When: Tuesday June 22nd
Where: The Velvet Room (62 1/2 York Street)
Why: Mobile apps rock and a great line up of Ottawa talent including Zeebu Mobile.

Registration Link: http://bit.ly/9qaF4T/

Presenters: Glitchsoft, Magmic Games, QContinuum, Wicksoft, Zeebu Mobile

Rob Woodbridge is quickly becoming a world thought leader in the mobile space. His Vlog untether.tv chronicles leaders in the industry and offers inspirations and insights into the business of mobility. Some of Ottawa’s rising stars in the mobile space will be highlighted at the appshowcase. Hope you can make it sign up is above.

Ian Graham

OCLF is sponsoring an event at Algonquin College on June 23rd from 6pm to 9pm sign up:

Register HERE

Tony Bailetti from Carleton University, the chief instigator of Lead to Win and lots of other really great stuff will be the keynote speaker. Two Ottawa area entrepreneurs will also share their stories. This promises to be a great event and one that I will make some time for. Hope to see you there … details below.

Event Detail and Registration HERE
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Raymond Luk
Raymond is an entrepreneur and Angel investor based in Montreal. He runs Flow Ventures, a startup accelerator, and recently founded ArtAnywhere, an innovative art startup. He has built and managed a number of successful startups over the last decade and has been an executive of both private and public companies. Raymond is a well-known instigator of tech events including founding StartupDrinks Canada, the largest monthly networking event for startups in Canada. He is a Director of Symtext Corp., is the co-chair of the National Angel Capital Organization Summit for 2010, and a member of the Advisory Cabinet at Project Olympus, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark MacLeod
Mark MacLeod has been a CFO for numerous start-ups in the Montreal over the last 10 years, including most recently for Terapath, Tungle, Akoha and Status.net. He currently runs StartupCFO Enterprises – providing financial & strategic guidance and back office admin services for, you guessed it, start-ups, and he is one of the co-founders of Founder Fuel, a Montreal-based QC-government backed early stage opportunities fund.

Toward the end of his presentation Manuel started to show the amazing shapes and structures that his research allowed him to create. This blew me away and I was totally amazed. The light went on and I realized that there is in fact great value in research that may not always be readily apparent at the onset of the project.

I get it. Research is important.

The challenge IMHO is how do you determine what projects receive funding and perhaps even more importantly how do you connect University research to private enterprise for commercialization.? These two questions are the foundation for a whole new series of posts … perhaps one day.

Next Post: Focus on Commercialization – Maria De Rosa PhD.

Ian Graham

Professor Banu Örmeci was the first presenter and spoke on the need for better more effective water purification strategies. In the developing world there are a significant number of deaths caused by water borne diseases that are 100% preventable. In fact during the 10 – 20 minutes of the presentation 72 children died from water related diseases.
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The traditional method for large G20 type nations to come in and help the developing countries in Africa is to;
- Install large filtration plants,
- A complex network of pipes and pumps,
- Large irrigation channels.

Basically a very western approach to solving an African problem. The challenge is that after all of the aid workers and volunteers have left the local population lacks the technical knowhow to keep the system running. The plant falls into disrepair and the pipes become jungle gym play structures for kids. The end a result is that, however, well intended the root cause of the water problem persists.

A new approach is to develop very simple sustainable solutions with the local people. Instead of a complex network of pipes and plumbing the water problem is solved with plastic bottles on a hot tin roof. Brilliant. A small drop of chlorine is placed in a plastic water bottle full of water. The bottle is in turn placed on a hot tin roof for 6 hours.

Simple … Sustainable … Solution.

Perhaps we in Canada could learn to solve our commercalizaiton dilemma in a similar fashion.

Ian Graham

If you are a student at; Algonquin, Carleton or Ottawa U please feel free to get in touch
ian[AT]thecodefactory[DOT]ca

Hope you enjoyed the video.

Next Students and start-ups coming in April … stay tuned.

Ian Graham

This post will be the first in a bi-monthly series of TeamCamp.TV videos. Thank you to all of the participants last week and especially to Chris and Jason. Anyway for your viewing pleasure a glimpse of pitchfest:

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Student: If you are a student; SIGN UP HERE

If you are a Start-up or supporter: contact ian@thecodefactory.ca for dets.

One of our favourite games at TheCodeFactory (yes we like to play) is students and start-ups a fun filled activity packed rollicking romp on the wild side.

If you thought; WOW! It sounds even better than Avatar and more interactive. You would be right and guess what it is also in organic 3D … ooohh awwww. Here are some pictures of past Glory:

We measure success in two ways for the event; hires and smiles. We had one confirmed hire Students and Start-ups 4 and are hoping for more this time. NEW Games, NEW start-ups and we are looking for plenty of students.

There are lots of ways to get involved. We have 3 start-ups on board so far but there is room for a few more … if you are a start-up contact Ian. If you think that helping start-ups and students is an awesome idea and how can our organization help … if you are a supporter contact Ian.

On that note I’ll (Ian here) be at the University of Ottawa on Tuesday February 24th SITE building room 5084 (thank you Cate) for any U of O students interested in connecting. I will also be at Carleton University on Thursday February 25th in the evening. Tweet or DM me @thecodefactory if you would like to meet.

Ian Graham

Creativision presents: thePULSE an entrepreneurial brainstorming and networking event
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For over a decade now I have been a coach whether it be athletic, academic, organizational, executive, or personal transitions I have been working with hundreds of people to help them figure out and more importantly USE their passions.

Lately I have been dealing with a lot of clients who are looking to work for themselves-entrepreneurs. Many of my clients have been talking about how many challenges they have, not so unusual as every business has challenges. However, the main difference is that they all use the words “I’m the only one”. These entrepreneurs believe they are alone in their quest and for the most part they are right.

This lead me to much questioning-are they alone? Day to day most likely they are, but just in Ottawa alone there has to be lots of entrepreneurs and small business owners. So why don’t they feed off each other and work together?

Well upon further research I found out that entrepreneurs are strong people but most of them do not identify with any sort of culture-entrepreneurial culture to be specific.

So Creativision, my company, has set out to try and assist in building this type of culture in Ottawa and hopefully all across Canada. Creativision is doing this by inviting entrepreneurs from across Ottawa to a series of events called thePULSE.

thePULSE will start its inaugural venture on Wednesday February 24th from 6-9pm at a very fitting location-The CodeFactoy-Ottawa’s only co-working facility open to the public at 246 Queen St.

thePULSE will bring together groups of 12 people for 4 sessions, each session will be 3 hours long and cost $50 per session. Within these 3 hours-3 entrepreneurs will have 45 minutes each to present and brainstorm a solution to either a challenge or an opportunity they are facing. The benefit is that they will have 11 other amazing entrepreneurial minds from many different industries helping them out.

thePULSE is aimed at not only bringing together Ottawa’s brightest entrepreneurs so they can connect like many other events but it will challenge them to work and grow together.

So come out and join Ottawa’s premiere brainstorming and networking event on February 24th at the CodeFactory.

For more information or to join please email Creativision at creativisiononline@gmail.com or you can reach me-Shawn MacDonell at 613.889.4533

You can also find more information or sign up by visiting http://www.creativision.ca and click on thePULSE button on the side bar.

Do you have to run a business? No. Do you have to have employees? No. All you need to join is an entrepreneurial spirit, a desire to grow, and an aspiration to connect and work with amazing minds and people from many different backgrounds. Hope to see you there.

Our speakers are the founders of Brierwood Designs a local Ottawa company that has been using a co-op model for over a year now. Shawn and Reid can give you the Good, Bad and Ugly of being part of a co-op.
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Should be an interesting discussion. Hope you can make it.
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Sign up is limited to the first 20 people.
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Ian Graham