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via Interactive Ontario: Details on three keynote sessions that attendees at GameON: Finance can look forward to next week in Toronto. Tickets are still available for purchase for GameOn Finance, which will take place at The Design Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »

Andrew Osis, CEO of Poynt Corporation, a mobile local search and advertising provider, will be a featured speaker at the Variety Entertainment Summit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Mr. Osis has been invited to share his insights during the “Technology All-Stars of Today and Tomorrow” panel, which takes place Wednesday, January 11 from 11:15 to 12:00 pm PST at the Las Vegas Convention Center, North Hall. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media and Dx3 Canada have announced the participants in this year’s “Intertainment Media Incubation Zone” to be showcased at the Dx3 Canada expo on January 25 and 26, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The IMIZ will showcase Canada’s top start-ups along with their respective incubators, culminating in a panel “pitch-off” for the chance to win a $20,000 prize of cash and professional services from Intertainment Media Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

The Vancouver chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH invites you to The Art of Modern Warfare 3, featuring presentations by Sledgehammer Games’ Art Director Joe Salud and CG Supervisor David Blizard, at District 319 on January 17th, with the doors opening to ticket holders at 6pm for a pre-event networking reception. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent international children’s entertainment content producer, distributor and licensor DHX Media Inc. will be presenting an overview of its business and strategy at the 14th Annual Needham & Company Growth Conference at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City on January 12th at 3:30pm. The conference features over 325 presenting companies and close to 1,500 institutional investors over three days. Read the rest of this entry »

The city of Vancouver, shining light of the land of sasquatches and angry ghosts, is no stranger to the disquieting and the bizarre. Now Curio Media also calls it home, a film and media company that supports female filmmakers and artists in the genres of horror, science fiction, and dark fantasy. Curio Media, with the assistance of IRL Events, is proud to announce its inaugural event: the Vancouver presentation of the 2012 Viscera Film Festival, showcasing short horror films created by female filmmakers on Friday, January 13th. Read the rest of this entry »

Linux desktop virtualization developer Userful will be at the HP booth (Stand J40, Upper Level) at BETT 2012 in London UK from January 11-14th. Userful will be demonstrating the next generation of their Userful MultiSeat solution which turns one Linux computer into multiple high performance independent computer stations using the HP t200 thin client device, a multiseat device that can be connected either via USB or Ethernet using Userful’s software. Read the rest of this entry »

Part comedy competition, part performance and part informational, this Great Gamification Debate will settle, once and for all, three burning questions: What is gamification? What is it good for? And why does it matter? The Big Event will take place at The Hive, which is located at #210 – 128 West Hastings Street in Vancouver, on the evening of February 2nd. Read the rest of this entry »

Inceptive Solutions Inc. will be sponsoring StartUp Weekend events across Canada on the weekend of February 3-5, 2012. Adding to the previously announced Premier Sponsorship of StartUp Weekend Calgary, Inceptive Solutions is proud to announce today that it will continue their involvement in Canada’s start-up scene with the sponsorship of Startup Weekend Montreal. Read the rest of this entry »

ViXS Systems, Inc. and Morega Systems, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to enable, for the first time, the seamless access and streaming of premium, personal, and user-generated content to and from multiple devices within the home. Read the rest of this entry »