December 3rd, 2008MEIC launch party this friday
Hear ye: WirelessNorth.ca is super-proud to be taking part in the first public event of the MEIC this coming Friday. The MEIC, if you haven’t been keeping track, the MEIC is Canada’s new Mobile Experience Innovation Centre run by the multi-talented Michele Perras out of the Ontario College of Art and Design. This event being just the beginning of more cool projects to come.
It will be an action packed afternoon and hope you can make it. Letting you know now, the event is free but, last we checked, only about 30 left. Get yours here and soon as this will sell out.
Deets:
Please join us on December 5, 2008, as the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre will be hosting an event at the Ontario College of Art & Design in downtown Toronto.
A half-day forum to discuss recent research findings into the current state of Ontario’s wireless and mobile industry, there will also be sessions discussing future strategies for the new and exciting changes in the Canadian Wireless Context. Join us for an afternoon of engaging discussion with industry leaders as we look towards creating a new wireless future.
The MEIC is a public-private consortium led by the Ontario College of Art & Design, and funded through the Entertainment and Creative Clusters Partnership Fund, Ontario Media Development Corporation). For more information, please contact Michele Perras at mperras [at] ocad.ca.
* Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
* Time: 3pm-7pm
* The Auditorium, Ontario College of Art & Design, 100 McCaul St, Toronto.
* Admission: Free
- 3pm: Opening remarks, Karen Thorne-Stone, CEO and President of the OMDC
- 3:05pm: Opening Keynote by Gary Schwartz, President, Impact Mobile
- 3:50pm: MEIC Research Discussion: Michele Perras, MEIC Coordinator; MEIC Working Group Chairs Avi Pollock, Head, RBC Applied Innovation and Gabe Sawhney, Co-Founder, 33 Magnetic and Echo Mobile, with MEIC Research Consultant Ray Newal, Co-Founder, Jigsee, Inc.
- 4:30pm: Break
- 5pm: Panel Discussion: The AWS Spectrum Auction – New Strategies for the Canadian Context, with Dominique Sebastien Forest, Director of Digital Content and e-Commerce, Quebecor/Canoe.ca, and Anthony Lacavera, CEO, Globalive. Moderated by WirelessNorth.ca
- 5:45pm: Strategy Round Table: Next Steps for a Wireless Canada, with President Sara Diamond, OCAD; Dr Mark Green, UOIT; Diane Williamson, VP Interactive, marblemedia; Karl Vrendenburg, Director of User Centred Design, IBM; and moderated by Sebastien Chorney, Chair, Interactive Ontario’s Mobile Committee and Founder, mypetbrainstorm.
- 6:15pm: Closing remarks, Networking reception
- 7pm: Reception Wraps
