Andrew King,an award winning Industrial Designer from Manchester, England. King trained for 9 years in design colleges in the UK and has 20 years experience in professional product development.
Founder and Strategic Advisor at GenoLogics Life Sciences Software Inc.
Consummate business and technology entrepreneur with the ability to assimilate market knowledge rapidly and accurately, and attract the resources and team to execute on pinpoint opportunities with disruptive technical solutions and go-to-market strategies.
Rick Perreault is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unbounce.com, an industry leading software-as-a-service that provides marketers the means to create and test high converting landing pages without needing to rely on IT or development.
Topics on your radar?:
"How to expand your reach and acquire customers without spending on advertising."
Alan Juristovski is Co-founder and CEO of Metropleap Media Inc. His business leadership and strategic skills have brought MetroLyrics to where it is today reaching over 45 million unique monthly users. It is consistently one of the top 5 music web sites in the USA and globally (based on number of unique users).
Topics on your radar?:
"It’s crowded out there, can you hear me?” talking about the topic of differentiation in highly competitive marketplace
James Dean is CEO of dPoint Technologies, a leader in the field of membrane based heat and humidity exchangers for building energy recovery and fuel cell systems. James took his passion for clean energy and founded dPoint in 2004.
Topics on your radar?:
Strategic Customer or VC as an Investor? James has been CEO for two start-up technologies company one with a VC as the primary investor and the other with a strategic customer. He will share his experiences in both companies.
Rob Bartlett has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1997. In 2006 he created his patent pending Internet security technology called IDCertainty. In December 2009 Rob launched WTFast (What the Fast), a subscription based online game acceleration service that currently has over 100k registered users around the world.
Topics on your radar?:
How to get early adopters and generate revenue ASAP for your online business.
Ben Wasyliuk started work on ScheduleForce in 2003 with the goal of building a web-based staff scheduling application. In 2004 when ScheduleForce went live, web-based software wasn’t common in enterprise software and most staff scheduling systems were too complex and not very functional. Since then, SaaS, Cloud and hosted applications like ScheduleForce have become the norm.
Topics on your radar?:
Development shortcuts you can’t afford
Startup Business Strategies
Starting out is never easy. Learn from the savvy startup strategies that helped these BC companies early on – from forming vital partnerships, validating their idea or getting the right team in place.
