Another year has gone by and it’s time to celebrate National Biotechnology Week (NBW) once again! NBW is a week dedicated to biotechnology with events across Canada celebrating all aspects of the industry from food science and nutraceuticals to medical devices and hospital systems. Over the last year, we have had many local successes in…
“You are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure. Put yourself in situations where you have too much…
This blog post was written by Suzanne Morrison, Communications Coordinator at TechAlliance. If you’ve been even half listening to the #ldnont community on social media this summer or perhaps bumped into a street team while grabbing lunch downtown, you probably already know that the London Public Library is part-way through their ambitious community engagement strategy…
This blog post was written by Alec Miller, Manager of Measured Innovation at TechAlliance Start-ups are often risky and chaotic messes – it’s kind of crazy that anybody would want to get involved with one. But for those that do, I can think of no better general purpose business skill than to study cognitive biases…
This blog post was written by Suzanne Morrison, Communications Coordinator at TechAlliance. Last week I had the opportunity to attend the London Exchange event hosted by Info-Tech Research Group (ITRG) at the Delta London Armouries Hotel. I joined more than 50 IT leaders from Canada and the United States as ITRG’s Director of Research James…
This blog post was written by Suzanne Morrison, Communications Coordinator at TechAlliance. London is now home to a new coworking space for entrepreneurs, students and small businesses. Hacker Studios is up and running and you can pop in for a visit at 246 Dundas Street across from the Central Library. Hacker Studios offers a modular…
This post was written by Deniz Temelli, Business Analyst at TechAlliance Every holiday season it seems everyone is on the lookout for the next big gadget, and this year is no exception. In the last few weeks, while I’ve been surfing my daily news sites, I’ve noticed many of them have been reporting on the…
Dorothy Gebert is Senior Manager, Communications & Engagement at TechAlliance. “There’s no hiding now.” That’s the way Allison Graham of the OTC Group in London described how potential customers are being identified by marketers through the use of database management technologies. She dropped by the TechAlliance offices recently to talk about some of the ways…
David Canton is a business lawyer and trade-mark agent with a practice focusing on technology issues and technology companies. His latest post on the Harrison Pensa blog looks at the recent federal and provincial privacy commissioners’ findings on the proposed federal “lawful access” legislation: The Federal and Ontario privacy commissioners both recently released their annual…