Our Participation @ Waterloo Region Entrepreneur Week

From the Communitech blog:

Research In Motion, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google and Sun Microsystems will connect with new tech companies in Waterloo Region during Entrepreneur Week, Canada’s largest event dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship.

In an unprecedented strategic partnerships session, the multinational giants of tech will take the opportunity to speak to start-ups. Their presentations will be followed by pre-screened, one-on-one interviews with Waterloo start-up companies.

“We received more than ninety quality proposals from more than thirty local area tech firms interested in partnering — far more than the one-on-one event format can accommodate in a single day,” says Kevin Tuer, CTO-in-Residence, Communitech, “The value of meetings of this calibre for local tech firms is huge.” Tuer adds that even if a partnership is not arranged between the interviewing parties, the experience and the networking contacts the start-ups will gain during this exercise is phenomenal, and may lead to future opportunities to connect.

When: Wednesday, October 8, 2008

7:30 - 10:00AM “Expose Yourself” to Strategic Partnering presentations

10:00AM onwards One-on-one sessions

Where: Accelerator Centre, University of Waterloo Research + Tech Park, 295 Hagey Boulevard, Waterloo

Who: David Crow, UX Advisor, Web Evangelist, Microsoft Canada

Steven Woods, Director, Google (Waterloo) Canada

Martyn Mallick, Director, Strategic Business Development, Research In Motion

Angelo Rajadurai, Senior Web Technologist, ISV Engineering Organization, Sun Microsystems

Karen Bennet, Director of Engineering, Yahoo! Canada

Visit www.entrepreneurweek.ca for all the details