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"Doing Business With...." Debuts in Vancouver
January 18, 2006 - ITAC's "Doing Business With..." program has
operated since 2002 giving large ITAC members with established
partnership programs an opportunity to meet potential partners
and suppliers from the technology community. The program has
operated successfully in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa (Doug
Cooper, Country Manager for Intel Canada will present Doing
Business with Intel on February 2 in Ottawa). On February 1,
Doing Business With ... will make its debut before a Vancouver
audience in a half day event co-presented by ITAC and BCTIA. A
senior representative from Telus will kick things off. A panel
comprised of Al Hurd, President EDS Advanced Solutions, Ross
Rose, Director, e-government Systems, MacDonald Dettwiler and
Associates and Caroline Dunn, Executive Vice-President, Growth
Strategies for Sierra Systems will follow. At lunch, the focus
will shift to "Doing Business with India" as Pankaj Agarwal, the
CEO of Momentum Technologies and a member of the NASSCOM/ITAC
Committee, and Bernard Courtois, President and CEO of ITAC,
discuss business opportunities for Canadian companies in India.
Many companies, including IBM, Microsoft, HP, Sun, Agilent,
Siemens and eBay have participated in this program. BCTIA is
keenly interested in having senior executives from ITAC's
membership make presentations to potential partners in British
Columbia. So, if your company is seeking ways to promote its
partner programs in British Columbia (or elsewhere,) please
contact Micheline Levesque at
mlevesque@itac.ca and she will work with BCTIA to schedule
the event.
Netflash
January 17, 2006 - Highlights: Ronan McGrath
to Address NASSCOM Conference, ICT Industry Urges Party Leaders
to Address Canada’s Future Prosperity, "Doing Business
With...." Debuts in Vancouver,
Ballmer Wakes Up Ottawa Tech Community and
More.
ICT Industry Urges Party Leaders to Address Canada’s Future
Prosperity
January 6, 2006 - On behalf of Canada’s information and
communications technology (ICT) industry, the Information
Technology Association of Canada is urging federal party leaders
to deal with the issue of Canada’s future prosperity in the
current election campaign.
“We know election campaigns get driven by a dynamic of their
own, particularly in their final stages,” says
Bernard Courtois,
President and CEO of the Information Technology Association of
Canada (ITAC), “but we feel Canada’s productivity and prosperity
is too big an issue to be ignored in the process.”
For the full text of the news release please click here:
English /
French
CSLS Study
Explains Why Canadian ICT Investment Is Less Than U.S.
December 12, 2005 - Virtually no growth of labour
productivity in the Canadian business sector occurred in 2003
and 2004, and the gap between American and Canadian labour
productivity has grown significantly. Lagging ICT investment has
been identified as a possible cause of the weak growth and the
gap between the two countries. A new study by the Centre for the
Study of Living Standards has identified the factors that have
caused this investment gap. These include:
- The industrial structure of Canada versus the United States.
Canada has smaller shares of ICT intensive sectors, such as the
cultural and information industry (including telecommunications
and finance).
- The size distribution of employment. Canada has a larger
share of employment in small and medium sized enterprises. SMEs
typically spend less on ICT than larger firms.
For the full text of the news release, please
click here.
For the study's executive summary, please
click here.
For the CSLS study (130 pgs), "What Explains the Canada-US ICT
Investment Intensity Gap?" please
click here.
Ballmer Wakes Up
Ottawa Tech Community
December 6, 2005 -
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft Corporation, addressed a
record-breaking crowd in Ottawa on December 6 at a special
Technology Executive Breakfast hosted by ITAC and
OCRI. In his inimitable
fashion, Steve shared his vision of the next decade of
technology. "I have tremendous enthusiasm for what we'll be able
to do over the next ten years," he said. "We're fortunate as an
industry because we all get to participate in the transformation
of human endeavour." Steve sees the future, not surprisingly, as
software-driven and swept by the continuing current of Moore's
Law. He also believes we will see vast improvements in the
human-computer interface (driven by voice recognition) and will
also witness improvements in system and device interoperability
and ubiquity.
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February 1, 2006
Doing Business With Telus (And Others)
February 2, 2006
Doing Business with Intel of Canada Ltd.
February 8, 2006
ITAC Board Directors Meeting
February 22, 2006
Senior Leaders Breakfast -
Keynote Speaker - Heather Black, Assistant Privacy Commissioner
of Canada
March 15, 2006
The Swedish Experience - eHealth In Sweden
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Executive Forum on Microelectronics
David Orton, CEO of ATI Technologies, provided a compelling start to the 11th Annual Executive Forum on Microelectronics on November 29th. Elaborating on the conference theme "Creative Destruction," he described ATI's growth from a start-up memory chip company to its current position as the leader of the global graphics components marketplace - and, at an annual $2-billion in revenues, the undisputed leader in Canadian microelectronics. Orton described the various "inflection points" that ATI encountered throughout its history and demonstrated that the company's success was due in part to its willingness to exit invested lines of business and cannibalize product lines. |
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