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MaRS launches a new space for technology entrepreneurs in Toronto, offering co-working space, mentorship and networking, access to capital, market intelligence and education programs.

Jay Somerset, Globe and Mail reporter states "McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto is hosting an international conference and DEW Line Festival exploring art, media and culture... November 5th." The article discusses how change is better conveyed through emotions within art rather than science. MaRS Discovery District is an innovation hub that promotes innovation in social innovation, cleantech, life sciences and health care, and in ICE.

Addictive Mobility will sshowcased its AMO adSocial technology in exhibits hosted by MaRS Discovery District and IAB Canada.

Dr John Semple helped to created an app that is being in the healthcare industry in Canada for diagnoses. Peter Adams, senior health-care IT adviser, MaRS Discovery District, describs "Dr. Semple's app as the "tip of the iceberg," ... technology and others like it are capable of saving the health-care system millions in unnecessary hospital readmissions, needless suffering and potential deaths."

Xogen Technologies Inc., an innovator in the wastewater treatment industry and a MaRS Client, has been selected for the Corporate Knights Next 10, a list representing Canada's best privately-held companies in the cleantech space.Tom Rand, Senior Cleantech Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District is on the Corporate Knights Next 10 advisory panel.

Canada's first $100 polymer note was officially in circulation as of November 14. The official unveiling happened at the MaRS Centre with the Bank of Canada's governor, Mark Carney. 

According to an Angus Reid public opinion poll, Calgary is reported to have the best quality of life out of Canada's four largest cities. Acording to Jane Switzer, a report from The Globe and Mail, the "Angus Reid poll was commissioned for CityAge Media's The Innovation City summit." The summit will take place at the MaRS Centre, July 18 and 19th and will explore the new ideas, technologies and partnerships that will build the 21st century city, and why - and how - Metro Toronto and Canada will be a leader in this urban century.

Doug Friesen, President of Getinge Canada Limited a division of The Getinge, a leading, Swedish-based global medical company spoke at the MaRS Centre regarding financial challenges facing the healthcare system in Ontario.

The Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT) announced today that the organization will hold its 9th Annual World Congress on Brain, Spinal Cord Mapping, and Image Guided Therapy from June 2-4, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. Parimal Nathwani, Vice President of MaRS Innovation, says"Forums like this represent an excellent opportunity for reviewing technologies and supporting collaboration across different institutions for more effective translation and commercialization opportunity."

According to Richard Blackwell, reporter of the Globe and Mail, "Canada ranks among the top 10 countries worldwide when it comes to spawning clean technology companies." MaRS is one of the educational institutions for cleantech.

The Condo Owners Association will have an event in April that will examine Innovation and Technology. Dr Ilse Treurnict, CEO of MaRS Discovery District will be speaking at the event.

Nevex is led by a group of serial entrepreneurs now on their fourth start-up, having focused on areas such as network attached translation and technology and usability in the past. The past start-ups have all been 100 per cent channel-focused, said Nevex product manager Andrew Flint. With Nevex, Flint said they've set out to tackle application performance and I/O caching.

Segasist Technologies, a MaRS Discovery District Client, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Prostate Auto-Contouring software 'Segasist P-AC'.

"Dr. Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada and IBM Chief Scientist and Fellow Jonas Release a report on how organizations should act now to address the privacy risks associated with Big Data, and the analytics technologies used to make sense of these vast data sets, before such risks become realities." The report was shared at the Future of Energy Summit that was held at the MaRS Centre.

RIC Centre, Peel Region hosted it's fourth annual Innovator Idol competition for a $50,000 prize. The four finalists were: Emcara Gas Development, PACTS Cultural Transformations, CHAR Technologies and SMARTeacher. The event was held June 13th, 2012. The panel included William White a Director at MaRS Discovery District. 

Ontario in partnership with MaRS Discovery District has launched the Clean Energy Institute which will bring together industry leaders and utility companies to build on Ontario's strengths in smart grid technologies and other clean energy innovations. In addition, the institute will help support and expand domestic and international business opportunities and position Ontario to capitalize on a $250 billion clean energy industry.

Tom Rand spoke with CBC News in June while taking a break from promoting his book Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save our World in Europe about why the world should kick its oil addiction - and why he thinks it's possible.

Dale Zak's presentation from Net Change Week on Mobile Volunteerism. It profiles Extraordinaries, Ushahidi, Samasource, VMConnect, Causeworld - social ventures that are helping volunteers do meaningful work by using technology. Dale is a mobile software developer passionate about social change.

InGamer Sports, a leading technology provider of real-time, interactive sports and entertainment games for the web and mobile devices is launching the InGamer platform for Game One of the Hockey Finals in partnership with The Hockey News and National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA).