Discovery 2010 Exhibitor Roster

20/20: NSERC Ophthalmic Materials Network AND Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network

Description:
20/20: NSERC Ophthalmic Materials Network and Sentinel Bioactive Paper Network are NSERC strategic research networks based at McMaster University. Both network’s partners include several universities, private sector partners and funding agencies. 20/20 is focused on the development of new ophthalmic materials and drug delivery devices for treating vision disorders. Sentinel aims to improve health and safety through the development of bioactive paper-based products to detect, repel or deactivate deadly air-, water- or food-borne pathogens.

3D Printers and Prototyping Services

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Agile sells new and used 3D printing equipment; including ProJet & V-Flash ($9,900) 3D Printers and 3D Systems Stereolithography (SLA) & Laser Sintering (SLS) machines. Agile provides prototyping services using all layer manufacturing technologies. We sell the Handyscan laser scanners and supply OEM and Generic 3D printing materials.

5th Anniversary of the Laser

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Watching your favorite movie on DVD. Scanning barcodes at the grocery store. Surfing the web. Welding cars. Curing cancer. For the past 50 years, lasers have revolutionized the way we live. Laser technology has powered remarkable progress since the invention of the first laser in 1960, and even more exciting advances are underway in research institutions and corporate and government labs around the world. Ontario celebrates one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century.

ACE - Accelerator for Commercialization Excellence

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Accelerator Centre for Commercialization Excellence (ACE) is a unique partnership between Ontario Centres of Excellence, the University of Waterloo, and Waterloo's Accelerator Centre. ACE breaks down marketplace barriers for entrepreneurs and start ups, giving them one source and one point of contact for expertise, services and support spanning the commercialization process.

Acorn Partners

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Acorn Partners is a national company providing custom-tailored financial solutions to Canadian businesses selling domestically and internationally. With a specialty and focus in providing working capital to early stage, high growth companies, Acorn Partners also has the experience and expertise to assist existing businesses who are facing financial challenges.

Adventus Research Inc.

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Adventus Research Inc. is a full-service market research company, founded in 2001 and based in Guelph, that specializes in researching and validating North American and world market opportunities for advanced and emerging technologies. We work with clients from all business sectors and perform market studies, surveys, industry profiles and focus groups. Adventus is led by its Founder and President Gary Svoboda, who has over 25 years of experience in innovation-oriented market research and validation studies.

Aereus wood

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Aereus Wood was formed in 2009 to develop and market a new patented technology that enables the coating of wood over other organic surfaces with a copper or copper alloy coating. The purpose of this coating is a revolution in the way exterior surfaces are protected from the elements. The other major benefits of this thin coating are to take advantage copper alloys antimicrobial properties.

Aeryon Labs Inc.

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Aeryon Labs Inc. was founded in 2007 to design and manufacture small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems for aerial sensing applications. Aeryon Labs’ strength is its multi-disciplinary engineering team, specializing in mobile robotics and digital video solutions.

Agfa HealthCare

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Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of IT-enabled clinical workflow and diagnostic image management solutions, and state-of-the-art systems for capturing and processing images in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Agfa HealthCare has over a century of healthcare experience related to diagnostic imaging and has been a pioneer in the healthcare IT market since the early 1990's.

Algonquin College / Clean Tech

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Algonquin College is a leader in the Canadian college community. With campuses located in the Nation's Capital and Ottawa Valley, Algonquin is the third largest college in Ontario. A recognized innovator and visionary, the College is driven by a strong mandate - to lead, partner, innovate and excel. As part of this College vision, the College's Office of Applied Research and Innovation facilitates research partnerships by bringing students, faculty, staff and funders together with industry and community organizations.

Algonquin College / Information and Communication Technologies

Description:
Algonquin College is a leader in the Canadian college community. With campuses located in the Nation's Capital and Ottawa Valley, Algonquin is the third largest college in Ontario. A recognized innovator and visionary, the College is driven by a strong mandate - to lead, partner, innovate and excel. As part of this College vision, the College's Office of Applied Research and Innovation facilitates research partnerships by bringing students, faculty, staff and funders together with industry and community organizations.

Algonquin College / Manufacturing

Description:
Algonquin College is a leader in the Canadian college community. With campuses located in the Nation's Capital and Ottawa Valley, Algonquin is the third largest college in Ontario. A recognized innovator and visionary, the College is driven by a strong mandate - to lead, partner, innovate and excel. As part of this College vision, the College's Office of Applied Research and Innovation facilitates research partnerships by bringing students, faculty, staff and funders together with industry and community organizations.

Algonquin College / Office of Applied Research and Innovation

Description:
Algonquin College is a leader in the Canadian college community. With campuses located in the Nation's Capital and Ottawa Valley, Algonquin is the third largest college in Ontario. A recognized innovator and visionary, the College is driven by a strong mandate - to lead, partner, innovate and excel. As part of this College vision, the College's Office of Applied Research and Innovation facilitates research partnerships by bringing students, faculty, staff and funders together with industry and community organizations.

Allerta Inc.

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Allerta is a new consumer electronics design firm, focused solely on creating cutting edge mobile accessories that mesh perfectly with smartphones and a mobile lifestyle. Allerta recognizes the emerging prominence of smartphones, specifically as an increasingly common, portable gateway to the internet and aims to design useful products that leverage this ‘always-on’ connection. Allerta’s first product is the inPulse, the world’s first BlackBerry-connected wristwatch.

APPrO - Association of Power Producers of Ontario

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APPrO is a non-profit organization representing more than 100 companies involved in the generation of electricity in Ontario, including generators and suppliers of services, equipment and consulting services. APPrO members produce power from co-generation, hydro-electric, gas, coal, nuclear, wind energy, waste wood and other sources. APPrO's members currently produce 98% of the electricity made in Ontario.

Array Systems Computing Inc.

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Array is a recognized leader in scientific interdisciplinary computer solutions, specializing in five pillars of expertise – Sonar, Radar and Remote Sensing, 3-D Modelling & Simulation, Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The company’s continued success has been the result of its superior capabilities in highly-computational digital signal processing and image analysis.

Astinco Inc. Engineering Excellence

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Astinco Inc., located in city of Markham is one of the most active design firms in North America which offers cost-effective hardware, software and system design services to local and international customers. Our teams of experts work on many new product design developments in different fields of medical, biomedical, biochemistry, consumer electronics and industrial applications. We have capability in house to design electronic boards, develop firmware and software applications to make prototypes and finally commercialize your idea!

Atikokan Bio-energy Research Centre

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In 2006, the Ontario government set aside $4 million to establisha bio-energy research program associated with the Atikokan Generating Station. Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) managed the Atikokan Bio-Energy Research Centre program and secured an $4.5 million in cash and in-kind partner funding. The overall goals of the program were to explore cleaner forms of electricity generation and encourage economic opportunities in the north with a focus on bio-energy resources available in northwestern Ontario.

AUTO21 NCE

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AUTO21 is Canada's automotive research and development program. Partnering the public and private sectors, AUTO21 currently supports more than 220 researchers across Canada working on 52 auto-related projects in Health, Safety and Injury Prevention; Societal Issues; Materials and Manufacturing; Powertrains, Fuels and Emissions; Design Processes; and Intelligent Systems and Sensors. Since 2001, AUTO21 and its partners have invested about $90 million in automotive R&D and generated more than 100 patents and licenses.

BDO Canada LLP

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BDO has 95 offices across Canada, with 1,600 professionals and over 300 partners. BDO’s services run from assurance, accounting and taxation services to financial advisory and corporate recovery. Whether it’s bringing your tax load down to the minimum, preparing financial statements the marketplace can trust, or helping you overcome financial hurdles, BDO is the accounting services firm for you.

Bioenterprise Corporation

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Bioenterprise Corporation is a non-profit business accelerator, established to help promote the creation, growth and expansion of businesses in the Agri-Food, Agri-Life Sciences, Agri-Health and Bio-Product sectors. Acting as coach and catalyst, Bioenterprise works with companies throughout the business development cycle, from start-up and early stage to emerging and well-established businesses. Through its global networks, Bioenterprise garners the critical components most needed to mitigate risks inherent in early stage businesses.

Biomedical Photometrics Inc. (BPI)

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BPI develops, manufactures and sells slide scanners for digital pathology. The TISSUEScope 4000 scans brightfield and fluorescence whole-mount slides up to 6x8 inches in size with best pixel resolution of 0.5 microns. Multiple slides are mounted in trays (up to seven 1x3 inch slides per tray), and can be imaged automatically. BPI is a private company, based on patented technology originally developed at the University of Waterloo. BPI runs a slide-scanning service for brightfield and fluorescence slides.

Bombardier Transportation

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Brock University

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Located in the centre of Niagara, Brock University offers strong undergraduate, graduate and interdisciplinary degree programs that include co-op and other experiential learning opportunities to a student population of more than 17,000. Students and faculty engage in cutting-edge research in many disciplines, including digital humanities, health sciences, biosciences and through such centres as the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute. Brock is currently building the Niagara Health and Bioscience Research Complex.

Bullfrog Power

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Bullfrog Power is Canada’s leading 100% green electricity provider. Bullfrog Power is the only company providing a 100% low-impact renewable electricity choice to everyone in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.

C4

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Southwest Ontario's Technology Transfer Community C4 fosters innovation in Southwest Ontario by promoting technology transfer and commercialization. Comprised of ten universities and research institutions, C4 members coordinate their resources, cooperate with governmental and industrial bodies, collaborate in multi-disciplinary research to solve real world problems, and commercialize the results of their research

CACT UofT

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CACT focuses on development of advanced thermal plasma technologies for applications such as various coatings deposition, materials treatment, waste-to-energy conversion and hazardous waste destruction.

CAE Flightscape

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CAE Flightscape is a world leader in the science of flight safety, specializing in flight data analysis. CAE Flightscape develops software and provides services that enable the effective study and understanding of recorded flight data from aircraft and flight simulators to improve safety, training, maintenance, and flight operations.

Canada Revenue Agency

Description:
Scientific Research and Experimental Development ( SRED) program of Canada Revenue Agency is the largest source of federal government support for industrial R&D in Canada. It provides over $4 billion in investment tax credits ( ITCs) to over 18,000 companies annually. Small business represent over 75% of the claims. We also hold Outreach seminars on a regular basis to share information about this program explaining the nuances of the program for which we can be contacted.

Canadian Alumni for the International Space University (CAISU)

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CAISU is a private and non-profit association dedicated in representing the Canadian alumni of the International Space University (ISU). CAISU is also active in organizing programs and conferences aiming at promoting space awareness among university-level students, professionals and the community in general.

Canadian Innovation Centre

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The Canadian Innovation Centre has been helping entrepreneurs and innovators get their ideas to market for over 30 years. The Centre's Innovation mandate has now been extended to make available a range of tools, resources and educational programs on-line. In addition, the CIC is moving provision of its Critical Factor Assessment and Market Validations tools to an online format, to reduce costs and increase availability.

Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI)

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The Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations is a Network of Centres of Excellence established by the Government of Canada, which brings together university researchers and public sector and industrial partners for the purpose of developing innovations, stimulating technology transfer and exploitation and training the next generation of young Canadian scientists in the field of photonics. www.cipi.ulaval.ca cipi@cipi.ulaval.ca 418-656-3013

Carbon Control Systems

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Carbon Control Systems is an Ontario based start up company specializing in anaerobic digestion technologies

Carleton University

Description:
“Middleware for Sensor-Based Bridge Management”: Bridges are key components in the transportation network and are critical to the economic well being of the society. A major problem with the current bridge infrastructure management approach is that it is compartmentalized and is handled independently by separate organizations. This research project concerns the devising of middleware to unify various resources such as sensors, toolsets, processing and database elements, provided by the different organizations to effectively handle the problem.

Carleton University VSIM Centre

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The Visualization and Simulation (VSIM) Centre is a $28M centre located at Carleton University, Ottawa. VSIM works closely with industry and government partners to accelerate the development and implementation of virtual training systems and technologies in the aerospace sector.

Carleton University/Waste Management of Canada Corporation

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WM is an integrate waste management company that services customers in USA and Canada. WM operates recycling centres, transfer stations, waste and material pickup for recycling, ewaste, construction and demolition waste, and landfilling. WM also is very active in renewable energy development for waste as landfill gas and direct energy from waste.

Centennial College

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We prepare students for the global workplace and support faculty and staff development by fostering a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. We build partnerships with local and regional community employers and industries to solve immediate problems, transfer knowledge and meet specific goals, through applied, market driven research, development and commercialization.

Centennial College - School of Engineering Technology and Applied Science (SETAS)

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SETAS is one of eight Schools within Centennial College and provides curriculum for the global economy that includes Software Engineering (degree and diploma), Bioinformatics Technology, Biomedical Technology, Energy Systems Engineering, Environmental Protection, and Architecture Technology. The Centennial Energy Institute (CEI) was developed within SETAS to become a leader in the transition to a low carbon, distributed energy economy with a mandate to develop capacity in energy conservation, energy efficiency, and sustainable energy generation.

Center for Integrated RF Engineering- University of Waterloo

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The Center for Integrated RF Engineering (CIRFE) is dedicated to the design, fabrication, assembly, and testing of MEMS devices. In particular, it is the only facility in Canada that is dedicated to RF MEMS research. The multidisciplinary MEMS research that is supported by the CIRFE lab is enabled by its ability to integrate RF with various MEMS technologies for communication, automotive, bio-medical and consumer electronics applications. The facility houses a clean room and an assembly & test laboratory.

Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC)

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The Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization (CPDC) specializes in the discovery, development and distribution of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. CPDC bridges the gap between academia and industry with the core expertise required to support pre-clinical development of new probes, seek regulatory approvals, manufacture agents and distribute products across the province. CPDC is a not-for-profit organization federally funded by the Networks of Centres of Excellence program and support from national and international partners.

CFC Media Lab

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Created in 1997, CFC Media Lab (formerly Habitat New Media Lab) provides a unique training, research and production think-tank environment for emerging new media artists, content developers and practitioners. An internationally acclaimed and award-winning facility, graduates of CFC Media Lab emerge as leaders in the world of interactive media and launch careers as new media producers, interactive media designers, business development professionals, and creative entrepreneurs.

Cimetrix Solutions

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Since 1993, Cimetrix Solutions has been assisting academic institutions and corporations with research initiatives, product development, and manufacturing optimization. By coupling industry leading technology with expert consulting services, Cimetrix enables Canadian firms to be globally competitive. Cimetrix is the exclusive Canadian provider of Dimension; the only 3D printing technology which produces stable, durable accurate parts in production grade thermoplastic.

cineFLOW

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cineFLOW is a leading developer of file-based digital workflow solutions for motion picture production and post production. Our on-demand world is driving the industry to media-less workflows that enable rapid multi-format delivery of new and archived content. The digital transition that swept photography 10yrs ago is sweeping motion picture production now and cineFLOW has the innovative solutions the industry requires

Cistel Technology Inc.

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Cistel provides technology and management consulting services to the private and public sectors. Services include: - IT Security and Privacy Consulting –risk management, identity and access management, and security and information event management; - Management Consulting – identifying areas of improvement and planning for the future; - IT Managed Services – build and maintain the infrastructure to support their business; and, - Staffing Services – providing resources with a diverse array of skills covering all phases of the software lifecycle.

City of Toronto

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The City of Toronto’s Economic Development & Culture Division delivers services that contribute to an economically strong, socially enjoyable and culturally vibrant city. This is achieved by: improving the business climate; diversifying the city’s international portfolio; anchoring and expanding key sectors; and enhancing and expanding Toronto’s labour force.

Cleanfield Energy Inc.

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Cleanfield Energy develops and distributes, with its strategic partners, proprietary, renewable energy products. The Company currently develops and markets small wind turbines through authorized renewable energy dealers, distributors and direct channels. Its commercialized 3.5 kilowatt Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), features three-metre long vertical blades that rotate around a central axis. These wind turbines are designed to harness urban wind efficiently and effectively and can be installed on a tower (ground-mount) and rooftop (roof-mount), offer

Clearpath Robotics

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Clearpath Robotics provides unmanned vehicle solutions to industrial, government, and academic research organizations. Our offerings save our customers time, money, and frustration in the development of custom/novel unmanned or autonomous vehicles.

Client Outlook

Description:
Client Outlook has developed eUnity, a patent-pending solution to load, display and manipulate medical (DICOM) images within a web-browser without installing client software. eUnity is a server-based software solution that extends common web-browsers on the most popular operating systems (e.g. Microsoft® Windows®, and Mac OS®) into medical review workstations; enabling health professionals to securely access medical images regardless of location.

Cognition LLP

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Cognition LLP is an innovative legal services firm that provides in-house counsel services on an outsourced basis. Cognition’s model enables general counsel to supplement the bandwidth and skill set of their legal departments with a dedicated yet flexible resource, without adding headcount or exceeding budget. Our team consists of experienced, business-minded lawyers who specialize in immersing themselves in our clients’ unique businesses, providing the practical benefits and cost-effectiveness of in-house counsel and the flexibility, diversity and depth of outside service providers.

College of Physical and Engineering Science

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The College of Physical and Engineering Science at the University of Guelph is composed of five units, Schools of Computer Science and Engineering, Departments of Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, and Physics. We offer graduate programs in all of our units, including, Doctoral, Masters and in some cases Graduate Diplomas.