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Guest Speakers

 

Bruce Lazenby

President & CEO, Invest Ottawa

Mr. Lazenby excels at driving change and creating collaborative partnerships to meet clear and compelling business goals – with gusto.  His career includes 20 years of military service, CEO of Ottawa’s FreeBalance Inc and Chair of various software firms. Bruce has also been voted Canada’s Private Sector Technology Leader by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance. Mr. Lazenby excels at driving change and creating collaborative partnerships to meet clear and compelling business goals – with gusto.  His career includes 20 years of military service, CEO of Ottawa’s FreeBalance Inc and Chair of various software firms. Bruce has also been voted Canada’s Private Sector Technology Leader by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance.

Topic: Industry needs Academia and Vice Versa – Building a Better Collaboration  Model

David Hale

Founder & CEO of Sochal Group / Algonquin College grad

Dave Hale is the Founder & CEO of Soshal Group, an Ottawa-based agency, founded in 2010 and focuses on social intelligence, strategy and media. He works with a variety of local, national, and global clients to implement their “Soshal by Nature” concepts and deliver practical business results through social activities. His company has also launched a small business program to assist other entrepreneurs with channel optimization and program development.

Jason Flick

Co-founder and President of YOUi Labs and Flick Software

A serial entrepreneur who started his first successful company in 1990 selling computer systems through the Internet, Jason Flick is a highly accomplished software architect, with nearly two decades of experience in virtually every aspect of starting, running and growing software companies. Incurably bitten by the start-up bug, Jason has held key positions in a number of local high tech start-ups.

Topic: The Innovation Fix: All Hands on Deck!

 

Mark Hoddenbagh

Dr. Mark Hoddenbagh

Director, Applied Research and Innovation, Algonquin College


Dr. Hoddenbagh is the Director of Algonquin College's office of Applied Research and Innovation. Mark holds a PhD in chemistry from Queen's University, and has over twenty years of post-university experience in industry, management, and business development.