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The December 7 MobileMonday Toronto networking event for mobile professionals in the Toronto region will feature guest speaker Anthony Lacavera, Chairman and CEO of Globalive Holdings, a provider of telecommunications solutions in Canada and internationally to the consumer, business and hospitality markets. The event will be held at the MaRS Centre. Nov 25, 2009

"Hydrogenics, a MaRS Client was selected as 2011 Later Stage Award Top 30 Finalist by Global Cleantech Cluster Association. "

The Working Group, Media Profile, Global Accelerator Network and Postmedia Network Inc. have also partnered with JOLT. JOLT was created by MaRS and is a new technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises connect, work and play.

MaRS Discovery District has earned global recognition as a hub of innovation for technology and clean-tech startups since its launch in 2005. Mary Teresa Bitti, Financial Post reporter interviews Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District and Allyson Hewitt, Director, Social Entrepreneurship,  SiG@MaRS about social innovation.

Sanofi BioGENEius Challenge Canada is a biotech competition where high school students are mentored by local scientists. MaRS helps create successful global businesses from Canada's science, technology and social innovation.

Tom Rand, MaRS Cleantech Lead Advisor at MaRS Discovery District has written a commentary about the recent global carbon market news and how Canada could meet its 2020 GHG target.

"Headline looks at the importance of discussing and addressing mental health in the workplace with Bill Wilkerson, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Global Business & Economic Roundtable on Mental Health; and Mike Schwartz, Executive Director, Great-West Life Centre for Mental Health in the Workplace. "

Guru Banavar, CTO, Global Public Sector, IBM spoke at the Innovation City conference at the MaRS Centre on July 18 & 19, 2012 where he talked about how using data can help the physical infrastructure of a city.

"The Greater Philadelphia Leadership Exchange (GPLEX) will guide a cohort of the region's established and emerging leaders to Toronto and will explore the evolution of Toronto as an international center and global hotspot." The tour will include a visit to the MaRS Discovery District and see our efforts in social innovation.

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. MaRS Innovation is one of the supporters for the conference.

The family of Dr. John Evans, an innovator in both medicine and business, is donating $10-million to the Toronto MaRS Discovery District. The money will be used to create a MaRS Solutions Lab, which will be designed to help tackle a range of problems - from the commercialization of medical discoveries to global health issues - while providing opportunities for young Canadians, who will have the chance to become fellows at MaRS.

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."

"How can new technologies make Canada's healthcare system more efficient? BNN asks Joseph Cafazzo, Lead, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation and Peter Adams, Senior Health IT Advisor, MaRS Discovery District."

Th 20th anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit to place in Ottawa and was intended to chart a course for global sustainable development. Jon Dogterom, MaRS Discovery District Lead Advisor, Cleantech was a member on the panel that discusses how canada was performing in "greening the economy."

Toronto is a globally competitive centre for groundbreaking basic and clinical research, with historical and current strengths in areas including new cancer therapeutics, stem cell research and development, genomics, bioinformatics, and the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for every imaginable disease process.

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) teamed up with Invitrogen Corporation, a California-based global leader in providing life sciences technology, recently to host Genome 2.0: New Frontiers in Epigenomics, a one-day symposium addressing epigenetic regulation of gene expression with a special focus on chromatin biology, DNA methylation, non-coding RNAs and technology development.

In Toronto, Ogilvy Renault and Miller Thomson, both associated with the city's MaRS innovation centre, offer legal services aimed at allowing clean technology companies to compete in the global marketplace.