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The Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Foundation of BC received a record number of entries for this year’s Leo Awards – 852 nominations, which reflects a 10% increase over the 2012 entries. The Leo Awards will be presented over two gala evenings this June 7th and 8th  at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver. Tickets for the event are on sale now. Read the rest of this entry »

triOS College has announced the launch of its new weekend video game camps, aimed at getting students excited and informed about what it takes to design and develop a video game.  These two-days camps run out of the triOS College Toronto and Kitchener campuses on select weekends from May 25 to August 24, 2013, with potentially more dates to be added. Video game enthusiasts will be able to choose from two different camps: “Learning to make Games with Gamemaker” for ages 11-14 and “Game Development with Unity 3D” for ages 15-17.  Interested participants can get details and register online. Read the rest of this entry »

The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) has announced the full list of nominees for its annual Rockies Program Competition. The prestigious internationally-recognized Awards program celebrates nominees in 26 categories, spanning multiple genres including Fiction, Non-Fiction, Kids & Animation and Interactive.  The Rockies Program Competition celebrates the “best of the best” in international television and digital media content. The Rockies is the largest international program competition in the media industry and attracts over a thousand entries from more than 40 countries annually. Read the rest of this entry »

GWAVA has announced that Jared Allen, GWAVA VP Product Management, Craig Ano, Senior Manager, Technical Solutions, BlackBerry and John Storozuk, Senior Product Manager, BlackBerry Security, will be presenting a session on creating an enterprise mobile management solution for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 on mobile auditing, archiving and forensics. This session will be presented at the BlackBerry Live event taking place in Orlando this May 14th through16th. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) has announced that the largest ever international contingent attending Canada 3.0. The annual conference brings together business and government leaders from the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Norway, and across Canada. To highlight the international collaboration, Scott Fraser, Director General, Global Business Opportunities Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT), will moderate a panel that discusses the importance of ICT and mobile technologies to each nation’s economy, what industries benefit most from ICT and mobile, and how Canadian companies can best connect with international business leaders for partnership and problem-solving. The panel will include: Read the rest of this entry »

SES Conference & Expo, the leading online and integrated marketing event series, announced today that online marketing and advertising professionals who attend this year’s SES Toronto Conference, June 12-14, 2013 at the Toronto Marriot Downtown Eaton Centre, will be able to participate in the popular “Meet the Experts Roundtable Forum.” This forum facilitates face-to-face interaction and discussion with industry thought leaders and leading practitioners. Attendees will also be able to hear these industry luminaries speak throughout two morning keynotes, over thirty conference sessions, theatre presentations and express clinics on the Sponsor Showcase floor, and 4 ClickZ Academy onsite training workshops. Read the rest of this entry »

CanWIT‘s BC chapter invites you to register for the May Breakfast Club when the group hosts Nimrat Dhariwal and Karen Bresler, who will discuss Negotiation Skills for Women. Come and hear from these certified professional coaches as they share their insights on leadership skills, transition and career change. This May 15th event promises to be engaging, informative and interactive with coaches who are effective, personable leaders, educators and trainers. Read the rest of this entry »

Previously known as the Non-Fiction track at the Banff World Media Festival, 2013’s Factual Entertainment program, presented by IMPACT, will investigate, interrogate and open up a dialogue exploring strategies for bringing factual content to the next level. This track features exclusive Master Classes and engaging panel discussions – you do not want to miss out on the opportunity to hear from the best in the business. Get your tickets now for this year’s Festival. If you’re already registered, Banff .Connect is now online so that you can choose your sessions and book meetings. Read the rest of this entry »

Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools, have opened up public nominations for their annual Unity Awards event held during the Unite conference, this year at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver. Nominations for awards categories will be accepted through June 30. The Unity Awards, first celebrated in 2008, recognize the most outstanding examples of games, simulations, visualizations and other projects created using the Unity development platform across a variety of categories. Winners will be revealed in front of the Unity community during a ceremony at Unite 2013 in Vancouver on August 29th. Read the rest of this entry »

The 2013 Canadian Telecom Summit is pleased to announce that The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture), will address The Summit on Wednesday, June 5. Minister Paradis has spoken at our past two events; we are honoured to have him return to deliver the conference closing keynote speech this year. He joins a cadre of 70 industry leaders addressing Canada’s most important gathering of the information and communications technology industries. Read the rest of this entry »