Wednesday, November 29, 2006
A billion people, a trillion devices
Posted by: Grant Humes
One billion people around the world are now connected through the Internet.
One trillion devices around the world are now connected to the Internet.
Those are just a couple of the fascinating insights I got today from Dan Fortin, President of IBM Canada. He gave a very inspiring speech at our latest Technology Innovators Breakfast, speaking about the role of technology and remote working in changing our world, and how Toronto's ICT community can grasp the resulting opportunities through more collaboration and innovation.
As he pointed out, the 170 people in the room are sometimes competitors, but also partners, suppliers and customers. The challenge, and the opportunity, is for all of the players to take and share some risks together for the success of the entire sector in Toronto.
Here's a LINK to a great, detailed summary of the event from one of the attendees, Joey deVilla -- thanks, Joey!
Grant Humes is Interim President and Chief Operating Officer of the Toronto Board of Trade
One billion people around the world are now connected through the Internet.
One trillion devices around the world are now connected to the Internet.
Those are just a couple of the fascinating insights I got today from Dan Fortin, President of IBM Canada. He gave a very inspiring speech at our latest Technology Innovators Breakfast, speaking about the role of technology and remote working in changing our world, and how Toronto's ICT community can grasp the resulting opportunities through more collaboration and innovation.
As he pointed out, the 170 people in the room are sometimes competitors, but also partners, suppliers and customers. The challenge, and the opportunity, is for all of the players to take and share some risks together for the success of the entire sector in Toronto.
Here's a LINK to a great, detailed summary of the event from one of the attendees, Joey deVilla -- thanks, Joey!
Grant Humes is Interim President and Chief Operating Officer of the Toronto Board of Trade
// posted by Toronto Board of Trade @ 3:56 PM 
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It is high time that Toronto has an association along the lines of an OCRI (Ottawa), Communitech (Waterloo) to promote the GTA's dynamic technology sector.
The logical and best choice in championing this is the Toronto Board of Trade.
The logical and best choice in championing this is the Toronto Board of Trade.
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: 12:35 PM
: 12:35 PM
Grant, the event was good - some interesting points by Dan & Alizabeth. Hopefully the next ones will have a more diverse attendance, after all that is how we're going to grow as a cluster.
Thanks, Dave and anonymous.
We've been really pleased by the positive reaction we're getting from the ICT sector AND general business on this initiative.
One thing we're hearing a lot is, "It's about time we had a home" - we hope the Board can be a launch pad, too.
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We've been really pleased by the positive reaction we're getting from the ICT sector AND general business on this initiative.
One thing we're hearing a lot is, "It's about time we had a home" - we hope the Board can be a launch pad, too.
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