October 21st LUNCHEON EVENT 

Update on the economy

There's a lot of noise these days. Is it back or not?


If your fiscal planning for 2010 needs to start with the big picture, then connect with the YTA on October 21 for an economic briefing from RBC Economist Dawn Desjardins. Ms. Dejardins is Assistant Chief Economist at RBC Royal Bank, responsible for the macroeconomic and interest rate forecasts for Canada and the U.S. She will present the facts you need to make sense of it all.

YTA Board member Joe Olivier, VP Knowledge Based Industries for RBC Royal Bank will provide an overview of the tech sector in the Ontario economy and he will draw participant attention to some of the key criteria that many Knowledge Based Industries clients have found particularly useful in their planning considerations.






November 26th LUNCHEON EVENT

Creating a Winning Strategy for Privacy & Security

Companies are extremely challenged in their ability to integrate information security and privacy activities, creating risks for the business. Winning strategies require the two to be complementary and integrated throughout the enterprise.

Join us for a interactive discussion with privacy and security experts Julius Azarcon of Eosesna and Anita Fineberg of Fineberg and Associates.


YTA BOARD MEMBER
In-PROFILE

Marie Wiese
YTA Vice Chair

An advocate for the tech sector, Marie Wiese has been a leader in the YTA since joining in 2006. Marie is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and is continuing this year in the role of Chair of the Luncheon Committee, a position she first embraced in 2007 and directed into a widely anticipated series of topic issues reviews. Marie arranged and ran the very successful Online Marketing Bootcamp for the YTA in January of this year; leveraging practical learning opportunities for YTA members and community partners.

As Marketing CoPilot with the CoPilot Group, Marie uses the answer to “why should I buy from you?” to help clients make it easy for their customers to buy from them; and to build integrated sales and marketing programs that accelerate business growth.

Marie has worked with start ups and in large corporations, focusing on the financial services and technology sectors. She held senior sales and marketing positions with several Canadian software firms, including Spectra Securities Software, and was Director of Strategic Marketing at Bank of Montreal. In 2003, Marie started a strategic marketing consulting practice and in 2006 co-founded CoPilot Group with Andrew Ford (Sales CoPilot).

Connect with Marie at marie@marketingcopilot.com or 705.835.6912

Member Spotlight

Platform Computing is the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software – serving more than 2,000 of the world’s most demanding organizations.

For 17 years, our workload and resource management solutions have delivered IT responsiveness and lower costs for enterprise and HPC applications.

Platform has strategic relationships with Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, and SAS. Visit www.platform.com.

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YTA Member Exclusive Offers

Are you changing the face of Canadian technology?

The CIX Top 20

The CIX Top 20 names Canada's best and most innovative technology COMPANIES. The companies selected will give a brief presentation at CIX with one company being named Canada’s Innovation Leader at the Innovation Exchange on Dec. 2, 2009.

Eligibility
The CIX Top 20 is open to all Canadian companies who consider themselves, their product, technology or service to be innovative in the fields of clean technologies, information technology and digital media.

Submissions
For more information on how to submit your application, visit the CIX website at: www.canadianinnovationexchange.com/cix.top.20.php


YTA Partners with Innovation Week 09

YTA is a Community Partner and sponsor helping promote awareness, and innovation, amongst member technology companies. CIX is offering special participation rates for YTA members (20% discount) at its Innovation, Green Tech, and Digital Media events. Register today!

Innovation Week '09, November 30th - December 2nd 2009, Toronto | www.innovationwk.com

 

October 2009

York Tech Board of Directors

YTA Chair
Kevin Tribe, CEO
Tequity Inc.

YTA Vice Chair
Marie Wiese, Marketing CoPilot
CoPilot Group

YTA Secretary
Jordan Dolgin,
Dolgin Professional Corporation

YTA Treasurer
Peter Ott,
Peter Ott & Associates Inc.

YTA Directors:

Jim Brown, Sales Manager
Colliers Realty

David Burnett, CEO
End to End Solutions

John Cameron, CEO
Aizan Technologies

Stephen Chait, Director,
Economic Development
Town of Markham

Stephen Chan, CEO
Dapasoft

Steve Charikar, CIO
Seneca College

Don Cousens, Consultant
Honorary Board Member

Johanna Delroy, National Director
Marketing, Compugen

Allan Faux, Partner
Deloitte

Andrew Ford, Sales CoPilot
CoPilot Group

Rudy Joss, CEO & Chairman
Spyder Capital

Mike Kavanagh, Partner
KPMG

John Kitchen, COO
ESRI Canada Inc.

Alex Li, CEO
Kiji Soft Inc.

Ted Madden, CEO
TM & Associates

Sean O'Donnovan, Founder
FunnelBuilders

Joe Olivier, VP Knowledge Based
Industries, RBC Financial

Dan Pelletier, CEO
Biznovations

Greg Secord, VP Investor Relations
Open Text Corp.

Ray Simmons, CEO
CableTest Systems Inc.

Andrew Sprague, Lawyer
Miller Thomson

Michael Stephens, VP Marketing and
Product Development, Atria Networks

Mark Usher, Partner
Wellington Financial

Michael Wade, Professor
Schulich School of Business