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Interested in rubbing elbows with some of Toronto’s hottest social innovation start-ups?

Come hear successful entrepreneurs discuss the challenges and opportunities faced in launching their organizations.

This is part of a series of “Meet the Entrepreneurs” events which present panels of start-up entrepreneurs in different sectors discussing the challenges and opportunities they are facing. Followed by a networking reception.

Come learn from and meet others in your sector.

you only need to register once at any time for the whole lecture series.

This lecture will help you build a realistic financial plan for your start-up. It‘s important to have a detailed plan that identifies how you spend money and how you make money. To do this, you need to be familiar with the basic tools of financial planning, including income statements, cash-flow forecasts, expense statements and balance sheets.

We use case studies to examine the financial plans of both successful and failed companies, focusing on their ability to forecast realistic scenarios for business growth and cash flow.

Registration Link – register once for the full series of weekly presentations, attend whichever sessions you want.

Intellectual property (IP) is the lifeblood of every knowledge-based start-up or venture. In this lecture, learn how to identify and manage your intellectual property in a strategic way and examine how it fits in with your overall business model. A large part of your competitive advantage depends on your ability to protect and properly exploit or commercialize your product or service innovations. IP law provides the framework for protecting and commercializing these innovations.

We use some real-world examples, particularly in the IT/Web 2.0 space, where IP issues arise and discuss how to address them effectively.

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Please join us for the May learn@lunch session at the Niagara-On-The-Lake campus of Niagara College for lunch and great speakers.

This month’s speaker will be Rob DePetris of KPMG.

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Please join us for the March learn@lunch session at the Niagara-On-The-Lake campus of Niagara College for lunch and great speakers.

This month’s speaker will be Usha Srinivasan of MaRS.

During this information session high school students and their families have the opportunity to hear from, and pose questions to professors, staff, and a panel of working professionals who will explain how digital media is changing the business world, and how our Global Business and Digital Arts program can help you turn your passion for creative design, technology and business into a successful career.

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The Harry Potter series – both books and films – has been categorized both as children’s stories and particularly the later books, as stories of heroic fantasy, but other well-known narrative structures seem to be at play. Join Neil Randall as he examines the possibility that J.K. Rowling and the film-version screenwriters, intentionally or unintentionally, drew us in by giving us both classic mysteries and level-based videogames.

Registration Link – the only info I could find on the CTCA site at this time was the call for speakers.

The Canadian Telecommunications Consultants Association (CTCA) proudly announces “The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Conference”, to be held April 10-13, 2012 in the dynamic Kitchener-Waterloo Region. The theme of the conference is “Collaboration in the Cloud.

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Hackdays are awesome gatherings of hackers/developers who work either in a team or alone to build applications with publicably available APIs

An all-day event; breakfast, lunch and snacks provided! Our schedule will look something like this:

• 9:00 – Breakfast and introductions
• 9:30 – API presentation: learn about the APIs available
• 10:15 – Open Planning: come up with hacking idea and build a team
• 10:30 – Hacking setup and start
• Noon – Lunch
• 1:00 – Hacking
• 5:00 – Application presentation – 5 minutes for each presenter!
• 6:00 – Judging and prizes
• 6:30 – Off to nearby pub for celebration

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Choose from 3 learning tracks:

• Supply Chain Management
• Professional Development
• Panels of Experts

Industry specialists will share their knowledge across the 3 tracks, offering many presentations and discussions for you.