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Ryan Coleman shares Chris Berry from Critical Mass' slides from Netchange Week. Brief mention about the Social Metrics presentation and workshop.

Earl Miller from MaRS shares his thoughts on why young tech companies should treaty privacy as a key business issue.

Stanford Technology Ventures Program's Executive Director Tina Seelig shares rich insights in creative thinking and the entrepreneurial mindset. Her talk, based on her 2009 book, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, cites numerous classroom successes of applied problem-solving and the lessons of failure.

Kyle Rae will not run in the 2010 municipal election and mentions about Ward 27's accomplishments and shares his views on particular issues. Rae mentions the MaRS Centre as being one of the accomplishments for Ward 27. Dec 11, 2009

Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO of MaRS Discovery District, is one of the five Canadian leaders in the field of social innovation who will share their insights on how to deal with the root causes of social challenges at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Treurnicht will be speaking on June 16 about the growing importance of multi-sectoral collaboration which promotes the mutual exchange of ideas, values, talent and capital across sectors.

E(3) Canadian Roundtables took place May 26, 2010. The event featured a panel of thought leaders sharing their vision for a sustainable energy future for Canada. Tom Rand, Cleantech Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District spoke at the event.

Metro features uBuddy, a MaRS client whose social media product just launched. uBuddy, based at the University of Toronto, allows students to facilitate note-sharing, meetings and course discussions online.

Minister Glen Murray (Ministry of Research and Innovation) launched MaRS as a member of the Ontario Network of Excellence last month. In his speech, he highlighted our client, 1DegreeBio. 1DegreeBio helps those in the biological sciences share their data, including being th first online independent resource listing all academic and commercially available antibodies. Score 1 for open science!

Mark Noonan and Bruce Chin from Deloitte Canada state, "Canadians must be willing to look at a wide set of reform options, and work to open our borders to foreign investment." In addition, John Ruffolo, the senior vice-president of knowledge investment at OMERS, who spoke at the Innovations Across Borders conference in March 2011 at the MaRS Centre states, "There are two types of investment. Straight common shares or very simple preferred shares. Every other complexity will be eliminated. This is focused on the upside, rather than downside protection."

Synthetic Biology is a new approach to engineering biology, with an emphasis on technologies to write DNA. Mike Spear shares his views after attending the event on Engineering the Future: Synthetic Biology. Oct 27, 2009

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"The Scotiabank EcoLiving Innovators Award valued at $15,000 was awarded to Quinzee from Toronto , Ontario, a company that built a web and mobile application to enable Ontarians with smart meters to be smarter homeowners. Using consumer social benchmarking as a motivator for influencing efficient energy choices and behaviours, consumers can easily track and compare their energy use for free."

"Dr. Joshua Landy is envisioning a new way for doctors to learn from one another. A Toronto-based intensive care physician by trade, Landy is the co-founder of Figure 1, a "crowdsourced photo sharing app for health care professionals." Launched just two weeks ago, the iPhone app is already populated with images both clinically significant and arguably beautiful -- without even the benefit of a filter."

"Figure1 is a new photo-sharing network specifically for health professionals: cute cats, vacation scenes and other mainstays of social media are nowhere to be found."

A Swedish delegation comes to the MaRS Centre to share it's country challenges when it comes to fostering economic development and innovation.

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Communitech, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and the MaRS Discovery District have ageed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China. These three companies partnership will function under the name MaRS Network. May 29, 2005

Communitech, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, and the MaRS Discovery District have ageed to work together to help the province compete more effectively against countries like India and China. These three companies partnership will function under the name MaRS Network.

Ron Freeman, CEO of Research at InfoSource Inc, says that our current funding model isn't working to commercialize our science. That new policy measures are needed to improve Canada's long-term competitive position.