Planet Solutions Podcasts

Named one of Canada's Top 10 Technology Companies last December, IPeak Networks Inc. celebrates spring by taking wing from OCRI?s new Business Accelerator Program. Now with a new CEO, CFO, first customer and bridge financing that can take the company through 2008, IPeak Networks is the product of a new OCRI approach to identify and nurture Ottawa?s most promising technology companies. That new approach to start-ups is also the subject of this month?s OCRIRadio.com podcast.

Interviewed by OCRIRadio.com co-host Nathan Rudyk at last month?s Telfer India Forum at the University of Ottawa, four technology executives and one experienced India observer brush aside the myth that India?s only role in the technology sector is as a supplier of outsourced labour. In fact, India?s strong economic growth ? forecast at 8.8 percent for 2008 ? is also building a strong market opportunity for technology products and services from Canadian companies.

Technology marketing guru Geoffrey Moore sees big green in clean. Moore says global warming is no longer a cause, but a market. ?People have completely, completely bought into the notion that this is going to be a global re-engineering of business practices and industrial practices, and it will possibly be the largest market in the history of the planet.? In terms of an investment opportunity, ?I think it will dwarf I.T.,? says Moore. Moore?s statements draw on his venture capital experience as a Venture Partner with Sand Hill Road?s Mohr Davidow Ventures, plus his wisdom as the author of four books including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game, Living on the Fault Line, and his latest, Dealing with Darwin.

On the January 2007 podcast of OCRIRadio.com, Nathan Rudyk, President and CEO of market2world communications inc. interviews four life sciences investors and entrepreneurs, including: ? Richard Meadows, Managing Partner from the CTI Life Sciences Fund Limited Partnership ? Canada?s newest venture capital firm specializing in life sciences investments ? Ken Newport, the former co-founder and President of CroMedica Global Inc., and a local investor in life sciences companies ? Jeff Westeinde, CEO of Ottawa?s Quantum Environmental Group, a waste management company ? Niall Wallace, CEO of Infonaut Inc., a map-based solutions company inspired by solving hospital logistics problems brought to light by the SARS crisis in Toronto The interviews are the second of a two-part series recorded at last month?s BioNorth Biotechnology and Life Sciences Conference. The podcast also discusses the record employment for technology workers in the Ottawa region.

The Oct. 19th OCRI/ITAC breakfast speech by John Chambers, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco Systems Inc., extends a tradition of attracting top global tech CEOs such as Bill Gates to Ottawa. Chambers revealed Cisco?s vision for the future of Web 2.0-inspired collaborative productivity in both the private and public sectors which will drive the next decade of innovation and business productivity. If you were not among the 800+ members of Ottawa's business and academic community there to hear John Chambers in person, OCRIRadio.com brings you his speech in full. It is an hour long podcast well worth your time as you plan your own tech business strategy for 2008.