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November 2015

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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

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Please consider donating a new pair of warm pyjamas
      this holiday season for children in need at the
Kanata Food Cupboard. All donations can be dropped off
at various Kanata locations from November 1-30, 2015!!!

The Pyjama Patrol was created by a group of Moms who want all children to have a good night's
    rest. Children in need do not always have pyjamas. They instead go to sleep in their street
clothes or nothing at all. Our Christmas wish is that we give hundreds of children warm pyjamas,
  the feeling of security and love they so deserve and sweeter dreams for a brighter tomorrow.

         To learn more about Pyjama Patrol and their
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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

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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

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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.

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        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

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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,
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                                                    November    26th
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                                             The MarshesGolf
                                                         GolfCourse, 320 Terry
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                                                           will share      Fisher,
                                                                      results      CEO Glitchsoft
                                                                              of Economic  Impact Study
                                                            and Market Gap Analysis
                                                   Launch of new Kanata North Promotional Video
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                                                  Review & Approval of 2015 Work Plan and Budget
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