Keep your Cash and Clean up your Act!

Get paid to reduce your impact without losing power

Tuesday, May 25, 7:30 am - 10:00 am

Did you know that Tech now has the same levels of CO2 emissions as the airline industry?

Join us for this special Clean Tech Breakfast Session where you will learn how to leverage incentives and reduce your footprint.

Moderated by Terry Mocherniak, Co-Founder and COO of Encelium Technologies, this event will provide insight on how to leverage the conservation assistance programs in the development of your technology, service and business.

Featuring presentations by John Sherin, Manager of the Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) Department at PowerStream Inc., and R. Wayne Proulx, Director of Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Greater Toronto's Conservation & Demand Management (CDM) Program.

This event is sponsored by Integrated Monitoring Solutions (www.goims.ca) a Markham based company specializing in environmental monitoring solutions. IMS provides clients a 24/7 service to monitor power usage, temperature and humidity. Their service measures power usage to the circuit level, provides thermal mapping of your data centre, and monitors & provides operators with alerts when any user defined conditions are exceeded.


Location:
Premiere Ballroom, 9019 Leslie St. Richmond Hill


Sponsored By:






Inaugural York Technology Leadership Awards and Member Recognition Luncheon

Thursday, June 10, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate and learn from the successes of leaders and peers in the tech community. Three inaugural awards will be presented this June as we recognize the achievements of these companies and their leaders in the categories of: Start-up Company of the Year; Scale-up Company of the Year; and Company of the Year.

Each award recipient will share insights, lessons and pitfalls of their success - and will be open to discussion through the panel moderator on how their learning may turn into your 'shortcuts to success'. The panel will be moderated by Kevin Tribe of Tequity Inc, Past Chair of the YTA.


Location:
Premiere Ballroom, 9019 Leslie St. Richmond Hill

Board Introduces the Inaugural YTA Technology Leadership Awards on June 17th 2010

The inaugural YTA Technology Leadership Awards are developed to recognize tech companies from the Region of York and throughout the Greater Toronto Area that have demonstrated innovation and leadership in their field; having developed, advanced and grown their businesses and in doing so further strengthened their people, the sustainability of the business and their involvement in the tech community.

The Chair of the YTA will proudly present the 2010 YTA Technology Leadership Awards to area companies in three categories:

  • Most Promising Start-up
  • Scale-up Company
  • Company of the Year

Member Recognition and Awards Celebration

Leaders from the selected award recipients will join us in a panel presentation to discuss:

  1. Their growth ‘premise’ – what goals, outlook, and perspectives did they have when setting out;
  2. The two or three most important ‘shortcuts to success’;
  3. One favourite ‘ah ha’ event or moment; and
  4. One mistake that they learned from and would warn others to watch out for.

Thank you to Meyers Norris Penny for supporting the YTA Awards program as the Platinum Sponsors of this inaugural awards program.

Member Spotlight

Camilion Solutions is a leading provider of product development and management solutions for insurance and other financial services organizations. Camilion's innovative software solutions create enterprise product agility by allowing organizations to develop the right product for the right customer at the right time and enabling key strategic initiatives such as product lifecycle management, dynamic product bundling and product rationalization.

Some of the world's largest financial services organizations are currently in production with Camilion's ProductAuthorityŽ, using it as a standalone enterprise product development and management solution, or as the innovative product agility platform on which Authority SuiteŽ, a P&C Policy Administration System, is built. ProductAuthorityŽ brings new levels of automation and efficiency to the product development process, enabling organizations to get quality products to market up to 30% faster. Built on a modern rules and tools-based technology platform, Authority SuiteŽ is the insurance industry's most product-agile P&C Policy Administration System.

Founded in 2001, Camilion is a privately owned corporation with offices in Toronto and New York City.

For more information on Camilion Solutions, please visit www.camilion.com.


YTA Gold Sponsors:


YTA Silver Sponsors:

HR Impacts & Actions for the Scale-Up Company - Immediate Attention Required

Thursday, June 10, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm

In the last five years, 66% of Canadian businesses reported an increase in aggressive acts in the workplace. Canadians lead the world with Internet searches for the term "workplace violence".

The Occupational Health and Safety Act requires employers to have systems in place starting June 15 to appropriately respond when violence or harassment occurs in their workplaces.

Employers with more than five (5) employees must have policies, procedures and processes in effect to deal with violence and harassment in the workplace; they must conduct risk analysis and provide training.

At the BootCamp you will learn how to comply and will leave with templates to meet the requirements of Ontario Bill 168; Workplace Violence Prevention:

  • Conduct a risk assessment and workplace gap analysis;
  • Documented communication plan;
  • Clear, simple workplace policies and procedures; and
  • Implement the required workplace training program.

A must-attend for anyone responsible for a business with 5 or more employees!

Presented in Partnership with:

Location:
Premiere Ballroom, 9019 Leslie St. Richmond Hill

 

May 2010

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 Networks

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

Eamonn Flaherty, Lawyer
Miller Thomson

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.

Michael Stephens, VP Marketing and
Product Development, Atria Networks

Mark Usher, Partner
Wellington Financial

Michael Wade, Professor
Schulich School of Business