Fourth Annual Global CONNECT ConferenceDecember 6-8 , 2006
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Global CONNECT thanks the entire team at Global CONNECT member MaRS in Toronto for their extraordinary support of this event. A huge thank you, in particular, to Ross Wallace, Director of Corporate Strategy at MaRS. Thank you, Ross! For podcasts of all of the Conference sessions, please click here. A thousand thanks to Dr. Mark Bradley, CEO of Global CONNECT member ATP Innovations in Sydney, Australia, for once again organizing and posting these podcasts. Thank you, Mark! |
In four years, the Global CONNECT Annual Conference has grown into a major gathering of leaders of regional business accelerators from around the world. Participants in the conference include specialists in technology-based economic development, and senior policymakers.
In 2006, the Global CONNECT Conference came to Canada for the first time. From December 6 to 8, the Annual Conference was held in Toronto, in partnership wtih the MaRS Discovery District. In addition to highlighting Toronto and the Province of Ontario, the Conference focused on best practice in regional business accelerators, and inter-regional collaborations. The principal goal of the Conference was to provide an effective forum for developing innovative programs to accelerate technology commercialization..
Global CONNECT gratefully thanks MaRS for their outstanding contributions to the success of this event, and to all of the sponsors for their generous support of this Conference::
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