2013 Sponsors
PLATINUM SPONSORS
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Aimia’s Proprietary Loyalty Service now incorporates Carlson Marketing’s global loyalty marketing services and builds on the company’s heritage by leveraging its global footprint to deploy our full suite of loyalty management services to manage hundreds of the world's largest and most successful customer and business loyalty initiatives. |
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We deliver our loyalty expertise across all vertical industries, geographies and channels for both consumer and business-to-business brands. As leading innovators in digital, mobile and social media marketing, we deliver leading-edge loyalty solutions for our clients. And help you get closer to your best customers, employees and channel partners. For more information, visit www.aimia.com . |
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Ernst & Young helps media, technology, telecommunications and retail companies adapt to change, manage risk, meet regulatory requirements, foster product innovation and develop new business models. |
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Our team of experienced industry professionals in Canada and around the world — supported by the Ernst & Young Global Centers of Excellence — provides a multidisciplinary team of assurance, advisory, tax and transaction services to help you achieve your objectives. For more information, please visit ey.com/ca. |
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GOLD SPONSORS
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Since 2003, Casale Media has been redefining the standard for online media quality, ad delivery management and media optimization technologies with premium services that generate measurable success for all stakeholders in media and marketing. CasaleX, the industry's first premium exchange with real-time bidding, is a highly controlled, brand-safe media marketplace that provides publishers with maximum control and advertisers with exclusively high quality inventory. |
| The company's premium advertising network, MediaNet, is used by eight of the top 10 U.S. online display advertisers and reaches nearly 70 percent of the U.S. online audience across more than 3,000 actively monitored properties. One of the leading independent digital media companies, Casale Media is guided by its dedication to needs-based development and quality-focused culture. | |
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SAY Media is a digital publishing company that turns strong, culturally relevant voices into premium digital media experiences. Through its technology platform and media services, SAY enables its portfolio of independent content creators to build passionate communities around key consumer interest areas such as Style, Living, Food and Tech. |
| The company provides simple and accountable ways for the world’s top brands to engage with these passionate audiences, at scale, with a reach of more than 500 millionpeople around the world. SAY Media is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices across North America, in the UK and Australia. In Canada, SAY is based in Montreal and has offices in Toronto and Vancouver. For more information visit www.saymedia.com. | |
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (www.iabcanada.com), is the national voice and de facto thought leader of the Canadian Interactive marketing and advertising industry; and is a not-for-profit association representing Canada’s most well-known and respected Advertisers, Agencies, Media Companies, Service Associates, Educational Institutions and Government Associations. As the only organization fully-dedicated to the development and promotion of Interactive advertising in Canada, IAB Canada works with its Members to: |
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Connecting people with brands, Intertainment Media Inc. is a Rich Media Applications leader, focused on delivering leading edge technology and marketing solutions enabling clients to power enhanced branding, loyalty initiatives and consumer engagement. Selected as a Microsoft Global Agency Initiative partner, Intertainment has joined an elite group of interactive agencies worldwide that Microsoft recommends to its Partners and Customers. |
| Intertainment owns and operates a number of key properties including Ortsbo, Ad Taffy, itiBiti, DealFrenzy and Magnum Fine Commercial Printing Limited. For more information on the Company and its properties, please visit www.intertainmentmedia.com | |
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Rogers Communications is a diversified Canadian communications and media company. We are Canada's largest provider of wireless voice and data communications services and one of Canada's leading providers of cable television, high speed internet and telephony services. |
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Through Rogers Media we are engaged in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, magazines and trade publications, sports entertainment, and digital media. We are publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RCI.A and RCI.B) and on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: RCI). For further information about the Rogers group of companies, please visit rogers.com. www.rogers.com/business |
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OFFICIAL RTB ADVERTISING PARTNER
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AcuityAds Inc. is a turbo charged demand side platform. Blending an industry leading machine learning algorithm with cutting edge real-time bidding technology and 500 million user profiles, Acuity is revolutionizing online display advertising. Offering unmatched targeting capabilities, iron-clad brand safety and maximized buying efficiency, Acuity delivers superior results for its clients. Want to learn more? Come check out our booth at Dx3! |
MEDIA PARTNER
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Marketing is a fully integrated media brand serving Canada’s advertising, marketing, media and PR professionals. Our news and industry perspective is an essential resource for working smarter, more creatively and more effectively. |
| Offering authoritative insight and proven ideas to a global audience through a distinctly Canadian perspective through editorial, events, awards and custom research, Marketing connects the industry and inspires and celebrates great work. | |
ASSOCIATE PARTNER
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VeloCity Incubator is designed to help students and alumni of the University of Waterloo turn ideas into businesses; connecting them with the newest technology, mentors, and a vast network of entrepreneurs. |
| Our Campus program is open to all students on Campus and designed to ensure all students are connected to valuable resources that will help test drive their entrepreneurial ideas. Our Residence program, based on main campus, is focused on ensuring students with a tech start up idea have the opportunity to assess the validity of their start while carrying out their post secondary studies. Our Garage program, based out of Waterloo Region's Tech Hub is geared towards students and alum who've committed to a start up idea that is generating revenue and driving tech innovation. | |
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The goal of The Next 36 is to increase Canadian prosperity by developing Canada’s next generation of high impact entrepreneurs. Started by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, The Next 36 provides a series of life changing experiences and relationships to young Canadians with the potential to build and lead great organizations. |
| Each year, 36 promising undergraduates are selected from a variety of academic disciplines, and from across Canada, through a rigorous national selection process. The young entrepreneurs build a business in the mobile or tablet space together in teams of three. For 8 months they are provided mentorship from some of Canada’s top business leaders, up to $80,000 cash from top Venture Capitalists, and academic instruction from some of the world’s top faculty. The program is spearheaded by a founding group of 50 high-profile business leaders, entrepreneurs, and academics. Its Founding Patrons are Paul Desmarais, Sr., Galen Weston and Jimmy Pattison. | |
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Ryerson’s Investment in the Knowledge-Based Economy. The Digital Media Zone is an interdisciplinary workspace infused with the energy and resources of downtown Toronto. Set atop Yonge-Dundas Square, it is a place where startups, students and alumni come to innovate, collaborate, bring new products to market and create innovative digital solutions for industry. |
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In addition to the benefits of working alongside like-minded individuals, Zone participants have access to open flexible workspace, equipment, utilities and services such as business plan counselling, mentoring, workshops, networking and industry showcases. In the Zone, Ryerson creates synergies, pioneers novel solutions to industry challenges and propels Canadian small businesses onto the global stage. The country’s brightest entrepreneurs create wealth and employment, demonstrating how universities and the economy can intersect to build great businesses, great cities and a great country. |
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Founded in 2009, The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) is a national Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research. Its objective is to create companies, jobs and wealth for the nation. CDMN is dedicated to establishing Canada as a world leader in digital media by enabling connections and collaboration of people across the country – entrepreneurs, companies, research institutes and government – and bringing more digital solutions to market. |
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CDMN has established relationships with 10 partners, or nodes, at 17 locations from coast-to-coast, and the network is growing. Each node brings unique expertise to the national network while serving as a regional hub for the development, acceleration and commercialization of digital media ventures. The annual CDMN Canada 3.0 digital media forum advances digital media adoption and competitiveness in Canada by bringing together leaders in industry, academia and government. The CDMN Soft-Landing Program, assists Canadian businesses to capitalize on global business opportunities. For more information, visit us at www.cdmn.ca. |
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Communitech is located in Waterloo Region, 110 kilometres (66 miles) west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded by a group of dedicated entrepreneurs in 1997, Communitech is the regional hub for the commercialization of innovative technologies supporting and building a Southwestern Ontario tech cluster of close to 1,000 companies that now generates more than $30B in revenue. A member of the Ontario Network of Excellence (www.oneinnovation.ca), which is funded by the Ontario government, Communitech supports tech companies at all stages of their growth and development – from startup companies, to rapidly growing SMEs, to large global players – to create greater numbers of successful global businesses for Ontario and for Canada.
Engage with us. www.communitech.ca |
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HYPERDRIVE is a new $30+ million tech startup incubator program with a global focus to seed, fund, and grow new businesses. HYPERDRIVE takes tech startups from seed level to Series A-ready in 24 months. Two times a year, up to 10 companies will be chosen from a pool of applicants. |
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Successful entrants can expect: For more information, please visit our website, www.communitech.ca/hyperdrive . Applications close November 1st . |
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CONTENT PARTNERS
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We believe that we are living in a world where media outlets are becoming more like brands and brands are becoming more like media. |
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While content creators are experimenting with new business models and digital platforms, businesses are using content to tell their stories, engage people, and make money. Our mission is to help media and marketing professionals make sense of these changes and to spark new ideas for how brands can use content to communicate in a more human, compelling and platform-agnostic way. |
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NEWS PARTNER
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The Globe and Mail, through its newspaper, magazine, online and mobile platforms, is Canada’s foremost news media company. Each day, The Globe leads the national discussion by engaging Canadians in its award-winning coverage and analysis of news, politics, business and lifestyle. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, founded in 1844, Report on Business, Canada’s most influential business magazine, and globeandmail.com, the newspaper’s online and mobile media hub, reach a combined 5.7 million readers every month. |
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The Globe has received numerous journalism awards, including the international 2011 prize for General Excellence in Journalism from the Online News Association, nine Michener Awards for Public Service Journalism, and more National Newspaper Awards than any other newspaper in Canada. The Globe and Mail is 85% owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family, and Bell Canada (15%). For more information, visitwww.theglobeandmail.com. |
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