Panel Sessions
OVTS 2006 Program
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| A View from the Valley | ||||
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| Top US analyst firm The 451 Group will lead an interactive panel of industry leaders from Silicon Valley, providing insight into the trends and forward thinking in the Valley. | ||||
| Moderator: | Tim Miller, VP & GM Financial Markets, The 451 Group | |||
| Panelists: | Stephane Dupont, Executive VP, NVCA Christine Simpson Brent, Partner, IBM Venture Capital Group Chris Albinson, Managing Director, Panorama Capital |
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| Application Aware Networking | ||||
| A trend is developing to tightly integrate communications services with enterprise applications, using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and related protocols. This panel will explore the business drivers and opportunity areas, as well as related emerging technologies and products. | ||||
| Moderator: | Dave McCarthy, Managing Director, BCE Capital | |||
| Panelists: | Craig Betts, President & CEO, Solace Systems Greg Pelton, Senior Director, Cisco Technology Center |
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| The IT Response to the Convergence Challenge | ||||
| Enterprise computing and communications networks and systems are converging, particularly in datacenters, creating opportunities for new products and services. Cisco, Neterion and Liquid Computing will discuss these opportunities from system, sub-system and network perspectives. Neterion's technology improves high speed networking, storage and computing systems by deploying 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an evolutionary, cost effective manner. The notion of a converged datacenter is central to Neterion’s vision and the company is pushing forward with technologies such as IO virtualization, low latency interconnect, and high-performance iSCSI. Liquid Computing has developed a server designed for the converged datacenter, delivering a highly available and scalable platform for converged services. Cisco develops and delivers new applications and services that help companies respond faster to market and customer demands by making their networks play a more strategic role and redefining the scope of the network. | ||||
| Moderator: | Steve Arthur, Director, Equity Research Analyst, RBC Capital Markets | |||
| Panelists: | Art Howarth, Technical Leader,Cisco Technology Centre Andrew LaCroix, Director of Systems Engineering, Neterion Inc. Greg McElheran, VP Business Development, Liquid Computing |
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| IT in Healthcare | ||||
| Much has been said about “IT in Healthcare.” While considerable time and attention is being dedicated to this topic, a number of challenges remain. In this session, we will explore how Nortel sees the unique challenges facing this vertical and the required telecommunications solutions, highlighting the issues faced by healthcare, the needs on solutions and the implications that define “Clinical Grade” demands of “quality of service”, privacy, security, “Five 9s availability”, aware networks, mobile and fixed wireless, WANs and LANs. | ||||
| Moderator: | Rick Norland, Partner, Thorington Corporation | |||
| Panelists: | Bruce Wallace, Lead Solutions Architect, Enterprise Solutions, Nortel Networks | |||
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| Next Generation VoIP | ||||
| Initial VoIP services focused on reducing the price of phone services, and thus led to an infrastructure that replicated today’s circuit switched phone network. However, the open nature of VoIP protocols allows integration with other systems and services, and is expected to lead to substantial value-added innovations in the way people communicate. This panel will explore these opportunity areas, as well as the associated enablers and the issues. | ||||
| Moderator: | William Stofega, Research Manager, IDC | |||
| Panelists: | Alain Mouttham, Founder, FirstHand Technologies Christian Szpilfogel, Vice-President of Strategic Business, Mitel Howard Thaw, COO, Iotum Corporation |
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| The Angels' View of the Entrepreneurial Landscape | ||||
| This panel session will look at angel investing and
networking in three parts; an overview of angel investing globally
and locally; followed by two examples of recent angel deals, one purely
angel funded and the other angel and VC funded. Rainer Paduch will talk about recently available data about the scope,scale and returns of angel investing in Europe,North America,and will conclude with a discussion of angel activities in the Ottawa Capital Region. Ian Curry,CEO of DNA Genotek,which is funded by angel investors(and a strategic investor) only will discuss his experience with the role of angels in the formation,growth and governance of DNA Genotek. Marwan Forzley,co-founder and CEO of Moda Solutions,a company that was seeded by angels and subsequently raised follow on financing from BDC and most recently a syndicate led by Celtic House will discuss his experience with angels in the formation,growth and governance of Moda Solutions. |
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| Moderator: | Irving Ebert, Ottawa Angel Alliance | |||
| Panelists: | Ian Curry, DNA Genotek Marwan Forzley, MODASolutions Rainer Paduch, Ottawa Angel Alliance |
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| Consumer Targeted Applications | ||||
| We continue to be part of a consumer-driven economy. Increased penetration of high speed internet and mobile phones, the success of portable media players, and the emergence of digital TV and Web 2.0 applications are examples of this active and growing sector. The consumer space is challenging telecom, infrastructure, and enterprise for new investment. One trend in Ottawa is the increase in the number of ventures targeting the Consumer marketplace. This panel will look at who is doing what in the Ottawa community, why it is happening here (and being successful), and what makes a consumer orientation different than telecom and enterprise ventures. | ||||
| Moderator: | Paul Smelters, Partner, Vengrowth Private Equity Partners | |||
| Panelists: | Jim Derbyshire, Chief Executive Officer, SiGe Semiconductor Ron Kennedy, Director Product Management, Spotwave Wireless Inc. Ron Glibbery, VP Marketing, Kleer Inc |
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| Wireless & Mobility | ||||
| The panel will explore the latest announcements and trends in the support of new applications and services on ever more powerful mobile devices and handsets. In addition, the evolution of wireless network infrastructure to 3G and 4G including Wi-Fi deployments for enterprises and hot-spots will be discussed. The promise and deployment timelines for WiMAX will be debated. | ||||
| Moderator: | Claude Haw, General Partner, Skypoint Capital | |||
| Panelists: | Paras Bhargava, Senior Analyst, BMO Capital Partners Ray Sharma, Analyst, GMP Securities Chris Wormald, Director of Strategic Alliances, Research In Motion |
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| The Strategic Investor's Perspective | ||||
| Strategic Investors can help a start-up shape their product to dominate a market, establish business partnerships to lock out competitors, introduce marquee customers and build channels of distribution to allow a start-up to scale revenues. Come hear what these Strategic Investors require of a start-up before writing a cheque. | ||||
| Moderator: | Neal Hill, Corporate Development Executive | |||
| Panelists: | Harshul Sanghi, Investment Manager, Motorola Ventures Greg Irwin, Vice President of Corporate development, Avaya Greg Pelton, Senior Director, Cisco Technology Center |
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