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November 2015 FlexAir Charter Sleep Aid for Snorers Axis Ottawa 2015 Flight Services (and Spouses!) ENTREPRENEUR SPOTLIGHT Queen’s University Entrust Datacard Bernard Herscovici, Attracts First Art2Wave Nations’ Students DesignCon 2015 Winner, Valydate …and much more!
CONTENTS What’s New / What’s Next ....................................3 Remote Reconciliation: Queen’s Law Improves Access for First Nations’ Students ...........................................4 Braebon: Better Sleep for Snorers ........................7 This month the Kanata North Business Association (BIA) will host its fourth Annual General Meeting. This will personally be my third AGM. After two and half years Entrust Datacard: in this role it is easy for me to see how far we have Securing the “New Desktop” ................................8 come as an organization, and as a business community. A tremendous amount of growth has occurred in our Valydate, DesignCon 2015 Winner ..................... 10 businesses during this time, and our organization has made considerable efforts to support this growth with Axis Ottawa 2015 ..................................................11 our advocacy, business and economic development and community support roles. However there is still Entrepreneur Spotlight: work to be done. Art2Wave’s Bernard Herscovici .......................... 12 We hope you will join us for our AGM on November 25th, 5:30-8pm at The Marshes Golf Course. This is Future Entrepreneurs: a chance to review and reflect on the progress to The Junior Achievement Program ......................14 date, but also to chart our way forward as a business community. Every voice matters—and we’d welcome inBay’s Passwordless Internet ............................. 16 your participation. I hope you enjoy this issue of The Kanata Networker. FlexAir Charter Flight Services ........................... 18 As with every month, we’re proud to share local news and profile companies doing business in Kanata North. Sincerely, C Jenna Sudds Executive Director, Kanata North BIA Design and layout by Communicarium www.kanatanorthbia.ca
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WHAT’S NEW WHAT’S NEXT KANATA NORTH DIPLOMATIC TOUR BEST OTTAWA BUSINESS AWARDS LIVE 2 LEAD OTTAWA AND DINNER RECEPTION (BOBS) Wednesday, November 18, Friday, November 20, 8am–12:30pm Thursday November 12, 2–5:30pm 5:30–10:30pm Taking place at the Canadian War The Kanata North Business Association BOB awards will be handed out to 25 Museum, Live 2 Lead is a leadership will be hosting an international dinner companies in 16 different categories, development experience designed reception and tour of local technology recognizing a wide range of organiza- to equip you with new perspectives, companies for the diplomatic commu- tions from multiple industries at the practical tools and key takeaways. It’s nity. Invited guests include Canadian gala on November 18 at the Shaw an information-packed morning event ambassadors, embassy delegates Centre amidst VIPs, celebrities, busi- to learn from world-class leadership and high commissioners, in addi- ness and community leaders and more experts. Speakers will include John tion to Ottawa’s technology leaders, than 550 guests. Come celebrate with C. Maxwell, Patrick Lencioni, Valorie academic leaders and city, provincial several Kanata North companies as Burton and B. Kevin Turner. Visit our and federal government represen- they take home the coveted award. events calendar for more details. tatives. There will also be members The Awards Gala will take place at The of economic and foreign affairs and PRODUCTCAMP OTTAWA Shaw Centre. Saturday, November 21 international trade in Canada. Visit bestottawabusiness.ca for details. ProductCamp Ottawa is a free partic- The tour will begin at Brookstreet ipant-driven, collaborative conference Hotel where delegates will meet to IRDETO CANADA CAREER FAIR Monday, November 16, 4–7pm on topics related to product manage- board a bus at 2pm to begin the tour ment, product strategy and product of three technology companies. At the Job seekers may want to check out marketing. Open to all startups and end of the tour the delegates will be the Irdeto Career Fair taking place at technology companies. taken back to the Brookstreet Hotel 2500 Solandt Road Suite 300. You can for an exclusive networking recep- view the types of positions they are Visit www.ottawapma.org for details. tion followed by dinner. The aim is looking to by visiting their website at KANATA NORTH (BIA) ANNUAL to heighten awareness of Canada’s www.irdeto.com. GENERAL MEETING largest research and technology park; Wednesday, November 25, 2015 KRP PROPERTIES HOLIDAY BAZAAR introduce the business community Thursday, November 19, 9am–4pm Don’t forget to register for our AGM to representatives of the diplomatic Visit KRP Properties Holiday Bazaar on taking place at the Marshes Golf club. community; and broaden commercial the ground floor of 555 Legget Drive We will be reviewing the past year’s and professional relationships. The for a head start on your Holiday gift events and activities and announcing keynote speaker for the event will be shopping! Find an assortment of 30+ some of our plans and budget for next Sir Terence Matthews. vendors and local crafters offering year. We will also share with our audi- gifts for everyone in the family, ence the Economic Impact Study and including yourself! Market Gap Analysis we have recently completed, in addition to a peek at our upcoming destination aware- ness advertising campaign. It’s free to attend and everyone is welcome! Click here to register. THE KANATA NETWORKER 3
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY LAW PROGRAM OFFERS UNIQUE SUPPORT SYSTEMS TO ATTRACT FIRST NATION’S STUDENTS. When Mike McGann, Director at Everyday groceries and supplies have ness; however, professional help is McGann Wealth Management at to be flown in by freight aircraft (very needed for the natives to fully under- ScotiaMcLeod’s Kanata Branch, expensive at a cost of $8,000 per trip) stand the repercussions of these received an invitation to visit the • Services: all professional services; problems. remote Oji-Cree First Nation reserve medical, dental, education beyond Much of the above has resulted from in Northwestern Ontario, he took the grade 10, etc. are difficult to access. residential schools and a loss of iden- opportunity to pilot his floatplane tity due to government policies. As • Opportunity to connect to the direc tly to Kitchenuhmaykoosib mentioned, the only way that we see outside world—there is very little Inninuwug (or KI for short), a commu- to improve upon this is through educa- access to non-native people, except nity located 600 km north of Thunder tion and economic development. through the internet. Bay on Big Trout Lake. • They do have a “winter road” that Q: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE On this trip McGann was accompanied gives them vehicle access during STRATEGIES THE UNIVERSITY WILL by his friend David Sharpe, the Pres- the frozen months of January and USE TO ATTRACT AND SUPPORT ident of Bridging Finance Inc., Chair February. An ice road was plowed ABORIGINAL ENROLLMENT IN of First Nations University of Canada THE QUEEN’S LAW PROGRAM? through the boggy tundra, so that and a Queen’s Law alumnus who is when the ground freezes, they have David Sharpe: Queen’s University is very active in recruiting Aboriginal a makeshift road, some 250km to committed to attracting Aboriginal students to Queen’s University’s Law Pickle Lake. and Inuit students to the law school program, as well as Bill Flanagan, Dean and Queen’s generally. The Univer- Another challenge is economic devel- of Queen’s Law, and Nigel Franklin, sity has an Aboriginal Admissions opment. There are minerals and hydro senior executive at Carillion. Policy that recognizes the significant opportunities in the territory, but The purpose of their trip was to barriers that indigenous students face obtaining mainstream partners poses experience firsthand the barriers and in obtaining education generally and significant challenges. challenges facing the Aboriginal youth access to Queen’s. Also, Queen’s has One of their significant challenges strived to ensure that the environment who live there. Inspired by the orga- remains the legac y issues with is safe and welcoming by estab- nizer, Andree Cazabon, director of a substance abuse. Even though KI is lishing the Four Directions Aboriginal moving documentary about KI called a “dry” community, the history of Student Centre. Four Directions is a 3rd World Canada (thirdworldcanada. drug and alcohol abuse exists. I met home away from home for indige- ca), and the invitation of the communi- a young woman (approximately 20 nous students where they can obtain ty’s youth, the quartet hoped their trip years old) with a beautiful two year academic and cultural support and might ultimately contribute to mean- old girl. I found out later that both of a sense of community. Elders are ingful reconciliation. We reached out to her parents committed suicide (related on staff to speak with students and McGann and Sharpe to find out more. to alcohol and drugs) and that her ceremonies are conducted along with Q: TELL US MORE ABOUT THE TYPES brother has fetal alcohol syndrome other cultural activities. OF CHALLENGES THE FIRST (which resulted in him suffering brain NATIONS COMMUNITIES FACE? Queen’s also has a Native Student damage, reducing him to about a Mike McGann: One of the biggest Association comprised of a diverse grade five level education). challenges is access. KI, is situated group of Aboriginal and non-Aborig- These issues, as you can well imagine, inal students that share an interest 600km north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. run very deep into the mental fibre of in Aboriginal cultures and traditions. The closest road is Pickle Lake, which this community. Children suffer deep In addition, the law school has a is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes emotional scars as a result. These Native Law Students’ Association by airplane. So, it is access to just significant problems take years, if not that provides support and a collegial about everything that is the biggest generations, to fix. It is slowly getting atmosphere as students go through challenge. For example: better through education and aware- the grind of law school. 4 THE KANATA NETWORKER
On October 5, Queen’s officially Q: HOW MANY STUDENTS DO YOU Q: ANY FINAL THOUGHTS? opened Brant House, a new residence CURRENTLY HAVE ENROLLED IN McGann: Education, awareness and THE QUEEN’S LAW PROGRAM? named in the honour of Dr. Marlene funding are priorities that cannot only Brant Castellano and Dr. Clare Clifton Sharpe: Currently there are five indig- help the Native people, but allow Brant, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte enous students at the law school who them to thrive. It is in the best inter- and Queen’s graduates. have self-identified. We expect this ests of Canadians that we maintain number to increase as we are quite this important part of our culture and I act to assist Bill Flanagan, the Dean of active in meeting with students and heritage. Law, in attracting indigenous students communities and have some wonderful to Queen’s. We reach out directly to indigenous law student leaders who Sharpe: The economic reality in students who apply or who contact us Canada is that the mainstream must are getting the message out to indig- and are contemplating law school. At accept First Nations as full and equal enous students that Queen’s Law is a Queen’s we have open houses where partners. The Supreme Court of supportive and collegial environment indigenous students can attend the Canada has been abundantly clear while remaining one of the best law law school and speak with the Dean in establishing the Duty to Consult schools in Canada. and myself and faculty and also to and Accommodate. In my experi- current students. Q: THE BEST PART OF THE TRIP? ence, when Canadian companies McGann: The trip was incredible in honour and take this duty seriously, Q: ARE THERE ANY PLANS TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF many ways. I had never flown my own they have found that partnering with GRADES 11 AND 12 MISSING airplane to Northern Ontario before, First Nations is mutually beneficial and FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL so the journey was amazing. Flying rewarding. CURRICULUM IN THE over Manitoulin Island, Tobermory, COMMUNITY? For more information on Queen’s Lake Huron and Lake Superior was truly University Law Program please visit: McGann: Sending your children to wonderful. I also had the opportunity law.queensu.ca/ school for grade 11 and 12 may seem to meet and travel with four incredible simple at first, but these kids have to gentlemen. These individuals who are travel to Thunder Bay at the young very caring and empathetic with the age of 15 years. I have children, and Native situation and are truly trying to it is difficult enough to have an 18 year make a difference. old mentally prepared for university. At 15, these kids are not ready to live Seeing what life is like on a northern on their own and be self-sufficient. First Nation was life changing. You The infrastructure is not in place to find out very quickly that indigenous fully support these young children that people are a caring people. They not only need help with adapting to opened up their families, homes and life on their own, but also the diffi- community to us. I really enjoyed cult task of adapting to life outside the fact that the people of KI had a of their community. Many of these wonderful sense of humour. kids are experiencing the “outside” world for the first time. Needless to say, the success rate of this program is not high. Currently there is not enough funding to expand their school to accommodate grade 11 and 12. They are, however, currently looking at e-Learning solutions that would allow the kids to stay at home while finishing their high school education. Another significant issue is also attracting qualified teachers to their First Nation. Not many individuals want to be isolated so far north without driving access to larger city centres. THE KANATA NETWORKER 5
TECHNOLOGY, THE FOURTH UTILITY How it affects you, the building and business technology transforms and converges the global business knowledge sharing on the challenges ahead, and identify areas landscape, every person, company and industry is learning to for greater collaboration between companies for mutual success. navigate a complex set of new opportunities and threats. BoMa ottawa Technology Committee invite you to listen to Industry Combining unique research, inspiring thought leadership and experts to help you better manage technology convergence. frank debate between executives, the program aims to promote Smart ConneCtionS TEChnology PREDICTIonS for mobile workers. Get a primer on what you need as Vice President industry transformation, rick Duncan is the Director of Technology, Media to know about technology in your space and how Huijbregts leads a team that drives business and Telecommunications Research for Deloitte it will affect your building. transformation and relevance with Cisco and Canada. He is a globally recognized expert on the CRTC, TElECoM CaRRIERS anD CoMMERCIal Cisco’s Canadian customers. rick and his team forecasting of consumer and enterprise technology, oversee four of Cisco Canada’s top priorities: and media and telecommunications trends. Duncan ProPertieS • Smart + Connected Communities will draw on his worldwide experience and share this blockbuster panel will include representatives his predictions on the impact of new and existing from a large telecommunications carrier, the CrtC • Smart + Connected Real Estate technology and demographic and regulatory and a senior telecom policy advisor with a large • Internet-of-Things (connecting the changes that will affect all industries. real estate firm. We’ll get answers to questions unconnected) and driving toward an internet such as carrier use of commercial buildings? of infinite WhaT’S TREnDIng In oTTaWa TEChnology? What is the landlord’s obligation to allow carriers • Cisco Canada’s Industry Business Development this dynamic panel will address issues such as: into the building and provide space? What rates team and one of Cisco’s few Global ioe how will Workplace 2.0 affect technology; Federal can landlords negotiate for their space licensed innovation Centres. Government of Canada “Cut the Cord” initiative; to carriers? What agreements are in use? Who is fibre upgrades in all buildings; wireless systems in responsible for utilities, security concerns and offices; collaboration technology; and technology abandoned cabling and equipment? to remain successful, every established business and industry is being forced to rapidly learn to adapt to these impacts, undertaking a fundamental technology transformation. Successful technology transformation cuts to the heart of an established organization, changing culture and disrupting innovation and R&D, approaches to IT and operations, the lifecycle of products and services, supply chains, and – in many cases – core business models. TECHNOLOGY, THE FOURTH UTILITY | DATE: november 16th, 2015 | TIME: 9:00am-3:00pm Location: Brookstreet hotel- Main Ballroom | 525 legget Dr | ottawa, on | K2K 2W2 8:00am–9:00am Registration and Breakfast 11:30am–12:30 pm Lunch 9:00am–9:10am Welcome 12:30 pm–1:30 pm Panel 1–Connected Real Estate– 9:10am–10:10am Keynote Speaker: Rick huijregts, What’s the trend in ottawa Cisco–Convergence of Technology 1:30 pm–2:30 pm Panel 2–Regulatory Update– 10:10am–10:30am Coffee Break/Trade Show Carriers/CRTC/Shared Services 10:20am–11:30am Keynote Speaker: Duncan Stewart, Deloitte–Technology Predictions To REgISTER vISIT WWW.BoMa.oRg To see the video about why you should come to the seminar, please visit: youtu.be/w6CJMIh902g
BRAEBON: THE BUSINESS OF BETTER SLEEP By Amie Kandalaft sleep. Your body can go weeks without WHAT DO YOU FEEL ARE THE BENEFITS OF BEING LOCATED IN food, days without water, but only a KANATA NORTH? few minutes without air. People who Simultaneous access to skilled have trouble breathing during sleep professionals including university are literally dying in their sleep. We and government scientists, hardware targeted this market because we and software biomedical engineers, knew we could be world leaders in technical writers and local contract the area of sleep disorders medicine manufacturers. The business commu- and, in particular, in home sleep apnea Operating since 1998, BRAEBON, nity in Kanata North is conducive for diagnosis. located on Schneider Rd, is a privately growing a life sciences firm into a held Canadian corporation and world WHO WOULD YOU SAY ARE YOUR global business player. leader in developing and manufac- MAIN CUSTOMERS? For more information, visit the website turing high-quality, easy to use and Our products are in use on six conti- at www.braebon.com reliable medical devices for snoring nents and are used by hospitals, and sleep apnea. The company physicians, dentists and universities. itself, however, is hardly sleeping as IS THERE ANY RECENT NEWS OR it evolves to solve new problems that ADDITIONAL INFORMATION YOU face the sleep medicine community. WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH US? We reached out to BRAEBON to BRAEBON’s DentiTrac® wearable learn more and Richard Bonato, Pres- micro-recorder is the first in the world ident and CEO, kindly answered our to receive FDA clearance in June of Photo: SomnoDent with DentiTrac® wearable questions. this year. micro-recorder CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR PRODUCTS? IS THERE A PARTICULAR PRODUCT THAT’S MOST POPULAR? Our products are used both in-hos- pital and in-home. Our most popular product has been our MediByte family of home sleep apnea recorders, a wearable medical device technology used in the comfort of the home. The MediByte’s popularity is rapidly being surpassed by our new micro-re- corder, DentiTrac, which is actually worn during sleep inside the mouth to record patient compliance to oral appliance sleep apnea therapy. WHAT INSPIRED THE LAUNCH OF BRAEBON? Marital bliss. We like to call ourselves the “Anti-snoring marital blis s company”. We know that all humans sleep and up to 50% of people snore with about half of those people having some type of trouble breathing during THE KANATA NETWORKER 7
SECURING THE “NEW DESKTOP”: ENTRUST DATACARD’S DAVE ROCKVAM ON CREATING TRULY SECURE MOBILE DATA ACCESS By Communicarium multiple smart cards, one-time-pass- customers turned to doing business codes, PINs and passwords. digitally, it was important that the This can all be done by leveraging company was able to provide products enterprises’ existing and underlying and services to support their custom- architectures – including policies put er’s needs. The acquisition of Entrust into place by IT departments, as well allowed Datacard Group, known post This summer Entrus t Datac ard as credentials that workers already use acquisition as Entrust Datacard, to announced that it was partnering to access their PC desktop environ- meet the increased digital security with Citrix to launch IdentityGuard, ment. This simplifies the process and demands of its customers. Today, the a breakthrough providing organi- minimizes operational costs, ultimately Entrust product portfolio continues zations with the means to securely protecting investments. to provide a software authentication authenticate mobile device identities platform that manages today’s most accessing sensitive data networks. Q: IN YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE, secure identity credentials, helping to Dave Rockvam, vice president of WHAT ARE SOME COMMON solve customers’ digital security chal- OVERSIGHTS OR MISSTEPS corporate branding and communica- lenges in cloud and mobile security, COMPANIES MAKE WHEN IT tion for Entrust Datacard and a 20 year COMES TO DATA SECURITY? physical and logical access, citizen security software space veteran, sat eID initiatives, certificate manage- What we find is that most compa- down with The Networker to discuss ment and SSL. nies aren’t solving the right problem. the new platform. Today, Entrust Datacard enables its Companies get fixated on securing Q: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE SPECIFIC the perimeter, security monitoring customers to issue over 10 million SECURITY ISSUES UNIQUE TO and analytics, but what we know is that physical identities daily, handle over MOBILE DATA ACCESS, AND HOW the majority of breaches are targeting 200 billion online transactions per DOES YOUR WORK WITH CITRIX’S identity—not where companies are year and manage billions of electronic XENMOBILE® SOLUTION HELP TO typically focused. At Entrust Datacard, identities, including the majority of ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES? we believe that first and foremost a payment cards and identification The Entrust Datacard integrations with company must have robust security solutions in more than 100 countries XenMobile®, a comprehensive enter- measures in place around identity. worldwide. prise mobility management (EMM) That’s where it all starts. solution developed by Citrix, provide Q: ENTRUST’S CANADIAN OFFICE IS a trusted mobile identity to secure Q: SINCE ENTRUST’S ESTABLISHMENT BASED IN KANATA NORTH AT access to sensitive data and corporate IN THE LATE 1960S, THE COMPANY 1000 INNOVATION DRIVE. WHAT HAS ESTABLISHED ITSELF AS A BENEFITS DOES THIS LOCATION information—truly enabling mobile as OFFER THE COMPANY? MARKET LEADER. TELL US A the new desktop. LITTLE ABOUT THE COMPANY’S Approximately 90% of our R&D is With the new integration, mobile HISTORY. conducted in our Canadian office, as workers will no longer need to manage Entrust Datacard has an over 45 well as our customer service. We have multiple passwords and separate year history serving the credit card, found that the area provides us with log-ins. Instead, users can have a payment s and identit y securit y a good talent pool to draw from and more simplified sign-on and a stream- markets. In 2013, Datacard Group employees at this location tend to be lined user experience. The integration acquired Entrust to further expand less transient than what we observe in transforms the mobile device into a their portfolio of identity security other locations. The Canadian govern- universal mobile credential, creating products and service offerings. As ment also is a very big customer, so a single-sign-on process that replaces more and more Datacard Group it is important that we have an office 8 THE KANATA NETWORKER
location close to them to ensure we cards, passports and ID cards to the WHAT THREE PIECES OF DATA are meeting their product and service digital realm of authentication, certif- SECURITY ADVICE WOULD YOU requirements. icates and secure communications. OFFER TO BUSINESS OWNERS? The company applies its expertise Q: BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS, 1. Protecting identity is critical in three key segments: consumer, WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DO YOU to any business. Every business SEE AS BEING KEY TO THE citizen and enterprise. Entrust Datac- has critical IP, customer and COMPANY’S FUTURE? WHERE IS ard’s customers—financial institutions, employee data, credit card info ENTRUST GOING? government agencies and corpora- etc. Businesses need to protect We feel trends in banking, government tions—use our offerings to better the identities that have access to and enterprise will drive our business serve those segments. those resources. in the future. Mobile, payments, instant issuance of banking, enterprise and 2. Mobile network access can government credentials and identity be a safer solution than laptop protection across all these channels and desktop access, if utilized will provide increasing opportunities and protected properly for the company for the foreseeable 3. Weak user names and future. passwords are not enough to Presently, we offer the trusted identity safeguard assets. The bad guys and secure transaction technologies will get through that very thin that make purchases, crossing borders, layer of protection. accessing e-gov services or logging onto corporate networks more reli- able and secure. Solutions range from the physical world of financial KANATA TECHNOLOGY OFFICE LEASING TEAM HELPING THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR WITH REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS Technology companies, by nature, are in a constant state of change. This dynamic places further demands when considering real estate decisions. Oliver and Lindsay have been representing Kanata technology start-ups and Fortune 500 companies for over 10 years. Having successfully completed over 2.5 millon square feet in transacations in the Kanata sector, Oliver and Lindsay pride themselves on how best to service and account for unforeseen change. They are dedicated experts with a unique skill set; skills which include experience across all asset classes, unparalleled market information, uncovering opportunities ahead of the market, tenant centered practices and documentation, unrivalled experience and creativity in complicated deal structures, and a reputation and track record that delivers results. THE 2015 KANATA PRESENTATION IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST For more information on the sale or lease of commercial real estate in Kanata, please contact: OLIVER KERSHAW* LINDSAY HOCKEY* Associate Vice President Associate Vice President CBRE Limited | Ottawa CBRE Limited | Ottawa 333 Preston Street, Suite 700 333 Preston Street, Suite 700 +1 613 288 1584 +1 613 782 2943 oliver.kershaw@cbre.com lindsay.hockey@cbre.com www.cbre.ca/oliver.kershaw www.cbre.ca/lindsay.hockey cbre.ca/ottawa THE KANATA NETWORKER 9
WINNER OF DESIGNCON 2015 BEST IN DESIGN & TEST AWARD— VALYDATE INC. IS LEADING THE INNOVATION IN SCHEMATIC REVIEW AND VALIDATION It’s been a banner year The company first got its start in early 2010, founded by for Valydate Inc., with the Michael Alam and Mark Cianfaglione. The initial year was launch of their new product focused on the development of Valydate core technology. ValydateVera™ a powerful By the end of 2010, Valydate had developed the first version and detailed schematic of its technology, and had over 15 clients using the tech- reviewer—and their recent nomination as a finalist for the nology. Valydate has come a long way since then, and Ontario Going Global, Small Business Award—they have today support hundreds of clients across North America been making headlines lately. and overseas. A leading Hardware Design Verification company, Valydate In October, Valydate was nominated as a 2015 OBAA award Inc. provides 4 main services: Schematic Integrity, Signal finalist for the Ontario Going Global, Small Business Award. Integrity, Power Integrity and Static Timing Analysis. As The award is given to a business that has implemented an schematics become increasingly complex, proper test and innovative export strategy that has positively affected its review techniques become even more critical. Valydate’s bottom line. The winners will be presented on the evening patented verification engine provides automated inspection of November 25 at the 2015 Ontario Business Achievement and review beyond human ability. Their clients benefit from Awards. the elimination of design errors and marginalities early in These major milestones have shown Valydate’s rapid growth the hardware design cycle where they have the least impact for the past 5 years, and demonstrates a promising future on time, quality and cost. On average, Valydate reduces the for this young company to further broaden its client base hardware board development cycle by one spin. and expand internationally. The company plans to continue A new product launched in January of this year, Valydate- its focus on technological advancement in the area of elec- Vera™ is a powerful and detailed schematic reviewer. VERA tronic design verification and further introduce its innovative fully inspects 100% of the nets on a schematic using pre-de- product solutions. fined checks and an extensive intelligent model component We asked the company what makes Kanata North a good library. Powered by Valydate’s patented verification engine, place to do business, and they were happy to share with VERA saves design teams hundreds of hours of visual us that all of Valydate’s clients in Ottawa are in Kanata inspection and lab debug time. North. With their office located on Legget Drive, they are The product grabbed the DesignCon 2015 Best in Design actually within walking distance to several clients. For more & Test Awards in the Design Verification Tools category. information on Valydate’s products visit www.valydate.com. Announced in San Francisco at the Santa Clara Conven- tion Centre, the DesignCon Awards recognize top leaders in terms of innovation, engineering, and new product advancements at the chip, board, or system level, with a special emphasis on signal integrity and power integrity. At this event, Valydate also announced a strategic partnership with Altium marking the integration of ValydateVERA™ and Altium Designer. Valydate operates worldwide, but the majority of their clients are located in North America and include those in the telecom, defense and aerospace, medical and consumer electronics. Valydate wins Best in Design & Test Awards at DesignCon 2015 Michael Alam, Valydate CEO and Melissa Nihmey, Business Manager 10 THE KANATA NETWORKER
AXIS OTTAWA 2015 MAKES THE CONNECTION BETWEEN LOCAL STARTUPS AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS By Syntax Strategic Axis Ottawa descended upon the nation’s capital October 21-22, giving the local and surrounding startup community an opportunity to put their products in front of the world’s leading international strategic investors. “We are thrilled at the attendance and engagement at this year’s event. We surpassed our expectations, fostering many promising connections between Canadian startups and international investors,” said event co-organizer Steve Tover, CEO, Stage 2 Partners. In its second year, this year’s event featured another esteemed slate of pitches from promising startups including Ottawa’s QuickSilk, eSight, Squanto and InteractiveStudios Inc. “We are very pleased with the caliber of startups that attended this year’s event,” said Axis Innovation CEO Ed Frank, also a co-organizer. “Otta- wa’s startup ecosystem is definitely very strong and we look forward to bringing more Axis events to Canada’s capital city in the future.” THE KANATA NETWORKER 11
ENTREPRENEUR SPOTLIGHT BERNARD HERSCOVICI, CEO & FOUNDER OF ART2WAVE as portrayed in The Social Network: an outcome: a Wireless Network as it was “through lots of beer sessions a Service! One that would take care that the two teams started learning of the customer’s day-to-day Wi-Fi each other’s technologies and capa- optimization. Art2Wave is a young startup that bilities [and] that new ideas started provides the first true Wi-Fi as a Today everything is moving to an to emerge, combining the unique As-a-Service model and in my years Service (WaaS) offering. The company aspects of Cloud Management, Big is changing the way wireless enter- of experience, I have concluded that Data and Machine Learning into a Murphy’s Law dictates that most IT prise networks are sold and operated, what has become a platform that will and promotes the concept of buying outages seem to happen at dinner change wireless networking forever.” time or on weekends. Or worse, an experience and an outcome, as opposed to a product. Fascinated by the story, we contacted when the boss needs the network, Herscovici to find out more about thus creating unnecessary stress and Bringing the SaaS and networking Art2Wave and its unique model. frustration. The IT manager at my worlds together, Art2Wave’s revo- previous company once confided in lutionary cloud-delivered Wi-Fi as a Q: WHERE DID THE NAME ART2WAVE COME FROM AND me: “I can never have a quiet dinner Service solution was developed to alle- with my family because something HOW DID THE COMPANY GET ITS viate day-to-day network operations START? always happens.” for businesses. They integrate Cloud Our system is the first of its kind to Most Wi-Fi systems work well in most Managed Wireless Networking with have Artificial Intelligence driving an locations, however challenges abound Service Delivery in an end-to-end solu- Enterprise Wireless LAN, so the name when additional users, devices and tion focused on quality of experience. came about with the combination of applications are introduced into the Prior to founding Art2Wave, Bernard AI and Wireless. It was after discov- Wi-Fi network, creating frustration for Herscovici was Vice President Wi-Fi at ering the ease of using an on-demand end users and IT. Ericsson, founder and CEO of BelAir CRM system like Salesforce.com that I The time seemed right to reinvent Networks sold to Ericsson, President started to realize we no longer needed the Wi-Fi experience. To invent an of Breezecom Inc. and Vice President a room full of servers and IT specialists. intelligent, self-healing, Wi-Fi-as-a- at Newbridge Networks. He has also I could actually obtain the real-time Service system, capable of providing co-authored several patents. data I required on-demand. This made IT and their customers an outcome. Af ter selling BelAir to Ericsson, me wonder if the customers we were Wi-Fi that works all the time, every- Herscovici immediately began thinking servicing in the Wi-Fi Networking where. We quickly determined that about his next project. Comcast space where I was working at that existing architectures were designed Ventures had supported Bernard at time were really receiving a desir- as “solutions” and not “service.” BelAir, and wanted to be a part of able outcome in their service. Were A new “service oriented” system the next big thing, so they brought there incompatibility, interference, needed to be invented from the Herscovici on as Entrepreneur in Resi- slow or no service issues they were ground up. It had to be “proactive.” dence. As they started cooking up the still dealing with? Was there a way we A unique service that would tap into new idea, they quickly realized the could address these issues and make the power of cloud computing, big new business required a new set of the whole “experience” much easier data and machine intelligence. We experts: Cloud, Big Data and Machine and worry-free for the customer, so wanted users to receive a true “always Learning together with Wireless LAN. they can tend to the business at hand on” performance-driven experience. and worry less about connectivity? Herscovici soon set out to handpick In short, we would have to “Uber-ize” his team and bring on the top guns Instead of training the customer on yet the Wi-Fi experience! for the job. The process was not another Cloud Management system or unlike the development of Facebook AP diagnostics guide, why not deliver 12 THE KANATA NETWORKER
Q: WHAT TYPES OF CHALLENGES Q: WHAT IMPORTANT MILESTONES DID YOU FACE IN DEVELOPING HAVE YOU ACHIEVED SO FAR? ART2WAVE’S SYSTEM? After a year in development and many There were many technical challenges patent applications later, we have just to overcome. The system needed to released our 1st product and quickly decide how much information was got a fairly large number of trials and necessary and sufficient to be able early customers. to proactively identify and fix issues. It also needed to quickly react to Q: WHAT DO YOU THINK IT TAKES TO STAND OUT IN THE HIGHLY network degrading events. We had COMPETITIVE MARKET OF SAAS to develop a machine-learning based SOLUTIONS? network service that included moni- Finding a space where the as a service toring and optimization and was a fully model makes sense and has not integrated Wi-Fi as a Service. been disrupted yet. Then executing Q: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE UNIQUE very well in terms of development, ATTRIBUTES OF THE SYSTEM? marketing and sales. We u s e ma c hi n e l ea r n i ng to You can learn about Art2Wave’s plat- automate time-consuming trouble- form and start a free trial, or see a shooting and optimization tasks. Our demo by visiting: www.art2wave.com WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 3 patent-pending predictive analytics TIPS FOR ENTREPRENEURS? technology optimizes the network for 1. Dream big and be persistent highest performance, while helping to reduce operational cost. We integrate 2. Recruit the best people you can Cloud Managed Wi-Fi with Proactive 3. B e proactive identifying and Network Operations in an end-to end fixing issues architecture focused on quality of user experience. The customer specifies the services and interfaces they want to enable or the security policies they want implemented. We do everything else. It’s that simple. THE KANATA NETWORKER 13
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM BUILDING TOMORROW’S ENTREPRENEURS The Junior Achievement Company after school. Afterwards, ice breakers and work hard together to achieve one Program inspires youth to start a busi- are introduced and people accustom goal. Just like the real world, compe- ness, make better financial decisions themselves to others in the room, tition is driven by other companies, and chart a career path. The program and of course, the concept of the JA and specific values are kept in count engages community volunteers from program is introduced. by the company members themselves. local businesses and post-secondary Once the students and their parents In every way, it allows for a great busi- institutions to provide hands-on have agreed to participate in the ness experience! learning opportunities for Grade 5 to program, the students will be assigned Q: TELL US ABOUT YOUR JA Grade 12 students. arguably the most important task of COMPANY AND WHY YOU The programs are delivered free of the whole program—designing and JOINED? charge to local area schools with pitching a product. As soon as the I had initially completed a JA company the support of committed JA volun- participants have decided on a single back in 2009, when I was still in elemen- teers and community partners and product, the company is formed and tary school. At that time, I wasn’t sure sponsors. The Ottawa Network for company stocks are sold, with an exec- if I would be interested in business. Education (ONFE) works with educa- utive team being elected among the Through JA, I discovered that I actually tors and school boards to identify and students. This team will be in charge had a passion for it. Thus, in grade ensure that programs are made avail- of the various important tasks of the 11, when I first heard of the program able to those in need. company, which will require a deep in my school, my friends encouraged We contacted ONFE to ask them to commitment of personal time to the me to join and I decided to do so. At share with us the impact and signif- program. first, I found the program to be very icance of this important program. Once the company is established, time-consuming and tiring, but my They were able to put us in touch production starts and raw variable increasing interest in the company, with JA alumnus Bohan Jiang, who materials are usually brought and the produc t, and the program is the current president of one of the assembled at a JA meeting every helped to ease that burden. As a companies at Earl of March Secondary week. The marketing department, at result, I dedicated myself even more School in Kanata. this time, will begin to market and sell to the program, and decided to run the product, as well as advertise it to for an executive position as VP of IT. Q: CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE MORE Through hard work and cooperation, ABOUT THE JUNIOR the target market. The goal, of course, is to produce and sell as much of the we achieved a fantastic run last year, ACHIEVEMENT COMPANY product as is possible, and to earn and most importantly, I actually felt PROGRAM, HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IS IT BENEFICIAL? a profit by the end of the program. that my time was well spent, and that The Junior Achievement Company Of course, at the end, the company I had gained a lot of experience. As a Program, to me, is a firsthand entre- is liquidated and the shares are paid result, this year, I came back, hoping preneurial experience for students in back to the initial investors of the to inspire more students to join the JA high school. Essentially, it assembles company. Company, and more importantly, allow all sorts of people who are inter- them to gain the valuable experience This program is invariably beneficial offered by the program. Subsequently, ested in business, and allows you to to students—it allows for firsthand I went for the presidential executive cooperate with your peers to create experience as a business in the real- position, and I got it. a company and sell a product. JA world, and allows students to learn gathers people with similar interests— the hardships of business they would This year, we are producing tea entrepreneurship, marketing—and otherwise not be able to gather. pouches. In fact, we are InfiniTea - allows for hands-on experience in In fact, it simulates, to a surprising a company dedicated to producing real-world business. degree of accuracy, the operations artisan tea in creatively-themed pack- of a real, professional business. The aging. We offer many unique blends, At the start of the program, a group program allows students to pool their such as “Tink’s fairy Dust,” “Rooibos of potentially interested students is passions together, create connections, Spice” or “Zesty Earl”, and all our tea usually assembled to a JA meeting 14 THE KANATA NETWORKER
pouches come with an inspirational Q: HOW MANY STUDENTS Help create tomorrow’s leaders and quote and a joke! This concept can PARTICIPATED IN THE PROGRAM become an Ottawa Network for THIS PAST YEAR? be compared to the fortune cookie— Education JA volunteer, and have fun and its success has been resounding The high school Program Manager at while you help students prepare for across the world. We hope that we JA Ottawa is Jennifer Regnier-Mitchell. the future. If you would like to become can offer quality tea with entertaining She told us that during the 2014-2015 a volunteer in the JA program, register and inspiring messages to brighten school year, 187 students participated online at volunteer-registration-form. people’s days. We hope that you will in the creation of 12 student-run For a complete list of the different try out our product some time! companies. So far this year, we have types of programs being offered, ten student run companies with a total Q: CAN YOU SHARE WITH US SOME visit the ONFE website and choose of approximately 176 students and the OF THE EXPERIENCES OF THE JA Ottawa in their programs menu. goal of five more companies that will STUDENTS AS A NEW ENTREPRENEUR? begin in February 2016 for which we are still recruiting volunteers. As a new entrepreneur, the experi- ences are bountiful and exciting. Every student has to contribute in some way to sales, and that is usually the most difficult part a student has to face. For instance, as we don’t have a store or a fixed place to sell from, a great deal of distribution will come from setting up stands in shopping malls and events. This requires students to make the first move to contact the event orga- nizing officials, as well as the shopping mall managers. Furthermore, students will also be required to promote the product directly to customers, and this often requires pitching skills and marketing skills. The experience a student gathers is lasting—they learn to network and communicate with others. On the other side of things, students in the executive positions learn to lead and delegate tasks to others. Motivation and morale are other important factors in the company—both crucial to its success. The executives must learn to organize their time and delegate tasks in order to efficiently accomplish the maximum work for the company, while keeping up with standard school work. As a result, student entrepreneurs learn a great deal in the JA program. THE KANATA NETWORKER 15
KANATA’S INBAY USHERS IN THE PASSWORDLESS INTERNET record containing sensitive and confidential information increased from $145 last year to $154 in 2015. “At inBay, we’re addressing these cybersecurity issues by providing a new generation of passwordless solutions. By eliminating passwords, we’re implementing a more secure, convenient and economical way to protect access to your For more than 3.2 billion internet users today, an internet critical websites, cloud services and computing and IT without passwords would seem unreal. Every day, billions resources,” says Lamin Sisay, Director of Business Devel- of online forms with the familiar Username and Password opment and Sales for North America. fields appear on the large and small display screens of our “Our idQ Trusted Services solutions are based on patented computing and mobile devices, evidence that the pass- technologies for identity assurance,” he adds. “We’re often word is built into the very fabric of the internet, seemingly asked what replaces passwords. Our solution uses mobile destined to remain there forever. devices like smartphones for automatically generating Well, maybe not. one-time authorization codes, replacing the need for users Kanata-based inBay Technologies Inc. has developed solu- to manually input passwords. These codes are automatically tions aimed at ending the use of passwords for verifying processed by our idQ Servers.” your online identity, controlling access to resources on the inBay’s idQ solution covers two broad categories of appli- internet and empowering users to authorize any transaction cations. “idQ Logon for Web Apps can be applied to involving, for instance, their online banking or shopping any corporate web app capable of supporting the highly accounts. popular OAuth 2.0 protocol, used today by companies such “During the past four years, inBay has been developing the as Google, Facebook and Twitter,” says Sisay. technology for products and solutions that now enable you “Our idQ Identity Provider Server can interwork with Micro- to say no to passwords. We’re ushering in the passwordless soft’s Active Directory Federation Services to provide Internet, a critical component for building an internet you passwordless authentication for protecting access to enter- can trust,” says Robert Steklasa, inBay’s vice-president of prise services such as Skype for Business, SharePoint and marketing. Office 365.” Today’s Internet is not an especially secure, trustworthy inBay’s passwordless technology—how it works: place. According to The Identity Theft Resource Center, the U.S. alone has recorded more than 5,000 data breaches since 2005, exposing 675 million records. Globally, nearly 17 million websites have been hacked so far this year, notes the website Internet Live Stats, in many cases compromising sensitive personal records. Two-thirds of such breaches exploit weak or stolen passwords, based on past findings of a Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. “Stolen passwords and data breaches pose a huge risk to public and private institutions alike,” notes Steklasa. “They cost you money, hurt your customers and users, and tarnish your brand and reputation.” According to the 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global When you deploy inBay’s passwordless solution, you truly Analysis by the Ponemon Institute, the average total cost are saying NO! to passwords: no passwords to remember, of a data breach to an organization has now reached $3.79 transmit or store. million. And the average cost paid for each lost or stolen 16 THE KANATA NETWORKER
Instead of a Username and Pass- word, users of inBay’s idQ Trusted Service see a QR code, which serves as a convenient container for a secu- rity challenge. Gaining access to an Internet resource, for example, requires successfully responding to this challenge. A registered mobile device running the idQ Connect app is used to scan the QR Code appearing on a computer screen. If a smartphone is used to directly access an idQ-protected resource, pressing the “clickable” QR Code appearing on its screen (another innovative idea from inBay) eliminates the need for scanning. A one-time authorization code is automatically generated and sent to a server (over an automatically gener- ated second channel) for automated verification. Our idQ platform offers unparalleled Annual General Meeting security, ease of use and performance and dependability for economies of scale. Located at 580 Terry Fox Dr., inBay Technologies can be reached by email at info@inbaytech.com. Visit their website for more information: www. inbaytech.com. Wednesday, Wednesday, November November 26th 25th, 5 -7:30pm 2015 5-7:30pm The Marshes The MarshesGolf GolfCourse, 320 Terry Course, 320 TerryFox FoxDrive Drive DoyletechGuest Corp.Speaker: Andrew will share Fisher, results CEO Glitchsoft of Economic Impact Study and Market Gap Analysis Launch of new Kanata North Promotional Video R0013511270/1022 Launch of new Kanata North Ad Campaign Review & Approval of 2015 Work Plan and Budget Review & Approval of 2016 Work Plan & Budget http://knbia2014agm.eventbrite.ca https://kanatanorthbia-agm.eventbrite.ca RSVPRSVP orOr emailinfo@kanatanorthbia.ca Email info@kanatanorthbia.ca THE KANATA NETWORKER 17
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