Register today for our ‘Premium’ VEF event on May 22nd at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver. Tickets selling fast and may not be available on the day.

Shaun McConnon, former Chairman & CEO of Q1 Labs, is a three time winning CEO who has built over a billion dollars of shareholder value.  Learn how Q1 Labs successfully spun out technology from the University of New Brunswick and built a global company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Under Shaun’s leadership, Q1 Labs raised $42M in financing and grew to over 200 employees.  In 2011, while contemplating an IPO, the company accepted an acquisition offer from IBM that is regarded as one of the largest venture capital exits in Canada in a decade.

How did Q1 Labs leverage technology developed at a university to become a global leader of security intelligence solutions? 
How much of their success was about the technology,  market timing and management? 
What were the challenges to financing and building a company with Canadian roots? 
Did Q1 Labs live up to Shaun’s vision for the company? 

Come find out as Shaun tells all with Tony van Bommel, Partner of BDC Venture Capital

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.

Shaun McConnon, former CEO & Chairman Q1 Labs

Industry veteran Shaun McConnon is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Q1 Labs, where he brings extensive senior management experience in operations, sales, and marketing to the growing network security management company.

During his career, McConnon has guided technology ventures through the IPO process, and he has also orchestrated several successful mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Q1 Labs in November 2003, McConnon served as CEO of Okena, a next-generation security company, which he led from its inception to its acquisition by Cisco Systems. Previously, McConnon was CEO of Raptor Systems, where he steered that firewall security company through a successful IPO and then its subsequent sale to Axent Technologies (later acquired by Symantec). Earlier, McConnon held various executive positions with Sun Microsystems, most recently as managing director of Australian and New Zealand operations.

McConnon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Roanoke College.

Tony van Bommel, Partner, Venture Capital BDC Venture Capital

Tony has been with BDC Venture Capital since 2001. He holds the position of Partner in BDC Venture Capital and is in the Vancouver office.

He has participated in numerous investments in early stage technology across Canada returning a 1st Quartile return to BDC. He was the lead investor in successful investments including Q1 Labs (sold to IBM), Satlantic (sold to Danaher) and Welaptega Marine (Sold to private interests). He was also instrumental in bringing Radian6 to BDC (Sold to Salesforce.com). Prior to joining BDC, he spent 4 years as Senior Investment Manager with InNOVAcorp, a General Partner for the Nova Scotia First Fund, an early stage knowledge-based venture fund. Before joining InNOVAcorp, he worked 10 years as lawyer and Partner in the business law firm Little & Wright in London, Ontario. Tony has held multiple directorships in both public and private emerging growth companies across Canada.

Tony earned the Dalhousie Governor General’s Gold Medal for the top graduate student chosen from all faculties at Dalhousie University and the gold medal from the Dalhousie University MBA program. He also received his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Western Ontario where he won the Pitney Bowes Award for the top graduating Law Student in Ontario who combined academics, athletics and service to the community. He is a past Chairman of Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia and Volunteer of the year for that organization.

Consider becoming a VEF Member, attend all 8 events at no extra charge for an annual fee of $200. Our exciting 2011/12 event calendar will include ‘premium’ events with increased ticket prices which makes Membership more attractive.

Membership

Membership benefits include:

- access to all VEF events at no charge (excluding VEF Momentum)
- $360 value of yearly events for a yearly membership fee of $200
- Fast, one click online event registration
- Subscription to VEF news on technology community and events
- Invitation to and voting privileges in the VEF Annual General Meeting
- VEF Member printed on event name badge

Register for our ‘Premium’ VEF event on May 22nd at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver.

Shaun McConnon, former Chairman & CEO of Q1 Labs, is a three time winning CEO who has built over a billion dollars of shareholder value.  Learn how Q1 Labs successfully spun out technology from the University of New Brunswick and built a global company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Under Shaun’s leadership, Q1 Labs raised $42M in financing and grew to over 200 employees.  In 2011, while contemplating an IPO, the company accepted an acquisition offer from IBM that is regarded as one of the largest venture capital exits in Canada in a decade.

How did Q1 Labs leverage technology developed at a university to become a global leader of security intelligence solutions? 
How much of their success was about the technology,  market timing and management? 
What were the challenges to financing and building a company with Canadian roots? 
Did Q1 Labs live up to Shaun’s vision for the company? 

Come find out as Shaun tells all with Tony van Bommel, Partner of BDC Venture Capital

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.

Shaun McConnon, former CEO & Chairman Q1 Labs

Industry veteran Shaun McConnon is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Q1 Labs, where he brings extensive senior management experience in operations, sales, and marketing to the growing network security management company.

During his career, McConnon has guided technology ventures through the IPO process, and he has also orchestrated several successful mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Q1 Labs in November 2003, McConnon served as CEO of Okena, a next-generation security company, which he led from its inception to its acquisition by Cisco Systems. Previously, McConnon was CEO of Raptor Systems, where he steered that firewall security company through a successful IPO and then its subsequent sale to Axent Technologies (later acquired by Symantec). Earlier, McConnon held various executive positions with Sun Microsystems, most recently as managing director of Australian and New Zealand operations.

McConnon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Roanoke College.

Tony van Bommel, Partner, Venture Capital BDC Venture Capital

Tony has been with BDC Venture Capital since 2001. He holds the position of Partner in BDC Venture Capital and is in the Vancouver office.

He has participated in numerous investments in early stage technology across Canada returning a 1st Quartile return to BDC. He was the lead investor in successful investments including Q1 Labs (sold to IBM), Satlantic (sold to Danaher) and Welaptega Marine (Sold to private interests). He was also instrumental in bringing Radian6 to BDC (Sold to Salesforce.com). Prior to joining BDC, he spent 4 years as Senior Investment Manager with InNOVAcorp, a General Partner for the Nova Scotia First Fund, an early stage knowledge-based venture fund. Before joining InNOVAcorp, he worked 10 years as lawyer and Partner in the business law firm Little & Wright in London, Ontario. Tony has held multiple directorships in both public and private emerging growth companies across Canada.

Tony earned the Dalhousie Governor General’s Gold Medal for the top graduate student chosen from all faculties at Dalhousie University and the gold medal from the Dalhousie University MBA program. He also received his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Western Ontario where he won the Pitney Bowes Award for the top graduating Law Student in Ontario who combined academics, athletics and service to the community. He is a past Chairman of Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia and Volunteer of the year for that organization.

Lightning Pitch Opportunities

We invite applications for our Lightning Pitch segment – ideal for early stage companies looking to raise funds or create visibility for their company. Lightning Pitches are strictly controlled, 100 second time slots at the beginning of the VEF presentation. Please send in your applications now (ideally event topic related companies). Companies chosen will be notified by Friday 18th May.

Lightning Pitch Application

Consider becoming a VEF Member, attend all 8 events at no extra charge for an annual fee of $200. Our exciting 2011/12 event calendar will include ‘premium’ events with increased ticket prices which makes Membership more attractive.

Membership

Membership benefits include:

- access to all VEF events at no charge (excluding VEF Momentum)
- $360 value of yearly events for a yearly membership fee of $200
- Fast, one click online event registration
- Subscription to VEF news on technology community and events
- Invitation to and voting privileges in the VEF Annual General Meeting
- VEF Member printed on event name badge

Don Wadsworth – Jostle Corporation
Inderjit Bains – NPI Systems
Sean Elbe – PMC Science Fair Fun Run

A little more about the Lightning Pitch companies:

Jostle Corporation is creating and enabling the next generation of enterprise software, specifically the next generation of the corporate Intranet! and is simple, intuitive and elegant. Enterprises have long endured big, clumsy software that results in high costs, disconnected employees and poor agility. Jostle is on a quest to fix this, starting by replacing dead, cluttered and unused intranets. Our People Engagement platform engages employees, aligns teams and amplifies culture with a simplicity and elegance not achievable with traditional software.

NPI Systems has developed the NPI Board: a deployable, small form factor single board computer based on the Texas Instruments AM1808/OMAPL-138 line of SOCs. With industrial temperature operation, 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with co-existence, dual USB Host, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial, GPIO and expansion connectors, the NPI Board can be used in applications ranging from industrial control and monitoring to custom Internet gateways. A website is in the works and will be up in a couple of days.

PMC Science Fair Fun Run – Give Young Scientists A Running Start by signing your team up for the 13th Annual Science Fair Fun Run on May 27. Corporate Team deadline is April 30. Your participation in the PMC-Sierra Science Fair Fun Run ensures the success of future Science Fairs in BC and allows our youth to gain the skills they need to succeed in a fast-paced, knowledge-based world.

Registration now open for our ‘Premium’ May 22nd event – ‘Shaun McConnon, former Chairman & CEO talks IPO’s and Exits with Tony van Bommell, partner of BDC Venture Capital’.

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Last couple of days to purchase tickets at our $45 rate. Come along on April 24th to the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver for our Machine to Machine Communications Event. Tickets may be available on the night priced $50.

Our panel will discuss:

Panelists include:

John Tolkamp, Director IT Ainsworth Engineered
Mark Richards, Manager, Mining Technology Teck Metals
Peter van der Gracht, CEO SignalSet
Jason Krause, Senior VP for Corporate Development and MarketingSierra Wireless
Neil McDonnell, CEO Wurldtech

The panel will be moderated by Dave Thomas, Senior Partner Rocket Builders and a VEF Board Member.

Lightning Pitches on the night from:

Don Wadsworth – Jostle Corporation
Inderjit Bains – NPI Systems
Sean Elbe – PMC Science Fair Fun Run
A representative from – Wavefront

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.

Dave Thomas, Senior Partner Rocket Builders

Dave is a Senior Partner with Rocket Builders. He was the General Manager of the Canadian Financing Forum, matching North American Corporate and VC investors with serious entrepreneurs looking to build world-class technology companies from 2003 to 2010. He is an executive, business consultant and advisor for a number of technology companies and manages the Rocket Builders ‘Market Readiness Program’. Recent positions and projects include; Mentor in Residence at Simon Fraser University and a guest lecturer at the New Ventures BC program.

Thomas has worked with a series of start-ups over the past decade and was a member of the management team for four venture backed tech companies. He is currently an advisor to companies, an entrepreneur, an angel investor and a shareholder in angel seed funds.

He has an MBA from UBC and was a member of the coaching staff for Canada’s Olympic Sailing Team on four occasions. An enthusiastic sailor, Thomas is a partner in two sailing schools, one at Jericho in Vancouver and a second initiated in 2010 in Shenzhen China.

John Tolkamp, Director IT Ainsworth Engineered

John is the Director of Information Technology at Ainsworth Engineered Inc.

Previously he was Director and Senior Consultant at Sliptream Services, Program Director Smart Metering Program at BC Hydro, CIO/Director of Information Technology at Canadian Forest Products and Senior Control Systems Engineer at Northwood Pulp and Timber.

John completed his Graduate Studies, Digitial Controls and Graduate Studies, Computer Aided Design (CAD) at the University of Ottawa along with a BSc, Engineering from Dordt College.

John is also a Board Member (volunteer) at CIO Association of Vancouver and President (Volunteer) at the Canadian Cycling Association.

Mark Richards, Manager, Mining Technology Teck Resources

Mark is a Mining Engineer with 28 years experience across many facets of underground and open pit mining in hard rock. He has worked in Africa and N America in both operations and engineering roles. These include:
- Mining Technology; identification and implementation of appropriate technologies

- Environment and Reclamation; closure planning, legislation compliance, implementation of ISO14001

- Mine Engineering; project management, feasibility studies, equipment replacement and planning
- Mine Operations; management, production supervision and blasting supervision.

Previous experience includes Engineer at Highland Valley Copper and De Beers.

Mark has a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, MSc, Mining Engineering from Queen’s University and BSc, Mining Engineering from Camborne School of Mines.

Peter van der Gracht, CEO SignalSet

Peter van der Gracht has over twenty-five years of experience leading companies through multiple financings, operational build-outs, acquisitions, mergers and buy-outs. A serial entrepreneur, who has successfully launched, financed, operated and sold five technology companies. Developed innovative hardware, software and services in a broad range of industries including cable TV, telecom, broadcast, IT and automotive. Operated businesses in North America, Europe and Asia.

From 1982 – 1992 Peter was co-founder of Nexus Engineering a supplier of CATV equipment which grew to the number two market position serving customers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia before selling it to Scientific Atlanta. At Scientific Atlanta Peter was based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1992 – 1998 with responsibility for product strategy, operations and sales during the transition of video from analog to digital. From 1998 – 1999, as CEO of Imedia Peter developed hardware for video compression for the CATV and Broadcast industries located in San Francisco. Imedia was sold to Terayon.

From 2000 – 2004, Peter was CEO and Chairman of Wavemakers, developing software noise reduction technology, serving the automotive market. This technology was used to improve the performance of hands-free calling and later sold to Harman International.

From 2001 – 2007 Peter was CEO of Ignition Point. Ignition Point was the public company that held the ownership interests in Teraspan and Fatport. Peter was also CEO and Chairman of Teraspan from 2001 – 2007, a fibre optic network technology development and deployment company selling to telecom carriers and large enterprise campuses in both North America and Europe. Peter sold Teraspan’s dark fibre network assets to Shaw cable. From 2000 – 2007 Peter was CEO and Chairman of Fatport, Canada’s largest independent Wi-Fi operator providing internet access in locations such as hotels and coffee shops. Fatport was the only Canadian hotspot operator to reach profitability and be successfully sold.

Peter is currently Chairman of Ocean Floor Geophysics, a deep ocean mineral exploration company, Quick Mobile, personalized mobile marketing, Light-Based Technologies, a solid state lighting supplier and Wavefront, a not-for-profit wireless business accelerator.

Peter holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc from the University of British Columbia and is the recipient of multiple awards for entrepreneurship.

Jason Krause, Senior VP (Corporate Development & Marketing) Sierra Wireless

Jason Krause is responsible for strategy, planning and business development for Sierra Wireless as well as corporate marketing and investor relations.

Jason brings more than a decade of corporate development experience to his role, including several years at the Boston Consulting Group, where he focused on strategy and corporate development projects for Fortune 500 clients.

Prior to his engagement at BCG, Jason held marketing and engineering roles at Altera Corporation, both in California and Japan. Jason earned his undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Neil McDonnell, CEO Wurldtech

Neil McDonnell joined Wurldtech in July 2010 and is responsible for driving strategy and overseeing the company’s operations.

Neil was formerly Chief Executive Officer and Chair of TeraSpan Networks, a broadband communications company developing fiber optic networking products for “last mile” application. Previously, Neil was the Chief Operating Officer of Philips Lighting (SSL)/TIR Systems Ltd, a developer and manufacturer of Solid State Lighting Technologies; Chief Executive Officer of IP Applications Corp, a provider of outsourced IT services and products; Chief Operating Officer of MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc, a provider of mobile workforce management software and services, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsyc Software International, Inc., a developer of Microsoft and Linux based mobile devices. Neil is currently a Director of the BC Lottery Corporation and TitanStar Properties.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia.

Register today to our April 24th event at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver and not only hear from our great panel but listen to lightning pitches from:

Don Wadsworth – Jostle Corporation
Inderjit Bains – NPI Systems
Sean Elbe – PMC Science Fair Fun Run
A representative from – Wavefront

A little more about the Lightning Pitch companies:

Jostle Corporation is creating and enabling the next generation of enterprise software, specifically the next generation of the corporate Intranet! and is simple, intuitive and elegant. Enterprises have long endured big, clumsy software that results in high costs, disconnected employees and poor agility. Jostle is on a quest to fix this, starting by replacing dead, cluttered and unused intranets. Our People Engagement platform engages employees, aligns teams and amplifies culture with a simplicity and elegance not achievable with traditional software.

NPI Systems has developed the NPI Board: a deployable, small form factor single board computer based on the Texas Instruments AM1808/OMAPL-138 line of SOCs. With industrial temperature operation, 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with co-existence, dual USB Host, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial, GPIO and expansion connectors, the NPI Board can be used in applications ranging from industrial control and monitoring to custom Internet gateways. A website is in the works and will be up in a couple of days.

PMC Science Fair Fun Run – Give Young Scientists A Running Start by signing your team up for the 13th Annual Science Fair Fun Run on May 27. Corporate Team deadline is April 30. Your participation in the PMC-Sierra Science Fair Fun Run ensures the success of future Science Fairs in BC and allows our youth to gain the skills they need to succeed in a fast-paced, knowledge-based world.

Registration online at $45. Event day registration (if tickets still available) $50.

Register today for $45 to our April 24th event at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver.

Discussions will cover

Panelists include:

John Tolkamp, Director IT Ainsworth Engineered
Mark Richards, Manager, Mining Technology Teck Metals
Peter van der Gracht, CEO SignalSet
Jason Krause, Senior VP for Corporate Development and MarketingSierra Wireless
Neil McDonnell, CEO Wurldtech

The panel will be moderated by Dave Thomas, Senior Partner Rocket Builders and a VEF Board Member.

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.

Dave Thomas, Senior Partner Rocket Builders

Dave is a Senior Partner with Rocket Builders. He was the General Manager of the Canadian Financing Forum, matching North American Corporate and VC investors with serious entrepreneurs looking to build world-class technology companies from 2003 to 2010. He is an executive, business consultant and advisor for a number of technology companies and manages the Rocket Builders ‘Market Readiness Program’. Recent positions and projects include; Mentor in Residence at Simon Fraser University and a guest lecturer at the New Ventures BC program.

Thomas has worked with a series of start-ups over the past decade and was a member of the management team for four venture backed tech companies. He is currently an advisor to companies, an entrepreneur, an angel investor and a shareholder in angel seed funds.

He has an MBA from UBC and was a member of the coaching staff for Canada’s Olympic Sailing Team on four occasions. An enthusiastic sailor, Thomas is a partner in two sailing schools, one at Jericho in Vancouver and a second initiated in 2010 in Shenzhen China.

John Tolkamp, Director IT Ainsworth Engineered

John is the Director of Information Technology at Ainsworth Engineered Inc.

Previously he was Director and Senior Consultant at Sliptream Services, Program Director Smart Metering Program at BC Hydro, CIO/Director of Information Technology at Canadian Forest Products and Senior Control Systems Engineer at Northwood Pulp and Timber.

John completed his Graduate Studies, Digitial Controls and Graduate Studies, Computer Aided Design (CAD) at the University of Ottawa along with a BSc, Engineering from Dordt College.

John is also a Board Member (volunteer) at CIO Association of Vancouver and President (Volunteer) at the Canadian Cycling Association.

Mark Richards, Manager, Mining Technology Teck Resources

Mark is a Mining Engineer with 28 years experience across many facets of underground and open pit mining in hard rock. He has worked in Africa and N America in both operations and engineering roles. These include:
- Mining Technology; identification and implementation of appropriate technologies

- Environment and Reclamation; closure planning, legislation compliance, implementation of ISO14001

- Mine Engineering; project management, feasibility studies, equipment replacement and planning
- Mine Operations; management, production supervision and blasting supervision.

Previous experience includes Engineer at Highland Valley Copper and De Beers.

Mark has a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University, MSc, Mining Engineering from Queen’s University and BSc, Mining Engineering from Camborne School of Mines.

Peter van der Gracht, CEO SignalSet

Peter van der Gracht has over twenty-five years of experience leading companies through multiple financings, operational build-outs, acquisitions, mergers and buy-outs. A serial entrepreneur, who has successfully launched, financed, operated and sold five technology companies. Developed innovative hardware, software and services in a broad range of industries including cable TV, telecom, broadcast, IT and automotive. Operated businesses in North America, Europe and Asia.

From 1982 – 1992 Peter was co-founder of Nexus Engineering a supplier of CATV equipment which grew to the number two market position serving customers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia before selling it to Scientific Atlanta. At Scientific Atlanta Peter was based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1992 – 1998 with responsibility for product strategy, operations and sales during the transition of video from analog to digital. From 1998 – 1999, as CEO of Imedia Peter developed hardware for video compression for the CATV and Broadcast industries located in San Francisco. Imedia was sold to Terayon.

From 2000 – 2004, Peter was CEO and Chairman of Wavemakers, developing software noise reduction technology, serving the automotive market. This technology was used to improve the performance of hands-free calling and later sold to Harman International.

From 2001 – 2007 Peter was CEO of Ignition Point. Ignition Point was the public company that held the ownership interests in Teraspan and Fatport. Peter was also CEO and Chairman of Teraspan from 2001 – 2007, a fibre optic network technology development and deployment company selling to telecom carriers and large enterprise campuses in both North America and Europe. Peter sold Teraspan’s dark fibre network assets to Shaw cable. From 2000 – 2007 Peter was CEO and Chairman of Fatport, Canada’s largest independent Wi-Fi operator providing internet access in locations such as hotels and coffee shops. Fatport was the only Canadian hotspot operator to reach profitability and be successfully sold.

Peter is currently Chairman of Ocean Floor Geophysics, a deep ocean mineral exploration company, Quick Mobile, personalized mobile marketing, Light-Based Technologies, a solid state lighting supplier and Wavefront, a not-for-profit wireless business accelerator.

Peter holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc from the University of British Columbia and is the recipient of multiple awards for entrepreneurship.

Jason Krause, Senior VP (Corporate Development & Marketing) Sierra Wireless

Jason Krause is responsible for strategy, planning and business development for Sierra Wireless as well as corporate marketing and investor relations.

Jason brings more than a decade of corporate development experience to his role, including several years at the Boston Consulting Group, where he focused on strategy and corporate development projects for Fortune 500 clients.

Prior to his engagement at BCG, Jason held marketing and engineering roles at Altera Corporation, both in California and Japan. Jason earned his undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Neil McDonnell, CEO Wurldtech

Neil McDonnell joined Wurldtech in July 2010 and is responsible for driving strategy and overseeing the company’s operations.

Neil was formerly Chief Executive Officer and Chair of TeraSpan Networks, a broadband communications company developing fiber optic networking products for “last mile” application. Previously, Neil was the Chief Operating Officer of Philips Lighting (SSL)/TIR Systems Ltd, a developer and manufacturer of Solid State Lighting Technologies; Chief Executive Officer of IP Applications Corp, a provider of outsourced IT services and products; Chief Operating Officer of MDSI Mobile Data Solutions Inc, a provider of mobile workforce management software and services, and President and Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsyc Software International, Inc., a developer of Microsoft and Linux based mobile devices. Neil is currently a Director of the BC Lottery Corporation and TitanStar Properties.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Toronto and a Master of Business Administration from the University of British Columbia.

Peter Lukomskyj – ESL Explorer
Christian Blaze – Crystal Insight New Media
Amin Palizban – 7Geese
Bob de Wit – BCIC-New Ventures BC
Bob Chaworth-Musters – The Angel Forum

Registration now open for our April 24th event – ‘Machine to Machine Communications’. Speaker details will be announced soon.

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Register today for one of the remaining tickets to our March 27th event at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver.

Join our panel of local leaders that are building solutions in the mobile commerce/payments space. They will share their experiences to date and their thoughts for the future, exploring ideas, strategies, and challenges. Panelists include:

Igor Faletski, CEO & Co-Founder Mobify
Amielle Lake, CEO Tagga Media
Michael Gokturk, CEO Payfirma
Ryan Volberg, President, Chairman & CEO Vivonet
Hamed Shahbazi, Chairman & CEO TIO Networks

The panel will be moderated by Peter Sheldon, Senior Analyst Forrester Research

Registration online today at $45. Event day registration (if available) $50.

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