Founder - BlueCat Networks
David Shore, Head of Technology Group - Research Capital
George Staikos, Founder and President - Torch Mobile

Patty Watt Room

In Partnership with:
TiE

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.

Madan

Participants
Suresh Madan, President - TiE Toronto

Boardroom

In Partnership with:
TMX

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.

Chadda

Participants
Ungad Chadda, Senior Vice President - Toronto Stock Exchange

Patty Watt Room

In Partnership with:
Ontario College of Art & Design

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?

Ruffolo

Fan Munce

Kawale

Rokkos

Wormald

Moderator
John Ruffolo, Leader of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications - Deloitte

Participants
Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director and Vice President - IBM Venture Capital Group and IBM Corporate Strategy
Nitin Kawale, President - Cisco Systems Canada Company
Peter Rokkos, Partner and General Counsel - Comcast Interactive Capital
Chris Wormald, Vice President Alliances - Research In Motion

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In Partnership with:
TMX

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.

Stewart

Peterman

Rand

Varghese

Zeisig

Moderator
Duncan Stewart, Director, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Research - Deloitte Canada

Participants
Rob Peterman, Senior Manager, Global Clean Technology - Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange
Tom Rand, Practice Lead, Cleantech and Physical, Science Venture Group - MaRS
John S. Varghese, Chairman - VentureLink LP
Bernhardt Zeisig, Senior Partner - Cycle Capital Management

Boardroom

In Partnership with:
CBC

Partner Introduction: Perry Voulgaris, Director, Digital Programming (Content), CBC Digital Programming and Business Development

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Keynote

Fire departments don't fight fires. Ringing phones don't ring. The normal, the abnormal, and past, present and future innovation.

Kedrosky

Speaker
Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow - The Kauffman Foundation

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In Partnership with:
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) Inc.

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

Speakman

Thomas

Participants
Shirley Speakman, Director of Investments - Ontario Centres of Excellence
Dr. Mario Thomas, Managing Director. Centre for Commercialization of Research - Ontario Centres of Excellence

Boardroom

In Partnership with:
PricewaterhouseCoopers

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"

Paton

Participants
Lana Paton, Partner, Corporate Tax - PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Patty Watt Room

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?

Montgomery

Clavier

Furneaux

Lax

Marcus

Moderator
Robert Montgomery, CEO - First Maximillian Associates and Achilles Media Ltd.

Participants
Jeff Clavier, Founder and Managing Partner - SoftTech VC
Dave Furneaux, Founder & Managing Partner - Kodiak Venture Partners
Charles Lax, Managing General Partner - GrandBanks Capital
Larry Marcus, Managing Director - Walden Venture Capital

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In Partnership with:
Deloitte

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.

Partner Introductions:
Duncan Stewart, Director, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Research - Deloitte Canada

Greenspan

Jezewski

Varghese

Zeisig

Stewart

Host
Mark Greenspan, Vice President of Digital Media - Achilles Media Ltd.

Expert Commentator
Adam Jezewski, Corporate Finance Specialist - Emerald Technology Ventures
John S. Varghese, Chairman - VentureLink LP
Bernhardt Zeisig, Senior Partner - Cycle Capital Management

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In Partnership with:
nextMEDIA

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.

Dickinson

Speaker
Arlene Dickinson, Chief Executive Officer - Venture Communications Ltd.

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In Partnership with:
Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC)

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.

Albright

Greenspan

Hill

Lee

Marcus

Thomas

Host
Mark Greenspan, Vice President of Digital Media - Achilles Media Ltd.

Expert Commentator
John Albright, Founder and Managing Partner - JLA Ventures and Blackberry Partners Fund
Austin Hill, Executive Instigator & CEO - Akoha
Paul Lee, Managing General Partner - Vanedge Capital Partners Ltd.
Larry Marcus, Managing Director - Walden Venture Capital
Dr. Mario Thomas, Managing Director. Centre for Commercialization of Research - Ontario Centres of Excellence

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In Partnership with:
BMO Capital Markets

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.

Matthews

Speaker
Sir Terry Matthews, Chairman - Mitel, Wesley Clover and March Networks

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In Partnership with:
PricewaterhouseCoopers

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In Partnership with:
Microsoft Canada Co.

Partner Introduction: David Crow, User Experience Evangelist or Gladstone Grant, Vice President, Developer & Platform Evangelism

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