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Wavefront’s mPower M2M week is coming to Vancouver February 7-9th.
Wavefront's mPower week is coming to Vancouver February 7-9th.
What is mPower Week?
A unique three-day series of North American conferences bringing together
enterprise industry leaders, wireless and M2M solution providers, and mobile
operators to:
- Identify critical industry issues and challenges
- Discuss wireless / M2M technology solutions to improve enterprise operations
- Share market trends, best practices and proven strategies
- Promote collaboration and create new relationships between participants
Kicking off the weekend will be the mPower M2M summit. This one day event will attract over 250 technology developers and global business leaders from around the world to create ideas, opportunities, and innovation for solving industry-specific challenges with Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technologies. International leaders such as Philippe Guillemette, Sierra Wireless, Markus Breitbach, Deutsche Telekom, Mansell Nelson, Vice President M2M Rogers, and Steve Pazol, President nPhase will share lessons learned and/or technology challenges and trends impacting future development during case study presentations.
BCIC is proud to support the attendance of 20 companies from the regions across British Columbia in the weekend events:
Feb 7 mPower M2M - Machine-to-Machine technologies are changing the way we do business.
Learn from the top players in the M2M ecosystem at this marquee event.
Feb 8 mPower Connections - Pitch your company to global
wireless companies in one-on-one business partnering meetings. Open only to
conference attendees.
Feb 9 mPower Business - Wireless technologies are completely changing how we
engage with customers and employees and drive productivity. Learn from the
leaders in the space how to cut the cord on your business and stay ahead of the
competition.
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Featured Programs
BCIC Mentor Program
The BCIC Mentor Program (in partnership with ACETECH) is a province-wide development program for early stage entrepreneurs to help improve the success of technology companies in BC.
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BCIC-New Ventures Competition
BCIC has partnered with the New Ventures BC Society to deliver the society's BCIC-New Ventures Competition, an annual technology business-idea competition providing BC entrepreneurs and inventors with the skills, networking, mentoring and prize monies they need to successfully commercialize their business ideas.
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Featured Case Studies
Ballard Power Systems
This case examines how a director made crucial decisions with company-wide repercussions on revenue and status. Read more
This case examines how a director made crucial decisions with company-wide repercussions on revenue and status. Read more
News & Events
$2.1 million boosts Okanagan's high-tech sector
A $2.1-million investment by the governments of Canada and British Columbia, through the BC Innovation Council, will help Accelerate Okanagan increase the number of technology companies that start and grow in the region.
The funding, over three years, was announced today at the official opening of Accelerate Okanagan, a technology-focused not-for-profit organization that is already benefiting more than 20 local firms through its startup and growth strategy programs. READ MORE
Astronomer, Researcher, App Designer - BC's brightest science students explore their future
A 72" reflecting telescope, an enchanting undersea virtual observatory, an interactive plate tectonics workshop and a visit to the UVic Genome Proteomics Lab - just a highlight of the activities sixty-eight BC secondary school students experienced as part of BCIC's Innovation Exploration (IE) program. The two-day program held on October 24 and 25 took place in Victoria for the first time, providing an incredible opportunity for secondary school students to explore post-secondary education and career options in the region. READ MORE
B.C. Tech Ventures Awarded Nearly $400,000 in Prizes in Annual Business Competition
Six months of competition came to an end last night as the winners of the 11th annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition were announced in Vancouver. READ MORE
12 B.C. Wireless Startups Chosen for Year Two of entrepreneurship@Wavefront
BCIC and Wavefront (the Canadian wireless commercialization centre) today announced the twelve companies chosen to participate in year two of the entrepreneurship@Wavefront program. READ MORE
entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator Fund to Help Launch UBC Startups
Startups from the UBC community can now apply for investments of up to $100k to support their new venture thanks to the entrepreneurship@UBC Seed Accelerator fund. READ MORE





