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Greetings!
We are excited to share this year's lineup for the upcoming Annual Retreat. There are many fantastic and exciting speakers attending as well as opportunities for deeper networking and peer mentoring. Please read below to find out more!
The Annual Retreat will take place from June 5th to June 7th at the Westin Trillium in Blue Mountain, Collingwood. Come and join the Acetech CEO's and spend an action packed two days of networking, stimulating workshops and provocative speakers totally focused on you, and helping you lead your company to success.
It's a unique opportunity for you to take time out from the day to day demands of running a business and think about "the big picture"; explore ideas in confidence with people you respect; and most importantly come back recharged and ready to implement real practical initiatives that are proven to help your business grow.
Thanks to the support of our sponsors we are able to offer a very limited number of special guest CEO invitations qualified CEOs for only $1800, which includes all your meals accommodations, programming and events. Please look below to see our exciting lineup of speakers, and register today by clicking here. |
| SEAN WISE | | |
Hot or Not? How to know if your business idea $uck$ 
AceTech Ontario is pleased to announce that Sean Wise, 'Dragon's Den' advisor and Entrepreneurial Evangelist, will be opening our Annual Retreat on June 5th in Collingwood.
During this educational and entertaining keynote, Professor Wise shares multimedia clips from reality shows highlighting the key questions that need to be asked before: you quit your job? Drop out of school? Mortgage the family farm. Find out what makes some ideas fly while others fail. This keynote will be inspiring and instructive for anyone who has ever dreamed of changing the world or even just starting a business.
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| JEFF MACINNIS | | |
Winning at a Higher Level
Jeff MacInnis, CEO of Excellence Events, will speak on The Business Race Program: Winning at a Higher Level.
Since the beginning, humans have raced. At first, it was a race to eat and not be eaten. Today, the race continues but the objective is not simply to eat and survive, it is to excel and grow in Business. Competitive advantage has become the largest, most competitive race of all. It attracts the brightest minds and tremendous resources.
Find out how THE SIX RACE RULES can instantly be applied and used as tools to move your organization forward. |
| BRENDA BARKER SCOTT | |  Enabling Teamwork and Collaboration with the 4 Ds Today, teamwork and collaboration are more important than ever in generating and delivering results. Increasingly, the challenges we face cannot simply be addressed by doing more of the same or tinkering with the familiar. Rather, our challenges require people to connect across disciplines, build on specialized expertise, and innovate. Join Brenda Barker Scott as we explore the fundamentals of effective teamwork and collaboration and learn a four stage process called the 4Ds (Define, Discover, Design, Do) to enable your team to think together, to define your challenge, discover possibilities, design and test prototypes and plan for implementation (the doing). As part of this workshop we'll share case examples from your AceTech colleagues, who will share their challenges, solutions and learnings from piloting the process. |
| PETER MATUTAT | |  2012 Survey of Canadian Software CEOs
Peter Matutat, Partner, National Emerging Company Practice Leader, Audit and Assurance Group, will provide an overview of the results of PwC's 9th annual survey of Canadian Emerging Software Company CEOs. The session will provide insight into the challenges, goals and plans of the CEOs of Canada's software companies with annual revenues < $20 million. |
| KEN BENDER | | |
 Software Industry Dollars, Deals and Drivers
Ken Bender, Founder & Managing Director
Software Equity Group, will share extraordinary insights from Software Equity Group's 2012 Software Industry Buyers Survey of the 200 largest software and Internet companies. Learn about their M&A plans, priorities, budgets and thinking. Ken will also recap the software industry's financial performance, and look deeply and insightfully at Software, SaaS and Internet M&A exit valuations, deal volumes and trends. And he'll share some provocative insights and convincing data about what really drives exit valuations and how to intelligently prepare and time an optimum software exit. |
| ROB FARRELL | | |
Transforming Your Sales Force Into a High Performing Growt h Engine!
- Do you have the right checks and balances in place to ensure that you have a high performing Sales Force that drives growth?
- Given the investment in your sales organization are you getting enough return?
- Does your organization have a repeatable sales process used consistently by the sales team?
- Are your sales forecasts meaningful, consistent and accurate?
- Is sales management providing the kind of metrics that enable you to make solid business decisions?
Join Rob Farrell, President and Founder StrateGrowth Partners, to learn about some of the key principals, trends and tools that are being used by high performing Sales Teams with undisputed success. Learn how to create a sustainable framework and process for your organizations sales success.
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| HOWARD GWIN | | |
Massively differentiating the value proposition - Making Complex Simple
Howard Gwin has been very fortunate to work for, work with and have working for him many of the most successful "go to market" technology executives in North America. From IBM to Xerox to PeopleSoft to Solect Technology to 24 corporate directorships in software and Saas, he has copied (stolen) from the best in our industry. The hardest thing in our industry (in particular in Canada) is packaging complex products so that they are simple enough for the "average" sales executive to sell. Howard will share what he has learned along the way that addresses this key gap in Canadian Technology
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| BRIAN CHURCH | | Leverage LinkedIn to Win
Knowing how to attract and hire a talented team, create the best products and drive revenue is the singular focus of successful business leaders. Join Brian Church, country manager for LinkedIn Canada for an informative keynote as he details how LinkedIn's professional network of over 150 million professionals can help businesses win the race to the best talent, build awareness with the right prospects, and convert those prospects into revenue. |
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Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Looking forward to hearing from you!.
Sincerely,
Jo Ann Dizy
AceTech Ontario
jdizy@acetechontario.com |
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