Communitech's 2010 Tech Leadership Conference

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Southwestern Ontario's biggest technology business conference that brings together leading entrepreneurial thinkers, startups and investors to spark innovation and make new things happen.

Wednesday July 14, 2010
7:45am - 4:40pm
Bingemans Conference Centre
425 Bingemans Centre Drive, Kitchener

 

Innovation has changed. People and work have changed. As we complete the first decade of the 21^st Century, one characterized by the most rapid technological development in human history, we need to step back and re-imagine our most fundamental tenets of business. What are the new modes? What are the new rules to live by? Who among us will lead and bring us the new edicts for the modern age?

Communitech and The 2010 Commandments will rise to meet the call. Are you ready to meet the challenge of the new business mantra, forever altered by the power of the crowd, shaped by the critical need to disrupt and innovate, and motivated by rapid change? Join us for Communitech's 2010 Tech Leadership Conference. 

Delegate Cost:
Communitech Network member rate: $99.00
Non-Network rate: $199.00

Featuring keynotes with

• Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma),
• Bill Taylor (Fast Company magazine and Mavericks at Work), and
• Noel Biderman (President of Avid Life Media, The Ashley Madison Agency, HotorNot.com),

and featuring breakout sessions with

• Scott Kress (Summit Training & Frontier Team Building) on team leadership and development,
• Steve McCartney and Kevin Tribe (Tequity), Ted Hastings (Moxy Media/Tsavo) on M&A,
• Jen Evans (Sequentia Environics) on crowdsourcing and social media,
• Morgan Elliot and Praveen Goyal (RIM) on goverment relations,
• Jeff Fedor (ParkVu), on the business of mobile app development, and 
• Dr. H. Douglas Barber (former CEO, Gennum Corp), on customer focus.

Also featuring our annual Tech Expo showcase of the best local tech start-ups, our famous TLC networking reception, the launch of Waterloo Region's 2010 Tech Directory and the launch of the Entrepreneurial Edge II: Waterloo Region project.

With topics and sessions on disruption and innovation, mavericking at work, capitalizing on the power of the crowd, organizational leadership and team building,  the world of mobile app, a capitalist view of working effectively with government, and moreâ?¦

Communitech's annual tech expo of the next big startup ideas. What's hot? You'll see it here first.

Fresh out of stealth mode, this is your chance to peruse the most promising up-and-coming high potential tech startups from the Waterloo Region stables. Meet the folks behind the big ideas before they hit the market. Thanks to RIM for making the Tech Expo possible.

  
Everyone who is anyone in tech in Waterloo Region. Bar none.

• Senior management at technology firms from Waterloo Region
• Startup  Entrepreneurs
• Investors
• Professional Services
• Academic Institutions
• All Levels of Government

  Warning: preliminary agenda may be subject to change.

Communitech is the regional hub for the commercialization of innovation, creating economic prosperity by removing barriers to the creation and growth of technology companies. Our goal is to create more successful global businesses for Canada.