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British Columbia’s world of tech ĄBritish Columbia’s technology sector employs more than 83,000 people. ĄB.C.’s combined federal and provincial corporate income-tax rate is lower than that of every U.S. state and that of any G-7 country. ĄDespite the recent economic downturn, both high-tech aggregate wages and salaries and the overall number of high-tech businesses in B.C. have continued to rise. ĄB.C.’s tech companies are projected to create at least 3,000 to 4,000 new jobs in 2012, up more than five per cent from 2011. ĄB.C.’s flexible immigration policies, strong research-and-development infrastructure and outstanding quality of life attract more than 20,000 skilled workers to the province each year, enhancing B.C.’s talent pool, international networks, cultural diversity and multilingualism. ĄB.C. ranks first in Canada for health outcomes and environmental quality.

ĄA UBC study shows that B.C. tech companies deliver the best return on R&D investment in North America. ĄB.C.’s population is well-educated: 31 per cent of the working age population in Greater Vancouver have university degrees, and 57 per cent have college or university degrees. ĄFour of B.C.’s 25 public post-secondary institutions have collaborated to create Great Northern Way Campus, a partnership with industry for developing, testing and deploying new media and sustainability-related technologies. ĄUBC ranks among North America’s top 10 universities for commercializing research. In 2007, it became Canada’s ﬁrst university to generate more than $100 million in cumulative licensing revenue. ĄAccording to KPMG’s Competitive Alternatives 2010, Vancouver outranks Toronto and every major American city for business cost competitiveness.

B.C.’S TECH SECTORS Information and communication (including wireless) Hardware, software, telecommunications, IP-over-everything 6,500 companies 52,000 employees $11.5 billion in annual revenue Life sciences Pharmaceuticals, medical devices 340+ companies 4,000+ employees $800 million in annual revenue New media Interactive multimedia, gaming and e-learning 1,000+ companies 15,000+ employees $2+ billion in annual revenue

Aerospace Engineering, manufacturing and training 190 companies 1,550 employees $450 million in annual revenue Clean tech Hydrogen; fuel cells; power electronics; energy storage; wind, ocean and solar power; environmental tech 1,389+ companies 21,000 employees $2.65 billion in annual revenue Note: A number of companies operate as R&D centres, with revenue-generating activities occurring in other jurisdictions.

www.bctechmagazine.ca Publisher: Paul Harris Managing publisher: Gail Clark Editor-in-chief: Naomi Wittes Reichstein Design director: Randy Pearsall Proofreader: Baila Lazarus Writers: Curt Cherewayko, Rebecca Edwards, Amy M. Fong, Noa Glouberman, David Kaplan, Joel McKay, Peter Mitham, Nigel Reid, Grant Wing Production manager: Don Schuetze Production: Carole Readman Sales manager: Joan McGrogan Advertising sales: Lori Borden, Corinne Tkachuk Administrator: Katherine Butler Sales assistant: Caroline Smith Senior researcher: Anna Liczmanska Research/verification: Richard Chu Controller: Marlita Hodgens President, BIV Media Group: Paul Harris BCTECH 2012 is published by BIV Magazines, a division of BIV Media Group, 102 Fourth Ave E, Vancouver, B.C. V5T 1G2, 604-688-2398, fax 604-688-6058, www.businessinvancouver.com. Copyright 2012, BIV Magazines. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or incorporated into any information retrieval system without permission of BIV Magazines. The list of services provided in this publication is not necessarily a complete list of all such services available in Vancouver, B.C. The publishers are not responsible in whole or in part for any errors or omissions in this publication. ISSN 1205-5662 PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NO: 40069240. REGISTRATION NO: 11064. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to Circulation Department: 102 Fourth Ave E, Vancouver, B.C. V5T 1G2. Email: subscribe@biv.com Cover image: The International Space Station will be host to two high-resolution information-gathering cameras as part of a collaboration between McDonald Detwiller and UrtheCast

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Centre4Growth bridges the gap

CEOs-in-residence foster tech’s middle class

“Centre4Growth advisers really do a great job at getting you to think about how you work with international organizations” – Stuart Bowness, co-founder and chief executive ofﬁcer, MediaCore

Ąby Peter Mitham ritish Columbia’s tech sector may have 9,000 companies, but approximately 70 per cent have ﬁve people or fewer, and just 3.5 per cent have more than 50. “A healthy ecosystem usually has many, many more mid-size companies,” says

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Bill Tam, president and chief executive oﬃcer of the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). “We should probably aim to be about eight per cent to 10 per cent. So there’s really a gap there – what we classify as the absence of a middle class in tech.”

Himself a veteran of telecommunications, Tam says the hurdles small companies face include access to capital, talent and markets. “There’s a fundamental growth gap – the growth gap being the ability for small companies to really start to scale

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their operations to become mid-size companies,” he says. To help bridge that gap, BCTIA launched the Centre4Growth in September 2010. The centre aims to accelerate the growth of the province’s most promising tech companies by facilitating access to ﬁnancing, talent and customers. Backed by a mix of government and private-sector funding, the centre has developed an online library, launched regular workshops with professional-services

per cent or by about 140 jobs. Victoria-based MediaCore is a prime example. The company provides videohosting services, ensuring secure, private access to the members of the organizations it serves. MediaCore approached Centre4Growth in October 2011 when seeking ﬁnancing. It was paired with Rob Bennett, one of the centre’s Victoria-based CIRs. “He really started becoming a connector for us,” says Stuart Bowness, CEO

Simon Vallee (left) and Arash Shiva, founders of OpenCal, which was sold to Groupon on receiving impartial advice from the Centre4Growth

firms and established a network of seven CEOs-in-residence (CIRs) to advise promising small companies. Tam believes the Centre4Growth is best known for coaching. Intake matches each company with one of the seven CIRs based in Vancouver and Victoria. Counselling identifies and addresses issues specific to each company. The centre also serves Kamloops. (Companies on Vancouver Island and in the Okanagan are supported respectively by the Mid-Island Science, Technology & Innovation Council and Accelerate Okanagan.) The first 18 months of operations saw 240 companies assisted. The businesses enjoyed revenue growth and new investments totalling $29 million since joining the program. Employment increased 10

of MediaCore. “The value of connectors in building entrepreneurial infrastructure – the infrastructure that’s required in companies becoming successful – is immeasurable.” Also, when MediaCore was considering a partnership with an Italian company, Centre4Growth connected it with people who could speak of the challenges of doing business overseas. “That level of access and that level of knowledge [aren’t] something you can Google,” Bowness says. “It accelerates the pace of development when you have people connecting people.” In the run-up to Demo Day, an event held in Vancouver on March 8, 2012, to introduce companies at the Centre4Growth to potential partners within B.C.’s tech sector, MediaCore

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received guidance from Adam Lorant, one of the CIRs in Vancouver. Lorant guided Bowness through crafting a compelling sales pitch to delivering it. The fact that MediaCore won the Investor’s Choice award at Demo Day further raised the company’s profile. Centre4Growth’s counsel translated into a cash payback for OpenCal, a Vancouver startup that developed a scheduling system for small businesses. OpenCal was acquired by Groupon in fall 2011 for an undisclosed amount. OpenCal founders Arash Shiva and Simon Vallee originally approached Centre4Growth in fall 2010 and found that it provided an effective sounding board for its ideas and vision. When the opportunity arose to sell the company to Groupon, CIR Sandra Wear provided impartial advice that helped guide the company through the deal, even Skyping with executives late into the night. “I can’t speak highly enough of them; they really were amazing,” Vallee says. “[Centre4Growth] wasn’t just hired investment bankers, so it didn’t have any sort of vested interest in trying to squeeze more money out of the deal.” OpenCal is now part of Groupon’s operations in California, but Tam believes the transaction will ultimately fulfil the centre’s goals of building B.C.’s tech sector. “The opportunity for a young startup company is to grow and experience what it’s like to be in a massive organization,” Tam explains. Tam believes that OpenCal’s staff members will learn lessons in California that will create jobs in B.C. Moreover, cash from the acquisition is likely to be reinvested in future B.C. startups. Bowness believes more companies need to cultivate this sort of long-term view in order for B.C. firms to achieve lasting growth. Too many think big about local markets while neglecting global opportunities. This is where the Centre4Growth plays a role. “The Centre4Growth advisers really do a great job at getting you to think about how you work with international organizations and work with an international customer base,” Bowness says. “The more Canadian companies are doing international business, the more successful the country will be as a whole. If we just do business locally, it’s a very small market compared to the international market.” Ă Photo: Roham Sheikholeslami

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Baiting the best Competitive salaries and health, wellness and education programs help employers find and keep the right tech workers

Ron Klopfer (left), CEO, and Thomas Steiner, chief scientist, of Etalim, a company that has seen robust employee increases recently

Ąby Joel McKay welve years after the burst of the dot-com bubble sent tech reeling, a quiet resurgence is underway as companies across North America ramp up hiring amid renewed appetite from investors for state-of-the-art gadgetry. The S&P 500 Information Technology

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Sector Index was up 16 per cent by March this year, while during the same month, the tech-weighted NASDAQ punched above the 3,000 level for the ﬁrst time since 2000. The demand for all things high-tech is playing out in a big way in British Columbia, where some 3,000 new jobs will be created this year.

“A lot of it has to do with three fundamental items,” says Bill Tam, president and chief executive oﬃcer of the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). “One, we’ve seen increasing optimism in the global marketplace in general for technology. The second thing is we’ve seen a resurgence in the kinds of things

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B.C. tech companies have been doing: wireless communications, digital media. We’ve seen some good traction on the clean-tech side. “All those are contributing to more exports and generally higher revenue levels that have boosted employment levels.” Tam adds that high-tech multinationals such as Microsoft Corp., Nokia Canada and Sony of Canada Ltd. have all grown their local employment in recent years, as well as digital-media giants such as the Walt Disney Co. and Pixar Animation Studios. Where are these ﬁrms ﬁnding the right people for the jobs? “We have to remain very competitive from a compensation standpoint,” says Sandra Keyton, vice-president global human resources at Vancouver-based Westport Innovations Inc., a natural gas engine researcher and manufacturer. Westport has already hired 50 people this year as its need for new employees skyrockets. Two years ago, it had 200 employees. Today, the number stands at 830. Keyton says the company prefers to source most of its employees locally and has partnerships with key universities in B.C. that can supply the types of innovators that Westport needs to fuel its corporate engine. How does Westport keep them happy once they’re hired? “We look at reward programs such

HR professionals increasing use high-tech gadgets to qualify potential employees

as internal health and wellness; we oﬀer education and tuition support,” Keyton says. “We also have a company hockey team. Also, as a retention thing, we very proactively develop our people once they are hired.” The story is the same at smaller, more specialized tech ﬁrms. Etalim Inc., a business that converts different fuel and heat sources to electricity, has also seen robust employee increases over the past year. Retention isn’t a problem for the

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10-man outfit, says chief executive officer Ron Klopfer. “The biggest retention strategy for us is offering very interesting, gratifying work. … [That] goes a long way toward keeping some of the top engineers in the city engaged.” Finding the right people is often more difficult than keeping them on board. That’s why Stephanie Lyster, a humanresources consultant specializing in tech (most recently on contract with Atimi Software Inc.), uses her own gadgetry to help companies find the right people. “We actually rely quite heavily on technical testing,” says Lyster. “We can tell from a logical thought pattern, not just from an experience, how fast they can get up to speed. … [That’s] what drives our decisions.” One challenge is the high cost of living in Vancouver. Real-estate prices, which have been compared with New York’s, have made it difficult to attract senior executives. “I think it’s something we need to be mindful of,” says Tam. “There’s no easy solution to that, but companies are doing their best trying to find compensation for some of the differences and laying out some of the areas where we are a little bit stronger.” Lyster believes a really simple strategy exists for drawing the best: “They care about the non-monetary perks. They want a creative environment; they want strong leadership and consistency.” Ă Photo (bottom): Westport Power Inc.

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Digital ﬁtness Electronic medical records and wireless technologies empower a new generation of healthconscious British Columbians

Gregg Sauter, founder of mHealth Connected, with the Withings Blood Pressure Monitor

Ąby Curt Cherewayko lectronic medical records (EMRs) are key tools in the push to digitize and improve the efficiency of health care. The primary governmental agency for driving adoption of EMRs in British Columbia is optimistic that its success to date will result in renewed funding when its first six-year mandate expires in spring 2012. The Physician Information Technology Office (PITO), co-run by the province and the British Columbia Medical Association (BCMA), received $107.8 million from B.C. to use largely in incentives for doctors to replace their manila file folders with EMR software. By December 2011, 65 per cent of B.C.’s 8,000 physicians had transferred to EMRs. Of these, 5,500 are eligible to receive

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reimbursement from PITO of up to 70 per cent of the costs of buying and implementing EMRs. “We are very optimistic based on what both the BCMA and the Ministry of Health have said to us about the importance of EMRs in health care,” says Linda Bartz, senior communications manager, PITO. “We have lots of plans that we have initiated to step up adoption and implementation.” Such plans include creating working groups of “super-users,” physicians who use EMR software to its fullest capabilities and who can help better train all doctors to implement and use it. Interestingly, EMR adoption rates are highest outside of Vancouver, Victoria and

the Fraser Valley, bucking the usual trend of urban-first, rural-second when it comes to technology. The Salmon Arm region has the province’s highest adoption rate, with roughly 90 per cent of physicians in the area using EMRs. Bartz says that doctors in smaller communities usually work more closely together, sharing emergency-room, on-call and other duties. Efficient sharing of medical records is thus more necessary there. Mark Sudul, general manager of Sidney’s Osler Systems Management Inc., one of four PITO vendors that provide subsidized EMR software, says that the funding incentives are important but not the only factor driving adoption of EMRs. “There are a significant number of

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doctors who haven’t taken advantage of any of those incentives and still use EMRs,” he says. Over approximately ﬁve years, Vancouver-based Telus Corp. has spent roughly a billion dollars on information technology related to health care, including $763 million on the acquisition of health and ﬁnancial-services provider Emergis Inc. in early 2008. In Newfoundland, Telus is helping develop a provincewide electronic druginformation system. It’s also piloting a personal health-care platform that supports Alberta’s goal of helping consumers become more proactive in managing their health. With doctors still getting a feel for new

electronic systems, it is difficult to assess yet the impact of EMRs on the delivery of care. It’s clear that there is still room for improvement when it comes to the use of digital health-care tools. Telus is a major partner in developing B.C.’s tele-health system, which includes videoconferencing for doctors, schedule management and remote patientmonitoring. “Different jurisdictions are at different places in their investment in terms of e-health,” says Glenn De Roy, vice-president of health delivery solutions at Telus Health Solutions. “One of the missing pieces of the architecture to date is, How do you share information across all these different organizations

and do it in an eﬀective and timely way?” That’s where cloud-computing comes in. It’s the idea of storing information remotely where it can be shared, accessed and distributed via various channels to multiple stakeholders. Says De Roy, “We see a need to deliver health-care solutions using that cloudbased model to enable information to be shared across the entire health-care continuum.” In demonstrating its commitment to the ﬁeld, Telus announced on February 2 its acquisition of Wolf Medical Systems, Canada’s largest and fastest-growing cloud-based EMR provider. The acquisition will generate a new line of business within Telus Health Solutions called Telus

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Physician Solutions. Access to EMRs can now expand through the combination of Wolf’s hosted, cloud-based technology with Telus’ secure, wireless and wireline broadband communications networks. Telus Physician Solutions will be led by Brendan Byrne, founder of Wolf Medical Systems and himself a practising physician. What’s the frequency, doctor? It was near the end of an eight-year career with Nokia that Gregg Sauter – with a ﬁrm knowledge of the wireless industry – started exploring opportunities in sectors that hadn’t “gone wireless.” “Transportation was one, education was one, but health care just completely screamed out,” says Sauter, who after leaving Nokia in early 2011, founded mHealth Connected, a small Vancouverbased consultancy and reseller focused on wireless health care. A report dated November 23, 2011, by ABI Research titled Mobile Devices and mHealth forecasted that the global market for sport and health-related wireless applications would hit US$400 million in revenue by 2016, compared with US$120 million in 2010. Wireless health apps are being adopted by a notable type of consumer: one who’s taking health care out of the hospital and into his or her own hands. Sauter says more and more consumers are visiting doctors’ oﬃces tablet in hand, ready digitally to retrieve health information that may help make the visits more productive. “The push is really going to be from the bottom up,” he says. “And all of a sudden, all of the health-care facilities will have to say, ‘Okay guys, we need to mobilize.’”

The growth of consumer-focused apps, according to ABI, will be driven by development and adoption of wearable devices such as vital-signs monitors that connect with software programs on smartphones and tablets. Other consumer-oriented wireless health apps, like scheduling software that helps people keep track of exercise regimes, are more elementary but nonetheless finding markets. Take Vancouver’s PortaLife Solutions Inc. With the company’s new CarrotLines, consumers can use their smartphones to scan nutritional data from barcodes on food products and manage their diets. The app helps not only the generally health conscious but also those who need managed diets, such as diabetics. Then there are the more technical, more specialized and more regulated wireless apps used by health-care professionals. Vancouver-based ReFleX Wireless Inc. has developed a system that physicians can use to monitor a patient’s vital signs all at once. Bluetooth-enabled, it replaces all those toaster-sized, wired monitoring systems found beside the hospital bed. It can also be set up at home, with data about the patient sent wirelessly back to the doctor’s office. ReFleX has largely avoided regulatory hurdles by targeting the extended and long-term health-care arena. Its technology merges existing biomedical monitoring systems with proven consumer-oriented and, importantly, low-cost wireless technologies. Alan Swain is vice-president of technology and operations at Vancouver’s Wavefront, which helps companies (including PortaLife and ReFleX) commercialize their wireless technologies. He offers two recommendations for any wireless health-care company that faces high regulatory hurdles. One, he says to focus on developing products in developing countries that have less regulation but need major improvement in health care. The huge adoption rate of cell phones in some developing countries means untapped opportunity for entrepreneurs. Alternatively, says Swain, one can form a partnership with someone in health care who knows the regulatory system of a major established health-care market, namely the United States. Ă

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The mix ﬁx Varied uses, sophisticated solutions

A mix of uses allows Jameson House in downtown Vancouver to operate on a sustainable footing

Ąby Peter Mitham ight land economics and a desire in many municipalities for urban density means that developers are doing more with sites than ever before. As residential units effectively subsidize the creation of price-sensitive commercial spaces, complementary uses such as retail and office spaces can provide tenants with amenities they might not otherwise enjoy. For developers seeking a green sheen for their buildings, mixing uses can also provide opportunities to incorporate sustainable technologies such as geothermal heating and cooling systems, solar panels and greywater recycling systems. Bruce Langereis, president of Delta Land Development Ltd., initially recognized the potential for complementary uses to achieve energy efficiencies when he developed Cielo, a Coal Harbour condo project with an Urban Fare supermarket at grade and residences above. Supermarket coolers generate a lot of heat in keeping things cool, and Langereis saw an opportunity to put that energy to use for Cielo residents.

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A mix of systems supports a mix of uses at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia and the adjacent office tower and residences

“Normally, it just gets thrown out into the environment,” he says, but the thermal energy was sent underground where the building’s geothermal system put it to use for residents. The savings go to the strata, to benefit owners in the future. “That strata now [is] sitting on a huge, huge surplus,” Langereis says. Similar savings were envisioned when Langereis renovated Vancouver’s historic Hotel Georgia, which today mixes hotel, office and residential uses at the corner of West Georgia and Howe streets. A geothermal system meets the requirements of the property’s hotel and office portions, or about 75 per cent of the site’s total needs. Just one boiler serves the residential area. The south face of the 500-foot residential tower adjacent to the hotel has floorto-ceiling windows incorporating solar panels that power the property’s public spaces. A couple of blocks north, Bosa Properties Inc.’s mixed-use Jameson House touts not only sustainable systems that serve all parts of the property but seek to capitalize on the different uses to even out the load on building systems. Designed by architects Foster + Partners of London, U.K., Jameson House harnesses air currents for passive cooling while boosting exposure to natural light. The mix of uses also bespeaks recognition that office and residential uses complement each other. While residential use

Smarter phoning, smarter owning QR codes assist with building maintenance and tenant satisfaction In 2010, when the software-development group of HSBC Bank Canada took occupancy of Discovery Green in Burnaby, the role of tenants in reducing the building’s use of resources and overall operating costs was limited to occupancy sensors that would indicate which rooms were in use and respond accordingly. Carbondioxide sensors trigger the HVAC system to refresh the air as needed. Today, the acceptance of social networks and rise of mobile communications has given occupants the ability to provide direct input regarding building management. BuiltSpace Technologies Corp. of Vancouver provides QR codes and support services to approximately 100 buildings around Metro Vancouver: mainly multifamily rentals, with some commercial and institutional properties. QR codes are mottled, camouﬂagelike squares that link smartphones to online information. Originally used by Japan’s auto industry to provide information on parts, they’ve seen an explosion of use in all manner of daily applications. BuiltSpace president Rick Rolston saw an opportunity to harness the codes to

engage tenants and improve management of buildings and their operating systems. The codes are on signs in individual workspaces, as well as on equipment such as boilers. Rolston says the average deviation from any baseline for eﬃcient building operations is 20 per cent, but timely feedback can help reduce the margin of deviation. It can also aid tenant retention, a primary concern of building owners. “We realized the primary objective of building owners is not to save energy; it’s to keep people in buildings and to keep them comfortable. The cost of a vacancy or an employee lost because of a poor environment far outweighs any energy savings. [We] try and get people to use … smartphones to say, ‘Hey, this room isn’t meeting my needs today.’” QR codes on building equipment provide opportunities to assess the equipment’s performance and schedule upgrades. When operating data is cross-referenced with tenants’ feedback, decisions on maintenance, repair and replacement become more responsive to actual operating conditions.

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The IQ of EQ Harmony House demonstrates use of sustainable building technologies

armony House is a new, energyeﬃcient and environmentally friendly house in an established community in Burnaby. This two-storey, 4,714-square-foot residence with basement and attached garage is a winning entry in the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) EQuilibrium Sustainable Housing Demonstration Initiative. It’s one of two EQuilibrium residences built in British Columbia and 11 EQuilibrium housing projects constructed to date across Canada to encourage sustainable housing. All Equilibrium projects are open both to the general public and to professional audiences for initial tours, then monitored for performance by CMHC for one year once occupied by owners. The house optimizes solar orientation. It incorporates natural materials with low levels of pollutants, and its photovoltaic panels are designed to produce as much

electrical energy as the house consumes annually. It features windows from a Burnabybased manufacturer and light switches from Squamish. A switch turns off all unnecessary circuits at night and when the occupants are out. There’s also a plug-in for an electric car. The house’s flexible design enables three complementary functions, providing two housing units (first and second-floor units plus a basement suite) and space for a home office. Landscaping incorporates indigenous plants that will be irrigated with captured rainwater. Key features: Envelope: Highly insulated, airtight building envelope featuring vacuum-insulated

panels and tripleglazed windows is predicted to reduce space-heating requirements by 80 per cent. Solar: The house has passive solar heating, solar domestic hot-water system and grid-connected photovoltaic panels. Heating: High-efficiency air-source heat pumps provide additional space and water heating. Cooling: Summer cooling assisted by air movement driven by stack-effect and a wind tower. Controls: Highly efficient electrical appliances and lighting and smart metering and controls minimize electrical energy consumption. Location: The project is located in an established urban community on an existing bus route with many amenities within walking or cycling distance. Ă

White Rock at the border? No, the frontier InHaus targets LEED platinum in residential construction

ompleted in March and built by InHaus Development Ltd., Beachaus I and II are the first independently certified LEED sustainable residences to be built in the White Rock and South Surrey area. They’re located in White Rock’s East Beach community. The houses are targeting LEED platinum. They’ve been designed for efficiency and livability, and both have been inspected and verified through every stage of planning and construction to ensure that they meet the standards of the Canadian Green Building Council. Permanent ratings await completion and certification. Each is just over 2,000 square feet, with three bedrooms, four bathrooms, a rooftop patio, a large office/workspace and a private entry. They’re built by a special hybrid method that combines offsite prefabrication with traditional site-built components. The factory-built portions are shipped to the site complete, with flooring, fixtures, cabinets and siding already finished. Ă www.bctechmagazine.ca

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Twin Otter Series 400 plane from Viking Air

Now let us ﬂy Confidence within province’s aerospace sector soars

Ąby Rebecca Edwards ritish Columbia’s aerospace businesses are receiving a strong boost from emerging Asian markets and a global trend toward replacing old stock with fuel-eﬃcient aircraft. A 2009 survey by the Aerospace Industry Association of Canada (AIAC) showed that 100 per cent of surveyed companies in B.C. believed that business conditions would improve substantially over the following three years, as compared with 77.3 per cent in Ontario, 75 per cent in Manitoba and 68.4 per cent in Quebec. A survey in 2011 of Aerospace Industry Association of British Columbia (AIABC) members showed that two-thirds of the province’s aerospace companies expected to expand their workforces within the next two years. The survey of AIABC members also showed that that 70.5 per cent of the

businesses expected to see “moderate” business growth in the coming 24 months. Two-fifths (40.7 per cent) reported annual revenue over $5 million. Increased confidence within the B.C. industry can be attributed to two major market drivers that have never before occurred together, according to Kevin Russell, vice-president and general manager of ASCO Aerospace Canada Ltd. “The traditional North American and European markets are seeing a high aircraft-replacement rate because there are a lot of older aircraft out there that need to be brought up to new fuel-efficiency and noise regulations,” he says. “At the same time, there are new emerging markets in Asia that are starting to grow at a fast rate.” A 2011 report on the aerospace labour market in B.C. carried out for the provincial government by Roslyn Kunin & Associates, Inc., saw the sector as being more resilient

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from economic ﬂux in B.C. than elsewhere in Canada. The sizeable repair-and-overhaul subsector present in B.C. leaves it “less prone to the challenges and competition the exportoriented manufacturing subsector faces.” Canada has the world’s ﬁfth-largest aerospace sector, generating $22 billion in revenues in 2009, according to AIAC. Of this revenue, Western Canada generates 13.6 per cent or $3 billion. Russell says that proximity to Everett, Washington, home of Boeing’s largest assembly facility, has enabled a concentration of aerospace companies in B.C. At its 115,000-square-foot facility in Delta, ASCO Aerospace Canada employs 160 skilled workers to design and manufacture structure and wing components for customers including Boeing, Bombardier and Lockheed Martin Corp. The company is involved with the Photo: Viking Air

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Boeing 787 Dreamliner program and with Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter-jet program, and Russell anticipates continued growth between now and 2015. Based in Langley and Aldergrove, Advanced Integration Technology Canada Inc. (AIT Canada) is also benefiting from the industry’s move toward new technologies and toward increasing demand. The company’s B.C. plants produce laser-alignment tooling systems used during the automated assembly of new or modified aircraft. Steven Taylor-Lewis, general manager of AIT Canada, says the company has worked with all major aircraft manufacturers around the world, most recently Boeing at its 787 Dreamliner assembly line in Everett. AIT Canada provides production lines for the Bombardier Learjet and CSeries and the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter program. Taylor-Lewis adds, “Our work increases when there is a new production line needed for a new or modified aircraft, or when a company needs to increase production capacity at a plant. “Boeing and Bombardier in particular are using composite aircrafts instead of using aluminum, to produce a lighter plane that is more fuel-efficient and so can carry more passengers for the same-size aircraft. “That has definitely been good for our business because we provide drillers for composite material.”

The presence of Boeing’s assembly building in Everett, Washington is a major factor for the siting of many aerospace companies in B.C. The building has grown over the years to enclose 13.3 million cubic meters of space, its land footprint covering 39.8 hectares

Texas-based AIT established its Canadian plants in 2004 after being attracted to B.C. by the then-low dollar, the proximity to Boeing in Washington and the skilled machinists living in the province. “Now we have built up the expertise and core competency in Canada, so even though the Canadian dollar is now at par, it still makes sense to use our plants and teams,” says Taylor-Lewis, who has 68 employees and is in the process of hiring more staff. “We also send out work to local shops in the Fraser Valley so there are definitely spin-off benefits of having us here.” Abbotsford-based Cascade Aerospace

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Inc., whose chief executive officer David Schellenberg is chairman of AIAC, hired 100 new employees in 2011. Victoria-based Viking Air Ltd. continues to operate from a position of strength. At the Singapore Airshow of February 2012, it announced a new order for 15 of the Twin Otter airplanes it builds, and at the time of writing there was a backlog of $350 million in orders for this famous Canadian plane. Also announced at the show: Bombardier’s plans to open a sales-andmarketing office for commercial aircraft in Singapore to serve the Asia-Pacific region. The sector does face some challenges. AIT Canada and Delta-based Avcorp Industries Inc. both have contracts to work on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet, which has been funded by the Joint Strike Fighter group of NATO nations. Yet the future of the program is unclear after a number of nations – including the United States as principal funder – have made budget cuts and changes to orders. At time of writing it was uncertain whether the Canada government will continue with its order for 65 of the aircraft, although Prime Minister Stephen Harper has committed to funding development of the planes in order to continue Canadian companies’ eligibility to supply components. Hopes for expansion in the industry may also be hindered by a shortage of skilled workers. According to the 2011 labour-market survey, businesses estimated that they faced an average shortfall of 10 per cent their manufacturing and/or maintenance workforces. They believe that figure could rise to 19 per cent within one to three years and to 21 per cent in five or more. Ă

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Compete clause Fixing lags in productivity

Ąby Curt Cherewayko irst oﬀ: there’s bright news. British Columbia’s technology sector has fully rebounded from the recession when it comes to jobs growth, returning to the peak employment experienced in 2008. Head count in the sector increased 12.5 per cent from September 2010 to September 2011, according to the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). Tech companies predict a more conservative growth of 5.5 per cent in the next year but will still require 3,000 to 4,000 new jobs provincewide. While tech in B.C. has generally outperformed other sectors in terms of GDP growth over the last decade, it remains third or fourth among provincial tech sectors across Canada according to key metrics like GDP, total revenue and employee count. Given that B.C. has the third-largest population among Canadian provinces (after Ontario and Quebec), such metrics suggest an average-performing tech industry. Now the challenges: it’s performing on average in a country that has identiﬁed itself as having major problems with innovation, productivity and competitiveness. the size of B.C.’s population compared to other provincial populations is , According to Innovation Canada: A Call to Action, a report released in October 2011 by a panel mandated by the federal government and commonly referred to as the Jenkins Report, Canada is in the middle of the pack in spending on research and development among countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Business R&D spending – a key ingredient for innovation

Iain Black, president and CEO, the Vancouver Board of Trade, speaks of opportunities to lure both talent and capital to B.C.

– has been falling since 2006. Canada’s productivity – the value of goods and services produced per hour of work – increased on average 0.6 per cent annually between 2000 and 2009, less than half the 1.5 per cent growth average for all OECD countries. A number of organizations are trying to address how to boost B.C.’s productivity and competitiveness. Strength in startups “We have an amazing entrepreneurial spirit here in B.C.,” says Bill Tam, president of the BCTIA, “and that has led to a very healthy rise in the number of startups that are seeking to create the latest, greatest things. What we’re missing is the ability to scale those companies into sizable entities.” According to Tam, 96 per cent of B.C.’s tech companies have fewer than 50 employees. Mid-sized companies, he says, help draw more capital to the province and create a healthy mergers-and-acquisitions market.

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BCTIA has been introduced a program called Centre4Growth to help small companies make the leap to becoming midsized players. (See story page 9.) CEOs-in-residence – seasoned tech veterans – mentor startups on topics that range from expanding into new markets to negotiating deals. “We’re a relatively small domestic market here,” says Tam. “In order to get size and scope, these companies need the wherewithal to create opportunities in other countries and other markets.” Taxing moment Iain Black, president and chief executive oﬃcer of the Vancouver Board of Trade, points to the many Canadian executives who’ve been drawn to Silicon Valley rather than seeking success in their own backyard. “The mind and matter does exist, but we’re not ﬁnding a way to attract or grow it here in Canada,” says Black, a tech veteran and former MLA. Photo: Dominic Schaefer Photography

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He notes that expected increases to capital-gains taxes in the United States could provide an opportunity to lure not only some talent back but also some capital. This could help inject some life into what Black describes as a small, conservative venture-capital industry. “I think there is a wonderful opportunity for a creative policy-maker, probably in Ottawa versus Victoria, to make it very attractive for some of those Canadian venture capitalists who control funds worth hundreds of millions of dollars to come back to B.C.” In January, B.C. Minister of Finance Kevin Falcon created a panel of experts to revamp the business-tax structure to make the province more competitive. The panel will also advise Falcon on the transition back from the harmonized sales tax (HST) to the provincial and goods and services taxes (PST and GST). Jock Finlayson, executive vice-president and chief policy officer of the Business Council of British Columbia (BCBC), was one of the business community’s most vocal advocates of the HST. Moving back to the PST, he says, “will make many of our industries less competitive compared to those in Alberta, which doesn’t have any sales tax, and also make us less competitive than we are at the moment with Ontario and Quebec, [which] have harmonized sales taxes.” Yet on the upside, Finlayson comments that the transition provides an opportunity to take a good look at how tax policy affects competitiveness. He says, “The HST is gone, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still need to address these issues.” In January, the BCBC formed a task force on productivity, competition and innovation to develop proposals to boost B.C.’s ability to attract capital and create jobs. School ties Arvind Gupta, CEO and scientific director of the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), based at UBC, says that while Canadian governments have spent a lot of money trying to stimulate innovation, they haven’t received the bang for their buck. Gupta is one of six contributors to the Jenkins Report. Among other things, the report suggests that the federal government’s $7-billion R&D funding regime, which includes the widely-used Scientific

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Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program, is unnecessarily complicated and needs streamlining. Gupta also suggests that the relationship between academia and the private sector needs to improve. Traditionally, ideas developed at universities and colleges have been tweaked to meet commercial needs in industry and society. For the last four years, MITACS has been running a program that reverses that “push” model. Businesses are invited to approach MITACS with commercial challenges they’ve been unable to address. PhD students work for four months developing solutions to these challenges. The costs of the paid internships are split between governmentfunded MITACS and the businesses. “A lot of what we’re doing at MITACS is saying to companies, ‘Give us a challenge you don’t have any way of addressing, and we’ll put some really smart people on it,’” says Gupta. “Because there is so little deployment of PhDs in our society, there isn’t an appreciation of the skill set they bring to the table.” Now a national program, MITACS will work with close to 800 companies this year, providing 1,500 PhD students with paid internships. Ă

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Brought to you by your mobile phone Technologies like Bluetooth and near-field communications keep advertisers in touch with consumers on the go

Alex Romanov, president and CEO of iSign Media Solutions: “Our system advertises to the masses, but it targets individually”

Ąby Curt Cherewayko

oupon clippers of the world: throw away your scissors and the stacks of ﬂiers on your coﬀee tables. All you’ll need in the brave new world of promotions is your mobile phone.

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An ad campaign by Gauge Mobile Solutions allows consumers to swipe their phones within inches of busshelter and streetfacing ads to receive promos or information

Indeed, the mobile phone’s ubiquity, coupled with advancements made in software that leverages Bluetooth, wi-fi and near-field communications, is driving the new trend of proximity marketing. Increasingly, anyone walking down a city street is as likely to receive a coupon offer or ad on the phone as an actual call. Connecting with people via mobile provides advertisers with unprecedented information about consumer habits, while also raising debate about just how accessible citizens should be to them. In March, Vancouver’s iSign Media Solutions Inc. completed installation of a mobile advertising network in 1,400 Mac’s Convenience Stores that allows advertisers on the stores’ digital signage to send ads and deals wirelessly to consumers up to 300 feet away, via Bluetooth. “We will shortly be starting the installation of our Smart Antennas into 124 Circle K stores in the Maritimes as well as into selected stores in the Mac’s/Couche-Tard chain in the rest of Canada,” says Alex Romanov, president and chief executive officer of iSign. “Our expectation is that the Mac’s/Couche-Tard network will shortly become the benchmark for all other retailers. We are especially pleased that the Digital Screen Media Association announced on March 28 that our Smart Antenna was the winner of its prestigious DSA Industry Excellence Award for the Best Retail Deployment – Mobile.” Canadian privacy law dictates that a mobile consumer must first have the chance to permit or deny an advertiser’s advances before receiving an ad or

becoming part of any loyalty program. Consumers who opt in to receiving mobile ads and promos from iSign’s platform provide advertisers with treasure troves of marketing metrics such as how long they linger in particular stores and which products do and don’t interest them. Such metrics help advertisers tailor

future ads to those speciﬁc consumers. “Our system advertises to the masses, but it targets individually,” says Romanov. ISign has already gained traction in Asia, where mobile technology is about four or ﬁve years ahead of where it is in North America, according to Romanov. He says that iSign’s wireless ad

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The mobile ads for Mac’s convenience stores, placed by iSIGN Media Solutions, can transmit promotions to consumers up to 300 feet away via Bluetooth

network in nine Best Denki electronics stores in Singapore recognizes up to half a million phones per month. Best Denki’s campaigns have a download rate of about 20 per cent among consumers who receive ads or promos. “We have never had an issue regarding privacy or a complaint from someone about receiving a 20 per cent coupon for a pair of jeans,” says Romanov. While iSign’s technology allows for “push” marketing, “pull” marketing – in which consumers respond to visual calls to action on billboards or posters, for example – is also growing. That’s largely as a result of the

invention of QR barcodes and, more recently, near-ﬁeld communications (NFC). QR codes, which are square-shaped and more complex than traditional UPC codes, are appearing on everything from T-shirts to storefront windows to magazine ads. When a consumer snaps a photo of a QR code, his or her phone is directed to a website that provides information, oﬀerings or discounts related to certain products, services, businesses or campaigns. Responding to calls to action on ads has become even simpler as more and more phones are equipped with wireless NFC. In March, Vancouver’s Gauge Mobile Solutions Inc., in partnership with Astral

Out-of-Home and Newad Inc., both headquartered in Montreal, launched a technology called Scanvee that uses NFC to allow consumers simply to swipe their phones within inches of bus-shelter ads and street-facing ad displays to receive promos or information. Gauge expects that by the end of 2012, Scanvee will be part of nearly 1,000 streetlevel displays and another 600 displays in restaurants and bars. Elizabeth Denham, information and privacy commissioner for British Columbia, has not formally investigated any mobile advertisers but emphasizes that consumers should educate themselves about just how much information they may be divulging when they opt in to receive ads or promos from digital advertisers. “Consumers need to be knowledgeable about this ecosystem, and I think that is really challenging,” she says. “It used to be that an individual company was responsible for how your personal information was being disclosed and how it was safeguarded. Now, if you look at the complexity of the mobile environment, there are advertisers, publishers, phone manufacturers and third-party app providers.” Ă

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eadquartered in Vancouver, Lookee TV, Inc. designs and manufactures products such as the HD Internet TV & Radio Player. The device allows the user to enjoy thousands of Internet television channels, radio stations and podcasts from all over the globe. It works on a wi-fi or ethernet connection at home, at the office or at any wi-fi hotspot. Dedicated servers redirect all the user’s favourite online TV and radio stations directly to his or her device. LookeeTV enters into partnerships with many online sources of video and audio, so more content is constantly added. Content from Revision3 has recently been added to the LookeeTV devices, available

free to users. Users also have the option to access content for subscription fees dictated by content providers. LookeeTV moreover has free content available to its consumer base, such as that aﬀorded by thousands of Internet TV channels, radio stations and podcasts. There’s video content in sports, news, education and entertainment, plus a wide variety of music and radio talk. The content represents 65 diﬀerent languages and over 90 countries from all over the world. In 2011, the company won the Bright Idea Award from Global Marketing Partners, Inc. at CES 2011 in Las Vegas and

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was chosen to be one of 10 companies whose products were shown at the Tech Cocktail Innovation Showcase at CES Tweetup. At the Hong Kong Electronics Fair of 2010, Lookee TV received the Gold Prize at the HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Awards. Ă

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Chad Wasilenkoff, CEO of Fortress Paper, whose most notable customer is the Bank of Switzerland. The Swiss franc is considered one of the world’s securest currencies in preventing forgery

Banking on the banknote Vancouver companies strive to create securer paper currencies

Ąby Curt Cherewayko n a world of e-commerce, debit cards and mobile phone transactions, paper currency may seem relatively archaic. Yet banknote manufacturing is as affected as any sector by the ability to embrace scientific and technical innovation. Banknote makers pour both sweat and capital into creating bills that set new standards of longevity, aesthetics and, most importantly, security. Dominated by a few long-established incumbents, the sector is hard to access for newcomers. Yet that hasn’t deterred the ambitions of two Vancouver companies: Fortress Paper Ltd. and Nanotech Security Corp. Fortress first began manufacturing banknotes in 2006 when it acquired a manufacturing mill in Landqart, Switzerland. Its most notable customer is the Bank of Switzerland, whose Swiss franc is considered one of the world’s securest currencies in preventing forgery. Nanotech Security was founded in 2011 to develop and commercialize a new anti-

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counterfeiting nanotechnology originally invented at Simon Fraser University and inspired by the iridescent effect found on the wings of the Blue Morpho butterfly. Despite new cashless methods of payment, global demand for banknotes has increased roughly five per cent annually over the past decade. The rise has been fuelled by general economic growth, especially in developing countries, and the increasing use of ATMs, which require large volumes of cash to operate. Research and development of the Bank of Canada’s new series of notes began in the early 2000s, when counterfeiting in Canada peaked. The new $100 and $50 are out, with new $20, $10 and $5 denominations to be released by the end of 2013. Counterfeiting rates in this country have since declined to the lows of the early 1990s, thanks to the national bank’s emphasis on public education about counterfeiting and the introduction of new security features on notes. Canadian Bank Note Company, Ltd.

(CBNC) and BA International Inc., both in Ottawa, are printing the latest series. The German parent company that owns BA has announced that by December 2012 it will phase out operations of the company, which employs 190 people, because of the longer life expectancy of Canada’s new polymer bills. That will leave CBNC and Fortress the only two banknote makers in Canada. Although globally the use of notes is still growing, supply is currently outpacing demand, thanks to extended note longevity, delays in the launch of new series by a few big banks and production upgrades at mills. The banknote division of Fortress has not been immune to the industry’s challenges. It reported a $30.9-million loss in 2011, partly as a result of a recently delayed order by a major customer and a ﬂuctuating Swiss currency (its operational currency). Losses in 2011 also related to major investments in new machinery and technology.

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In 2011, largely because of printer upgrades that have boosted production capacity, the Landqart mill secured orders from new customers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Fortress has also completed the ďŹ rst production run of Durasafe, a new composite note that the company has spent more than $15 million developing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a paper-and-plastic hybrid that feels like paper but that allows for special security features like plastic transparent windows. In early 2011, Fortress acquired the Bank of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s optical security material division, which produces colour-shifting security threads for banknotes. The security of its banknotes is one of the biggest selling points at Fortress. The Swiss franc has managed to baďŹ&#x201E;e professional counterfeiters for decades. The currency contains dozens of security features, including ďŹ gures and imagery that can only be seen when a bill is under black light or rotated at a certain angle. Other ďŹ gures and imagery are micro-perforated, appearing brighter than other parts of a bill when held up to a light. The Swiss franc also has a number of hidden features, only detectable

Nanotech Securityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anti-counterfeiting technology replicates the shimmering effect of the Blue Morpho butterflyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wings

in bill-counting machines and other forensic equipment. The Nanotech diaries While Fortress entered the banknote sector by acquiring an established mill, Nanotech Security is attempting to join the market as a startup with a new security technology. The company, which closed a $2-million ďŹ nancing round in March, has created a â&#x20AC;&#x153;high-def hologramâ&#x20AC;? by replicating the shimmering eďŹ&#x20AC;ect found on the wings of the Blue Morpho butterďŹ&#x201A;y. The butterďŹ&#x201A;yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wings are made of a grid of tens of

millions of microscopic holes that trap, diffuse and release light in a way that cause the wings to shimmer with a green or blue brilliance depending on the angle of view. Using an ion laser beam, Nanotech Security has created a master shim, or master die, that manufacturers can use to reproduce nano-holes in a variety of materials, including banknotes, in large volumes. The company says that, because it requires highly specialized equipment and know-how to replicate the unique shimmering eďŹ&#x20AC;ect, its technology is securer than current anti-counterfeiting features such as watermarks and holograms, either of which can be forged with readily available printing equipment. Moreover, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s security imagery is directly embossed on papers and plastics, so it requires no additional materials to produce, as opposed to holograms, which need glues and metals to produce. Nanotech Security has stated that its initial target market is the banknote sector. The company says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in negotiations to license its technology to ďŹ ve diďŹ&#x20AC;erent businesses in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;authentication industry,â&#x20AC;? which includes banknotes, tax stamps, passports and other security documents. Ä&#x201A;

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Incentives in shreds? Not quite

Changes to SR&ED program coming your way in 2012 … with more audits David Kaplan

R&ED (scientific research and experimental development) incentives are here to stay, but the program is quietly undergoing significant alteration. Short version: expect more scrutiny. With the federal government projecting a $36-billion deficit, Canada Revenue Agency has narrowed the interpretation of what qualifies as SR&ED to reduce the value of projects and expenses qualifying for refunds or credits. Change began in June 2010 with a radically new CRA directive to deny SR&ED claims lacking “sufficient” supporting evidence, even if the projects clearly met the definition of SR&ED. Now more claims are being denied, and CRA has reduced its payout by about 30 per cent. At the same time, CRA in British Columbia has increased its audit staff by 50 per cent so as to scrutinize each claim more closely. More importantly now than ever, to qualify for R&D tax credits and claims, organizations must understand how to navigate through the program from identifying projects to documenting and submitting claims. Here are my top tips for SR&ED claims: 1. The “strongly novel” (SN) test. Every year, CRA introduces a new standard of what qualifies for SR&ED. In 2012, your work will need to pass what my firm calls the “strongly novel” test: CRA’s auditors will accept as novel only projects that represent attempts to go beyond industry standards. Your auditor will try to define your activities as routine or standard practice in your industry. You should know, however, that the actual legal requirement is for your projects to advance your company’s standards, not your industry’s standards. 2. Timesheets: The CRA says that documentation created during the normal course of business will suffice as evidence of SR&ED. In a new application bulletin,

CRA now requires companies to justify the claiming of payroll time by use of notated timesheets. When chosen for audit, you’ll receive a demand for documentation. Since it can take some 40 hours to prepare for and respond to an audit, keep your records easily accessible to reduce the drain on your time. 3. CRA treats scientific research (SR) well. CRA appears to have decided that pure and applied research (SR) is the good side of the “&”. This may be both expedient and optically prudent: expedient because SR only accounts for 10 per cent of all SR&ED claims, optically prudent because SR most closely resembles the plain-language meaning of “R&D.” Yet while CRA will be inclined to accept SR, your documentation will still need to include notated timesheets. 4. CRA treats experimental development (ED) harshly. Even as recently as 2010, SR&ED was an incentive program. The success of reviewers was measured by how much money they gave out. Today, reviewers are called auditors. Their focus is on compliance, their success measured by how much money they don’t give out. Nevertheless, B.C. firms still receive $500 million in SR&ED tax incentives annually, of which about half are refunds to smaller companies. 5. If you receive an investment tax credit (ITC) in 2012, you’ll receive one in 2013. My company’s view is that if you pass the new, more stringent process, you’re considered to have scored well, and we predict that in future, you’ll see fewer SR&ED reviews. 6. The federal government has announced reductions to the SR&ED tax credit. These will take effect from January 1, 2013, through 2014. As a result, the SR&ED credit for large, foreign and public companies

will be reduced by up to 33 per cent. Small private companies will receive six to 20 per cent less too. On the positive side, however, CRA will be able to provide pre-claim rulings on eligibility. Ă David Kaplan is president of Revenue Services Group, B.C.’s largest SR&ED advisory ﬁrm, and SREDable.com, which produces online R&D tracking and claim software. Before founding these companies, he was a senior M&A executive with Ernst and Young. For more information, visit www.revenuservices. ca and www.sredable.com or email david. kaplan@revenueservices.ca.

Taking the awful out of the audit What you can do to improve SR&ED compliance Parts, not the whole: CRA is disinclined to accept an entire develop ment project as SR&ED. Make claims for components of the project. Out with the yardstick: Make sure your objective is measurable. All in the details: In the main body of your claim, include daily notes and references with details about the problems you’ve encountered and the failures you’ve experienced. Document, document, document: Generate R&D documentation. Online tools allow for such documentation to be constructed collaboratively. Some organizations assign tasks internally or employ external consultants to keep records. If your key employees aren’t trained in R&D, an external consultant may be helpful.

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Building your patent portfolio How to convert your company’s R&D into valuable patent rights Amy M. Fong

patent portfolio can be a company’s most valuable business asset, as highlighted by last year’s auction of the patents of bankrupt Nortel Networks to Apple Inc., Microsoft, Sony, Research in Motion Ltd., Ericsson and EMC Corp. for $4.5 billion and, more recently, Google Inc.’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Inc. for $12.5 billion, motivated by Google’s desire to beef up its patent holdings. While purchasing the massive patent portfolio of another company is a pipe dream for most, a smaller but still commercially valuable portfolio may be within reach if you look no farther than your own company’s R&D, and work with an experienced patent agent. A patent portfolio can position your company as a key technology player, attract investment capital, generate licensing revenue and bar competitors from entering the market in your particular niche. Whether you’re just starting out with designing your ﬁrst technology or you’ve been innovating for some time, these tips can help you build your patent portfolio. 1. Identify your patentable technology. First, determine the extent of patent protection available for your technology. Conduct searches to determine whether your company’s invention is both novel and non-obvious – two requirements for patentability. If the searches reveal existing devices that diﬀer in only trivial respects from your technology, then protection could be narrow in scope and easily designed around, however, if the searches

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don’t reveal anything remotely similar, then protection could be broad and commercially worthwhile. Evaluate whether the expected beneﬁts justify the expense of obtaining a patent.

is ﬁled. A few countries, including Canada and the U.S., have a grace period allowing an application to be ﬁled within one year after the earliest public disclosure by the inventor.

2. Develop a patent-filing strategy. A patent gives the owner the exclusive rights to make and sell an invention and license such rights to others. These rights are enforceable only in the country in which the patent is granted. Look at your budget and business objectives to determine where and what kind of application to file. In deciding where to file, consider market monopoly (where you want to control competition) and licensing (where your potential licensees are manufacturing or selling). If your technology is still evolving, filing a provisional application – a placeholder type of application available in the United States – may be a good tactic for securing an early priority date, but a provisional is only as good as the expense and effort invested in it. A hastily prepared provisional that describes the invention too briefly or too vaguely can fail to provide any protection at all. Work with a patent agent to obtain the best and broadest protection for your technology.

4. The more, the merrier. Even if your company is developing only one technology, consider filing multiple patent applications focused on different aspects of the technology. You can use this strategy to build a patent portfolio quickly without necessarily breaking the bank, as the work done to prepare one application can be reused for related applications. It is generally easier to enforce and benefit from patent rights if you have a family of patents covering a particular technology.

3. File early and on time. File a patent application as soon as possible and before any public disclosure of your invention. In most countries, valid protection cannot be obtained if the invention has been publicly disclosed before an application

5. Make sure you own it. Regardless of whether the inventors are employees or independent contractors, make sure to obtain a written assignment of ownership of inventions to your company from all inventors both at the time of their hiring and (again) at the ﬁling of each patent application. Not only can a proper assignment help you avoid messy disputes over patent ownership, but in Canada and the U.S., an applicant’s title to a patent isn’t secure against subsequent assignees unless an executed assignment document is recorded in the patent oﬃce. Ă Amy M. Fong is a lawyer and patent and trademark agent at Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP. She can be reached at 604-6693432, AFong@patentable.com.

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Robert Miggins, business development vice-president, Peer 1 Managed Hosting. Based in Vancouver, Peer 1 has 18 data-storage facilities in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.

B.C. cloud, sunny outlook Finding enough staff the only bar to rapid IT growth throughout the province Ąby Nigel Reid loud computing is rapidly fuelling growth in British Columbia’s technology sector, according to key players in the region. The term refers to the use of a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data and applications via the Internet. “B.C. is hot right now,” says Robert Miggins, business development

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vice-president at Peer 1 Managed Hosting. Based in Vancouver, Peer 1 has 18 data-storage facilities across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom and has also recently launched a cloud-speciﬁc service called Zunicore. “We launched Zunicore at a trade fair in Santa Clara, California, and we landed 1,000 customers in four months,” Miggins says.

Peer 1’s rapid expansion is far from unusual in cloud computing. The recent partnership of Kelowna-based cloud providers RackForce Networks Inc. and Ontario’s Canadian Cloud Computing is another example of how demand for cutting-edge cloud services is on the up. “Both of our companies are pioneers in cloud computing in Canada,” said Brian Fry, co-founder and chief marketing oﬃcer,

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when he announced the new joint venture in February. “And together we oﬀer a combination of custom cloud solutions and a stable cloud platform.” Another cloud success story is Vancouver-based Themis Solutions Inc., a software company that looks set to double in size this year thanks to the success of its Clio product, a cloud-based package of online tools aimed at the legal profession. The company secured an additional $5.9 million (US$6 million) tranche of funding in January and is looking to double its workforce to 100 people by the end of 2012. Although the nature of cloud computing means that Clio could conceivably

base itself anywhere, Vancouver is a perfect location for many reasons, according to co-founder and chief executive oﬃcer Jack Newton. He says, “We chose Vancouver to grow Clio because we believe it’s one of the best places in the world to build a technology business. There’s a terriﬁc talent pool here, the costs are substantially lower than in Silicon Valley, and there’s an active startup community.” There’s also Global Relay Communications Inc., which recently ranked 94th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for North America. Rapid growth presents its own challenges. A study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. and published in March

2012 predicted that cloud computing could create 14 million new jobs globally in the next four years, with 70,000 of these opening up across Canada and some 6,000 in B.C. Finding talent with the skills to fill these new positions is proving difficult, comments Rob Bucci, founder and owner of Vancouver-based STAT Search Analytics, Inc. Bucci’s company uses new developments in database and data-hosting technology to make sense of vast volumes of Internet traffic. It employs around a dozen people in Vancouver and elsewhere across North America. Bucci says, “I can tell you point-blank that it’s really hard for us to hire the

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At RackForce Networks, staff react to a system alert. Every device and the complete data centre environment are monitored. When something falls outside of the expected parameters, the network operations team or facilities teams are immediately alerted. Redundant systems react automatically, and additional changes are made by the appropriate expert, often via tablet computer

people we need. Supply of talent has not yet caught up to the new demand or even the current demand. “Plus you have large companies in Mountain View [home to Google] and Silicon Valley hiring right out of high school, and so a lot of the talent we are producing here in B.C. is not sticking around, or it goes away and comes back and demands $150,000 a year.” Clio chief Jack Newton agrees that finding people with the right skills is the biggest obstacle his company faces as it expands. “We’re hiring as many people as we can find,” Newton says. “Recruiting designers and developers is our number 1 challenge.” The main problem, according to Newton, is the time lag from when tech has requirements and when the colleges produce graduates with the expertise to meet them. “There’s probably a lot of enrolment happening in computer science courses across Canada as a result of the current boom, but we’re not going to see those graduates for another four or five years,” says Newton. Ă

Big data, big business New field spells promise as needs expand for storage and operations According to IBM, 90 per cent of the world’s data have been produced in the past two years. The storage and translation of this “big data” are already big business, generating an estimated $20 billion each year globally. As Robert Miggins, business development vice-president of Peer 1 Hosting Solutions explains, the demand for services that can store and analyze digital information on such a huge scale is expected to increase. He says, “The explosion of data in our world – whether it’s coming from mobile devices or cameras on street corners or digital photography – the collection and storage of all this data (not to mention our browsing habits and how we can be cookied) have led to a huge demand for the management of unstructured data. And that demand is only going to grow from this point.” Smaller British Columbian businesses are beneﬁtting from a sector that was once the preserve of global database

brands such as Oracle. Performance and capacity advancements in the use of solid-state drive, also known as solidstate disc (SSD), technology, coupled with lower relative prices, has resulted in the ability of smaller operations to host, sort and translate vast quantities of data. According to Rob Bucci, founder and owner of STAT Search Analytics Inc., advancements in performance and lower costs are creating a burgeoning new sector, open to businesses of all sizes. Bucci, whose Vancouver-based operation employs a dozen people in Canada and the United States, says, “It’s a whole new ball game. We host seven terabytes of data and rotate that on a daily basis. That allows us to do things that were just impossible before. Our entire business depends on our ability to collect and handle large amounts of data without having to have massive investment in infrastructure.”

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REGIONAL SUMMARIES

Home base, revenue base Strength in tech across the province ĂGreater Victoria ĄMid-North Vancouver Island & Coast ĂOkanagan ĂWest Kootenays & Boundary

Ă GREATER VICTORIA Served by: Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC) Capital-city capability With more than 800 companies employing more than 13,000 and generating over $1.95 billion in annual revenue, advanced technology is Greater Victoria’s number-1 private industry. A 2010 online survey of 500 tech ﬁrms in the Victoria area found that 55 per cent of the region’s tech sales had occurred outside of British Columbia, with 28 per cent to the United States and 11 per cent to Europe. Information technology, new media and software are the region’s top three subsectors by total number of companies. Engineering tech, software and advanced manufacturing lead in revenue generated. Ocean science, marine tech and environmental tech are other core capabilities. The University of Victoria, the Innovation and Development Corporation, Vancouver Island Technology Park, Camosun College and Royal Roads University are among the area’s ﬁrst-class research and educational institutions. Source: VIATeC Ă MIDNORTH VANCOUVER

ISLAND & COAST Served by: Mid-Island Science, Technology and Innovation Council (MISTIC) Island ingenuity The mid-island tech sector, found from the Malahat North to the tip of Vancouver Island, along the Sunshine Coast and on the Gulf Islands, comprises more than

949 successful companies and is growing. A 2010 survey of 420 businesses has shown that 63 per cent have five or fewer employees and 37 per cent between 10 and 50. Seventy-seven per cent of companies have annual revenue less than $1 million and 23 per cent between $1 million and $5 million. While most customers are in B.C., the region exports its specialized skills and innovations worldwide. Software, advanced manufacturing, IT, engineering, food and beverage tech, aquaculture, clean tech and environmental tech are among the core advanced capabilities. The four campuses of Vancouver Island University are the top advanced tech resources. Source: MISTIC Ă OKANAGAN Served by: Accelerate Okanagan Technologically OK The Okanagan’s tech sector boasts more than 300 advanced organizations employing a diversity of talent in IT, engineering and science. The region is home to data storage, clean tech, life science, aerospace and aviation, wireless, multimedia, software and web development and composite manufacturing. A secure seismic environment; cheap, reliable power; and quality of life have attracted high-efficiency data centres and web-analytics firms. The University of British Columbia Okanagan campus, the region’s largest research facility, is opening a new Health Sciences Centre and a new Engineering Management Education Building and is assembling a research

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team to support the local wine industry. The Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre and the new Jim Pattison Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation at Okanagan College are other research centres. Source: Accelerate Okanagan Ă WEST KOOTENAYS & BOUNDARY Served by: Kootenay Association for Science and Technology (KAST) Outdoor lifestyle meets technology The West Kootenays & Boundary region’s robust tech sector has over 200 companies employing more than 2,000 highly skilled professionals. Excellent telecommunications infrastructure and proximity to Spokane, Vancouver, Seattle and Calgary give tech firms global reach, allowing companies to offer employees a “live here, work anywhere” lifestyle. Digital media, software development, mining, metallurgy and material science plus energy and environmental management make up a diversified regional sector. Recent successes include software development, mineral manufacturing and geographical informational systems. The South Kootenay Business Centre in Trail is a new business incubator catering to tech startups. Source: Ference Weicker & Co. Ą EAST KOOTENAYS Served by: Kootenay Rockies Innovation Council (KRIC) Expertise on the summits The East Kootenays’ flourishing tech industry boasts an estimated 410

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companies in communities like Creston, Cranbrook and Rossland. The sector employs more than 8,000 and generates over $1 billion in annual revenue. Agriculture technology, advanced materials, forestry, mining and oil and gas are the top drivers, but tech companies serving other industries are rapidly taking root as well. The Kootenay Rockies Innovation Council is working to develop and promote talent in the area’s digital media, and more than 60 businesses of this type in the region work in ﬁlm, television gaming and IT. Source: Ference Weicker & Co.

include access to transportation links between Asia and the North American heartland, abundant industrial land and a skilled workforce. Source: Cambria Gordon Ltd. Ă PEACE LIARDSTIKINE Served by: Science & Technology Association of the North (Sci-Tech North) Energetic northern tech The Peace Liard-Stikine region’s tech sector comprises over 85 diverse companies employing more than 1,000 people and generating about $200 million in

revenue in 2010. New drilling technology is unlocking the region’s vast reserves of unconventional shale gas. Local companies excel at applying innovative technology to the region’s booming oiland-gas industry as well as to agriculture and forestry. Software, web design and hosting, IT and new media are regional strengths. The sector also has expertise in alternative energy and wireless tech and is also growing in environmental tech. The proposed Site C hydroelectric dam near Fort St. John will create opportunities for regional tech. Ă

Ă CENTRAL INTERIOR Served by: Interior Science Innovation Council (ISIC) Resourceful Interior The Central Interior tech sector has more than 88 thriving companies that employ about 1,500 people and generate more than $250 million in revenue. Software development, web design and hosting plus forestry, mining, engineering, bioenergy and environmental science and tech are strong points. The region includes Kamloops, Ashcroft and Williams Lake. Kamloops is home to three new data centres representing $300 million in investment and employing 120 people. Thompson Rivers University is the region’s state-of-the-art research-and-development centre. Source: ISIC Ă NORTHWEST B.C. Served by: Northwest Science & Innovation Society (NSIS) Tech booms in province’s industrial hub The Northwest’s vibrant tech sector consists of about 175 companies in Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Terrace and Smithers, collectively employing thousands. Regional know-how covers telecommunications, manufacturing, software and web design and hosting. The region’s abundant energy is an advantage for advanced energy-intensive manufacturing, while the area’s growing role as an energytransportation hub presents opportunities for specialized service-and-supply and tech support for oil and gas. Local companies also innovate in manufacturing wood products, producing biomass energy and creating wireless communications networks. The Northwest’s advantages www.bctechmagazine.ca

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YEAR IN REVIEW

Tech talk The year’s highlights in innovation

Ąby Noa Glouberman rom computer stands to space cams, from truck engines to touchscreens, it’s been a busy year for British Columbia’s technology industry.

January 31, 2011: Tech on track Free on-board wi-ﬁ access was added to trains travelling between Vancouver and Oregon via Amtrak’s Cascades route. February 1, 2011: Cool tool The line of aluminum rests and stands from ChillBed Industries that absorb heat to keep portable computers cool won a CBC Vancouver contest judged by investor Brett Wilson, former dragon on Dragons’ Den. February 15, 2011: iDating Appsocial tested Tingle – a “decidedly female-friendly” dating app that connects singles on their iPhones – in Vancouver, its hometown. The startup surveyed hundreds of women in designing the app. February 16, 2011: Sounds of success With tens of millions of unique views monthly, MetroLyrics, a database of song lyrics developed by Burnaby’s Milun Tesovic, joined MySpace and Yahoo! Music as one of the world’s most-visited music websites. March 2, 2011: Good day sunshine Burnaby’s Day4 Energy Inc., which produces products that turn solar energy into electricity, received certiﬁcation to enter the growing British market. March 4, 2011: Record set The 1st Video app by Kelowna startup VeriCorder Technology Inc., which lets journalists record, edit and send videos ready for broadcast and podcast instantly

from their iPhones or iPads, received top marks from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute in Missouri. March 17, 2011: Stash of cash The Mid-Island Science Technology & Innovation Council and the Interior Science and Innovation Council split a $1-million grant from the governments of Canada and B.C. to support tech companies outside of Metro Vancouver. March 28, 2011: Following suit E-commerce company Indochino Inc. raised $4 million in ﬁnancing for technology and product development. The Vancouver startup’s online measurement process lets customers purchase customtailored menswear over the Internet. April 15, 2011: It’s electric Kelowna’s Awesense Wireless Inc., which develops tools to help utility companies identify electrical distribution losses, presented its wireless sensor system at the Northern Cleantech Showcase in Silicon Valley. The system consists of portable amperage monitors that clamp to electrical utility conductors to measure power without disrupting service and USB data collectors that collect information from the monitors wirelessly. April 19, 2011: Hockey highlights Just in time for the lead-up to the Stanley Cup Playoﬀs, Atimi Software Inc. updated its popular Vancouver Canucks app to include trivia tests, social messaging and a “fan noise” meter to test the volume of users’ “Looouuu” chants. May 3, 2011: Just eat it A made-in-Vancouver mobile app – Eat St. – hit 100,000 downloads from Apple’s iTunes

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Sidney’s AXYS Technologies supplied Puma Energy with a WatchMate buoy to provide meteorological and oceanographic data for its Guatemalan terminal operations

store. This tool from Invoke Media, offering location-based links to restaurants featured on Food Network Canada’s Eat St. series, is one of the first to let viewers interact with a television program in real time. May 6, 2011: Critical contact Portable satellite terminals by Norsat International Inc. were used in relief efforts following the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that shook Japan in March 2011. The Richmond company’s technology provided the American military with communications capabilities in a certain disaster area that experienced logistical challenges. May 10, 2011: Can’t touch this University of British Columbia scientist Vincent Lévesque demonstrated his team’s T-PaD device at the CHI 2011 conference in Vancouver. The touchscreen uses high-frequency vibrations to create a thin layer of air between the glass and a user’s finger, resulting in physical sensations like those experienced in real-world interactions. May 16, 2011: Tap app Metro Vancouver released a mobile tool to help thirsty people find free water throughout the area. The Tap Map app includes the locations of over 550 drinking fountains in member municipalities. June 2, 2011: Smart tracking Launched in December 2010, Vancouverbased TaxiNow – a free app that uses GPS to help users find cabs close by – gained traction thanks to the Canucks’ run for the Stanley Cup. The tool lets people see their taxis moving toward them on their smartphone screens in real time. Photo: AXYS Technologies Inc.

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June 13, 2011: Claims to fame The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) started using Google Street View to help resolve some insurance claims. ICBC says the mapping technology is a cost-effective alternative to having adjusters visit accident scenes in person or to hiring investigators to produce official photos of crash sites. June 15, 2011: Let’s ride Whistler Blackcomb unveiled plans to add functions to its Live app that would let skiers use their smartphones for lift tickets, to pay for meals and retail items and to get snow and weather reports in real time. July 6, 2011: Beta breakout Kinjoe, a Vancouver startup, released the beta version of its new social network to B.C. residents. The website helps city dwellers connect with people who live within 20 minutes’ walking distance and share similar interests. July 8, 2011: Conference in the uther Utherverse Digital Inc. hosted the world’s first completely virtual convention, featuring exhibitors, live entertainment, cocktail parties and an invitation-only reception. The Vancouver company transforms “flat” 2-D websites into 3-D experiences that enable more sophisticated interactions among users. August 9, 2011: Northern lights The Tsay Keh Dene First Nation outfitted a remote airfield with solar LED lighting systems by Victoria’s Carmanah Technologies Corp. The lights will help aircraft navigate to and from the village, located remotely in B.C.’s northern Interior.

November 3, 2011: Like the wind Finavera Wind Energy Inc. in Vancouver received permission to construct and operate Ireland’s largest onshore wind initiative. The Cloosh Valley project will generate energy to provide electricity to more than 68,000 residences. November 6, 2011: In control iDUS Controls Ltd. competed in the Best New Product contest at the Irrigation Show & Education Conference in San Diego. The Nanaimo company’s solar-powered irrigation controller takes the guesswork out of watering times by allowing farmers to select a soil-moisture setting. It then automatically maintains the proper irrigation regime. January 13, 2012: Bug off To test its pesticide-free bedbug solution, Vancouver’s SemiosBio put out a call for live bedbugs, oﬀering to pay $1 per bug. The company collaborated with UBC’s department of food and land sciences to manufacture pheromones that can draw the insects into a trap.

February 7, 2012: Highest heights A ParAthletes of Canada team led by amputee Kimberly Fawcett climbed to Mount Kilimanjaro’s highest summit using Sechelt-based SideStix’s shock-absorbent forearm crutches, which feature attachable tips for a variety of terrains. February 12, 2012: Big bites From Lady Gaga to Paul McCartney, some of music’s biggest stars snacked on treats supplied by Nonuttin’ Foods Inc. at the 2012 Grammy Awards. The Duncan company makes gluten-free granola bars and trail mixes that exclude nine of the top-10 food allergens.

Photos: (top) NASA; (bottom) Burcon NutraScience Corp.

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February 24, 2012: Oh buoy AXYS Technologies Inc., Sidney, supplied oil company Puma Energy with a WatchMate buoy to provide

February 27, 2012: Watch this space MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was selected to provide information solutions for two video cameras bound for the International Space Station in late 2012. The cameras will stream pictures and constant, near-live video to Earth.

Two new cameras featuring information solutions by MDA will be installed on the International Space Station in late 2012

February 23, 2012: Peas, please Vancouver’s Burcon NutraScience Corp. began discussions to commercialize its Peazazz pea-protein isolate, which could be used as an alternative plant-protein ingredient in foods and beverages. Burcon NutraScience’s Peazazz pea-protein isolate could be used as an alternative plant-protein ingredient in foods and beverages

meteorological and oceanographic data for its Guatemalan terminal operations.

February 28, 2012: Video star Immersive Media, Kelowna, collaborated with Intel Corp. to optimize its IM360 video player for new android smartphones. Immersive’s app gives users access to the world’s largest library of 360-degree video content, including music videos, city tours and sporting events. March 2, 2012: Of game fame ISM, a leading agency representing independent game developers, has opened its first Canadian office in Vancouver, adding local dealmaker Sean Murch to its agents. Murch was previously in charge of central development for EA Sports. March 8, 2012: A star is born Prototype Equipment Design joined an international project in Chile that aims to provide insight into how stars are formed. Using “waveguide-assembly” technology, the Victoria firm made receiver components that will help the world’s largest radio telescope – the Atacama Large Millimeter/Sub-millimeter Array – filter radio waves from outer space to a range of between 84 and 116 gigahertz. Ă

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Industry associations Accelerate Okanagan Technology Association (AOTA) JeďŹ&#x20AC; Keen, CEO 1405 St Paul St Suite 201 Kelowna, BC V1Y 2E4 T: 250-870-9028 F: 250-870-9140 E: contact@accelerateokanagan.com www.accelerateokanagan.com Aerospace Industry Association of BC 211 Columbia St Suite 102 Vancouver, BC V6A 2R5 T: 604-638-1477 F: 604-681-4545 E: info@aiabc.com www.aiabc.com Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of BC (ASTTBC) John Leech, Executive Director 10767 148 St Surrey , BC V3R 0S4 T: 604-585-2788 F: 604-585-2790 E: jleech@asttbc.org www.asttbc.org Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (APEGBC) 4010 Regent St Suite 200 Burnaby, BC V5C 6N2 T: 604-430-8035 F: 604-430-8085 E: apeginfo@apeg.bc.ca www.apeg.bc.ca BC Environment Industry Association (BCEIA) Frank Came, Executive Director 602 Hastings St W Suite 400 Vancouver, BC V6B 1P2 T: 604-683-2751 F: 604-677-5960 E: executivedirector@bceia.com www.bceia.com

BC Regional Science & Technology Network (BCRSTN) Dan Gunn, Chairman 4464 Markham St Suite 2202 Victoria, BC V8Z 7X8 T: 250-483-3214 F: 250-483-3201 www.bcrstn.com BC Sustainable Energy Association 4217 Glanford Ave Suite 5 Victoria, BC V8Z 2B9 T: 250-744-2720 E: info@bcsea.org www.bcsea.org BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900 Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2 T: 604-683-6159 E: info@bctia.org www.bctia.org BCNET 515 Hastings St W Suite 7376 Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 T: 604-822-1348 F: 604-822-9887 E: info@bc.net www.bc.net British Columbia Industrial Design Association PO Box 33943 Vancouver, BC V6J 4L7 T: 604-608-3204 F: 604-608-3204 E: email@bcid.com www.bcid.com Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900 Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2 T: 604-283-1040 F: 604-283-1043 E: info@chfca.ca www.h2fcc.ca DigiBC - The Digital Media and Wireless Association of BC Howard Donaldson 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900 Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2 T: 604-602-5237 E: howard@digibc.org www.digibc.org

HR Tech Group 4389 Maple St Vancouver, BC V6J 3V9 T: 604-874-2653 F: 604-874-2654 www.hrtechgroup.com Interior Science Innovation Council Bill McQuarrie, Executive Director 348 Tranquille Rd Kamloops , BC V2B 3G6 T: 250-828-1713 E: info@isic.ca www.isic.ca International Internet Marketing Association (IIMA) 349 Georgia St W PO Box 4018 Vancouver, BC V6B 3Z4 T: 866-IIMA-441 E: info@iimaonline.org www.iimaonline.org Kootenay Association for Science and Technology (KAST) Kelvin Saldern, Executive Director 2196 LeRoi Ave Suite 108 Box 119 Rossland, BC V0G 1Y0 T: 250-483-5052 F: 250-483-6872 E: info@kast.com www.kast.com

PaciďŹ c Aircaft Maintenance Engineers Association 5400 Airport Rd S Suite 314 Richmond, BC V7B 1B4 T: 604-279-9579 F: 604-279-9566 E: pamea@telus.net www.pamea.com Sci-Tech North Lori Ackerman, Executive Director 9325 100th St Fort St John, BC V1J 4N4 T: 250-785-9600 F: 250-785-9649 E: lori@scitechnorth.bc.ca www.scitechnorth.bc.ca T-Net British Columbia 1207 PaciďŹ c Blvd Suite 300 Vancouver, BC V6Z 2R6 T: 604-899-4146 www.bctechnology.com

Kootenay Rockies Innovation Council (KRIC) Larry Sparks, Executive Director 110A Slater Rd NW Cranbrook, BC V1C 5C8 T: 250-426-6388 F: 250-489-1886 E: info@kric.ca www.kric.ca

Victoria Advanced Technology Council (VIATeC) Dan Gunn, Executive Director 4464 Markham St Suite 2202 Victoria, BC V8Z 7X8 T: 250-483-3214 E: info@viatec.ca www.viatec.ca

LifeSciences British Columbia 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900 Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2 T: 604-669-9909 F: 604-669-9912 www.lifesciencesbc.ca Mid-Island Science Technology and Innovation Council (MISTIC) Paris Gaudet, Executive Director 150 Commercial St Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G6 T: 250-753-8324 F: 250-754-0165 E: mistic@mistic.ca www.mistic.bc.ca

Northwest Science and Innovation Society (NSIS) Christine Slanz, Executive Director 4644 Lazelle Ave Suite 211 Terrace, BC V8G 1S6 T: 250-638-0950 E: contact@nsis.ca www.nsis.ca

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2012 Technology Impact Awards BC’S MARK ON THE WORLD

2012 TECHNOLOGY IMPACT AWARDS

THE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT AWARDS (TIAs) celebrate the successes of BC’s tech industry and the companies, people and innovation that continue to put British Columbia on the map. Founded in 1994, the awards are hosted by the BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). As the voice of BC’s technology industry, the BCTIA is a member-funded organization committed to growing British Columbia’s technology industry. The BCTIA provides ongoing advocacy and lobbying eﬀorts, and delivers a broad range of programs and services that provide the tech community with opportunities to connect, generate new ideas and grow their companies. Programs include the TIAs, where excellence in innovation is celebrated; Peer2Peer groups, where members connect to learn; and Centre4Growth, where tech entrepreneurs connect with seasoned CEOs-in-Residence for guidance through growth challenges.

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ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY Sponsored by Deloitte

Acknowledging a BC-based company or organization that has adopted BC-based technology, resulting in significant improvements in productivity, competitiveness or profitability

WINNER

Webtech Wireless Inc.

Safer Drivers and More Efficient Trucking in Northeast BC

2012 TECHNOLOGY IMPACT AWARDS

n an industry not known for its technological forwardness, Fort St. John-based Troyer Ventures is breaking new ground, improving both operational efficiency and driver safety with solutions from Webtech Wireless. Founded in 1999 with a single truck, Troyer Ventures now has a fleet of more than 100 heavytruck units across northeastern BC and Alberta. To fulfil the company’s growth potential, owner Steve Troyer has embraced integrated technology solutions. Typically, fleets are saddled with mountains of paperwork and horrible redundancies. Drivers must prepare paper driver logs that are manually re-entered and scanned by dispatch, then re-entered again for billing. However, by integrating the Webtech Wireless Quadrant solution into the company’s TMWSuite back-end system, Troyer Ventures is redefining its position as a technology leader by: ĄReducing duplication to make processes more efficient ĄIncreasing compliance with complex Hours of Service (HoS) rules ĄReducing errors arising from misunderstandings between drivers and dispatch

ĄCreating a safer environment for drivers by eliminating cell phone use while driving ĄReducing driver fatigue resulting from excessive hours of service With less downtime and the ability for dispatch to communicate with trucks on the road through Webtech Wireless’ Mobile Data Terminal (MDT), customer service and satisfaction are also improving. Troyer Ventures chose the Webtech Wireless Quadrant solution because

it is the most complete package for vehicle tracking, HoS management and in-cab communications. “One challenge is that we’re in a blue-collar industry,” states Troyer Ventures’ owner, Steve Troyer. Integrating technology into operations where workers are not familiar with technology takes good products and experience. For Troyer, product and process training was instrumental in the success of the implementation, as most staﬀ need training on components of the new system. For Troyer, the implementation is showing many beneﬁts that are expected to increase over the next 12 months as the solution provides a complete return on investment. Now it’s time for the rest of the industry to catch up to Troyer.

Burnaby, BC TSX:WEW www.webtechwireless.com

“In the end, it all pays off – we doubled our revenue.” – Steve Troyer, Owner, Troyer Ventures

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COMPANY OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP

Acknowledging a company that is a recognized leader in the technology industry – applicants must show superior business development and revenue in excess of $15 million

WINNER

Avigilon

Seeing a Global Market More Clearly

world leader in highdefinition video surveillance technology, Avigilon has achieved significant growth through its ongoing product innovation and its commitment to developing and releasing new products that improve the performance of video surveillance. Providing customers with the best evidence and return on investment is the key to Avigilon’s business. The company got its start when Alexander Fernandes, Avigilon co-founder, president and CEO, needed a high-quality surveillance system at his former company to protect critical assets. Quickly realizing that the quality of available surveillance technology was inadequate, Fernandes leveraged his 20 years of experience in high-end digital imaging technology to develop the world’s first end-

to-end HD surveillance system. Incorporated in October 2004, Avigilon officially launched its highdefinition surveillance system in November 2007, and the company has experienced exponential annual growth ever since. In late 2011, Avigilon was ranked the fastestgrowing software company in North America on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™ list and went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange through an initial product offering. Avigilon now employs more than 180 people, with 75% of its staff located in its Vancouver, BC, global headquarters and its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Richmond, BC, and all of its components are designed and manufactured in

Canada. Customers rely on Avigilon for the best quality and most reliable products in the industry. Avigilon attributes much of its success to its ability to innovate on every level. Becoming a sustainable and proﬁtable company within just 18 months of product launch is a testament to that capacity for innovation.

Vancouver, BC TSX: AVO www.avigilon.com

Tracking, Managing and Securing Mobile Devices Absolute was founded in 1993 on the idea that individuals and businesses should be able to track, manage and secure their mobile computers regardless of the devices’ physical locations. Today the company’s solutions secure and manage millions of computers, tablets and other devices around the world. Absolute’s customers include the largest public and private sector organizations. The company has partnerships with leading computer manufacturers (including Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic, Samsung and Toshiba) to embed its Computrace persistence module into their ﬁrmware. Gartner has positioned Absolute as a Visionary in its Client Management Tools Magic Quadrant. A publicly listed

company, Absolute had 2011 revenues of $72.2M and more than 330 employees worldwide.

Absolute Software Corporation Vancouver, BC www.absolute.com TSX: ABT

Connecting the Smart Grid In the near future, all utilities will be adopting smart grid technology – not just electrical utilities, but water and gas too. With one of the most reliable, scalable and flexible networks on the market, Tantalus offers an on-ramp to smart grid communications, and its steadily increasing revenues and market share reflect its smart

grid leadership. In 2011, Tantalus signed a signiﬁcant operational partnership with Itron, a large international meter manufacturer that will expand Tantalus’ reach into all territories of North and Central America. More than 40 utilities now use Tantalus, from rural electric utilities in the harshest regions of Alaska to municipalities at the forefront of utility modernization and ambitious energy-eﬃciency initiatives. Founded in 1989, Tantalus has 130 employees.

Tantalus Systems Corp. Burnaby, BC www.tantalus.com

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EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCT INNOVATION Sponsored by MDA

Acknowledging a unique solution or product that has the ability to dramatically impact or change the current market

WINNER

Recon Instruments

Heads-up Display for Sports Enthusiasts

n a competitive environment, both professional and amateur athletes want realtime stats. To satisfy this requirement, the MOD Live platform from Recon Instruments provides TruStats, the most accurate measurements possible, through a stunning direct-to-eye display – a Heads-Up Display for goggles. With its MOD Live oﬀering, Recon has created a new product category for sports enthusiasts, beginning with skiers and snowboarders. The technology is a modular optics and sensor system that easily snap-ﬁts into Recon Ready goggles from leading brands such as Scott, Smith, Zeal, Briko, Uvex and Alpina. The MOD Live’s HUD utilizes advanced mirror and prism technology to augment images and simulate a 15-inch screen as seen from 6 feet. With this feature, users don’t need to re-focus their eyes in order to view the HUD.

Mid-2012, Recon will be providing an SDK that will enable developers to create and share applications for the MOD Live, using MOD Live’s advanced sensor system (which includes a 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyro, 3-axis magnetometer, barometer and temperature sensors). The MOD Live can display 2D graphics at up to 30 fps and features synchronized sensor polling, free-fall detection and gravity, linear acceleration and rotation vector. More than just the goggle hardware, the MOD Live technology embodies a key element of sports: community. Using a hosted system, Recon’s online HQ, Recon can extend the user’s experience with sharing, bragging and exploring.

Vancouver, BC www.reconinstruments.com

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Largest Product Release in SAP History In 2011, SAP released SAP BusinessObjects 4.0, a complete suite of analytic technologies that allows organizations of all sizes to analyze and make better decisions with their business data. Spanning more than 40 products, it was one of the biggest software releases in SAP’s history. Over 90% of the nearly 1,200 employees at the SAP Vancouver site were dedicated to the development, support, partnerships and customer service for this latest product release. Contributing to SAP’s best performance in the company’s history, the BI 4.0 release had more than 40,000 software downloads from the SAP service marketplace, 250,000+ downloads of SAP Mobile BI apps via the Apple App

Store and more than 2.8 million impressions for SAP BI4 via social media.

SAP Canada Vancouver, BC www.sap.com/canada NYSE: SAP

Web Control in the Endpoint Sophos has long been a leader in endpoint security. Beginning as anti-virus, Sophos Endpoint Security now incorporates a number of critical security technologies, the latest of which is Web Control, the ability to block users from visiting malicious websites and malicious scripts from running in the user’s browser.

Developed by Sophos’ Vancouver engineering team, Sophos Web Control in the Endpoint provides the same level of web policy management, reporting and security that enterprises expect from the Sophos Web Appliance, but delivered so that users can take their protection with them, wherever they go. Because the Endpoints use the same policy rules for securing the network as the Web Appliance, users get the same web browsing experience whether they’re in their oﬃces or hotel rooms.

Sophos Vancouver, BC www.sophos.com

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MOST PROMISING PRECOMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGY

Lungpacer Medical Inc.

Helping Ventilator-Dependent Patients Breathe

he most expensive hospital inpatients are intensive care unit (ICU) patients who have become ventilator-dependent and remain in the ICU for weeks or even months. Their failure to wean from mechanical ventilation is often caused by a rapid-onset profound atrophy of the diaphragm muscle. This leads to secondary infections, extended stays and high mortality. To address the weaning issues of critically ill patients, Lungpacer Medical is developing a proprietary Lungpacer IntraVenous Electrode (LIVE) lead that deploys near the phrenic nerves that control the diaphragm. Designed for rapid insertion under local anesthesia, the lead is connected to a bedside Lungpacer Control Unit (LCU) that will rhythmically

activate the diaphragm. Once the patient is breathing naturally again, the lead is removed. Electrical activation is a proven way to combat atrophy and restore muscle strength, and it has been used since the 1970s for patients needing permanent assisted ventilation. What makes the Lungpacer solution unique is that it is

temporary, minimally invasive and significantly more affordable. Lungpacer will generate tremendous savings for the health-care system. The capital cost of one Control Unit will be recovered in just five patient-days of saved ICU time, and using LIVE leads will provide a fivefold return on investment to the hospital for every patient who leaves the ICU just one day earlier. In the US alone, the addressable market for Lungpacer is 70,000 ventilated ICU beds and 500,000 ventilator-dependent ICU patients each year.

Vancouver, BC www.lungpacer.com

Antenna Systems to Support Mobile Data Due to the prevalence of iPhones and other smart phones, requirements for global mobile data capacity are growing exponentially, while the capacity provided by existing radio network solutions is only growing linearly. Dali Wireless’ innovative outdoor and indoor softwareconﬁgurable radio (SCR) distributedantenna systems (DAS) solutions help to close the gap. The Dali DAS boasts the latest digital and wireless semiconductors, software/ ﬁrmware technologies and state-of-theart communication protocols. Its DAS is modulation-agnostic, accommodating all modulations including the 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard. Dali’s innovative products have drawn

interest from a number of venture capitalist ﬁrms, resulting in US$9M raised in its ﬁnancing, in addition to money raised with strategic investors. Dali is also negotiating a strategic OEM partnership with a large US player.

Dali Wireless Vancouver, BC www.daliwireless.com

Detecting Skin Cancer Early Commercializing technology developed by the BC Cancer Agency (BCCA), Verisante is currently developing two products for early cancer detection. Aura™, which has recently received Health Canada approval, provides early detection of skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common and

most rapidly increasing form of cancer, aﬄicting one in six Canadians during their lifetimes. Aura will streamline the diagnosis so that the most eﬀective treatment options can be used and survival rates increased. Beta devices will be available mid-year, with a commercial product available by year end. Verisante’s second product is an endoscopic version known as Core™. It is being developed for use in detecting internal cancers, including lung, cervical and gastrointestinal (GI). Initial studies indicate that Core will set a new standard for lung cancer detection.

Verisante Vancouver, BC www.verisante.com

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MOST PROMISING STARTUP Sponsored by BC Innovation Council

Acknowledging an early-stage company with commercialized products that demonstrates significant potential, creativity and a promising future

WINNER

Kashoo

Online Accounting Software for SMEs

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ashoo is the first online accounting software designed to help small businesses organize and manage their finances. Developed to meet an entrepreneur’s need for managing his own growing software consulting business, Kashoo was built from the ground up to leverage cloud computing. It enables mobility, data sharing, collaboration and above all, simplicity, and provides the peace of mind that comes from knowing your records are always secure and up-to-date. Within months of its soft launch in 2008, Kashoo attracted small businesses from around the world and a number of investment and acquisition offers. Canada’s largest small business tax preparation and planning firm, FBC, is a strategic investor, offering Kashoo to their 50,000 small business clients. FBC has also pledged the financial and human resources to launch Kashoo globally. The Kashoo business model involves two levels of subscription services

“If I didn’t have Kashoo, I would be either paying more money for a much more complicated program or spending money to hire a bookkeeper!” -Jenn Lofgren, CHRP

(Premium and Premium for Teams), as well as a freemium Entrepreneur Edition. Kashoo Premium incorporates the basic Kashoo accounting software, including the iPad app and iPhone apps, as well as the ability to share the account with an accountant or business partner/advisor, multi-currency support, automated bank import, Freshbooks import and premium support – all for just $9.99/month. Over the last 18 months, the Kashoo community has grown to more than 30,000 signups and over 5,000 paying customers. While the Kashoo iPad app is a free download, the company has forecasted 15,000 paying customers by the end of 2012.

Professional Coach, Incito Consulting

Vancouver, BC www.kashoo.com

FINALIST Specialized Processors for High Performance Deregulation and the explosion of electronic trading have changed the financial services landscape. Competitive advantage in today’s electronic marketplace is not about “who we know” or “where we sit,” but rather in electronic trading that is smart, fast and reliable. Today’s electronic trading marketplace requires the real-time processing of large volumes of data. Processing this “fire hose” of data with conventional processors is analogous to spraying a fire hose into a

garden hose; it can be unreliable, cause delays and lose valuable information. One solution is to build custom, fixed-function hardware chips (e.g., FPGA). However, this strategy is inflexible and unable to keep up with rapidly changing market conditions. Based on seven years of R&D in the DSP/military space, Secodix’s patentpending XPU™ platform uniquely enables both the performance of a custom hardware (FPGA) solution and the flexibility required to rapidly change algorithms with traditional software development. For customers, this means increased revenue,

reduced costs, lowered technical risks and quicker time to market. Secodix is working with major financial services firms worldwide. Secodix was founded in November 2009 following five years of research by Dr. Harold Ishebabi, Secodix’s CTO and co-founder.

Secodix Vancouver, BC www.secodix.com

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EMERGING COMPANY OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Wavefront™

Acknowledging an emerging company (more than three years old) demonstrating outstanding performance as a technology enterprise with the potential to become a market leader

WINNER

Tasktop Technologies Inc.

Redefining Software Development

he creators of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project, Tasktop Technologies is a global leader in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Automation solutions. An innovator and a leader, Tasktop is often recognized for its role in changing software development globally. Using Tasktop’s task-focused interfaces developers have been proven to be more productive. Taskfocused technology is rooted in extensive university research conducted by Tasktop founders Dr. Mik Kersten and Dr. Gail Murphy, who are well recognized as software development tooling experts. Tasktop is not only on track with their business plan but is exceeding. On pace

to triple their corporate revenue and grow their employee base by 67 percent in 2012, Tasktop has validated several aspects of its business plan including the ability to meet the expectations of the largest enterprises in the world, the ability to sell its products oﬀ demos without lengthy sales cycles, and the ability to work with large partners to meet their customers’ needs either via

OEM, referral and reseller. Tasktop is now working to scale its sales, marketing, business development and engineering organizations to meet the demand. Tasktop has also developed a solid network of partners including CA and HP who have OEMed their technology and collaboration with IBM to create the OSLC standard. Partners including HP, IBM, Microsoft, ThoughtWorks, and CA have all referred customers to Tasktop.

Vancouver, BC www.tasktop.com

Customer Listening Platforms for Global Brands With 12 years of experience, ResponseTek is a leader in the design, development and deployment of Software-as-aService-based solutions in the Customer Experience Management (CEM) market. Through its ResponseTek Listening Platform™, ResponseTek helps organizations see the link between poor customer service delivery and retention and growth problems. The ResponseTek Listening Platform includes four main product streams: ĄMarket Research – Tools to gather feedback and market research data across the organization ĄFeedback Management – Workﬂow tools to improve customer satisfaction by increasing open dialogue with customers ĄKnowledge Management – A dynamic searchable knowledge base of FAQs including tools to manage and optimize the content

ĄSocial Media Aggregator – Tools for scanning Twitter and other social media to identify key topics and sentiment Operating on a proﬁtable basis, 2011 was a record-setting year for ResponseTek with a 114% increase in new bookings, a 59% increase in revenue overall and a 63% increase in headcount. ResponseTek is also an expert in listening to its own customers, achieving an excellent client retention rate of 91% over the past ﬁve years. Clients include T-Mobile, HSBC, AON, Intuit, Rogers, Vodafone and GlaxoSmithKline.

ResponseTek Networks Corp. Vancouver, BC www.responsetek.com

Breaking New Ground in Outdoor Sports Recon is the only company in the world selling a Heads-Up Display that allows

users to augment their sports activities with real-time statistics and sensory data. Starting with snowboard and skiing enthusiasts, Recon will be entering three new verticals before the end of 2012, including units for downhill mountain biking and motorcross, motorcycle helmets and sunglasses. Due to its technological breakthroughs and innovations, at present Recon is the only incumbent in almost all its markets. While this landscape is rapidly shifting, its ﬁrst-mover advantage and its ability to partner with some of the most recognized brands in the world, from Smith to BMW to NASA, position Recon well in the evolving Heads-Up Display or Directto-Eye market.

Recon Instruments Vancouver, BC www.reconinstruments.com

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TEAM OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Fasken Martineau

Acknowledging a team of individuals, working at a non-executive level, who have made a significant contribution to the overall success of their organization during the past year

WINNER

CounterPath Corporation

Changing the Way the World Communicates

hile 2011 was a fruitful and busy year for everyone at CounterPath, one team was particularly busy innovating the global telecom landscape – the team that delivered the CounterPath-enabled Rogers One Number service for Canadian telecom leader, Rogers. Rogers engaged CounterPath to develop an innovative service that allows Canadians to extend their Rogers wireless numbers to their computers or to tablet devices using a web-based softphone portal and a customized mobile app respectively. To deliver the project, CounterPath pulled together a cross-functional team from its Vancouver and Victoria oﬃces that incorporated 17 development and QA

engineers and 5 sales and marketing team members, including graphic designers, product marketers and documentation specialists. Over the course of the initial 12-month project phase, the team worked closely with several other industry players including HP, Ericsson, Broadsoft and Converse to integrate their technologies.

By project conclusion, the team had delivered a number of innovations that are already having a great inﬂuence on CounterPath’s product and technology portfolio. The importance of the team’s eﬀorts is evidenced by the number of global mobile network operators that were eager for an audience with CounterPath at the GSMA Mobile World Congress. Using software, the face of telecommunications is changing, and the team at CounterPath is a driving force behind that change.

Vancouver, BC TSX-V:CCV OTCBB:CPAH www.counterpath.com

SPONSORS The BCTIA wishes to recognize and thank the following sponsors for their support of the 2012 Technology Impact Awards.

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ĄFasken Martineau ĄKPMG ĄMarketwire ĄMDA ĄMedia FX Group ĄOdgers Berndtson ĄPSAV Presentation Services ĄRogers ĄSAP ĄT-Net ĄWavefront™ ĄWebnames.ca

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PERSON OF THE YEAR Sponsored by Odgers Berndtson

Recognizing an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the BC technology community during the past year

WINNER

Ryan Holmes

Driving a Billion-Dollar Vision

companies, within the Vancouver technology community, and within the social media technology community at large. Holmes and HootSuite have been recognized with the industry’s leading awards, including Mashable’s Best Social Media Management Tool and the United Nations-based World Summit Award for global leadership in e-business. Through HootSuite University, Holmes partners with major universities to deliver social media coursework to the next generation of business leaders. When not at work, Holmes can be found in the mountains and on the ocean with his shelter rescue dog Mika. He also owns the office record for longest-held plank at 11 minutes, 37 seconds. of its corporate strategy (from product development to rooftop party planning) as HootSuite continues the push to revolutionize social communication. Not content to sell-out quick, Holmes’ goal is to create a Billion-dollar BC-based company, one with annual revenues in excess of $100 million. Delivering on his vision, Holmes stewarded a $20 million investment in HootSuite in April 2012 from OMERS Ventures. This financing round valuated the company at $200 Million, one-fifth of his visionary goal. In the meantime, the Vancouver-based team continues tremendous growth with headcount expecting to double again to 250 employees in 2012. Outside of his companies, Holmes garners great respect and admiration by making time as an angel investor and mentor to others with disruptive start-ups. This mentorship can be seen within his

Ryan Holmes CEO, Hootsuite www.hootsuite.com

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true serial entrepreneur, Ryan Holmes exemplifies what a technology CEO should be: innovative, ambitious, and inspiring. As the CEO of HootSuite Media Inc, one of Canada’s hottest start-ups, Holmes is a widely-respected thought leader who has redefined how people use social media - bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom. Starting at age 16, Holmes has created a series of successful companies including a paintball field and online sports supplies company, a pizza-by-the-slice restaurant and Invoke Media. A hybrid web agency/product incubator, Invoke has done custom development for several name brand companies including online humour site The Onion and TV show The Voice, while producing several of their own products including the highly popular HootSuite. Unable to find a suitable tool to manage his clients social media accounts, Holmes created HootSuite in 2008. It was then spun-out in 2009 with a $1.9 million investment, and Holmes at the helm. Projected to grow to 6 million users by the end of 2012, HootSuite is used by 79 of the world’s Fortune 100 companies to manage their social media. As CEO, Holmes remains hands-on in every aspect

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Sponsored by SAP

Awarded to a company that engages its employees in programs and initiatives that have a direct impact on the communities in which they live, work and play

WINNER

ParetoLogic

Developing Stronger Ties to Each Other & the Community

aretoLogic creates security and utility software for the home PC user. ParetoLogic software has been downloaded in more than 196 countries, installed on millions of PCs and solved countless computer problems around the world. Closer to home, ParetoLogic has donated thousands of dollars, hundreds of pounds of food, liters of blood, and many hours of time and care to community events and charities in the greater Victoria region. ParetoLogic was founded by four brothers, and this may help to explain the deep connections between founders

“Victoria is our home, and has supported us as we grow. It’s only right to give back to the community and help those in need. We’re proud to support community and charity events, local and abroad.” -Elton Pereira, Co-Founder and

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and staﬀ, and ParetoLogic and the community. Now that the brothers have families of their own, this movement toward community-minded endeavors, especially those focusing on children and families, has grown even stronger. In 2011, ParetoLogic chose Power to Be as its primary charity. Power to Be oﬀers outdoor adventure activities for youth from underprivileged backgrounds and individuals with a variety of disabilities. Money was raised through bake sales, draws and even a jump into the freezing Selkirk waterway by co-founder and chairman Elton Pereira. Other endeavors supported by ParetoLogic include World Vision, Canadian Blood Services, Santas

Anonymous, Cops for Cancer and the United Way. The ParetoLogic team is also active at the University of Victoria, working with both engineering and business students. Through these activities, the ParetoLogic family has developed stronger ties to one another and to the community. Those at ParetoLogic are able to eﬀect real change in their community, which has an ongoing and remarkable eﬀect within the company and without.

Victoria, BC www.paretologic.com

FINALIST Aligning Charitable Efforts with Corporate Values A provider of retail management solutions for the North American wireless industry, iQmetrix is a company that believes in giving back to its communities and to people in need around the world. In all of its charitable eﬀorts, whether company- or employee-initiated, iQmetrix focuses its energies and resources to support causes, organizations and initiatives that align with its corporate values (Speed and Agility, Lifestyle, Innovation, Character,

Community and Environment: SLICCE) At iQmetrix, employee engagement is very high. Recently, 27% of its employees donated a day of pay to Free The Children’s Adopt a Village program. Often, iQmetrix will also match money raised in employee-initiated fundraisers. Within its product suite, iQmetrix recently introduced a new Charitable Donations Module to its RQ4 retail management system. The new feature allows retailers to collect donations at the point of sale for charities of their choosing. To launch the module, iQmetrix partnered

with Free The Children. Matching every dollar raised through the Donations Module in the month of December 2011, iQmetrix raised enough money to build a school in a developing community.

iQmetrix Vancouver, BC www.iQmetrix.com

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Category index Technology directory AEROSPACE 050 Engineering & Design .............................69 100 Manufacturing ............................................69 150 Maintenance ................................................69 350 Training ............................................................69 310 Other .................................................................69 BIOTECHNOLOGYLIFE SCIENCES 1010 Agricultural Biotech .................................69 1020 Aquaculture ..................................................69 1030 Bioproducts...................................................69 1040 Medical Devices & Diagnostics .........69 1050 Pharmaceuticals .........................................69 1060 Research & Scientiﬁc Services ............69 1000 Other .................................................................69 ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES 2005 Alternative Energy.....................................69 2010 Alternative Engine Fuels........................70 2020 Biofuels, Biomass & Waste-to-Energy ........................................70 2030 Fuel Cells .........................................................70 2070 Power & Energy Eﬃciency Technologies ................................................70 2000 Other .................................................................70 INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY 3010 Electronics......................................................70 3015 Engineering, Analytical & Design Services ......................................70 3020 Hardware ........................................................71 3022 Internet Services ........................................71 3025 Internet Providers ......................................71 3030 Software & Services ..................................71 3040 Telecommunications...............................72 3050 Videoconferencing/Webcasting ......72 3000 Other .................................................................72 NEW MEDIA 44010 Animation/Digital Film .......................73 4020 E-Learning ......................................................73 4030 Interactive Design & Communications .......................................73 4040 Interactive Entertainment/Games ..74 4045 Mobile Marketing ......................................74 4050 Software ..........................................................74 4060 Web Development/Marketing/ Commerce .....................................................74 4000 Other .................................................................74 SERVICES 7010 Accounting....................................................74 7013 Audiovisual ....................................................75 7015 Consultants ...................................................75 7020 Financial Services.......................................75 7030 Legal Services ..............................................75 7040 Marketing Research .................................76 7075 Professional Services ...............................76 7050 Recruiting .......................................................76 7999 Other .................................................................76 SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES 5010 Air Pollution Abatement Equipment, Noise/Vibration Equipment..................77 5030 Environmental Monitoring & Instrumentation .........................................77 5040 Green Building & Sustainable Planning Services ......................................77 5050 Hazardous/Solid Waste Management ...............................................77 5055 Hybrid Technologies................................77 5060 Information Systems for Sustainable Resource Management .........................77 5100 Water & Wastewater Treatment: Water Conservation Equipment.......77 5000 Other .................................................................77 WIRELESS 6010 Components, Infrastructure & Devices ........................................................77 6030 Enabling Software .....................................77 6020 Wireless Applications ..............................77 6000 Other .................................................................77

A comprehensive listing of technology companies in British Columbia, organized by industry sector. How companies get listed in BCTECH BCTECH is the most complete and comprehensive guide to the province’s high-tech industries, and we at Business in Vancouver Magazines pride ourselves on providing the most up-to-date information available at press time. We gather company information by searching online resources and business

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Advanced Hybrid Aircraft Ltd 1115 Stayte Rd, White Rock V4B 4Y9 Bruce Blake .................................... 604-240-2952 bnb@ahausa.com www.ahausa.com BCD Electronics Ltd 3823 Henning Dr Suite 221, Burnaby V5C 6P3 ............... 604-433-2447 604-433-1448 service@bcdelectronics.com www.bcdelectronics.com Fast + Epp 1672 1st Ave W Suite 201, Vancouver V6J 1G1 ............... 604-731-7412 604-731-7620 mail@fastepp.com www.fastepp.com Westport Innovations Inc 1750 75th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6P 6G2 David Oh ..................................... 604-718-2000 doh@westport.com

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Avcorp Industries Inc 10025 River Way, Delta V4G 1M7 Steven Archer...... 604-582-6677 604-582-2620 info@avcorp.com www.avcorp.com DNA Data Networking and Assemblies Ltd 8057 North Fraser Way, Burnaby V5J 5M8 John Stewart....... 604-439-1099 604-439-1187 sales@dnadata.net www.dnadata.net Isaac Systems Inc 1324 Austin Ave, Coquitlam V3K 3P5 Keith Beer............ 604-936-5836 604-936-4667 isaacsystems@telus.net www.isaacsystems.com Redline Pro Manufacturing 17768 65A Ave Suite 401, Surrey V3S 5N4 Lyle Hystad .......... 604-576-4142 604-576-4181 lyle.hystad@redline-pro.com www.redline-pro.com Westport Innovations Inc 1750 75th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6P 6G2 David Oh ..................................... 604-718-2000 doh@westport.com

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If your company is not listed in the directory, and the services that you provide fit into one of the categories listed in the index, you can either call BIV Magazines at 604-688-2398 and ask for Anna Liczmanska, head of research, or email the pertinent information to contacts@biv.com. To ensure your listing, please contact a BIV Magazines representative and pay the guarantee of $35.

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QLT Inc 887 Great Northern Way Suite 101, Vancouver V5T 4T5 Robert Butchofsky 604-707-7000 604-707-7001 ir@qltinc.com www.qltinc.com Qu Biologics Inc 887 Great Northern Way Suite 138, Vancouver V5T 4T5 Gillian Vandermeirsch .................... 604-734-1450 604-676-2235 info@qubiologics.com Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp 8900 Glenlyon Pkwy Suite 100, Burnaby V5J 5J8 ................ 604-419-3200 604-419-3201 info@tekmirapharm.com www.tekmirapharm.com

AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH

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semiosBIO 887 Great Northern Way Suite 230, Vancouver V5T 1E2 Michael Gilbert .............................. 604-202-3245 www.semiosbio.com

AQUACULTURE

1020

Point Four Systems Inc 16 Fawcett Rd Suite 103, Coquitlam V3K 6X9 Brian Hirsch ......... 604-759-2114 604-759-2115 sales@pointfour.com www.pointfour.com

BIOPRODUCTS

1030

Xylon Biotechnologies Ltd 2665 East Mall FP Innovations Bldg (UBC), Vancouver V6T 1Z4 David Jones......... 604-224-7701 604-222-5690 davidjones@xylon.ca www.xylon.ca

MEDICAL DEVICES & DIAGNOSTICS

1040

AAT Global Inc 4360 Agar Dr Suite 133, Richmond V7B 1A3 Walt Lazaruk ....... 778-237-8000 604-270-9907 walt@aatglobal.net www.aatglobal.net Ashford Technologies Inc 18059 21A Ave, Surrey V3S 9V7 Robert J Earp....... 604-541-1662 604-541-1686 ashfordInfo@ashford.ca www.ashford.ca

ARC Medical Devices Inc 2386 East Mall Suite 102, Vancouver V6T 1Z3 ................ 604-222-9577 604-222-9578 info@arcmeddev.com www.arcmedicaldevices.com Coastal Contacts Inc/Clearly Contacts 2985 Virtual Way Suite 320, Vancouver V5M 4X7 .............. 604-669-1555 604-669-6855 investors@coastalcontacts.com www.coastalcontacts.com Heart Force Medical Inc 1818 Cornwall Ave Suite 305, Vancouver V6J 1C7 Geoff Houlton ...... 604-566-8202 604-566-8201 geoff.houlton@heartforcemedical.com www.heartforcemedical.com McKesson Medical Imaging 10711 Cambie Rd Suite 130, Richmond V6X 3G5 ............... 604-279-5422 604-279-0572 mig.info@mckesson.com www.mckesson.com MDMI Technologies Inc 12051 Horseshoe Way Suite 110, Richmond V7A 4V4 Terry Kehoe ......... 604-275-7944 604-275-7970 tkehoe@mdmicanada.com www. mdmicanada.com Perceptronix Medical Inc (PMI Labs) 555 8th Ave W Suite 400, Vancouver V5Z 1C6 Bojana Turic......... 604-629-8785 604-629-8786 bojana.turic@pmilabs.com www.pmilabs.com Quantum Technology Corp 3823 Henning Dr Unit 114, Burnaby V5C 6P3 Kevin O'Flynn ....... 604-222-5539 604-677-5826 quantum@quantum-technology.com www.quantum-technology.com Vigil Health Solutions Inc 4464 Markham St Suite 2102, Victoria V8Z 7X8 Troy Grifﬁths ........ 250-383-6900 250-383-6999 information@vigil.com www.vigil.com

OTHER 310 AvStar Technology Inc 1107 Gilston Rd Box 20120318, West Vancouver V7S 2E7 Stephen Mullins . 604-926-7167 604-926-2758 avstar@uniserve.com www.downingheliport.com BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org Latitude Technologies Corp 3375 Whittier Ave Suite 101, Victoria V8Z 3R1 Mark Insley.......... 250-475-0203 250-475-0204 info@latitudetech.com www.latitudetech.com SkyTrac Systems 170 Rutland Rd Suite 200, Kelowna V1X 3B2 Kathleen Wallace 250-765-2393 250-765-3767 info@skytrac.ca www.skytrac.ca

Allon Therapeutics, Inc 1168 Hamilton St Suite 506, Vancouver V6B 2S2 Rick Smith ........... 604-742-2543 604-736-1616 rsmith@allontherapeutics.com www.allontherapeutics.com Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc 5600 Parkwood Way Suite 430, Richmond V6V 2M2 .............. 604-629-9223 604-295-4748 info@aqxpharma.com www.aqxpharma.com Celator Pharmaceuticals 1779 75th Ave W, Vancouver V6P 6P2 ................ 604-708-5858 604-708-5883 info@celatorpharma.com www.celatorpharma.com Pegasus Pharmaceuticals Group Inc 11800 River Rd Suite 110-116, Richmond V6X 1Z7 Janelle Zhang...... 604-303-9952 604-303-9926 info@ppginco.com www.ppginco.com

MAINTENANCE

150

Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services Inc 4551 Agar Dr, Richmond V7B 1A4 Jo-Ann Lee .......... 604-276-7600 604-276-7675 sales.hsna@vectoraerospace.com www.vectoraerospace.com

TRAINING

350

PHARMACEUTICALS

1050

RESEARCH & SCIENTIFIC SERVICES

1060 BRI Biopharmaceutical Research Inc 8898 Heather St Suite 101, Vancouver V6P 3S8 Clara Faan ........... 604-432-9237 604-432-9239 info@bripharm.com www.bripharm.com Kinexus Bioinformatics Corp 8755 Ash St Suite 1, Vancouver V6P 6T3 Catherine Sutter .. 604-323-2547 604-323-2548 info@kinexus.ca www.kinexus.ca OncoGeneX Technologies Inc 1001 Broadway W Suite 400, Vancouver V6H 4B1 ............... 604-736-3678 604-736-3687 info@oncogenex.ca www.oncogenex.ca SGS Canada Inc 655 West Kent Ave N Suite 50, Vancouver V6P 6T7 ........................................... 604-324-1166 minerals@sgs.com www.sgs.com STEMCELL Technologies Inc 570 7th Ave W Suite 400, Vancouver V5Z 1B3 Julie Robinson..... 604-877-0713 604-675-7830 info@stemcell.com www.stemcell.com

TRIUMF 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver V6T 2A3 Timothy Meyer .... 604-222-7674 604-222-3791 tmeyer@triumf.ca www.triumf.ca

OTHER

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

2005

Ballard Power Systems Inc 9000 Glenlyon Pkwy, Burnaby V5J 5J8 ................ 604-454-0900 604-412-4700 marketing@ballard.com www.ballard.com

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BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org Genome BC 555 8th Ave W Suite 500, Vancouver V5Z 1C6 Sally................................................ 604-738-8072 info@genomebc.ca www.genomebc.ca Iotron Industries Canada Inc 1425 Kebet Way, Port Coquitlam V3C 6L3 Alex English......... 604-945-8838 604-945-8827 aenglish@iotron.com www.iotron.com Iotron provides Electron Beam sterilization/irradiation processing services. Medical product sterilization, cross-linking of plastics, materials modiﬁcation, agricultural sterilization and equipment sanitization. ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 registered.

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Energy Technologies BIC (formerly Angstrom Power Inc) 980 1st St W Suite 109, North Vancouver V7P 3N4 ............... 604-980-9936 604-980-9937 info@angstrompower.com www.angstrompower.com Bionic Power Inc 8888 University Dr SSB K9625, Burnaby V5A 1S6 ......................................... 778-330-4217 info@bionic-power.com www.bionic-power.com Day4 Energy Inc 8168 Glenwood Dr, Burnaby V3N 5E9 ............... 604-297-0444 604-297-0445 info@day4energy.com www.day4energy.com dPoint Technologies Inc 1275 Venables St, Vancouver V6A 2E4 James Dean ........ 604-488-1132 604-488-1132 jdean@dpoint.ca www.dpoint.ca EA Energy Alternatives Ltd 4217 Glanford Ave Suite 5, Victoria V8Z 4B9................ 250-727-0522 250-727-2286 sales@energyalternatives.ca www.energyalternatives.ca Endurance Wind Power 19052 26th Ave Suite 107, Surrey V3S 3V7 ............... 888-440-4451 604-542-9463 info@endurancewindpower.com www.endurancewindpower.com Finavera Wind Energy 570 Granville St Suite 1800, Vancouver V6C 3P1................ 604-288-9051 604-684-2722 info@ﬁnavera.com www.ﬁnavera.com Freethem Generation Inc 1321 33rd Ave W, Vancouver V6M 1A6 Claes Fredriksson ........................... 604-767-3635 claes.fredriksson@freethem.com www.freethem.com General Fusion Inc 3680 Bonneville Pl Suite 108, Burnaby V3N 4T5 Michael Delage .............................. 604-439-3003 info@generalfusion.com www.generalfusion.com Lockhart Industries Ltd PO Box 784, Duncan V9L 3Y1 ................ 250-748-1783 250-743-4570 sales@lockhart.ca www.lockhart.ca

Information & Communications Technology Sea Breeze Power Corp 333 Seymour St Suite 1400 Box 91, Vancouver V6B 5A6 ............... 604-689-2991 604-689-2990 info@seabreezepower.com www.seabreezepower.com Tekion Inc 8602 Commerce Crt, Burnaby V5A 4N6 Neil Huff .............. 604-656-6617 604-656-6620 info@tekion.com www.tekion.com

ALTERNATIVE ENGINE FUELS

2010

Technocarb Alternative Fuel Systems 30435 Progressive Way Unit 4, Abbotsford V2T 6W3 Peter Gordon ....... 604-854-6264 604-854-6802 pgordon@technocarb.com www.technocarb.com

Westport Innovations Inc 1750 75th Ave W Suite 101, Vancouver V6P 6G2 David Oh ..................................... 604-718-2000 doh@westport.com

BIOFUELS, BIOMASS & WASTE-TO-ENERGY

2020

Lignol Energy Corp 4705 Wayburne Dr Suite 101, Burnaby V5G 3L1................ 604-222-9800 604-222-9801 info@lignol.ca www.lignol.ca Nexterra Systems Corp 650 Georgia St W Suite 1300 PO Box 11582, Vancouver V6B 4N8 Darcy Quinn ......... 604-637-2501 604-637-2506 dquinn@nexterra.ca www.nexterra.ca Waterfall Advisors Group Ltd 566 Artisan Ln Suite 206, Bowen Island V0N 1G2 Ian Thomson ................................... 604-947-0040 info@canadianbioenergy.com www.waterfall.ca

FUEL CELLS

2030

Greenlight Innovation Corp 3430 Brighton Ave Suite 104A , Burnaby V5A 3H4 Ross Bailey .......... 604-676-4012 604-676-4111 info@greenlightinnovation.com www.greenlightinnovation.com

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Alpha Technologies Ltd 7700 Riverfront Gate, Burnaby V5J 5M4 Paul Drabble ........ 604-638-8610 604-436-1233 paul.drabble@alpha.ca www.alpha.ca Analytic Systems Ware (1993) Ltd 8128 River Way, Delta V4G IK5 Bill Walker........... 604-946-9981 604-946-9983 analyticinfo@analyticsystems.com www.analyticsystems.com Carmanah Technologies Corp 203 Harbour Rd Bldg 4, Victoria V9A 3S2 ............... 250-380-0052 250-380-0062 info@carmanah.com www.carmanah.com Delta-Q Technologies Corp 5250 Grimmer St Suite 3, Burnaby V5H 2H2 ............... 604-327-8244 604-327-8246 info@delta-q.com www.delta-q.com E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd 20000 Stewart Cres, Maple Ridge V2X 9E7 Alyson Cuthbertson ........................ 604-466-6604 604-466-6600 alysonc@molicel.com www.molienergy.com

OTHER

2000

BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org Computrol Fuel Systems Inc 8537 Commerce Crt, Burnaby V5A 4N4 Doug Cousins ...... 604-421-1001 604-421-1007 sales@computrolfuel.com www.computrolfuel.com Energy Aware Technology Inc 134 Abbott St Suite 604, Vancouver V6B 2K4 Janice Cheam................................. 604-282-7697 info@energy-aware.com www.energy-aware.com International Thermal Research 2431 Simpson Rd , Richmond V6X 2R2 Les M Ohno ......... 604-278-1272 604-278-1274 info@itrheat.com www.itrheat.com

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONICS

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Creation Technologies Inc 3939 North Fraser Way, Burnaby V5J 5J2 Janelle Urchenko .... 604-430-4336 604-430-4337 janelle.urchenko@creationtech.com www.creationtech.com Davetek Marketing Inc 8988 Fraserton Crt Suite 105A, Burnaby V5J 5H8 Dave Johnson...... 604-430-3680 604-435-5490 salesinfo@davetek.com www.davetek.com Dorigo Systems Ltd 3885 Henning Dr, Burnaby V5C 6N5 Paul Vasvary ........ 604-294-4600 604-294-4609 pvasvary@dorigo.com www.dorigo.com Enigma Interconnect 2012 Corp 8070 Winston St, Burnaby V5A 2H5 Ralph Goddard..... 604-420-3313 604-420-7525 boards@enigmacorp.com www.enigmacorp.com Ionocom Communications Inc 1861 Welch St Suite 113, North Vancouver V7P 1B7 Nick Massey........ 604-924-5184 604-648-8116 info@ionocom.com www.ionocom.com Omni Graphics Ltd 12760 Bathgate Way Suite 2, Richmond V6V 1Z4................ 604-276-9717 604-276-2514 sales@omnigraph.com www.omnigraph.com Paciﬁc Design Engineering (PDE) 8505 Eastlake Dr, Burnaby V5A 4T7 Bruce Stevens ..... 604-421-1311 604-421-9202 info@pde.com www.pde.com Padtech Global Sourcing 6165 Hwy 17 Suite 340, Delta V4K 5B8 ............... 604-946-4799 604-946-3186 dlionello@padtech.com www.padtech.com Pinter Electronics Consultants 1404 Mary Hill Ln, Port Coquitlam V3C 4C3 Christopher Steven......................... 604-484-9175 Info@pinterec.ca www.pinterec.ca PMC-Sierra 8555 Baxter Pl, Burnaby V5A 4V7 ............... 604-415-6000 604-415-6200 publicrelations@pmc-sierra.com www.pmc-sierra.com S-P International Inc 3711 North Fraser Way Suite 650, Burnaby V5J 5J2 Wilf Wassersleben .... 604-324-4811 604-324-3148 info@s-pintl.com www.s-pintl.com

ENGINEERING, ANALYTICAL & DESIGN SERVICES 3015 AECOM 3292 Production Way Suite 330, Burnaby V5A 4R4 ............... 604-444-6400 604-294-8597 canadacommunications@aecom.com www.aecom.com Alpha Technologies Ltd 7700 Riverfront Gate, Burnaby V5J 5M4 Paul Drabble ........ 604-638-8610 604-436-1233 paul.drabble@alpha.ca www.alpha.ca Ampco Manufacturers Inc 9 Burbidge St Suite 101, Coquitlam V3K 7B2 Dann Konkin ....... 604-472-3800 604-944-4017 sales@ampcomfg.com www.ampcomfg.com Applied Electronics Ltd 8573 Commerce Crt, Burnaby V5A 4N5 Stephen Monteith ...... 604-439-7228 604-439-7210 smonteith@appliedelectronics.com www.appliedelectronics.com Astec Components Ltd 19567 Fraser Hwy Suite 190, Surrey V3S 9A4 Urs D Kissling ................................. 604-532-3881 ukissling@astec.ca www.astec.ca Cadex Electronics Inc 22000 Fraserwood Way, Richmond V6W 1J6 Dave Birkenheuer.... 604-231-7777 604-231-7750 info@cadex.com www.cadex.com

BEP Engineering Services (1997) Ltd 5454 192 St Suite A, Surrey V3S 8E5 Bernie Pahlke ...... 604-575-3322 604-575-0401 bep@bepengineering.com www.bepengineering.com

Ericsson Canada Inc 5255 Satellite Dr, Mississauga ON L4W 5E3 Patricia MacLean .... 905-206-7928 905-629-6707 patricia.maclean@ericsson.com www.ericsson.com

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Information & Communications Technology INTERNET SERVICES

Form3 Design Inc 405 Railway St Suite 201, Vancouver V6A 1A7 Alex Feldman....... 604-709-3676 604-709-0232 alexf@form3.com www.form3.com We are product development specialists, providing over 70 years of collective experience in market assessments, industrial design, mechanical design, product graphics and interface, electronic design integration, transfer to manufacturing and product marketing. Hawk Ridge Systems 10451 Shellbridge Way Suite 204, Richmond V6X 2W8 .............. 604-241-4223 604-241-4211 ianh@hawkridgesys.com www.hawkridgesys.com Levelton Consultants Ltd 12791 Clarke Pl Suite 150, Richmond V6V 2H9 ............... 604-278-1411 604-278-1042 info@levelton.com www.levelton.com Maxxam Analytics 4606 Canada Way, Burnaby V5G 1K5 ........ 604-734-7276 www.maxxam.ca McCuaig & Associates Engineering Ltd 33 8th Ave E Suite 201, Vancouver V5T 1R5 John McCuaig ..... 604-255-0992 604-255-1054 info@mccuaig.net www.mccuaig.net McGauley Consultants Ltd 7580 Columbia St Suite 201, Vancouver V5X 4S8 Terry McGauley .............................. 604-325-2038 enquiries@mcgauleyconsultants.com www.mcgauleyconsultants.com

HARDWARE

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Business Pro Computers 195 3rd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1E6 Monica Noren ..... 604-871-0195 604-871-0194 sales@businesspro.com www.businesspro.com

Ericsson Canada Inc 5255 Satellite Dr, Mississauga ON L4W 5E3 Patricia MacLean .... 905-206-7928 905-629-6707 patricia.maclean@ericsson.com www.ericsson.com Globalnet – Work Computers & Security Systems Ltd 3863 Hastings St, Burnaby V5C 2H7 Samson Chang .... 604-293-7757 604-293-7756 schang@gnw.ca www.gnw.ca Icron Technologies Corp 4664 Lougheed Hwy Suite 221, Burnaby V5C 5T5................ 604-638-3920 604-638-3930 sales@icron.com www.icron.com

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OpenRoad Communications Ltd 12 Water St Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1A5 Darren Gibbons ...... 604-694-0554 604-694-0558 info@openroad.ca www.openroad.ca Pitstop Media Inc 8322 130 St Suite 202B, Surrey V3W 8J9 Traian Neacsu ................................ 778-218-2665 ofﬁce@pitstopmedia.com www.pitstopmedia.com

RackForce Networks 2130 Leckie Pl Suite 200, Kelowna V1Y 7W7 .......................... 250-717-2340 www.rackforce.com

Standard Marketing Ltd 2309 41st Ave W Suite 302, Vancouver V6M 2A3 Ken Lapp.............. 604-722-9375 604-731-3996 ken@standardmarketing.ca www.standardmarketing.ca Exceeding client standards in website marketing since 1999. Webnames.ca Inc 21 Water St Suite 500, Vancouver V6B 1A1 Amy Elderkin ....... 604-633-1142 604-633-3174 support@webnames.ca www.webnames.ca

INTERNET PROVIDERS

Paciﬁc Design Engineering (PDE) 8505 Eastlake Dr, Burnaby V5A 4T7 Bruce Stevens ..... 604-421-1311 604-421-9202 info@pde.com www.pde.com PDE specializes in concept development and industrial design, mechanical and electronics design, CAE solids modeling, CAD PCB design, prototypes and CNC machining. System Directions Ltd 42 Fawcett Rd Unit 110, Coquitlam V3K 6X9 Ken E Murdoch .... 604-526-4616 604-526-4618 kenm@system-directions.com www.system-directions.com Thurber Engineering Ltd 1281 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 3J7 David Hill ............. 604-684-4384 604-684-5124 dhill@thurber.ca www.thurber.ca

Information & Communications Technology

Clevest Solutions 13911 Wireless Way Suite 100, Richmond V6V 3B9 Thomas Ligocki.... 604-214-9700 604-207-9793 info@clevest.com www.clevest.com Coastal Range Systems Inc 6400 Roberts St Suite 200, Burnaby V5G 4C9 Stephen Lloyd...... 604-473-2100 604-299-2878 sloyd@coastalrange.ca www.coastalrange.ca Compugen Systems Ltd 13151 Vanier Pl Suite 130, Richmond V6V 2J2................ 604-801-5500 604-801-5551 phogan@compugen.com www.compugen.com Compuwork Paciﬁc Inc 885 Dunsmuir St Suite 599, Vancouver V6C 1N5 Richard Rickard ...... 604-684-8211 604-684-8210 solutions@compuwork.net www.compuwork.net

3025

Navigata Communications 949 3rd St W Suite 121, North Vancouver V7P 3P7 ................ 604-990-2000 604-990-2020 business@navigata.ca www.navigata.ca Radiant Communications Corp 1050 Pender St W Suite 1600, Vancouver V6E 4T3 Chuck Leighton .... 604-692-4531 604-608-0999 cleighton@radiant.net www.radiant.net

SOFTWARE & SERVICES

Backbone Systems 887 Great Northern Way Suite 160, Vancouver V5T 1E1 Sarah Morton ...... 604-629-5538 604-629-5938 smorton@backbonesystems.ca www.backbonesystems.ca CDC Software 1055 Hastings St W Suite 800, Vancouver V6E 2E9 ................ 604-699-8000 604-699-8001 info@pivotal.com www.cdcsoftware.com

3030

Absolute Software Corp 1055 Dunsmuir St Suite 1600 PO Box 49211, Vancouver V7X 1K8 ............... 604-730-9851 604-730-2621 info@absolute.com www.absolute.com ACL Services Ltd 1550 Alberni St, Vancouver V6G 1A5 .......................................... 604-669-4225 info@acl.com www.acl.com Annex Consulting Group Inc 555 Burrard St Suite 900, Vancouver V7X 1M8 Stacey Cerniuk .... 604-443-5036 604-443-5037 scerniuk@annexgroup.com www.annexgroup.com Software development, project management, business analysis, network infrastructure. 8,000 consultants, great rates. 97% customer satisfaction across 1,300 projects since 1997! Atimi Software Inc 550 Burrard St Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 2B5 Steven Gully ........ 778-372-2800 778-372-2801 info@atimi.com www.atimi.com ATP Engineering Inc 20800 Westminster Hwy Suite 1103, Richmond V6V 2W3 Chris Duncombe..... 604-214-9657 604-214-9658 cduncombe@atpeng.com www.atpeng.com

Conquer Mobile Inc 577 Great Northern Way Suite 115, Vancouver V5T 1E1 Helen Goddard ............................... 604-629-5972 marketing@conquermobile.com www.conquermobile.com Conquer Mobile – the trusted experts in developing secure, enterprise-grade iPad apps for the mobile workforce. Corecon Construction Software 1875 Tolmie St, Vancouver V6R 4B9 Ian Broadfoot.................................. 604-224-1366 ianbroadfoot@gmail.com www.corecon.com Datacom Solutions Ltd 7051 Russell Ave, Burnaby V5J 4R8 Mark Labowka..... 604-454-9977 604-454-9978 info@datacomsolutions.ca www.datacomsolutions.ca Digital Payment Technologies Corp 4260 Still Creek Dr Suite 330, Burnaby V5C 6C6 Michael Wright...... 604-688-1959 604-629-1867 info@digitalpaytech.com www.digitalpaytech.com Elastic Path Software 455 Granville St Suite 300, Vancouver V6C 1T1 Matt Dion ............ 604-408-8078 604-408-8079 marketing@elasticpath.com www.elasticpath.com Enterprise CodeWorks Inc 671H Market Hill, Vancouver V5Z 4B5 Norris Phillippe.... 604-876-6642 604-876-6623 info@ecodeworks.com www.ecodeworks.com Supply chain management software for forest products, energy, recycled and bulk materials. Representing the "TOPS/4" system. We deliver solutions that really work!

Ericsson Canada Inc 5255 Satellite Dr, Mississauga ON L4W 5E3 Patricia MacLean .... 905-206-7928 905-629-6707 patricia.maclean@ericsson.com www.ericsson.com

Essential Software Solutions Inc 3438 Lougheed Hwy Suite 200, Vancouver V5M 2A4 Gordon Muir ........ 604-215-3200 604-215-1115 gmuir@essoft.com www.essoft.com Flagship Systems 3920 Norland Ave Suite 103, Burnaby V5G 4K7 David Cox ....................................... 604-294-1070 sales@ﬂagshipsystems.com www.ﬂagshipsystems.com Galdos Systems Inc 409 Granville St Suite 1300, Vancouver V6C 1T2 Shaukat Jiwa ...... 604-484-2750 604-484-2755 info@galdosinc.com www.galdosinc.com Global Relay 220 Cambie St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 2M9 Shannon Rogers..... 604-484-6630 604-608-2941 info@globalrelay.net www.globalrelay.com GM Solutions Inc 4170 Still Creek Dr Suite 200, Burnaby V5C 6C6 Zoran Nikolic ....... 604-473-7776 604-676-2777 info@gmsolutions.net www.gmsolutions.net Gravit-e Technologies Inc 525 Seymour St Suite 610, Vancouver V6B 3H7 Nick Oostveen ..... 604-637-6567 604-608-5528 info@gravit-e.ca www.gravit-e.ca Habañero Consulting Group 1111 Melville St Suite 510, Vancouver V6E 3V6 Kris Anderson ...... 604-709-6201 604-709-6073 kanderson@habaneros.com www.habaneros.com Hypercube Technologies Corp 13775 Commerce Pkwy Suite 230, Richmond V6V 2V4 Bill Bilic ............... 604-241-9011 604-241-9097 contact@hypercube.biz www.hypercube.biz IBM Canada 4601 Canada Way Suite 200, Burnaby V5G 4X3 ............... 778-327-7241 778-327-7400 ericj@ca.ibm.com www.ibm.com/ca Ideal Computer Group Inc 3680 Hastings St E Suite 200, Vancouver V5K 2A9 ............... 604-298-9077 604-298-6377 sales@idealgroup.com www.idealgroup.com Infonet Technology Corp 4585 Canada Way Suite 410, Burnaby V5G 4L6 Lee Barter ............ 604-689-7589 604-689-7599 info@infonet-tech.com www.infonet-tech.com iPipeline 700 Pender St W Suite 1406, Vancouver V6C 1G8 Kirk Herrington .... 604-629-3390 604-682-5811 kherrington@ipipeline.com www.ipipeline.com IPS 888 Dunsmuir St Suite 868, Vancouver V6C 3K4 Farrah Smith ........ 604-697-5400 604-331-6040 farrah.smith@ipsnetworks.com www.ipsnetworks.com Klein Systems Group Ltd 4400 Dominion St Suite 360, Burnaby V5G 4G3 Gina Arsens ......... 604-689-7117 604-689-7119 info@kleinsystems.com www.kleinsystems.com Knowledgetech Consulting Inc 1238 Homer St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 2Y5 Al Ytsma .............. 604-484-8099 604-648-8693 aytsma@knowledgetech.ca www.knowledgetech.com

Loki Systems Inc 13351 Commerce Pkwy Suite 1258, Richmond V6V 2X7 Jo Swann ............ 604-249-5050 604-273-5650 jo.swann@lokisys.com www.lokisys.com Loki Systems develops enterprise software solutions that optimize workforce utilization and streamline time and attendance, scheduling and payroll processes. Make Technologies Inc 1188 Georgia St W Suite 1790, Vancouver V6E 4A2 Wendy Van Donkelaar.................... 604-738-4999 604-738-4979 info@maketechnologies.com www.maketechnologies.com

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Information & Communications Technology

MultiHat Solutions Inc 970 Burrard St Suite 237, Vancouver V6Z 2R4................ 604-899-2599 604-899-2519 sales@multihat.com www.multihat.com Ode Systems 701 Georgia St W Suite 1500, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 ............... 604-601-8508 604-601-5911 support@odegroup.com www.odegroup.com OneMove Technologies Inc 1140 Pender St W Suite 1080, Vancouver V6E 4G1 Philip Chan .......... 604-662-8207 604-647-2215 philipchan@onemovetech.com www.onemovetech.com OpenRoad Communications Ltd 12 Water St Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1A5 Darren Gibbons ... 604-694-0554 604-694-0558 info@openroad.ca www.openroad.ca Phoenix Systems 1111 Hastings St W Suite 1100, Vancouver V6E 2J3 Larry Hack....................................... 604-639-9796 lhack@pho-sys.com www.phoenixsystems.ca Quartech Systems Ltd 2160 Springer Ave Suite 200, Burnaby V5B 3M7 Landon Kitagawa .... 604-291-9686 604-291-0243 Admin@Quartech.com www.Quartech.com

Softlanding Network Solutions Inc 555 Hastings St W Suite 1600 PO Box 12082, Vancouver V6B 4N5 Shaun Roberts ..... 604-687-5075 604-633-1409 sroberts@softlanding.ca www.softlanding.ca Softrend Systems Inc 1225 Keith Rd E, Unit 7, North Vancouver V7J 1J3 Sandy Milne ........ 604-983-3389 604-980-7794 sales@softrend.com www.softrend.com Softscribes Services Inc 3026 2nd Ave W, Vancouver V6K 1K4 Liz Johnston ................................... 604-736-7179 lizzyj@telus.net www.softscribes.ca Sophos Inc 580 Granville St Suite 400, Vancouver V6C 1W6 .............. 604-484-6400 604-484-6499 careers-canada@sophos.com www.sophos.com Speciﬁc Instruments Ltd 22869 125A Ave, Maple Ridge V2X 0N3 Bill Jenkins ..................................... 604-467-6171 bjenkins@direct.ca www.ezroute2000.com Squirrel Systems 8585 Baxter Pl, Burnaby V5A 4V7 Stephanie Gardner ......................... 604-412-3300 604-412-3399 info@squirrelsystems.com www.squirrelsystems.com The StarGarden Group 3665 Kingsway Suite 300, Vancouver V5R 5W2 Marnie Larson ..... 604-451-0500 604-451-0578 info@stargarden.com www.stargarden.com Steeves and Associates 4170 Still Creek Dr Suite 200, Burnaby V5C 6C6 Dave Steeves ...... 604-298-7700 604-298-7765 sales@steeves.net www.steeves.net SustaiNet Software International Inc 887 Great Northern Way Suite 140, Vancouver V5T 4T5 Jason Steeghs..... 604-717-4327 604-736-9531 info@sustainet.com www.sustainet.com Talent Technology Corp 10991 Shellbridge Way Suite 300, Richmond V6X 3C6 James Thomas .... 604-278-4414 866-485-9259 info@talenttech.com www.talenttech.com TMW Systems Canada Inc 20486 64th Ave Suite 200, Langley V2Y 2V5 Randall Burrell..... 800-663-0626 604-533-8562 salescontact@tmwsystems.com www.tmwsystems.com Tomeron Systems Inc 3355 Morgan Creek Way Box 31, Surrey V3C 0J9 Ron Bauer ....................................... 604-538-5830 tomeron@uniserve.com www.tomeron.com

The RSC Group 225 8th Ave W Suite 202, Vancouver V5Y 1N3 Patricia Tu............ 604-737-8570 604-737-8572 patriciat@rsc.com www.rsc.com Over the past 20 years we have made a positive difference to over 800 customers. Leverage your investment in Microsoft technologies today. Microsoft Dynamics. Portals and Collaboration. Reporting and Corporate Performance Measurement. Customizations and Development. Contact our professional services team to learn about improving your business! Insight-Connect-Simplify. Safe Software Inc 7445 132nd St Suite 2017, Surrey V3W 1J8 Don Murray ......... 604-501-9985 604-501-9965 info@safe.com www.safe.com Sage 13888 Wireless Way, Richmond V6V 0A3 Nancy Harris.................................. 604-207-9480 www.sagenorthamerica.com salonMonster 1917 4th Ave W Suite 106, Vancouver V6J 1M7 Christine Parslow ........................... 800-901-1001 info@salonmonster.com www.salonmonster.com Samco Software Inc 7789 134 St Unit 61, Surrey V3W 9E9 Barry Clarke ......... 604-597-4211 604-597-7320 sales@samco.com www.samco.com SAP Canada Inc 910 Mainland St, Vancouver V6B 1A9 Loren Ha ......................................... 604-974-2523 loren.ha@sap.com www.sap.com Seeker Solutions Inc 250-483-4129 www.seekersolutions.com

Top Producer Systems 10271 Shellbridge Way Suite 300, Richmond V6X 2W8 Ashleah Wilson ..... 604-270-8819 604-270-8218 sales@topproducer.com www.topproducer.com Top Producer offers real estate industry's most comprehensive sales and marketing system. Contact us at www.topproducer.com or 1-800-444-8570. TP Systems 610 Sixth St Suite 202, New Westminster V3L 3C2 ................ 604-395-6000 604-395-6004 info@tpsystems.com www.tpsystems.com TrainingPartner by GeoMetrix 780 Kings Rd Suite 300, Victoria V9A 3K5 Kathleen Lowe .... 800-616-5409 250-361-9362 info@trainingpartner.com www.trainingpartner.com Trusterra Technologies Inc 1055 Hastings St W Suite 1400, Vancouver V6E 2E9 Babak Sardary ................................ 604-484-5654 sales@trusterra.com www.trusterra.com Mobile app development for business. Crossplatform, cloud-connected and secure. Achieve mobile success with our team of professionals. Ventyx, an ABB Company 10651 Shellbridge Way Bldg 3, Richmond V6X 2W8 .............. 604-207-6000 604-207-6060 info@ventyx.com www.ventyx.com Vision Critical Communications 858 Beatty St Suite 700, Vancouver V6B 1C1 ............... 604-647-1980 604-647-1005 info@visioncritical.com www.visioncritical.com Vivonet Inc 8651 Eastlake Dr Suite 200, Burnaby V5A 4T7 ............... 604-215-2033 604-408-4307 info@vivonet.com www.vivonet.com

Medinet Health Systems Inc 1755 Broadway W Suite 312, Vancouver V6J 4S5 Kate Culter .......... 604-737-1477 604-742-8850 info@medinet.ca www.medi.net Microzip Data Corp 788 Beatty St Suite 306, Vancouver V6B 2M1 Axel Krieger......... 604-683-3711 604-683-4099 info@microzip.com www.microzip.com Mireth Technology Corp 11388 Steveston Hwy PO Box 96010, Richmond V7A 1N0 Donna Johnson .............................. 604-448-1366 marketing@mireth.com www.mireth.com mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com

Information & Communications Technology TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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Allstream 175 Cordova St W Suite 400, Vancouver V6B 1E1........................................... 604-638-4319 info.west@mtsallstream.com www.allstream.com Bell Canada 550 Burrard St Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 2B5 ................ 604-678-7500 www.bell.ca COMTEL Integrated Technologies Inc 275 1st Ave E Suite 220, Vancouver V6T 1A7 ............... 604-436-0212 604-253-4984 sales@comtelit.com www.comtelit.com CounterPath 505 Burrard St Suite 300 Box 95, Vancouver V7X 1M3 Donovan Jones.... 604-320-3344 604-320-3399 corporate@counterpath.com www.counterpath.com Digitel Systems Inc 1668 Foster's Way, Delta V3M 6S6 David Shaw ......... 604-231-0101 604-231-0100 service@digitel.ca www.digitel.ca Premier supplier of VoIP business telephone and voice-mail systems. 28 years of supplying, installing and maintaining business telephone systems – Zultys, Mitel and Toshiba.

Ericsson Canada Inc 5255 Satellite Dr, Mississauga ON L4W 5E3 Patricia MacLean .... 905-206-7928 905-629-6707 patricia.maclean@ericsson.com www.ericsson.com ETC Telecom 2555 Gilmore Ave, Burnaby V5C 4T6................ 604-299-4660 604-648-8628 www.etctel.ca Nokia Products Ltd. 9200 Glenlyon Pkwy, Burnaby V5J 5J8 Marcie Fernquist ..... 604-728-5186 604-433-8174 marcie.fernquist@nokia.com www.nokia.ca North American Telecommunications Group 1585 Cliveden Ave Unit 9, New Westminster V3M 6M1 ............. 604-526-2129 604-526-5972 service@natgtelecom.com www.natgtelecom.com PEER 1 Hosting 555 Hastings St W Suite 1000, Vancouver V6B 4N5 ............... 604-683-7747 604-683-4634 www.peer1.com Ralph's Radio 220 1st Ave E, Vancouver V5T 1A5 Tim Rurak............. 604-879-4281 604-732-8831 dave@ralphs.ca www.ralphs.ca Rogers Communications Partnership 4710 Kingsway Suite 1600, Burnaby V5H 4W4.............. 604-641-1400 604-431-1414 customer.service@rci.rogers.com www.rogers.com Shaw Communications Inc 1067 Cordova St W, Vancouver V6C 3T5.............. 888-472-2222 www.shaw.ca

Skyway West Sales Dept ........... 604-482-1225 604-482-1299 sales@skywaywest.com www.skywaywest.com Business class access since 1996. Connecting Canada! ADSL, wireless, ﬁbre, VoIP, co-locate, bonding and failover. Reliable access & excellent service. Telus Corp 555 Robson St, Vancouver V6B 3K9 ............... 604-432-2151 604-432-9681 ir@telus.com www.telus.com Times Telecom Inc 5811 Cooney Rd Suite 400 North Tower, Richmond V6X 3M1 .............. 604-279-8787 604-279-8775 info@timestelecom.ca www.timestelecom.ca Uniserve Communications Corp 610 Sixth St Suite 200, New Westminster V3L 3C2 ................ 604-395-3900 604-524-9932 www.uniserve.com

Upside Wireless Inc 1211 Melville St Suite 1401, Vancouver V6E 0A7 Branko Zurkovic ..... 604-687-7433 604-628-0105 info@upsidewireless.com www.upsidewireless.com Western Paciﬁc Enterprises Ltd 1321 Ketch Crt, Coquitlam V3K 6X7 ............... 604-540-1321 604-540-1390 dave@wpe.bc.ca www.wpe.bc.ca

VIDEOCONFERENCING/ WEBCASTING

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Applied Electronics Ltd 8573 Commerce Crt, Burnaby V5A 4N5 Stephen Monteith... 604-439-7228 604-439-7210 smonteith@appliedelectronics.com www.appliedelectronics.com

OTHER

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Axis Technical Services Corp 5 Capilano Way, New Westminster V3L 5G3 Joana Barbulescu ... 604-777-2907 866-860-5634 joana@axistech.ca www.axistech.ca BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org Beedie School of Business 500 Granville St, Vancouver V6C 1W6 .............. 778-782-5013 778-782-5122 grad-business@sfu.ca www.beedie.sfu.ca The Management of Technology MBA is a focused MBA program that serves the technology sector. It is a program which is designed to prepare high potential technology industry professionals to handle the business problems faced by their companies.

CamCentral Systems Inc 7 7th Ave W Suite 300, Vancouver V5Y 1L4 Peter Turner ......... 604-876-3838 604-876-3255 info@camcentral.net www.camcentral.net Dyrand Systems Inc. 744 Hastings St W Suite 701, Vancouver V6C 1A5 Ed Anderson ........ 604-408-4415 604-484-2043 info@dyrand.com www.dyrand.com Empyrion Technologies Inc 45744 Gaetz St Suite 202, Chilliwack V2R 3P1 Steve ................... 604-824-3777 888-697-0576 sczeck@empyrion.net www.empyrion.net Glenbriar Technologies Inc 1687 Ingleton Ave, Burnaby V5C 4L8 Niki Rapanos ....... 604-320-0155 604-320-0157 nrapanos@glenbriar.com www.glenbriar.com Glenbriar solves business technology problems, focusing on network, voice and data applications. We provide solutions using Cisco, Microsoft and ShoreTel UC products. Jio Infotech Inc 12698 61B Ave, Surrey V3X 3M5 Jasminder Rai ................................ 604-507-7065 info@jio.ca www.jio.ca MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) 13800 Commerce Pkwy, Richmond V6V 2J3 Wendy Keyzer ..... 604-278-3411 604-231-2787 info@mdacorporation.com www.mdacorporation.com Micro Com Systems Ltd 27 7th Ave E, Vancouver V5T 1M4 Jeff Marceil......... 604-872-6771 604-872-2533 vaninfo@microcomsys.com www.microcomsys.com Microserve 4295 Dawson St, Burnaby V5C 4B3 Angie Gallo.......... 604-473-9883 604-473-9887 info@microserve.ca www.microserve.ca MultiTrends ITNet Services 20000 Stewart Cres Unit 2, Maple Ridge V2X 9E7 Oliver Perez ......... 604-460-9660 604-460-9661 info@multitrends.com www.multitrends.com Provent Technologies 3751 Jacombs Rd Suite 125, Richmond V6V 2R4 John Rogers ........ 604-244-1895 604-244-1897 jrogers@e-provent.com www.e-provent.com Seon Design Inc 3B Burbidge St Unit 111, Coquitlam V3K 7B2 ............... 604-941-0880 604-941-0870 info@seon.com www.seon.com SilverPoint Systems Ltd 20678 Duncan Way Unit 101, Langley V3A 7A3 Mike Garcia ......... 604-200-2234 604-210-1158 www.gosilverpoint.com

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NEW MEDIA ANIMATION/DIGITAL FILM

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Cadnet Media Inc 1500 Georgia St W Suite 300, Vancouver V6G 2Z6 William Bell......... 604-684-5555 604-688-7228 info1b@cadnetmedia.com www.cadnetmedia.com FCV 333 Seymour St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6B 5A6 John Starke ......... 604-662-8407 604-662-8409 info@fcv.ca www.fcv.ca Goldtooth Creative Agency Inc 329 Railway St Suite 102, Vancouver V6A 1A4 Tyler Weiss ..................................... 604-568-9168 info@goldtoothcreative.com www.goldtoothcreative.com Media FX Group 318 Homer St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 2V2 Ron Jacklin ..................................... 604-639-7380 ron@mediafxgroup.com www.mediafxgroup.com Rainmaker Entertainment Inc 2025 Broadway W Suite 500, Vancouver V6J 1Z6 ................ 604-714-2600 604-714-5990 www.rainmaker.com Reel Wonders Animation Inc 402 Pender St W Suite 203, Vancouver V6B 1T6 John "Moose" Pagan...................... 604-689-9331 604-689-9331 moosereelwonder@hotmail.com www.reelwonders.com TimeLapse Digital Inc 535 46th Ave E, Vancouver V5W 2A2 Rene Beland ................................... 604-644-3359 info@timelapsedigital.com www.timelapsedigital.com

E-LEARNING

FCV 333 Seymour St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6B 5A6 John Starke ......... 604-662-8407 604-662-8409 info@fcv.ca www.fcv.ca Ion Branding + Design 948 7th Ave W, Vancouver V5Z 1C3 David Coates ....... 604-682-6787 604-682-6769 david@iondesign.ca www.iondesign.ca

4020

GigaLuma Technologies Inc 4538 Kingsway Suite 502, Burnaby V5H 4T9 ............... 604-568-7202 604-568-7899 info@gigaluma.com www.gigaluma.com The Lunny Design Group Inc Vancouver Shane Lunny................. 778-668-2654 shane@lunny.com www.lunny.com mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com

TrainingPartner by GeoMetrix 780 Kings Rd Suite 300, Victoria V9A 3K5 Kathleen Lowe .... 800-616-5409 250-361-9362 info@trainingpartner.com www.trainingpartner.com Proven in the marketplace since 1992, TrainingPartner offers a lower cost, more ﬂexible alternative to high-priced enterprise learning and performance management.

INTERACTIVE DESIGN & COMMUNICATIONS

Burnkit 397 Alexander St, Vancouver V6A 1C4 Josh Dunford .................................. 604-687-7715 josh@burnkit.com www.burnkit.com DesignStamp Creative Group 470 Granville St Suite 420, Vancouver V6C 1V5 Gagan Diesh ................................... 778-829-4550 custservice@designstamp.com www.designstamp.com Emily Carr University of Art + Design 1399 Johnston St, Vancouver V6H 3R9 Dina Tracy............ 604-844-3800 604-844-3801 dina@ecuad.ca www.ecuad.ca Engine Digital Inc 717 Pender St W Suite 404, Vancouver V6C 1G9 ............... 604-684-3330 604-685-3323 getdigital@enginedigital.com www.enginedigital.com

4030

Appnovation Technologies 611 Alexander St Suite 320, Vancouver V6A 1E1 Iain MacNeil........ 604-568-0313 604-568-0314 info@appnovation.com www.appnovation.com

Signals Design Group Inc 27 6th Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1K2 Kosta Tsetsekas ..... 604-732-9827 604-732-9853 kosta@signals.ca www.signals.ca SterlingKlor Communications Inc 4445 Lougheed Hwy Suite 502, Burnaby V5C 0E4 Achim Klor ...................................... 604-678-9464 connect@sterlingklor.com www.sterlingklor.com Switch United 128 8th Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1N2 Mark Ross ........... 604-669-2296 604-669-5168 mross@switchunited.com www.switchunited.com Multi-platform design for TV, ﬁlm, real estate and sports marketing clients. Teligence 1045 Howe St Suite 300, Vancouver V6Z 2A9 Janet Jensen....... 604-629-6055 604-639-1772 info@teligence.net www.teligence.net

INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT/ GAMES 4040

mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com

Noise Digital Inc 856 Homer St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 2W5 Trevor Carr ........... 604-689-9574 604-689-9575 contact@noisedigital.com www.noisedigital.com OpenRoad Communications Ltd 12 Water St Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1A5 Darren Gibbons ...... 604-694-0554 604-694-0558 info@openroad.ca www.openroad.ca Origin Design + Communications Ltd 1002 Lynham Rd Suite 201, Whistler V0N 1B1 Danielle Kristmanson ..................... 604-932-8482 604-932-8418 danielle@origindesign.ca www.origindesign.ca

ACRONYM Games 4400 Dominion St Suite 115, Burnaby V5G 4G3 ............... 604-732-3606 604-732-3611 info@acronymonline.com www.acronymonline.com Agentic Communications Inc 611 Alexander St Suite 308, Vancouver V6A 1E1 Phillip Djwa ......... 604-255-2131 604-255-2505 agentic-info@agentic.ca www.agentic.ca Big Park Inc 858 Beatty St Suite 600, Vancouver V6B 1C1 ............... 604-221-4499 604-221-4490 info@bigpark.com www.bigpark.com Capcom Game Studio Vancouver 4401 Still Creek Dr Suite 200, Burnaby V5C 6G9 Rob Barrett .......... 604-299-5626 604-299-5653 www.capcomvancouver.com Electronic Arts 4330 Sanderson Way, Burnaby V5G 4X1 ............... 604-456-3600 604-456-5000 info@ea.com www.ea.com FCV 333 Seymour St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6B 5A6 John Starke ......... 604-662-8407 604-662-8409 info@fcv.ca www.fcv.ca Hellbent Games 3430 Brighton Ave Suite 204A, Burnaby V5A 3H4 ............... 604-431-6669 604-431-6639 contact@hellbentgames.com www.hellbentgames.com

Hothead Games 887 Great Northern Way Suite 350, Vancouver V5T 4T5 ................ 604-605-0018 604-605-0017 admin@hotheadgames.com www.hotheadgames.com IUGO Mobile Entertainment 1008 Homer St Suite 401, Vancouver V6B 2X1 ............... 604-687-6876 604-687-6867 info@iugome.com www.iugome.com Klei Entertainment 1122 Mainland St Suite 570, Vancouver V6B 5L1 ................ 604-639-5722 604-608-6598 support@kleientertainment.com www.kleientertainment.com Koolhaus Games Inc PO Box 5087 VMPO, Vancouver V6B 4A9 ............... 604-696-9717 604-696-9744 info@koolhausgames.com www.koolhausgames.com Microsoft Game Studios Vancouver 840 Cambie St Suite 300, Vancouver V6B 0B4 ............... 604-221-4499 604-682-0282 www.mgsvancouver.com

mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com Next Level Games 208 Robson St Suite 400, Vancouver V6B 6A1 ............... 604-484-6111 604-464-6112 info@nextlevelgames.com www.nextlevelgames.com Nintendo of Canada Ltd 2925 Virtual Way Suite 150, Vancouver V5M 4X5 .............. 604-279-1600 604-279-1649 www.nintendo.com Piranha Games 88 Pender St W Suite 2065, Vancouver V6B 6N9 Miki Hara............. 604-484-6674 604-484-4145 general@piranha-games.com www.piranha-games.com Rockstar Vancouver 858 Beatty St Suite 800, Vancouver V6B 1C1 ............... 604-632-9663 604-632-9664 info@rockstarvancouver.com www.rockstarvancouver.com Smoking Gun Interactive Inc 1706 1st Ave W Suite 400, Vancouver V6J 0E4 ................ 604-689-7486 866-250-7950 bizdev@smokingguninc.com www.smokingguninc.com THQ Canada Inc dba Relic Entertainment 550 Burrard St Suite 1500, Vancouver V6C 2C1 ............... 604-801-6577 604-801-6578 jmcdermott@relic.com www.relic.com United Front Games 1110 Hamilton St Suite 500, Vancouver V6B 2S2 ............... 604-687-4263 604-687-4264 info@unitedfrontgames.com www.unitedfrontgames.com

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New Media MOBILE MARKETING

Services 4045

iamota Corp 1188 Georgia St W Suite 560, Vancouver V6E 4A2 Pete Smyth ..................................... 604-512-7455 pete.smyth@iamota.com www.iamota.com iamota is a mobile marketing agency. Our mobile insight, strategy and technology helps some of Canada's top brands deliver authentic mobile experiences.

SOFTWARE

Falcon-Software Company Inc 2826 Bryn Maur Rd, Victoria V9B 3T4 Gary Eisenstein ...... 250-480-1311 250-480-1322 general@falcon-software.com www.falcon-software.com

4050

DotNetNuke Corp 9440 202nd St Suite 211, Langley V1M 4A6 .............. 650-288-3151 604-881-0050 shaun.walker@dnncorp.com www.dotnetnuke.com mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com OpenRoad Communications Ltd 12 Water St Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1A5 Darren Gibbons ... 604-694-0554 604-694-0558 info@openroad.ca www.openroad.ca

WEB DEVELOPMENT/MARKETING/ COMMERCE 4060 604media 1822 Franklin St, Vancouver V5L 1P8 ................ 604-637-7175 866-498-2585 info@604media.com www.604media.com Agentic Communications Inc 611 Alexander St Suite 308, Vancouver V6A 1E1 Phillip Djwa ......... 604-255-2131 604-255-2505 agentic-info@agentic.ca www.agentic.ca Baseline Type & Graphics Cooperative 422 Richards St Suite 170, Vancouver V6B 2Z4 Ian Bateson .................................... 604-683-5038 ibateson@baseline-graphics.com www.baseline-graphics.com Bayleaf Software Inc 948 Homer St Suite 300, Vancouver V6B 2W7 George Tomes ..... 604-683-1288 604-683-1287 info@bayleaf.com www.bayleaf.com Blast Radius 1146 Homer St, Vancouver V6B 2X6 ............... 604-647-6500 604-689-1963 hello@blastradius.com www.blastradius.com BOOST Design + Marketing 141 6200 McKay Ave Suite 615, Burnaby V5H 4M9 Carly H Franklin...... 604-628-0590 877-682-2914 info@gimmeaboost.com www.gimmeaboost.com Boxcar Marketing 70 2nd Ave E Suite 302, Vancouver V5T 1B1 Monique Sherrett.... 604-732-6467 866-766-9712 monique@boxcarmarketing.com www.boxcarmarketing.com BRANDFX Advertising Design & Interactive 15 Chesterﬁeld Pl Studio E, North Vancouver V7M 3K3 Tim Kelly .............. 604-988-1407 604-988-1437 tim@brandfx.ca www.brandfx.ca Broadside Media Inc 20875 80 Ave, Langley V2Y 0B2 Kyle Barker .......... 778-588-7482 866-666-4428 info@broadsidemedia.com www.broadsidemedia.com Central Park Studios – Designers 5932 Patterson Ave Unit 109, Burnaby V5H 4B4 Ronald Thibodeau .......................... 604-435-5982 designers@centralparkstudios.com www.centralparkstudios.com CityMax.com 1 Alexander St Suite 313, Vancouver V6A 1B2 Patrick Lok ........... 866-310-9327 604-430-4566 patrick.lok@citymax.com www.citymax.com Domain7 Solutions Inc 827 Cambie St, Vancouver V6B 2P4 Ryan Hanawalt .... 604-855-3772 604-854-3349 hello@domain7.com www.domain7.com DPG Associates Web Design 3127 Skeena St Suite 63, Port Coquitlam V3B 8G5 Dawayne Wurtz.............................. 604-239-1045 info@dpgassociates.com www.dpgassociates.com eBridge Marketing Solutions 4620 Teviot Pl, North Vancouver V7R 4M5 Hartland Ross ...... 604-731-5530 425-645-4332 info@ebridgemarketingsolutions.com www.ebridgemarketingsolutions.com EQQY GROUP 1380 Kootenay St, Vancouver V5K 4R1 George Hsu.......... 604-278-1177 604-278-1179 info@eqqy.com www.eqqy.com

FCV 333 Seymour St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6B 5A6 John Starke ......... 604-662-8407 604-662-8409 info@fcv.ca www.fcv.ca Graphically Speaking Services Inc 750 Pender St W Suite 604, Vancouver V6C 2T7 Darrell Hadden .... 604-682-5500 604-682-1312 darrell@graphicallyspeaking.ca www.graphicallyspeaking.ca Hot Tomali Communications Inc 1441 Pender St E, Vancouver V5L 1V7 ................ 604-893-8347 604-893-8346 info@hottomali.com www.hottomali.com Idea Rebel 155 Water St, Vancouver V6B 1A7 Jamie Garratt ...... 604-569-2155 604-569-2155 info@idearebel.com www.idearebel.com ideaLEVER Solutions Inc 163 Hastings St W Suite 407, Vancouver V6B 1H5 Robert Stocks ................................. 604-738-0906 sales@idealever.com www.idealever.com Invoke 1 Alexander St., Vancouver V6A 2A3 ............... 604-398-6030 604-909-5178 info@invokemedia.com www.invokemedia.com ISCAPE Internet Consulting 991 Hornby St Suite 242, Vancouver V6Z 1V3 Yasaman Whiting....... 778-340-0749 778-340-1601 solutions@iscapeinternet.com www.iscapeinternet.com Kaper Creative 3361 155B St, Surrey V3S 0K5 Karen Percy .................................... 604-802-0701 karen@kapercreative.com www.kapercreative.com Left Right Minds Initiatives 857 Beatty St Suite 406, Vancouver V6B 2M6 Allyson McGrane .... 604-873-6373 604-873-6336 info@leftrightminds.com www.leftrightminds.com Line49 Design Group Inc 1275 6th Ave W Suite 300, Vancouver V6H 1A6 Dave Smith .......... 604-591-3283 604-591-1383 info@line49.ca www.line49.ca Medora Solutions Inc 425 Carrall St Suite 255, Vancouver V6B 6E3 Aliaksandr Kauryzhka ............................................... 604-282-6350 604-435-8181 info@medora.ca www.medora.ca Mel Roth Design 640 Broadway W Suite 320, Vancouver V5Z 1G4 Mel Roth......................................... 604-715-4043 info@melroth.com www.melroth.com MeZine Inc 555 Hastings St W Suite 1605 PO Box 12043, Vancouver V6B 4N4 Emily Hirai ........... 604-430-4588 604-430-4566 customerservice@websitedynamics.com www.mezine.com Mobio Technologies Inc 375 Water St Suite 250, Vancouver V6B 5C6 Jessica Saunders .... 778-689-3937 800-776-9545 sales@mobio.net www.mobio.net mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com Mountain Interactive Inc 134 Abbott St Suite 403, Vancouver V6B 2K4 Rene Michaely .... 604-568-6807 604-648-8038 info@mountaininteractive.ca www.mountaininteractive.ca

Think Profits.com 804 Pacific St, Vancouver V6Z 1C2 Shawn Moore...... 604-638-1188 604-893-8705 clientcare@thinkprofits.com www.thinkprofits.com Tidal Interactive 1226 Hamilton St Suite 201, Vancouver V6B 2S8 ............... 604-696-6260 604-601-2160 info@tidal.ca www.tidal.ca Noise Digital Inc 856 Homer St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 2W5 Trevor Carr ........... 604-689-9574 604-689-9575 contact@noisedigital.com www.noisedigital.com OpenRoad Communications Ltd 12 Water St Suite 210, Vancouver V6B 1A5 Darren Gibbons ...... 604-694-0554 604-694-0558 info@openroad.ca www.openroad.ca PixelGems Software and Internet Solutions 9240 Young Rd, Chilliwack V2P 4R2 Karl Geng............. 604-847-9080 604-824-9726 info@pixelgems.com www.pixelgems.com Quasar Design & Data Management Inc 903 Stanton Ave, Coquitlam V3J 4V3 Ariba Dalal ..................................... 604-936-0202 info@qddm.ca www.qddm.ca R U On The Net Inc 101 1001 Broadway W Suite 662, Vancouver V6H 4E4 Alan Schneider ............................... 604-731-1234 info@ruonthenet.com www.AreYouOnTheNet.com Reeltime Videoworks 1040 Sitka Ave, Port Coquitlam V3B 5R1 .......................................... 604-644-0486 info@reeltimevideoworks.com www.reeltimevideoworks.com Reframe Marketing 515 Pender St W Suite 305, Vancouver V6B 6H5 Karen Milde.................................... 778-837-4163 info@reframemarketing.com www.reframemarketing.com Revenue Automation Inc 828 Harbourside Dr Suite 112, North Vancouver V7P 3R9 Jimmy Li .............. 604-998-2106 800-878-3572 jimmy@revenueautomation.com www.revenueautomation.com SDA Software Associates Inc 1275 6th Ave W Suite 300, Vancouver V6H 1A6 Sasa Djolic ..................................... 604-998-2260 sasa.djolic@sdaworld.com www.sdaworld.com Silver Stream 422 Richards St Suite 300, Vancouver V6B 2Z4 Jim Helgason ..... 604-842-1155 604-648-9965 sales@silver-stream-productions.com www.silver-stream-productions.com Skunkworks Creative Group Inc 55 Water St Suite 505, Vancouver V6B 1A1 Doug Jasinski ................................. 604-739-8976 info@skunkworks.ca www.skunkworks.ca Sky's the Limit Web Marketing 11622 64A Ave, Delta V4E 2C6 Larry Gardner....... 604-715-0760 604-591-6367 info@mrwebsite.ca www.mrwebsite.ca SmarttNet 3855 Henning Dr Suite 113, Burnaby V5C 5N3 ............... 604-473-9700 604-473-9080 saleh@smartt.com www.marketingsmartt.com SmartWeb Canada 207 Hastings St W Suite 1215, Vancouver V6B 1H7 Hossain Ahmadian ......................... 604-648-3232 604-566-9218 sales@smartwebcanada.com www.smartwebcanada.com Snaptech Marketing and Communications 2465 Beta Ave Suite 110, Burnaby V5C 5N1 Octavio Marquez ..... 604-677-0742 604-677-5237 octavio@snaptechmarketing.com www.snaptech.com Southernwood Express Design & Media 15388 24th Ave Suite 202, Surrey V4A 2J2 David Bezuidenhout ....................... 604-560-2632 www.southernwoodexpress.com Station X 1201 Pender St W Suite 300, Vancouver V6E 2V2................ 604-639-2266 604-639-2447 courtney.chu@stationx.co www.stationx.co Storefront.com 1130 Pender St W Suite 1575, Vancouver V6E 4A4 John McFedries ..... 604-408-4642 604-608-0632 info@storefront.com www.storefront.com Telacquire Marketing Group Inc 101 1001 Broadway W Suite 125, Vancouver V6H 4E4 Edward Soorany ............................. 604-773-1745 info@telacquire.com www.telacquire.com

Tugboat Group 138 6th Ave W Suite 3A, Vancouver V5Y 1K6 Steve Gallagher ..... 604-879-9222 604-879-9223 sgallagher@tugboatgroup.com www.tugboatmedia.com Open source CMS Solutions, robust custom application development, creative interface design, i-Marketing and full service agency support. VentureWeb PO Box 1461, Squamish V8B 0B1 James Morris ...... 604-815-4542 866-267-0953 info@ventureweb.net www.ventureweb.net W3 International Media Ltd 535 Thurlow St Suite 600, Vancouver V6E 3L2 Myfanwy Wong ..... 604-871-9899 604-871-1108 info2012@w3media.com www.w3media.com Wallop Creative Inc 128 Pender St W Suite 303, Vancouver V6B 1R8 Ryan Clarke ......... 604-408-6326 604-408-6340 ryan@wallopcreative.com www.wallopcreative.com WebMusketeer.com 101 1001 Broadway W Suite 125, Vancouver V6H 4E4 Edward Soorany ............................. 604-773-1745 info@WebMusketeer.com www.webMusketeer.com Webology Email Marketing Services 1193 Point Rd, Gibsons V0N 1V1 Claudia Redfern.............................. 604-790-4735 claudia@webology.ca www.webology.ca WiderFunnel Marketing Optimization 409 Granville St Suite 551, Vancouver V6C 1T2 Chris Goward....... 604-569-0897 604-648-8651 hello@widerfunnel.com www.widerfunnel.com

OTHER

4000

BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org Centre for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus 577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver V5T 1E1 ........................................... 778-370-1001 admin@gnwc.ca www.gnwc.ca DigiBC 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 Howard Donaldson......................... 604-602-5237 howard@digibc.org www.digibc.org Stephen Dittberner 3D/Technical Illustration 3022 Sunnyhurst Rd, North Vancouver V7K 2G3 Stephen Dittberner......................... 604-980-0241 dittberner@shaw.ca www.sdittberner.com SurfSpot Media Inc 1067 Granville St Suite 305, Vancouver V6Z 1L4 Greg Aulin ...................................... 604-646-4600 info@surfspotmedia.com www.surfspotmedia.com

SERVICES ACCOUNTING

7010

CGA of BC 1867 Broadway W Suite 300, Vancouver V6J 5L4 ................ 604-730-6212 604-732-9439 www.cga-bc.org

Deloitte & Touche LLP 1055 Dunsmuir St Suite 2800, Vancouver V7X 1P4................ 604-669-4466 604-685-0395 pﬂetcher@deloitte.ca www.deloitte.ca

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Ernst & Young LLP 700 Georgia St W Suite 1600 Box 10101, Vancouver V7Y 1C7 Lui Petrollini ........ 604-648-3803 604-643-5422 lui.petrollini@ca.ey.com www.ey.com Incentive Access Group 7495 132 St Suite 2007, Surrey V3W 1J8 .............. 604-572-9548 604-572-8793 tom@incentiveaccess.com www.incentiveaccess.com Smythe Ratcliffe LLP 355 Burrard St Suite 700, Vancouver V6C 2G8 Bill Macaulay ...... 604-687-1231 604-688-4675 info@smytheratcliffe.com www.smytheratcliffe.com

AUDIOVISUAL

7013

Conti Electronics Ltd 32 2nd Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1B3 ............... 604-734-0606 604-734-1195 info@conti.ca www.conti.ca Finale Editworks 2339 Columbia St Suite 100, Vancouver V5Y 3Y3 Don Thompson ....... 604-876-7678 604-876-3299 don@ﬁnale.tv www.ﬁnale.tv Focus Audio Visual Services 125 5th Ave W, Vancouver V5Y 1H9 Alan Bailey .......... 604-872-4434 604-872-4412 info@focus-av.com www.focus-av.com Larson Media Group Inc 323 6th Ave E, New Westminster V3L 4H2 Daryl Larson ........ 604-515-1718 604-515-1719 info@larsonmediagroup.com www.larsonmediagroup.com RBE Video Inc 11871 Horseshoe Way Suite 2121, Richmond V7A 5H5 Jill Reynolds ................................... 604-277-6533 reception@rbevideo.com www.rbevideo.com Reeltime Videoworks 1040 Sitka Ave, Port Coquitlam V3B 5R1 .......................................... 604-644-0486 info@reeltimevideoworks.com www.reeltimevideoworks.com Space-Tech Laboratory Ltd 2909 2nd Ave E, Vancouver V5M 1E6 Sherry Chan .................................... 604-254-8133 spacetechlab@gmail.com www.space-tech-lab.com

CONSULTANTS

KC Concepts Inc 1045 9th Ave W Suite 209, Vancouver V6H 1C3 Karen Campbell .............................. 604-734-0041 kcampbell@telus.net NDL Neptune Dynamics Ltd 6751 Graybar Rd Suite 180, Richmond V6W 1H3 Richard Green...... 604-244-9836 604-244-9771 email@neptunedyn.com www.neptunedyn.com

7015

Accenture 401 Georgia St W Suite 1400, Vancouver V6B 5A1 Petra Kuret .......... 604-646-5000 604-646-5001 petra.a.kuret@accenture.com www.accenture.ca AnalysisWorks Inc 1385 8th Ave W Suite 650, Vancouver V6H 3V9 Jason Goto .......... 604-739-7363 604-739-7364 info@analysisworks.com www.analysisworks.com Cadman Consulting Group Inc 666 Burrard St Suite 500, Vancouver V6C 3P6 Gary Cadman ....... 604-689-4345 604-676-2458 gcadman@cadman.ca www.cadman.ca

PR Campbell & Co Public Relations 23195 96 Ave Box 770, Fort Langley V1M 2S2 Steve Campbell...... 604-888-5267 604-888-5269 scampbell@campbellpr.bc.ca www.campbellpr.bc.ca Case studies, media relations, news releases, writing, trade mags. Clients: NeuroVive, Digital Payment, Burcon, Kongsberg, Ledalite, TIR, Epic Data, VEF. Dominion Sales & Marketing Services Inc 6200 McKay Ave Suite 141-466, Burnaby V5H 4M9 Tyler Dawson.................................. 778-783-0689 results@dominioncorp.com www.dominioncorp.com Franz Environmental Inc 1080 Mainland St Suite 308, Vancouver V6B 2T4 Thomas Franz ...... 604-632-9941 604-632-9942 info@franzenviromental.com www.franzenvironmental.com Jumpstart Sales & Marketing Inc 6200 McKay Ave Suite 141-466, Burnaby V5H 4M9 Tyler Dawson.................................. 778-783-0689 results@jumpstartcorp.com www.jumpstartcorp.com

Noise Digital Inc 856 Homer St Suite 200, Vancouver V6B 2W5 Trevor Carr ........... 604-689-9574 604-689-9575 contact@noisedigital.com www.noisedigital.com Part Time CFO Inc 1480 Foster St Suite 28, White Rock V4B 3X7 Dennis Mee ......... 604-535-4994 866-201-7901 denny@parttimecfo.ca www.parttimecfo.ca Pearson Advertising Ltd 6526 Yew St, Vancouver V6P 5V9 Vic Weckerle .................................. 604-261-6991 vic.w@telus.net The Signal Group 999 Broadway W Suite 720, Vancouver V5Z 1K5 Peter Parrish ................................... 604-329-8476 peter.parrish@thesignalgroup.net www.thesignalgroup.net Strategy Navigator 2136 Lockehaven Rd, North Vancouver V7G 1X6 Noulan Bowker.... 604-980-4494 604-638-6081 noulan@strategynavigator.com www.strategynavigator.com VenturePlus Partners 3806 33rd Ave W, Vancouver V6N 2H6 Garth Edgar .................................... 604-727-3610 gedgar@ventureplus.ca www.ventureplus.ca

FINANCIAL SERVICES

7020

Bull Housser & Tupper LLP 1055 Georgia St W Suite 3000, Vancouver V6E 3R3 Chris Wilson ........ 604-687-6575 604-641-4949 cxw@bht.com www.bht.com Protect your brand, your invention, your competitive advantage. Commercialize it. Enforce it. A leading technology team backed by a full service business team. Clark Wilson LLP 885 Georgia St W Suite 800, Vancouver V6C 3H1 Simone Fell.......... 604-687-5700 604-687-6314 svf@cwilson.com www.cwilson.com Providing a full range of legal services to technology businesses: ﬁnancing from early stage to U.S. and Canadian public markets, intellectual property protection and enforcement, company formation and governance, M&A transactions, employment, privacy, tax and cross border immigration, IT, cleantech, video gaming, new media and outsourcing.

Davis LLP 666 Burrard St Suite 2800, Vancouver V6C 2Z7 Chris Bennett....... 604-687-9444 604-687-1612 cbennett@davis.ca www.davis.ca Legal services for intellectual property, technology and outsourcing, video games and interactive entertainment, and renewable energy and sustainable development.

Farris, Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP 700 Georgia St W Suite 2500 Box 10026 Paciﬁc Centre, Vancouver V7Y 1B3 Jay R Cathart....... 604-684-9151 604-661-9349 info@farris.com www.farris.com Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP 550 Burrard St Suite 2900, Vancouver V6C 0A3 Keith Spencer ...... 604-631-3131 604-631-3232 vancouver@fasken.com www.fasken.com Gowling Laﬂeur Henderson LLP 550 Burrard St Suite 2300, Vancouver V6C 2B5 Sarah Kuchka ...... 604-891-2725 604-683-3558 sarah.kuchka@gowlings.com www.gowlings.com Koffman Kalef LLP 885 Georgia St W Suite 1900, Vancouver V6C 3H4 Mark E Wong ...... 604-891-3688 604-891-3788 info@kkbl.com www.kkbl.com Lawson Lundell LLP 925 Georgia St W Suite 1600, Vancouver V6C 3L2 Valerie Mann ....... 604-685-3456 604-669-1620 genmail@lawsonlundell.com www.lawsonlundell.com

Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP 601 Cordova St W Suite 480, Vancouver V6B 1G1 Michelle Beaubien ......................... 604-669-3432 604-681-4081 mbeaubien@patentable.com www.patentable.com Richards Buell Sutton LLP 401 Georgia St W Suite 700, Vancouver V6B 5A1 Jeffrey Lowe ....... 604-682-3664 604-688-3830 rbs@rbs.ca www.rbs.ca Smart & Biggar 1055 Georgia St W Suite 2300 Box 11115, Vancouver V6B 4N8 John W Knox ....... 604-682-7780 604-682-0274 vancouver@smart-biggar.ca www.smart-biggar.ca

ANGEL Forum – Vancouver 408 Inglewood Ave, West Vancouver V7T 1X1 Bob Chaworth-Musters ................. 604-926-7327 bob@ANGELforum.org www.ANGELforum.org BFL Canada Insurance Services Inc 1177 Hastings St W Suite 200, Vancouver V6E 2K3 Robin Messenger.... 604-669-9600 604-686-9316 rmessenger@bflcanada.ca www.bflcanada.ca Deloitte & Touche LLP 1055 Dunsmuir St Suite 2800, Vancouver V7X 1P4................ 604-669-4466 604-685-0395 pfletcher@deloitte.ca www.deloitte.ca Investor-Ready Workshops 408 Inglewood Ave, West Vancouver V7T 1X1 Bob Chaworth-Musters ................. 604-926-7327 bob@investorready.ca IPE Investment Pitch Enterprises Ltd 1111 Pender St W Suite 3507, Vancouver V6E 2P4 Joseph Nuyten ............................... 604-605-8522 jnuyten@telus.net www.investmentpitch.com Revenue Services Group 890 Pender St W Suite 600, Vancouver V6C 1K4 Bryan Nicol .......... 604-295-8137 604-733-7090 bryan.nicol@revenueservices.ca www.revenueservices.ca BC's largest tax credit & funding advisory specializing in application services: SR&ED, IDMTC, CMF, Bell Fund, SDTC and CICP. Varshney Capital Corp 1055 W.Georgia St Suite 2050 PO Box 11121, Vancouver V6E 3P3 Praveen Varshney.... 604-684-2181 604-682-4768 www.varshneycapital.com Yaletown Venture Partners 1122 Mainland St Suite 510, Vancouver V6B 5L1 Mike Satterfield ...... 604-688-7807 604-688-7031 info@yaletown.com www.yaletown.com

LEGAL SERVICES

7030

Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP 595 Burrard St Suite 2600, Vancouver V7X 1L3 ................ 604-631-3300 604-631-3309 vancouver@blakes.com www.blakes.com Borden Ladner Gervais LLP 200 Burrard St, 1200 Waterfront Centre O Box 48600, Vancouver V7X 1T2 Geoffrey de Kleine...... 604-640-4227 604-687-1415 gdekleine@blg.com www.blg.com

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MARKETING RESEARCH

7040

PR Campbell & Co Public Relations 23195 96 Ave Box 770, Fort Langley V1M 2S2 Steve Campbell ... 604-888-5267 604-888-5269 scampbell@campbellpr.bc.ca www.campbellpr.bc.ca Case studies, media relations, news releases, writing, trade mags. Clients: NeuroVive, Digital Payment, Burcon, Kongsberg, Ledalite, TIR, Epic Data, VEF. Inside Information Inc 1279 Nicola St Suite 306, Vancouver V6G 2E8 Lois Sperling................................... 604-684-6434 admin@insideinformation.com www.insideinformation.com

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

7075

A-Z World Translation and Interpretation Inc 704 Maurelle Crt, North Vancouver V7R 2M1 Ana Maria Zúñiga .......................... 604-351-3615 am@a-zworld.ca www.a-zworld.com Advanced Applied Physics Solutions 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver V6T 2A3 Timothy Meyer ............................... 604-225-2277 info@aapsinc.com www.aapsinc.com Aon Reed Stenhouse Inc 900 Howe St, Vancouver V6B 3X8 ............... 604-688-4442 604-682-4026 www.aon.ca Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of British Columbia 10767 148 St, Surrey V3R 0S4 John Leech .......... 604-585-2788 604-585-2790 jleech@asttbc.org www.asttbc.org BFL Canada Insurance Services Inc 1177 Hastings St W Suite 200, Vancouver V6E 2K3 Robin Messenger.... 604-669-9600 604-686-9316 rmessenger@bﬂcanada.ca www.bﬂcanada.ca

CBRE Ltd 1111 Georgia St W Suite 600, Vancouver V6E 4M3 Blair Quinn........... 604-662-3000 604-684-9368 blair.quinn@cbre.com www.cbre.com/hightech CMW Insurance Services Ltd 1901 Rosser Ave Suite 700, Burnaby V5C 6R6 ............... 604-294-3301 604-294-3003 www.cmwinsurance.com ecotype.ca Inc 1140 55 St Suite 201, Delta V4M 3J8 Carol Parnell ................................... 604-943-7005 carol@ecotype.ca www.ecotype.ca Ernst & Young LLP 700 Georgia St W Suite 1600 Box 10101, Vancouver V7Y 1C7 Lui Petrollini ........ 604-648-3803 604-643-5422 lui.petrollini@ca.ey.com www.ey.com HR Tech Group 4389 Maple St, Vancouver V6J 3V9 Allison Rutherford ... 604-874-2653 604-874-2654 arutherford@hrtechgroup.com www.hrtechgroup.com Mitacs Inc 6190 Agronomy Rd Suite 301 UBC Technology Enterprise Facility III, Vancouver V6T 1Z3 Arvind Gupta ....... 604-822-5446 604-822-3689 mitacs@mitacs.ca www.mitacs.ca PwC 250 Howe St Suite 700, Vancouver V6C 3S7 Kate Furber .......... 604-806-7000 604-806-7806 info@ca.pwc.com www.pwc.com/ca

Sea to Sky Network Solutions 300 - 455 Granville St, Vancouver V6C 1T1 Rob Sarkissian..... 604-628-6970 604-628-6971 rob@seatosky.com www.seatosky.com

A DIFFERENT KIND OF IT COMPANY.

604.628.6970 | 1.877.662.2759 INFO@SEATOSKY.COM WWW.SEATOSKY.COM

Sector Learning Solutions Inc 951 Alston St, Victoria V9A 3S5 Gerry Brimacombe.......................... 250-727-2266 250-727-9423 info@sectorlearning.com www.sectorlearning.com TEVO Consulting Inc 727 Keith Rd, West Vancouver V7T 1M2 Judy Mackenzie ...... 778-996-9334 604-922-3448 judy@tevoconsulting.ca www.tevoconsulting.ca

Transamerica Microsearch Inc 1124 Lonsdale Ave Suite 302, North Vancouver V7M 2H1 David McCullough .... 604-988-5213 604-988-5214 info@transmicro.com www.transmicro.com Celebrating 25 years, assembly line selling redeﬁnes high technology, manufacturing, medical science and education telephone marketing. VIATeC (Victoria Advanced Technology Council) 2659 Douglas St, 2nd ﬂoor, Victoria V8T 5M2 Dan Gunn........................................ 250-483-3214 info@viatec.ca www.viatec.ca

RECRUITING

7050

31337 Recruiters 2111 11th Ave W Suite 211, Vancouver V6K 4L4 Jared Shaw .................................... 604-877-1046 jared@31337recruiters.com www.31337recruiters.com Aerotek ULC 4321 Still Creek Dr Suite 150, Burnaby V5C 6S7 Chris Boyd ........... 604-293-8010 604-293-8090 chrboyd@aerotek.com www.aerotekcanada.ca BeyondTech Solutions Inc 3665 Kingsway Suite 300, Vancouver V5R 5W2 Stella Kuan .......... 604-433-0617 604-433-0677 skuan@beyond-tech.com www.beyond-tech.com Corporate Recruiters Ltd 1140 Pender St W Suite 490, Vancouver V6E 4G1 Don Safnuk .......... 604-687-5993 604-687-2427 careers@corporate.bc.ca www.corporate.bc.ca Eagle Professional Resources Inc 700 Georgia St W Suite 1410, Vancouver V7Y 1A1 Cindy Hogan ........ 604-899-1130 604-899-1150 nesst@eagleonline.com www.eagleonline.com Fusion Recruitment Group 900 Howe St Suite 330, Vancouver V6Z 2M4 Allan Welyk ......... 604-678-5627 604-669-6047 allan@fusion-recruitment.com www.fusion-recruitment.com FutureWorks 999 Canada Pl Suite 404, Vancouver V6C 3E2 Dorothy Keenan... 604-684-4176 604-684-4195 info@fwt.bc.ca www.fwt.bc.ca Globaltech Recruiting Inc 2135 Argyle Ave Suite 303, West Vancouver V7V 1A5 Carene Morton ............................... 604-913-0006 cmorton@globaltech.bc.ca www.globaltech.bc.ca

GO Recruitment 601 Broadway W Suite 400, Vancouver V5Z 4C2 Raymond To ......... 604-871-4166 604-871-4168 raymond@gorecruitment.com www.gorecruitment.com Hays – Recruiting Experts Worldwide 1050 Pender St W Suite 2150, Vancouver V6E 3S7 Jackie Burns ........ 604-648-4297 604-648-0588 jburns@hays.ca www.hays.ca

Lock Search Group 1040 Georgia St W Suite 810, Vancouver V6E 4H1 Frank Joe ............. 604-669-8806 604-669-5385 fjoe@locksearchgroup.com www.locksearchgroup.com We are Canada's leading management, marketing and sales search ﬁrm, specializing in various sectors including high-tech. Miles Employment Group 1055 Georgia St W Suite 2480 PO Box 11110, Vancouver V6E 3P3 Sandra Miles ....... 604-694-2500 604-694-2511 sandra@miles.ca www.miles.ca

Modis Canada Inc 505 Burrard St Suite 1150, Vancouver V7X 1M4 Nelson Cook ........ 604-689-8717 604-629-1182 nelson.cook@modis.com www.modiscanada.com The Pearl Fisher Group 6595 Willingdon Ave Suite 203, Burnaby V5H 4E5 Robert Zalaudek ............................. 604-771-8768 info@pearlﬁshers.it www.pearlﬁshers.it SI Systems (formerly Maxim Professional) 1130 Pender St W Suite 1101, Vancouver V6E 4A4 Bruce Baris Unal .... 604-488-1500 604-488-1510 admin.vancouver@sisystems.com www.sisystems.com

Techvibes.com 1250 Homer St Suite 407, Vancouver V6B 1C6 Robert Lewis .................................. 604-688-6722 rob@techvibes.com www.techvibes.com TM8 Recruitment 701 Georgia St W Suite 1500, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 Trent Mason ................................... 778-858-2799 info@tm8.ca www.tm8.ca

OTHER

7999

BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org Caltech Tech Services 12811 Clarke Pl Unit 150, Richmond V6V 2H9 Rene Andersen ............................... 604-279-8705 www.caltechservices.com City of Burnaby 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby V5G 1M2 Rod Nevison ........ 604-294-7400 604-570-3680 rod.nevison@burnaby.ca www.burnaby.ca CPE Systems Inc 5279 Still Creek Ave Unit A-1, Burnaby V5C 5V1 Donald Byres ....... 604-988-7151 604-988-7515 sales@cpesystems.com www.cpesystems.com

Hale! Marketing 1066 Hamilton St Suite 405, Vancouver V6B 2R9 Pauline Hale ................................... 604-688-0202 info@haleinc.com www.halemarketing.com

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Sustainable Technologies Sycorp Environmental Inc 21300 Gordon Way Unit 188, Richmond V6W 1M2 Malcolm Gray ...... 604-278-3220 866-887-5670 malcolm@sycorp.com www.sycorp.com Vancouver Enterprise Forum 515 Hastings St W Suite 7337, Vancouver V6B 5K3 Christine McDonald ....................... 778-782-7991 admin@vef.org www.vef.org

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT EQUIPMENT, NOISE/VIBRATION EQUIPMENT 5010 Air Phaser Environmental Ltd 19292 60th Ave Suite 308, Surrey V3S 3M2 Doug Lanz ............ 604-532-5856 604-533-7134 admin@airphaser.com www.airphaser.com BKL Consultants Ltd 1200 Lynn Valley Rd Suite 308, North Vancouver V7J 2A2 Douglas Kennedy .... 604-988-2508 604-988-7457 sound@bkl.ca www.bkl.ca RWDI Air Inc 999 Broadway W Suite 830, Vancouver V5Z 1K6................ 604-730-5688 604-730-2915 www.rwdiair.com

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING & INSTRUMENTATION 5030 ACM Environmental Corp 2323 Quebec St Suite 217, Vancouver V5T 4S7 Jari Saarela ......... 604-873-8599 604-873-5956 admin@acmenvironmental.com www.acmenvironmental.com CMC Industrial Electronics Ltd 3602 Gilmore Way Suite 305, Burnaby V5G 4W9 Douglas Forst ...... 604-421-4425 604-421-7734 sales@cmciel.com www.cmciel.com Faradyne System Group Inc 4471 No 6 Rd Suite 150, Richmond V6V 1P8 Reggie Ho ............ 604-278-1887 604-278-5313 inquiry@faradyne.com www.faradyne.com Hatfield Consultants 850 Harbourside Dr Suite 200, North Vancouver V7P 0A3 Grant Bruce ......... 604-926-3261 604-926-5389 hcp@hatfieldgroup.com www.hatfieldgroup.com Opus DaytonKnight Consultants Ltd 889 Harbourside Dr Suite 210, North Vancouver V7P 3S1 John WC Doyle ... 604-990-4800 604-990-4805 info@opusdaytonknight.com www.opusdaytonknight.com

GREEN BUILDING & SUSTAINABLE PLANNING SERVICES 5040 Avid Consulting Group Ltd 610 Granville St Suite 807, Vancouver V6C 3T3 Jo Anne Gin.................................... 778-317-8814 joanne.gin@avidconsulting.ca www.avidconsulting.ca JM Bean & Co Ltd Mechanical Consulting Engineers 1661 2nd Ave W Suite 201, Vancouver V6J 1H3 Stuart Tan ............ 604-736-6724 604-736-6726 info@jmbean.com www.jmbean.com MCW Consultants Ltd 1185 Georgia St W Suite 1400, Vancouver V6E 4E6 ................ 604-687-1821 604-683-5681 mcw_van@mcw.com www.mcw.com Philips Ledalite 19750 92A Ave, Langley V1M 3B2 Jody Sikham ........ 604-888-6811 604-888-2003 jody.sikham@philips.com www.ledalite.com

HAZARDOUS/SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

5050

Belkorp Industries Inc 1508 Broadway W Suite 900, Vancouver V6J 1W8 .............. 604-688-8533 604-688-3569 www.belkorp.com Counterspil Research Inc 2471 Marine Dr Unit 8, West Vancouver V7V 1L3 Lauri Solsberg ..... 604-926-0900 604-926-0909 mail@counterspil.com www.counterspil.com

HYBRID TECHNOLOGIES

5055

Corvus Energy Ltd 13160 Vanier Pl Suite 110, Richmond V6V 2J2 Grant Brown ........ 604-227-0280 604-227-0281 info@corvus-energy.com www.corvus-energy.com

Wireless INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

5060

Cengea Solutions Inc 1188 Georgia St W Suite 560, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-697-6400 604-697-6440 info@cengea.com www.cengea.com Envirochem Services Inc 310 Esplanade E, North Vancouver V7L 1A4 Paul Beauchemin .... 604-986-0233 604-986-8583 response@envirochem.com www.envirochem.com Powertech Labs Inc 12388 88th Ave, Surrey V3W 7R7 Susan Hancock .... 604-590-7500 604-590-5347 susan.hancock@powertechlabs.com www.powertechlabs.com Pulse Energy 576 Seymour St Suite 600, Vancouver V6B 3K1 ............... 778-331-0500 778-331-0501 info@pulseenergy.com www.pulseenergy.com

WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT: WATER CONSERVATION EQUIPMENT

Alpha Technologies Ltd 7700 Riverfront Gate, Burnaby V5J 5M4 Paul Drabble ........ 604-638-8610 604-436-1233 paul.drabble@alpha.ca www.alpha.ca Cascadia Tower Inc 545 Clyde Ave Suite 208, West Vancouver V7T 1C5 Morrie Finn ..................................... 604-986-7177 mﬁnn@cascadiatower.com www.cascadiatower.com

5100

Alpha Wastewater Inc 701 Georgia St W Suite 1500, Vancouver V7Y 1C6 Brian Hauff .......... 604-908-9910 604-601-8502 info@alphawastewater.com www.alphawastewater.com Atmoswater Research 2116 Grand Blvd, North Vancouver V7L 3Y7 Roland Wahlgren ........................... 604-985-3720 atmoswater@shaw.ca www.atmoswater.com BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc 355 Burrard St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6C 2G8 Andrew Hall ........ 604-685-1243 604-685-7778 bioteq@bioteq.ca www.bioteq.ca ECO-TEK Ecological Technologies Inc 20543 96 Ave Suite 10, Langley V1M 3W3 Kimron David Rink... 778-298-6835 778-298-6836 admin@ecotek.ca www.ecotek.ca Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc 1199 Pender St W Suite 690, Vancouver V6E 2R1 Phillip Abrary ....... 604-408-6697 604-408-4442 www.ostara.com Spectral Innovations Ltd 16447 64 Ave Suite 201, Surrey V3S 6V7 Greg M'Lot .......... 604-576-8700 604-677-5859 sil_info@spectralinnovations.com www.spectralinnovations.com

OTHER

DDS Wireless International Inc 11920 Forge Pl, Richmond V7A 4V9 Vari Ghai .............. 604-241-1441 604-241-1440 investors@ddswireless.com www.ddswireless.com

5000

BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA) 1188 Georgia St W Suite 900, Vancouver V6E 4A2 ............... 604-683-6159 604-683-3879 info@bctia.org www.bctia.org

Catalyst Paper Corp 3600 Lysander Ln Suite 200, Richmond V7B 1C3 ............... 604-247-4400 604-247-0512 contactus@catalystpaper.com www.catalystpaper.com Corix Utilities 1188 Georgia St W Suite 1160, Vancouver V6E 4A2 Eric van Roon....... 604-697-6700 604-697-6703 info.utilities@corix.com www.corix.com EPI Environmental Plastics Inc 1788 Broadway W Suite 801, Vancouver V6J 1Y1................ 604-738-6281 604-738-7839 epicanada@epi-global.com www.epi-global.com J Christopher Raymond & Associates PO Box 13, Whistler V0N 1B0 Christopher Raymond ..................... 604-938-1770 604-938-1361 info@jcrconsulting.com www.jcrconsulting.com

WIRELESS COMPONENTS, INFRASTRUCTURE & DEVICES 6010 Aarcomm Systems Inc 17 Fawcett Rd Suite 112, Coquitlam V3K 6V2 William Hue ........ 604-379-5091 604-945-3472 info@aarcomm.com www.aarcomm.com

Ericsson Canada Inc 5255 Satellite Dr, Mississauga ON L4W 5E3 Patricia MacLean .... 905-206-7928 905-629-6707 patricia.maclean@ericsson.com www.ericsson.com In Motion Technology Inc 625 Agnes St Suite 350, New Westminster V3M 5Y4 Louise Labuda ..... 604-523-2371 604-648-9629 louise.labuda@inmotiontechnology.com www.inmotiontechnology.com

Ericsson Canada Inc 5255 Satellite Dr, Mississauga ON L4W 5E3 Patricia MacLean ... 905-206-7928 905-629-6707 patricia.maclean@ericsson.com www.ericsson.com FCV 333 Seymour St Suite 1100, Vancouver V6B 5A6 John Starke ......... 604-662-8407 604-662-8409 info@fcv.ca www.fcv.ca Marine Drive Mobile 1055 Georgia St W Suite 1450, Vancouver V6E 2E9 John MacDonald ............................ 415-839-1055 investors@marinedrive.com www.marinedrive.com mod7 Communications Inc 602 Hastings St W Suite 614, Vancouver V6B 1P2 Will Arndt ............ 604-647-6637 604-647-6635 hello@mod7.com www.mod7.com Tsunami Solutions Ltd 2055 Boundary Rd Suite 202, Vancouver V5M 3Z1 Thomas Touhey ...... 604-299-5855 604-648-8158 info@safetyline.com www.tsunamisolutionsltd.com Upside Wireless Inc 1211 Melville St Suite 1401, Vancouver V6E 0A7 Branko Zurkovic ..... 604-687-7433 604-628-0105 info@upsidewireless.com www.upsidewireless.com

OTHER

Paciﬁc Design Engineering (PDE) 8505 Eastlake Dr, Burnaby V5A 4T7 Bruce Stevens ..... 604-421-1311 604-421-9202 info@pde.com www.pde.com Peak Networks 422 Richards St Suite 300, Vancouver V6B 2Z4 Chris ............................................... 604-928-6407 sales@peaknetworks.ca www.peaknetworks.ca Sierra Wireless Inc 13811 Wireless Way, Richmond V6V 3A4 .......................................... 604-231-1100 www.sierrawireless.com Star Solutions International Inc 4600 Jacombs Rd Suite 120, Richmond V6V 3B1 Myles Lu .............. 604-276-0055 604-303-8558 www.starsolutions.com Testforce Systems Inc 34255 Larch St, Abbotsford V2S 2P7........................................... 604-557-0715 chris@testforce.com www.testforce.com Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc 19473 Fraser Way, Pitt Meadows V3Y 2V4 ............... 604-460-6002 604-460-6005 sales@tranzeo.com www.tranzeo.com Vecima Networks Inc 771 Vanalman Ave, Victoria V8Z 3B8................ 250-881-1982 250-881-1974 invest@vecima.com www.vecima.com

ENABLING SOFTWARE 6030 Intrinsyc Software International Inc 885 Dunsmuir St Suite 380, Vancouver V6C 1N5 George Reznik ..... 604-801-6461 604-801-6417 www.intrinsyc.com TVL Inc 901 16th St W Suite 200, North Vancouver V7P 1R2 Phil Mony ............ 604-983-2298 604-983-2296 tvlsales@tvl.com www.tvl.com WebTech Wireless Inc 4299 Canada Way Suite 215, Burnaby V5G 1H3 ............... 604-434-7337 604-434-5270 info@webtechwireless.com www.webtechwireless.com WIRELESS APPLICATIONS

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CIMS Industries Inc 6325 204 St Suite 428, Langley V2Y 3B3 Timothy Ames..... 604-533-2424 604-533-2427 tim.ames@cimsindustries.com www.cimsindustries.com

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Company index 31337 Recruiters, 76 604media, 74 A A-Z World Translation and Interpretation Inc, 76 Aarcomm Systems Inc, 77 AAT Global Inc, 69 Absolute Software Corp, 71 Accenture, 75 ACL Services Ltd, 71 ACM Environmental Corp, 77 ACRONYM Games, 73 Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, 76 Advanced Hybrid Aircraft Ltd, 69 AECOM, 70 Aerotek ULC, 76 Agentic Communications Inc, 73, 74 Air Phaser Environmental Ltd, 77 Allon Therapeutics, Inc, 69 Allstream, 72 Alpha Technologies Ltd, 70, 77 Alpha Wastewater Inc, 77 Ampco Manufacturers Inc, 70 AnalysisWorks Inc, 75 Analytic Systems Ware (1993) Ltd, 70 ANGEL Forum - Vancouver, 75 Annex Consulting Group Inc, 71 Aon Reed Stenhouse Inc, 76 Applied Electronics Ltd, 70, 72 Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of British Columbia, 76 Appnovation Technologies, 73 Aquinox Pharmaceuticals Inc, 69 ARC Medical Devices Inc, 69 Ashford Technologies Inc, 69 Astec Components Ltd, 70 Atimi Software Inc, 71 Atmoswater Research, 77 ATP Engineering Inc, 71 Avcorp Industries Inc, 69 Avid Consulting Group Ltd, 77 AvStar Technology Inc, 69 Axis Technical Services Corp, 72 B Backbone Systems, 71 Ballard Power Systems Inc, 69 Baseline Type & Graphics Cooperative, 74 Bayleaf Software Inc, 74 BC Technology Industry Association (BC TIA), 69, 70, 72, 74, 76, 77 BCD Electronics Ltd, 69 Beedie School of Business, 72 Belkorp Industries Inc, 77 Bell Canada, 72 BEP Engineering Services (1997) Ltd, 70 BeyondTech Solutions Inc, 76 BFL Canada Insurance Services Inc, 75, 76 BIC (formerly Angstrom Power Inc), 70 Big Park Inc, 73 Bionic Power Inc, 70 BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc, 77 BKL Consultants Ltd, 77 Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, 75 Blast Radius, 74 BOOST Design + Marketing, 74 Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, 75 Boxcar Marketing, 74 BRANDFX Advertising Design & Interactive, 74 BRI Biopharmaceutical Research Inc, 69 Broadside Media Inc, 74 Bull Housser & Tupper LLP, 75 Burnkit, 73 Business Pro Computers, 71 BWireless, 77 C Cadex Electronics Inc, 70 Cadman Consulting Group Inc, 75 Cadnet Media Inc, 73 Caltech Tech Services, 76 CamCentral Systems Inc, 72 Campbell & Co Public Relations, 75, 76 Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, 73 Carmanah Technologies Corp, 70 Cascadia Tower Inc, 77 Catalyst Paper Corp, 77 CBRE Ltd, 76 CDC Software, 71 Celator Pharmaceuticals, 69 Cengea Solutions Inc, 77 Central Park Studios - Designers, 74 Centre for Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus, 74 CGA of BC, 74 CIMS Industries Inc, 77 City of Burnaby, 76

CityMax.com, 74 Clark Wilson LLP, 75 Clevest Solutions, 71 CMC Industrial Electronics Ltd, 77 CMW Insurance Services Ltd, 76 Coastal Contacts Inc/Clearly Contacts, 69 Coastal Range Systems Inc, 71 Compugen Systems Ltd, 71 Computrol Fuel Systems Inc, 70 Compuwork Paciﬁc Inc, 71 COMTEL Integrated Technologies Inc, 72 Conquer Mobile Inc, 71 Conti Electronics Ltd, 75 Corecon Construction Software, 71 Corix Utilities, 77 Corporate Recruiters Ltd, 76 Corvus Energy Ltd, 77 CounterPath, 72 Counterspil Research Inc, 77 CPE Systems Inc, 76 Creation Technologies Inc, 70 D Datacom Solutions Ltd, 71 Davetek Marketing Inc, 70 Davis LLP, 75 Day4 Energy Inc, 70 DDS Wireless International Inc, 77 Deloitte & Touche LLP, 74, 75 Delta-Q Technologies Corp, 70 DesignStamp Creative Group, 73 DigiBC, 74, 77 Digital Payment Technologies Corp, 71 Digitel Systems Inc, 72 DNA Data Networking and Assemblies Ltd, 69 Domain7 Solutions Inc, 74 Dominion Sales & Marketing Services Inc, 75 Dorigo Systems Ltd, 70 DotNetNuke Corp, 74 DPG Associates Web Design, 74 dPoint Technologies Inc, 70 Dyrand Systems Inc., 72 E E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Ltd, 70 EA Energy Alternatives Ltd, 70 Eagle Professional Resources Inc, 76 eBridge Marketing Solutions, 74 ECO-TEK Ecological Technologies Inc, 77 ecotype.ca Inc, 76 Elastic Path Software, 71 Electronic Arts, 73 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 73 Empyrion Technologies Inc, 72 Endurance Wind Power, 70 Energy Aware Technology Inc, 70 Engine Digital Inc, 73 Enigma Interconnect 2012 Corp, 70 Enterprise CodeWorks Inc, 71 Envirochem Services Inc, 77 EPI Environmental Plastics Inc, 77 EQQY GROUP, 74 Ericsson Canada Inc, 70, 71, 72, 77 Ernst & Young LLP, 75, 76 Essential Software Solutions Inc, 71 ETC Telecom, 72 F Falcon-Software Company Inc, 74 Faradyne System Group Inc, 77 Farris, Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP, 75 Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, 75 Fast + Epp, 69 FCV, 73, 74, 77 Finale Editworks, 75 Finavera Wind Energy, 70 Flagship Systems, 71 Focus Audio Visual Services, 75 Form3 Design Inc, 71 Franz Environmental Inc, 75 Freethem Generation Inc, 70 Fusion Recruitment Group, 76 FutureWorks, 76 G G4S Justice Services (Canada) Inc, 77 Galdos Systems Inc, 71 General Fusion Inc, 70 Genome BC, 69 GigaLuma Technologies Inc, 73 Glenbriar Technologies Inc, 72 Glentel Inc, 77 Global Relay, 71 Globalnet - Work Computers & Security Systems Ltd, 71 Globaltech Recruiting Inc, 76 GM Solutions Inc, 71 GO Recruitment, 76 Goldtooth Creative Agency Inc, 73

Gowling Laﬂeur Henderson LLP, 75 Graphically Speaking Services Inc, 74 Gravit-e Technologies Inc, 71 Greenlight Innovation Corp, 70 Habañero Consulting Group, 71 H Hale! Marketing, 76 Hatﬁeld Consultants, 77 Hawk Ridge Systems, 71 Hays - Recruiting Experts Worldwide, 76 Heart Force Medical Inc, 69 Hellbent Games, 73 Hot Tomali Communications Inc, 74 Hothead Games, 73 HR Tech Group, 76 Hypercube Technologies Corp, 71 I iamota Corp, 74 IBM Canada, 71 Icron Technologies Corp, 71 Idea Rebel, 74 Ideal Computer Group Inc, 71 ideaLEVER Solutions Inc, 74 In Motion Technology Inc, 77 Incentive Access Group, 75 Infonet Technology Corp, 71 Inside Information Inc, 76 International Thermal Research, 70 Intrinsyc Software International Inc, 77 Investor-Ready Workshops, 75 Invoke, 74 Ion Branding + Design, 73 Ionocom Communications Inc, 70 Iotron Industries Canada Inc, 69 IPE Investment Pitch Enterprises Ltd, 75 iPipeline, 71 IPS, 71 Isaac Systems Inc, 69 ISCAPE Internet Consulting, 74 IUGO Mobile Entertainment, 73 J J Christopher Raymond & Associates, 77 Jio Infotech Inc, 72 JM Bean & Co Ltd Mechanical Consulting Engineers, 77 Jumpstart Sales & Marketing Inc, 75 K Kaper Creative, 74 KC Concepts Inc, 75 Kinexus Bioinformatics Corp, 69 Klei Entertainment, 73 Klein Systems Group Ltd, 71 Knowledgetech Consulting Inc, 71 Koffman Kalef LLP, 75 Koolhaus Games Inc, 73 L Larson Media Group Inc, 75 Latitude Technologies Corp, 69 Lawson Lundell LLP, 75 Left Right Minds Initiatives, 74 Levelton Consultants Ltd, 71 Lignol Energy Corp, 70 Line49 Design Group Inc, 74 Lock Search Group, 76 Lockhart Industries Ltd, 70 Loki Systems Inc, 71 The Lunny Design Group Inc, 73 M MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA), 72 Make Technologies Inc, 71 Marine Drive Mobile, 77 Maxxam Analytics, 71 McCuaig & Associates Engineering Ltd, 71 McGauley Consultants Ltd, 71 McKesson Medical Imaging, 69 MCW Consultants Ltd, 77 MDMI Technologies Inc, 69 Media FX Group, 73 Medinet Health Systems Inc, 72 Medora Solutions Inc, 74 Mel Roth Design, 74 MeZine Inc, 74 Micro Com Systems Ltd, 72 Microserve, 72 Microsoft Game Studios Vancouver, 73 Microzip Data Corp, 72 Miles Employment Group, 76 Mireth Technology Corp, 72 Mitacs Inc, 76 Mobio Technologies Inc, 74 mod7 Communications Inc, 72, 73, 74, 77 Modis Canada Inc, 76 Mountain Interactive Inc, 74 MultiHat Solutions Inc, 72 MultiTrends ITNet Services, 72

N Navigata Communications, 71 NDL Neptune Dynamics Ltd, 75 Next Level Games, 73 Nexterra Systems Corp, 70 Nintendo of Canada Ltd, 73 Noise Digital Inc, 73, 74, 75 Nokia Products Ltd., 72 North American Telecommunications Group, 72 O Ode Systems, 72 Omni Graphics Ltd, 70 OncoGeneX Technologies Inc, 69 OneMove Technologies Inc, 72 OpenRoad Communications Ltd, 71, 72, 73, 74 Opus DaytonKnight Consultants Ltd, 77 Origin Design + Communications Ltd, 73 Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc, 77 Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP, 75 P Paciﬁc Design Engineering (PDE), 70, 71, 77 Padtech Global Sourcing, 70 Part Time CFO Inc, 75 Peak Networks, 77 The Pearl Fisher Group, 76 Pearson Advertising Ltd, 75 PEER 1 Hosting, 72 Pegasus Pharmaceuticals Group Inc, 69 Perceptronix Medical Inc (PMI Labs), 69 Philips Ledalite, 77 Phoenix Systems, 72 Pinter Electronics Consultants, 70 Piranha Games, 73 Pitstop Media Inc, 71 PixelGems Software and Internet Solutions, 74 PMC-Sierra, 70 Point Four Systems Inc, 69 Powertech Labs Inc, 77 Provent Technologies, 72 Pulse Energy, 77 PwC, 76 Q QLT Inc, 69 Qu Biologics Inc, 69 Quantum Technology Corp, 69 Quartech Systems Ltd, 72 Quasar Design & Data Management Inc, 74 R R U On The Net Inc, 74 RackForce Networks, 71 Radiant Communications Corp, 71 Rainmaker Entertainment Inc, 73 Ralph’s Radio, 72 RBE Video Inc, 75 Redline Pro Manufacturing, 69 Reel Wonders Animation Inc, 73 Reeltime Videoworks, 74, 75 Reframe Marketing, 74 Revenue Automation Inc, 74 Revenue Services Group, 75 Richards Buell Sutton LLP, 75 Rockstar Vancouver, 73 Rogers Communications Partnership, 72 The RSC Group, 72 RWDI Air Inc, 77 S S-P International Inc, 70 Safe Software Inc, 72 Sage, 72 salonMonster, 72 Samco Software Inc, 72 SAP Canada Inc, 72 SDA Software Associates Inc, 74 Sea Breeze Power Corp, 70 Sea to Sky Network Solutions, 76 Sector Learning Solutions Inc, 76 Seeker Solutions Inc, 72 semiosBIO, 69 Seon Design Inc, 72 SGS Canada Inc, 69 Shaw Communications Inc, 72 SI Systems (formerly Maxim Professional), 76 Sierra Wireless Inc, 77 The Signal Group, 75 Signals Design Group Inc, 73 Silver Stream, 74 SilverPoint Systems Ltd, 72 Skunkworks Creative Group Inc, 74 Sky’s the Limit Web Marketing, 74 SkyTrac Systems, 69

Skyway West, 71, 72, 77 Smart & Biggar, 75 SmarttNet, 74 SmartWeb Canada, 74 Smoking Gun Interactive Inc, 73 Smythe Ratcliffe LLP, 75 Snaptech Marketing and Communications, 74 Softlanding Network Solutions Inc, 72 Softrend Systems Inc, 72 Softscribes Services Inc, 72 Sophos Inc, 72 Southernwood Express Design & Media, 74 Space-Tech Laboratory Ltd, 75 Specific Instruments Ltd, 72 Spectral Innovations Ltd, 77 Squirrel Systems, 72 Standard Marketing Ltd, 71 Star Solutions International Inc, 77 The StarGarden Group, 72 Station X, 74 Steeves and Associates, 72 STEMCELL Technologies Inc, 69 Stephen Dittberner 3D/technical Illustration, 74 SterlingKlor Communications Inc, 73 Storefront.com, 74 Strategy Navigator, 75 SurfSpot Media Inc, 74 SustaiNet Software International Inc, 72 Switch United, 73 Sycorp Environmental Inc, 77 System Directions Ltd, 71 T Talent Technology Corp, 72 Technocarb Alternative Fuel Systems, 70 Techvibes.com, 76 Tekion Inc, 70 Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp, 69 Telacquire Marketing Group Inc, 74 Teligence, 73 Telus Corp, 72 Testforce Systems Inc, 77 TEVO Consulting Inc, 76 Think Profits.com, 74 THQ Canada Inc dba Relic Entertainment, 73 Thurber Engineering Ltd, 71 Tidal Interactive, 74 TimeLapse Digital Inc, 73 Times Telecom Inc, 72 TM8 Recruitment, 76 TMW Systems Canada Inc, 72 Tomeron Systems Inc, 72 Top Producer Systems, 72 TP Systems, 72 TrainingPartner by GeoMetrix, 72, 73 Transamerica Microsearch Inc, 76 Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc, 77 TRIUMF, 69 Trusterra Technologies Inc, 72 Tsunami Solutions Ltd, 77 Tugboat Group, 73, 74 TVL Inc, 77 U Uniserve Communications Corp, 72 United Front Games, 73 Upside Wireless Inc, 72, 77 V Vancouver Enterprise Forum, 77 Varshney Capital Corp, 75 Vecima Networks Inc, 77 Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services Inc, 69 VenturePlus Partners, 75 VentureWeb, 74 Ventyx, an ABB Company, 72 VIATeC (Victoria Advanced Technology Council), 76 Vigil Health Solutions Inc, 69 Vision Critical Communications, 72 Vivonet Inc, 72 W W3 International Media Ltd, 74 Wallop Creative Inc, 74 Waterfall Advisors Group Ltd, 70 Wavefront, 77 WebMusketeer.com, 74 Webnames.ca Inc, 71 Webology Email Marketing Services, 74 WebTech Wireless Inc, 77 Western Pacific Enterprises Ltd, 72 Westport Innovations Inc, 69, 70 WiderFunnel Marketing Optimization, 74 Work at Play, 73 XY Xylon Biotechnologies Ltd, 69 Yaletown Venture Partners, 75

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