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With more than 30 years of experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, Venture Coaches Managing Partner Claude Haw believes that cleantech is a great investment area and that today more venture capital is going into cleantech than ICT on a global basis. Joanne Harack, a Toronto-based succession planning coach for cleantech and life sciences companies, says that Ottawa cleantech start-ups should consider hiring from the city's strong pool of ICT talent.
The November 2008 podcast of OCRIRadio.com features interviews with CEOs from Quadra Solar Corp. (Ra-ed Arab), Spartan Bioscience Inc. (Paul Lem), Triacta Power Technologies Inc. (Rob Brennan) and Wise Eyes Inc. (Dave Vicary), all recorded at the 2008 Ottawa Technology Venture Summit in October as part of a two-part OTVS series on investment and entrepreneurship.
On the October 2008 podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk, President
and CEO of market2world communications inc. interviews senior
executives from the Purple Angel Network and a new Ottawa-based venture
capital fund called Great Northern Capital.
The Purple Angel’s Irving Ebert and Great Northern
Capital’s Founder Bernie Zeisig, along with OCRI’s
CEO and President Jeffrey Dale, share their views on why, and how the
Federal Government should focus on the potential of the innovation
economy –drawing comparisons to Israel and Scotland where
governments and entrepreneurs appear to be doing more with policy and
funding partnerships.
OCRIRadio.com
is closing out its 2007/08 season with a series of four “best
of show ” segments featuring technology leaders from around
the globe talking with co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk.
This
“best of show” podcast includes segments with
Geoffrey Moore, “Crossing the Chasm” author and
Mohr Davidow Ventures Partner; Mike Manson, Partner with the Taraspan
Group; Cisco Systems Inc.’s CEO John Chambers, and University
of Toronto Professor and economic cluster expert David Wolfe.
Named
one of Canada's Top 10 Technology Companies last December, IPeak
Networks Inc. celebrates spring by taking wing from OCRI’s
new Business Accelerator Program. Now with a new CEO, CFO, first
customer and bridge financing that can take the company through 2008,
IPeak Networks is the product of a new OCRI approach to identify and
nurture Ottawa’s most promising technology companies. That
new approach to start-ups is also the subject of this month’s
OCRIRadio.com podcast.
IPeak
Networks Founder, Matthew Williams, is the feature interview on the
current episode of OCRIRadio.com. Our second guest interview this month
is with Michelle Scarborough, Vice President of Investment and
Commercialization, who leads OCRI’s Business Accelerator
Program and explains how entrepreneurs can take advantage of her
team’s services.
Interviewed
by OCRIRadio.com co-host Nathan Rudyk at last month’s Telfer
India Forum at the University of Ottawa, four technology executives and
one experienced India observer brush aside the myth that
India’s only role in the technology sector is as a supplier
of outsourced labour.
In
fact, India’s strong economic growth – forecast at
8.8 percent for 2008 – is also building a strong market
opportunity for technology products and services from Canadian
companies.
Tune
into the interviews from the following five guests:
Peter
Nesbitt, Chief Representative,
India International Business Development, Export Development Canada
(EDC)
Gary
Knee, Vice President of
R&D and Operations, Redknee Solutions Inc.
Sonam
Devgan, CEO of Algol Semantics
Inc.
Dr.
Praful Naik, Chief Scientific
Officer of Bilcare Ltd.
Technology
marketing guru Geoffrey Moore sees big green in clean. Moore says
global warming is no longer a cause, but a market. “People
have completely, completely bought into the notion that this is going
to be a global re-engineering of business practices and industrial
practices, and it will possibly be the largest market in the history of
the planet.” In terms of an investment opportunity,
“I think it will dwarf I.T.,” says Moore.
Moore’s
statements draw on his venture capital experience as a Venture Partner
with Sand Hill Road’s Mohr Davidow Ventures, plus his wisdom
as the author of four books including Crossing
the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Fault
Line, and his latest, Dealing
with Darwin.
The
half-hour interview also covers Moore’s opinions on the
promise for technology’s role in “the entire
reconstruction of consumer life around digitized media” and
“the enormous opportunity to take the lessons we’ve
learned in the computing industry and apply it to things like molecular
diagnostics and catching disease states earlier.”
Additional
guests on the February podcast of OCRIRadio.com include Peter Fillmore,
the Vice President of Marketing for Ottawa digital entertainment
company Avoca Semiconductor Inc.
On
the January 2008 podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk, President and
CEO of market2world communications inc. interviews four life sciences
investors and entrepreneurs, including:
Richard
Meadows, Managing Partner from
the CTI Life Sciences Fund Limited Partnership –
Canada’s newest venture capital firm specializing in life
sciences investments
Ken Newport,
the former co-founder and
President of CroMedica Global Inc., and a local investor in life
sciences companies
Jeff Westeinde,
CEO of
Ottawa’s Quantum Environmental Group, a waste management
company
Niall Wallace,
CEO of Infonaut Inc., a
map-based solutions company inspired by solving hospital logistics
problems brought to light by the SARS crisis in Toronto
The
interviews are the second of a two-part series recorded at last
month’s BioNorth Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Conference. The podcast also discusses the record employment
for technology workers in the Ottawa region.
On
the December 2007 podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk,
President and CEO of market2world communications inc. interviews senior
executives from two Ottawa life sciences start-ups.
ImaSight
Inc.’s CEO John Brooks and Vocantas Inc.’s Gary
Hannah – as well as XRoads Solutions Group’s
Managing Director Ogan Gurel and University of Toronto Professor and
industrial cluster expert David Wolfe are interviewed on the first part
of a two-part podcast series recorded live at OCRI’s BioNorth
Biotechnology and Life Sciences Conference in November.
On the
November 2007 podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk, President and CEO
of market2world communications inc. interviews senior executives from
image processing firm eSight Corp., and network performance software
house IPeak Networks Inc.
eSight’s
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Rob Hilkes, and
IPeak Networks founder Matthew Williams discuss the venture capital
investment opportunities offered by their respective companies on the
second part of a two-part podcast series recorded live at
OCRI’s Ottawa Venture and Technology Summit in September.
Luigi Licciardi, Executive Vice President for Telecom Italia Group,
rounds out the November podcasts with his interest in new mobile
technologies emerging from Ottawa’s telecom sector.
The Oct. 19th
OCRI/ITAC breakfast speech by John Chambers, the Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Cisco Systems Inc., extends a tradition of
attracting top global tech CEOs such as Bill Gates to Ottawa. Chambers
revealed Cisco's vision for the future of Web 2.0-inspired
collaborative productivity in both the private and public sectors which
will drive the next decade of innovation and business productivity.
If you were
not among the 800+ members of Ottawa's business and academic community
there to hear John Chambers in person, OCRIRadio.com brings you his
speech in full. It is an hour long podcast well worth your time as you
plan your own tech business strategy for 2008.
On the
September 2007 podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk, President of
market2world communications inc. interviews six members of the North
American investment community from the show floor of the 2007 Ottawa
Venture and Technology Summit.
The guests range from Boston-based VCs to Ottawa angel investors to a
senior manager of the TSX Group who says that Ottawa's tech IPO
pipeline promises to deliver up to eight new public companies in the
next six months.
For the May
podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk interview two
senior marketing experts to talk about the myth surrounding the lack of
marketing resources in high tech Ottawa.
Allan Zander, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sciemetric
Instruments, is responsible for all facets of marketing and product
management as well as the North American sales organization for
Sciemetric Instruments. Gwen Avery, Director of Marketing
Communications at Meriton Networks, is in charge of lead generation,
strategic messaging and product launch, CRM systems, PR, and analyst
relations at that company.
OCRIRadio.com
co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk talk to two bootstrap technology
entrepreneurs about how they grow their companies on their own terms.
Don Bradley is a founder and CTO of Braebon Medical Corp., a
30-employee company that makes its business helping people get a good
night's sleep. Rob Brennan is the founder, President and CEO of Triacta
Power Technologies Inc. Started in 2003, Triacta has 12 employees and
is tackling a billion-dollar market for smart power meters.
On the March
podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk, President of market2world
communications inc., interviews 10 tech entrepreneurs from the show
floor of the 2007 OCRI Technology Showcase at Scotia Bank Place.
The guests range from Nortel Networks CTO John Roese to Chris McIntyre,
a 10-year-old student in one of the OCRI-sponsored Grade 5 robotics
classes at the Ottawa Carleton Catholic School Board.
OCRIRadio.com
co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and
Nathan Rudyk talk to two environmental technology entrepreneurs about
staking Ottawa's claim as the clean energy capital of Canada.
Entrepreneurial
legend Rod Bryden discusses Plasco Energy Group, a company that turns
household waste into electricity. Chris Henderson, President of
environmental technology consulting firm Lumos Energy, is spearheading
the new Ottawa Clean Energy Cluster.
Kathy Mahoney,
Vice President of Corporate
Programs for OCRI, discusses OCRI Showcase and the OCRI Awards. Under
Kathy's leadership OCRI Corporate Programs have increased in number,
offering monthly sessions on a wide variety of topics and registering
in excess of 1,300 participants per month.
OCRIRadio.com
is closing out the year with a series of four 'best of 2006' interviews
featuring technology leaders from Ottawa and beyond.
OCRIRadio.com's
'best of 2006' interviews include: the next 10 years of information
technology, with Microsoft Corp.'s CEO Steve Ballmer; What Ottawa
companies have to do to succeed with VCs, with Andrew Waitman, Managing
Partner, Celtic House Venture Partners; marketing as conversation and
the tools of Web 2.0 promotion, with iotum Corp.'s CEO Alec Saunders;
and protecting intellectual property with Jim Skippen (formerly of
MOSAID Technologies Inc.), CEO Wi-Lan Inc.
OCRIRadio.com co-hosts Jeffrey
Dale and
Nathan Rudyk explore Ottawa's life sciences sector as they talk to Bill
Dickie, President and CEO of Liponex Inc., and Jan Alfheim, President
of StemPath Inc.
Joining them is Ken Lawless, President of the OLSC, and Vice President
of OCRI's Life Sciences Program.
Ageing baby boomers, a stressed health
care system and virulent new diseases that are immune to traditional
therapies are creating billion-dollar opportunities in the life
sciences field. The 'life sciences' podcast of www.ocriradio.com
explores this burgeoning sector of high tech Ottawa.
The
worldwide video game industry overtook movie box-office receipts in
2004 with sales of $24.5 billion U.S., and sales are expected to soar
to $55 billion by 2008. Listen to two 'Digital Hollywood North' leaders
discuss how Ottawa is getting its piece of the pixelated action.
Jan-Erik Nyhuus, is
Vice President of Business Development of XYZRGB Corp. Born from the
labs of the National Research Council, XYZRGB creates 3-D digital scans
of rock stars like Bono, sports stars like Tiger Woods and Hollywood
stars like King Kong for both the gaming and movie industries.
Russ
Mills is the former President of the Southam Newspaper Group and
Publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, and now Dean of the School of Media
and Design at Algonquin College. Mills reveals how Algonquin's
multimedia expertise has found its way not only to
California, but also all the way to China and India.
Rounding
out the October podcast's guest list is Kathy McKinlay, OCRI's
Executive Director of Education and Research, who discusses how OCRI is
working to get students interested in the many fascinating careers in
today's multimedia and I.T. universe.
OCRIRadio.com co-hosts
Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk explore Big Money venture capital (VC) as
they talk to Andrew Waitman, Managing Partner of Celtic House, Ottawa's
largest venture capital company and Ted Anderson, President of Ventures
West. Together these two VCs control more than a half a billion dollars
in their funds.
Joining
them on 'The Big Money Show' is Dr. Michael Caughey, OCRI's founding President in
the 80s, creator of the Technology Venture Dinners in the 90s, a
renowned entrepreneur, and now board member on several Ottawa tech
companies. Rounding out the podcast's guest list is Stephen Daze,
Executive Director of OCRI's Entrepreneurship Centre and organizer of
the Oct. 10th-12th Ottawa
Venture and Technology Summit.
OCRIRadio.com
co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and
Nathan Rudyk delve into the Web 2.0 world of business blogs, wikis,
podcasts and RSS feeds as they talk to Alec Saunders, co-founder and
CEO of iotum; Martin Horne, President of TravelPod, the Web's original
Travel Blog; and University of Ottawa copyright law Professor and
blogger Michael Geist. The mission? To find out how Web 2.0 social
media can be used to expand markets and create communities of interest.
The
June podcast also discusses local tech
success stories Protus IP Solutions and C-Com Satellite Systems as well
as the how Ottawa's reputation as a vibrant business centre continues
to flourish, attracting business interests from Calgary, Canada's
western hot-spot.
Tune
into the May, 2006 podcast of
OCRIRadio.com and join co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk as they
converse about protecting and profiting from intellectual property with
Terry Ludlow, Founder and CEO of Chipworks; Jim Skippen, Senior Vice
President, Patent Licensing and General Counsel with MOSAID; and Kent
Ledwell, a patent and industrial design Partner with Gowlings, a
national law firm with offices in tech centres across Canada.
The
May podcast of OCRIRadio.com also
delves into the brilliant turnaround and second IPO of Ottawa software
powerhouse Corel, and the success of Ottawa's tech cluster strategy.
Tune into www.ocriradio.com to listen, participate in blogs, and more.
Tune into the April,
2006 podcast of OCRIRadio.com and listen to the outsourcing success
stories from three senior executives at Ottawa's most aggressive
R&D outsourcing companies - Fred Boulanger, President of
Macadamian; Sheila Eddin, President of MapleWorks Technologies Inc. and
Andrew Waitman, Co-founder and Board member of Fidus Systems Inc. Then
get an in-depth analysis of global outsourcing trends and the Ottawa
(and Canadian) advantage with Michael Darch, Executive Director of
Global Marketing for OCRI.
Rounding out the April
podcast of OCRIRadio.com is a discussion by co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and
Nathan Rudyk about the state of high tech investment, merger and
acquisition activity in Ottawa this Spring.
There's
more than one way to grow a high tech company. Brian O'Higgins, CTO at
Third Brigade, explains how his host intrusion prevention systems
company attracted $19 million in venture capital (a first-year record
for an Ottawa start-up). Meanwhile Ian Curry, President and CEO at DNA
Genotek, a DNA collection company, has charted 800% growth without
venture capital. Two CEOs with very different approaches, and
OCRIRadio.com has them both in this podcast.
The
best-ever attended event in OCRI's history was the Dec. 6th 2005
Technology Executive Breakfast featuring a speech by Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer, co-sponsored by the Information Technology Association
of Canada. If you weren't among the 700-plus Ottawa technology leaders
there to hear Steve Ballmer in person, OCRIRadio.com brings it to you
in full - either as a single download or in two parts. Either way, it's
a 50-minute podcast well worth your time as you plan your business
strategy for 2006.
It's OCRIRadio.com's
maiden voyage. Join OCRI's President and CEO, Jeffrey Dale, and veteran
broadcaster and entrepreneur, Nathan Rudyk, as they discuss technology
trends, interview NexInnovations' John Kelly and Celtic House's Andrew
Waitman, and talk about VIP acquisition with OCRI's Kathy Mahoney.
Subscribe, tune in, and then speak your mind on OCRIRadio.com's Q&A blog.
OCRIRadio.com
co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and
Nathan Rudyk talk to two environmental technology entrepreneurs about
staking Ottawa's claim as the clean energy capital of Canada.
Kathy Mahoney,
Vice President of Corporate
Programs for OCRI, discusses OCRI Showcase and the OCRI Awards. Under
Kathy's leadership OCRI Corporate Programs have increased in number,
offering monthly sessions on a wide variety of topics and registering
in excess of 1,300 participants per month.
OCRIRadio.com co-hosts Jeffrey
Dale and
Nathan Rudyk explore Ottawa's life sciences sector as they talk to Bill
Dickie, President and CEO of Liponex Inc., and Jan Alfheim, President
of StemPath Inc.
Ageing baby boomers, a stressed health
care system and virulent new diseases that are immune to traditional
therapies are creating billion-dollar opportunities in the life
sciences field. The 'life sciences' podcast of 
Jan-Erik Nyhuus, is
Vice President of Business Development of XYZRGB Corp. Born from the
labs of the National Research Council, XYZRGB creates 3-D digital scans
of rock stars like Bono, sports stars like Tiger Woods and Hollywood
stars like King Kong for both the gaming and movie industries. 
way not only to
California, but also all the way to China and India.
OCRIRadio.com co-hosts
Jeffrey Dale and Nathan Rudyk explore Big Money venture capital (VC) as
they talk to Andrew Waitman, Managing Partner of Celtic House, Ottawa's
largest venture capital company and Ted Anderson, President of Ventures
West. Together these two VCs control more than a half a billion dollars
in their funds.
Caughey, OCRI's 
founding President in
the 80s, creator of the Technology Venture Dinners in the 90s, a
renowned entrepreneur, and now board member on several Ottawa tech
companies. Rounding out the podcast's guest list is Stephen Daze,
Executive Director of OCRI's Entrepreneurship Centre and organizer of
the Oct. 10th-12th 
OCRIRadio.com
co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and
Nathan Rudyk delve into the Web 2.0 world of business blogs, wikis,
podcasts and RSS feeds as they talk to Alec Saunders, co-founder and
CEO of iotum; Martin Horne, President of TravelPod, the Web's original
Travel Blog; and University of Ottawa copyright law Professor and
blogger Michael Geist. The mission? To find out how Web 2.0 social
media can be used to expand markets and create communities of interest.
The
June podcast also discusses local tech
success stories Protus IP Solutions and C-Com Satellite Systems as well
as the how Ottawa's reputation as a vibrant business centre continues
to flourish, attracting business interests from Calgary, Canada's
western hot-spot.
The
May podcast of OCRIRadio.com also
delves into the brilliant turnaround and second IPO of Ottawa software
powerhouse Corel, and the success of Ottawa's tech cluster strategy.
Tune into www.ocriradio.com to listen, participate in blogs, and more.
Tune into the April,
2006 podcast of OCRIRadio.com and listen to the outsourcing success
stories from three senior executives at Ottawa's most aggressive
R&D outsourcing companies - Fred Boulanger, President of
Macadamian; Sheila Eddin, President of MapleWorks Technologies Inc. and
Andrew Waitman, Co-founder and Board member of Fidus Systems Inc. Then
get an in-depth analysis of global outsourcing trends and the Ottawa
(and Canadian) advantage with Michael Darch, Executive Director of
Global Marketing for OCRI.
Rounding out the April
podcast of OCRIRadio.com is a discussion by co-hosts Jeffrey Dale and
Nathan Rudyk about the state of high tech investment, merger and
acquisition activity in Ottawa this Spring.
It's OCRIRadio.com's
maiden voyage. Join OCRI's President and CEO, Jeffrey Dale, and veteran
broadcaster and entrepreneur, Nathan Rudyk, as they discuss technology
trends, interview NexInnovations' John Kelly and Celtic House's Andrew
Waitman, and talk about VIP acquisition with OCRI's Kathy Mahoney.
Subscribe, tune in, and then speak your mind on OCRIRadio.com's 
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