December 9th, 2008
7:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Faculty Club
South Building
at the University of
Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Rd. North

DIRECTIONS to UTM

Pre-registration $20
At the door $25

Registration fee includes
breakfast & parking.

REGISTER HERE
or contact Na Fan at
905-569-4446 or
na.fan@ric-centre.on.ca.

Guest Speakers:

Lahav Gil, CEO and Director of Design at
Kangaroo Design & Product Development

Lahav is the CEO and Director of Design at Kangaroo Design & Product Development. He has a passion for design and technology and for implementing them as strategic components within a commercialization roadmap. Kangaroo offers a full range of services with a focus on the development of technology products, and diagnostic and medical devices from concept to commercial availability. Lahav will discuss the resources needed to develop a prototype, and necessary engineering and technical resources for modeling.

John Mertl, a Partner with the Russell Mitchell Group

John is an executive consultant with over 18 years experience helping technology companies bring winning products to market. With domain knowledge in enterprise and consumer software, telecommunications, and clean technologies, he has worked with executives and investors across North America to identify attractive markets and plan winning strategies. John will discuss how to develop marketing strategies for products and markets that don't exist, and the essential ingredients for a technical paper.

Mark Kerbel, CEO and co-founder of REGEN Energy

REGEN Energy is a Toronto-based firm committed to providing innovative, cost-effective, and practical energy solutions to energy consumers. Mark is a key member of the research team that developed REGEN's unique EnviroGrid controllers, and is co-author of REGEN's patent-pending method using swarm logic to control the peak energy demand. Mark will discuss how to market innovation to investors and his company's marketing success story.

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