26th Annual CATAAlliance Innovation Awards Nominees - Cast Your Vote

Anthony Lacavera - Chairman, Globalive Communications Corp

Tony has led Globalive to its current position as one of Canada's newest major wireless services provider, following the country's wireless spectrum auction. As chairman, Tony has positioned WIND Mobile as an innovative and consumer-focused mobile company that will provide greater choice and feature-rich offerings to Canadians. Tony founded Globalive in 1998, and has since developed the company into an industry leader. Globalive offers a host of innovative applications and delivers first-rate telecom services to a wide range of clients. By tailoring their innovative technology to create customer-focused solutions, Globalive has continued to thrive in the highly competitive global telecommunications market.

Peter Allen - CEO, DragonWave

Peter Allen brings 21 years of industry experience in Broadband Telecommunications. Prior to joining DragonWave, Peter was founder, President and CEO Innovance Networks. Prior to Innovance, Peter was the Vice-President of Business Development and General Manager of the Optoelectronics organization within Nortel Networks' Optical Networks division, where he had responsibilities for both the system and component businesses. Peter's experience in business leadership includes heading up a 5000-employee global operation spanning R&D, manufacturing as well as Sales & Marketing. Peter has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and has been involved in numerous multi-billion dollar transactions, as well as establishing business partnerships in North America, Europe and Japan. Peter has also held managerial positions at Ford Motor Company and Rothmans International, and has lived and worked in North America, Europe and Africa.

Marcel Lebrun - CEO, Radian6

As Chief Executive Officer of Radian6, Marcel brings with him years of leadership with various technology start-ups. A serial entrepreneur, he has raised over $100 million in financing, completed an IPO on the Nasdaq and TSX, and headed up an acquisition by a publicly traded company. Founded in 2006, Radian6 was created with the idea that companies need to be listening to the social web in order to effectively participate. Intelligence about online conversations is critical: companies need to know what’s being said about their brand, industry, and competitors online. So we built a listening platform designed to help companies do just that.

Steve Palmer, Executive Director, Canadian Police Research Centre

Steve Palmer is Executive Director of the Canadian Police Research Centre (CPRC), one of three programs managed by the Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Security Science. CPRC has been instrumental in helping Canada build a distinguished record of increasing public safety through science and technology, across Canada and abroad. Under his leadership, CPRC strives to ensure that the best equipment and information is available to the emergency responder community — police, fire and paramedics. At the Vendor Outreach Forum, Steve will present information on recent CPRC successes, future direction and provide insight into CPRC’s call for proposals process.

Shereen Benzvy Miller, Director General, Office of Small and Medium Enterprises, Public Works and Government Services Canada

Shereen Benzvy Miller, M.A., LL.B is a mother of two and a human rights lawyer by training and inclination. She joined the federal public service in the late 1990s when she was recruited by the Correctional Service of Canada. She then joined Public Works and Government Services Canada as the Director General of the Office of Small and Medium Enterprise (OSME) in 2008. The Federal Government recognizes that the 2.3 million small and medium Canadian enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of the Canadian economy, responsible for the creation of most new jobs. Shereen and her staff at OSME advocate on behalf of SMEs and is committed to ensuring that SMEs have fair and open access to government procurement opportunities. Through its 6 regional offices OSME improves the access to federal procurement by reducing procurement barriers, contributing to the government's e-strategy initiatives, simplifying the contracting process, providing training and education to SMEs wishing to do business with the government, collaborating to improve procurement policies and best practices and working with SMEs to ensure their concerns are brought forward and heard.

Dr. Sylvain Charbonneau – Director, Applications Technology, NRC-IMS

Sylvain Charbonneau received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada in 1988. From l988 to l998, he was a Member of Scientific Staff in the Institute for Microstructural Sciences of the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON. During this time, he was involved in a number of activities and led such programs as nano-electronics, nano-optics and wavelength routing and switching. He has published over 200 papers and has sixteen patents granted or pending in the field of optoelectronics. From 1998 to January 2000, Dr. Charbonneau took on the responsibility of Director of Components Technologies for the Institute for Microstructural Sciences. His responsibilities included components related research and development programs for the Institute as well as the initial development phase of the newly funded Canadian Photonic Fabrication Center (CPFC). Following a brief assignment of 14 months as Chief Technology Officer of a NRC start-up company, he returned to the Institute for Microstructural Sciences as the lead Director responsible for the management and operation of the CPFC. He is an Adjunct Professor at five Canadian universities.

Gary Albach – President and CEO, Alberta Tech Futures

Prior to accepting this position with Tech Futures, Gary served as Executive Director of nanoAlberta. During his tenure there, he fostered a number of significant nano-related ventures for Alberta. nanoAlberta was the lead Alberta partner on developing a Memorandum of Understanding with Rice University, and its renowned Smalley Institute in Texas. Gary was instrumental in establishing the direction of the Alberta Centre for Advanced Micro-nanotechnology Products (ACAMP) for product development. He also brokered the deal to establish the Hitachi Electron Microscopy Products Development Centre (HEMiC) at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT). His guidance in the nanoWorks Program has given it the central foundation it needed to serve both industry and university communities in Alberta. Prior to coming to Alberta, Gary gained over 30 years’ experience in the formation and management of high technology companies, starting as the founder of the first official spin-off company at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He served for two years as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UBC and was most recently CEO of Northwest Mettech Corp., a nano-materials company in Vancouver, specializing in advanced industrial coatings.

TELUS

TELUS Sourcing Solutions builds upon TELUS’ legacy of serving large, complex organizations in Canada, giving you access to the skills of our human resource and occupational health and safety experts. With our rich knowledge of alternative HR service delivery, we can develop solutions tailored to your unique needs. You’ll have access to unparalleled innovation, human resources and occupational health and safety expertise, and best-in-class human resource technology to transform your human resources operations from a transactional service provider to a high value-added strategic partner.

Halogen Software

With over 1500 customers world wide, Halogen Software Inc. has established itself as the leading provider of employee performance and talent management solutions. Founded in 2001, Halogen offers powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable web-based software that dramatically improves HR and line-manager productivity. Halogen Software is dedicated to providing companies of all sizes with web-based, enterprise-class employee performance and talent management solutions. Everything we do is focused on helping you to more easily grow and manage a top performing, highly skilled workforce that enables you to deliver on your mission and priorities.

Magor Communications

Magor works with technology and channel partners and OEMs to bring the power of telecollaboration to businesses of all sizes, across a range of industries and vertical markets. We want to provide workers at all levels of an organization access to advanced communications solutions that help reduce costs, improve productivity and strengthen relationships among employees, customers, partners and suppliers. The Magor TeleCollaboration HDWorkPlace family is designed for how you work, not where you work. Together, these systems give you the freedom to work in the best way to get the job done — whether that’s at your desk, in your office or in a meeting room.

Mxi Technologies

Mxi Technologies delivers meaningful improvements in labor productivity through integrated, intelligent aviation maintenance software. Using its Maintenix® software product, Mxi provides solutions for managing maintenance, engineering, and materials in several aviation and aerospace market sectors. Mxi has a proven track record for rapid and successful activation of the Maintenix product, as well as comprehensive post-delivery support. This success has stemmed from Mxi’s recognition that the delivery of results is paramount, and that the achievement of these results necessitates a disciplined approach to the governance of the work we undertake.

EmerGeo Solutions Inc.

EmerGeo Solutions Incorporated has developed a world leading crisis management and situational awareness software application called Fusionpoint that has been successfully deployed in dozens of government and industry organizations around the world (including Windsor, Essex County and many emergency agencies in Ontario, Manitoba and BC). The software addresses a major problem that every agency or large corporation faces when disaster strikes establishing interoperable multi-agency communications and shared situational awareness. There are many crisis management and situational awareness applications in the market since September 11th but none has leverage open standards to fuse together critical data from disparate systems used across response agencies.

Optosecurity Inc.

Optosecurity Inc., a private company founded and based in Quebec City, Canada, develops industry-leading security software products for the transportation and critical infrastructure markets. A world-class technology leader in next-generation detection of physical threats, Optosecurity is redefining the physical security industry landscape with a new paradigm based on detection through software and networking and is basically re-inventing the capability, efficiency and economics of homeland security. The company™s universal-imaging platform is capable of linking together multiple vendors infrastructure located in multiple areas, terminals or event locations.

Worldreach Software - a subsidiary of AMITA

WorldReach Software, a private company based in Ottawa, Ontario, provides consular software and fosters best practices used by more than 3000 daily users in over 850 sites serving over 160 million citizens, making it the leading supplier of global consular software solutions for Foreign Affairs. WorldReach supplies the world’s only commercial-off-the-shelf integrated software for consular assistance, international crisis response and passports abroad. Our innovative Canadian solutions help ensure traveler safety and security worldwide through our systems for both government consular organizations as well as individual travelers, and have been deployed in Canada, the UK and other European and Asia/Pacific countries.

Epson Canada Limited

Epson is committed to its ongoing contributions to the global environment and for the second year in a row has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, an indicator for leading companies in economic, environmental and social criteria. Epson UltraChrome® HDR White Ink introduces an all-new Organic Hollow Resin Particle Technology, which forces light to randomly scatter, producing the illusion of seeing the colour white. This innovative way to produce the colour white yields an amazing white ink density, ability for custom white colour toning, and provides professional short-term colour stability for mission-critical colour proofing on a range of new substrates including ink jet coated transparent and metallic films. And unlike traditional white ink chemistry, Epson UltraChrome® HDR White Ink is a safer, water-based resin particle - void of any known carcinogens.

Virage Simulation

Virage Simulation is the only Canadian manufacturer of simulator-based driver training solutions. It was founded by six former CAE engineers. CAE is the worldwide market share leader in flight simulators. Typical pilot training is 100% based on simulators. Virage founders have now brought this flight simulator technology as well as training /research approach to the driver training /research community. Virage Simulation is in fact introducing a proven methodology foundation to driving beyond its simulator technology strengths. Many know about the dangers of distracted driving, which is why the largest manufacturer of texting devices, LG purchased a 'Don't Text and Drive simulator from Virage in order to reinforce the why this is the case as an example of non-traditional customers. Consumers can live through the dangers of texting on the simulator built for LG.

BMO Financial Group

Online Banking for Business represents the next generation of treasury management services designed to help clients manage their cash easily, effectively and strategically over the internet. BMO’s new platform is a multi-channel, global commercial online banking solution. BMO is the first bank in Canada to launch a single commercial online platform solution with a differentiated cross-border user administration module. The new system, which was launched in November of 2010, supports multiple business segments, from small business to very large corporations.

The purpose of this customer-centric initiative was to consolidate multiple online systems into one single-access platform. We sought to provide all of our business banking clients with a comprehensive view of their financial information, accounting, and banking services in an easy-to-use, Internet environment.

Bubble Technology Industries

Bubble Technology Industries (BTI) is a dynamic company with world-renowned expertise in the field of radiation detection. With a track record of over fifteen years of innovation, BTI combines scientific, engineering, and manufacturing expertise to yield advanced solutions to complex radiation-related problems. BTI provides commercial products, radiation services, consulting, and contract research and development to a wide range of prominent clients, including military organizations, space agencies, regulatory and international standards groups, research institutions, and national security agencies. Cost-effective solutions, personalized customer interactions, and an uncompromising standard of integrity have enabled BTI to become a trusted resource for clients around the world.

The Peter Brojde Award for Canada’s Next Generation Executive Leadership

This Award recognizes the executive leadership of an individual who has had a major impact on the creation, success and/or transformation of their enterprise. Candidates will typically hold senior positions such as CEO, CFO, COO, President or Vice-President. The winner will be representative of Canada’s next generation of Innovation Nation business leaders.

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