Monday, November 15, 2010

Global Entrepreneurship Week + OnContact + InitiativeTO: November 15 – 21, 2010

InitiativeTO Invites entrepreneurs Global Entrepreneurship Week Toronto: November 15 – 21, 2010, by bizjunction.blogspot.comInitiativeTO 2010 Invites: citywide personal stories
you may face as entrepreneurs, November 17
Global Entrepreneurship Week: November 15 – 21, 2010
Credit: cg6.com
Global Entrepreneurship Week:
100 countries. 40,000 events.
10 million people.
A global movement unleashing new ideas

InitiativeTO: attend, participate and engage in any cross city platform with entrepreneurs themselves. Treats will be provided. Lucky Draw made for Entrepreneurs at Closing Note.

Twitter: @Cg6Inc | Hashtag: #Initiative10

Wednesday, November 17th, InitiativeTO - A citywide initiative of social connection; promoting entrepreneurship, enterprise and social cause to aspiring entrepreneurs on the challenges they may face of being an entrepreneur by entrepreneurs themselves. The effort consists of lead discussions, engaging workshops and local business tours.

InitiativeTO is in part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, hosted and managed by Cg6 Inc; a lifestyle media relations agency socially focused to promote entrepreneurship to creatives and aspiring markets through socially engaging programs, partnerships and placement.

InitiativeTO is a first time 12-hour event consisting of more than 17 entrepreneurs and industry professionals sharing personal stories of challenges they have faced in their career path, 6 seriously fun; down-to-earth life experiencing workshops and up-to 25 businesses taking part in industry tour spawned by venues of social connection ranging from Etobicoke, Junction, Dear Park District, Riverdale and Scarborough.

Event Details:

Speaking: Formats
  • Lead Discussions, 40 minutes followed by 15 minutes Q&A
  • Engaging Workshops, 90 minutes followed by 10 minutes Q&A
  • Local Tours, 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes Q&A

Venue: Contributors
  • Scarborough Civic Centre
  • Iconica Communications, 55 St. Clair West
  • The Armoury, 201 Weston Road
  • Longbranch Coworking, 3299 Lake Shore West
  • Toronto Model Photography, 1840 Danforth
  • Gafas, 561 Queen West

Event: Supporters
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InitiativeTO
Cg6 Inc.
Nov. 17
8:00 am – 8:00 pm

Promoting entrepreneurship, enterprise and social cause; InitiativeTO engages and educates aspiring entrepreneurs the challenges they may face in running their own businesses by like-minded industry professionals. This story telling 12-hour event consists of lead discussions, engaging workshops and local business tours.
Registration is required, www.cg6.com connect with tm.mahdi@cg6.com

OnContact with an Entrepreneur
Cg6 Inc.
Nov. 15, 16, 18, 19
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

OnContact with an Entrepreneur educates and promotes to young professionals the different faces of entrepreneurship. 16 industry-experienced entrepreneurs will engage YOU, the audience, with informative answers in an open mike format.
YOU will have the opportunity to witness first-hand, the runnings of a business as an entrepreneur. The hardships and perks, the highs and the lows - all provided from real view points of our speakers.
Registration is required, www.cg6.com connect with mimi.lee@cg6.com

Have a great Entrepreneurship Week!

Last year we participated locally in Global Entrepreneurship Week: November 16-22, 2009

Monday, November 01, 2010

CASCON Celebrating 20 Years of Research and Innovation in Computer Science Technologies

CASCON 2010, innovation computer science, ibm, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 1-4, 2010
Collage: 20th Anniversary CASCON 2010
Honoring Two Decades of Research & Innovation
November 1 - 4, 2010
"Smarter Technologies for a Smarter Planet"
Credit: IBM Centers for Advanced Studies - CASCON 2010


This year's Conference of the IBM Canada Centres for Advanced Studies (CAS) on Collaborative Research CASCON 2010 is special as it celebrates two decades of research and innovation in computer science and software engineering and its growth into a world class academic and research conference. CASCON 2010 brings over 1300 researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government together for presenting original work, exchanging new ideas, sharing results and experiences, and networking.

CASCON 2010
"Smarter Technology for a Smarter Planet"
The 20th Annual International Conference
hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies Research, IBM Canada Software Laboratory
in partnership with National Research Council Canada

November 1 - 4, 2010

Venue: Hilton Suites Toronto/Markham Conference Centre
8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario L6G 1A5 Canada
Southwest corner of Highway 7 & Warden Avenue

Please check a day-by-day schedule with dozens of workshops, keynote presentations, panel sessions, technical paper sessions, technology showcase on the latest research ideas and results on the industry, speakers by day and Twenty Years of Impact and Women in Technology panels: http://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/

Happy 20th Anniversary, CASCON!

links:
The first article about CASCON 2010 posted on the web - Enterprise Irregulars: Smart Thinking for the Smart Enterprise: CASCON Workshop: Accelerate Service Integration In Your BPM and SOA Applications
By Sandy Kemsley on November 1, 2010
Facebook: IBM Centres for Advanced Studies Canada Research
follow @IBMCAS on Twitter
hashtag: #CASCON2010 with real-time results for #CASCON2010
contributors who tweet about CASCON2010 @jharjono @cidd @machemes @computermacheme @cidd @lifeaftercancer @seemsArtless @kobuse @prof_lyons @chooselmashups @ctreude @lgrammel