April 2005 Newsletter
In This Issue
• We’ve Been Busy
• Call for Demonstration Projects
• Wireless City Global Trade Show Session
• WiTec Alberta Spring Networking Event
• News & Events
• Local Success
• Wireless Fast Facts
We’ve Been Busy
CeBIT 2005, March 10-16, Hannover, Germany
This latest effort to showcase Alberta’s growing Wireless & Telecom industry to global markets has been an overwhelming success. This collaboration between Alberta Economic Development, Calgary Economic Development and Calgary Technologies Inc. engaged 6 local technology exporters and traveled to the world’s largest ICT tradeshow, CeBIT 2005. Exhibitors included Murandi Communications, RxWave, Release Planner, Embedded Systems/Phone Labs, ANT/Dynastream, and Smart Technologies.
Displaying under the "Wireless City" banner, these companies presented a very powerful image of Alberta's technology exporters. Our technology was innovative, competitive, and definitely world-class. Embedded Systems/Phone Labs even appeared on the daily CeBIT television program with their Dock 'n Talk product - congratulations to Len Bleile and the rest of the Embedded Systems Products team on attracting worldwide attention to your excellent product.
Working within the Canada Pavilion in Hall 13 (the main Telecommunications Hall) unquestionably boosted the profile of the stand even further. The booth was located along the main corridor leading to the train station, and the walk-by traffic was outstanding.
We will be giving a synopsis of the show at the "Wireless City Global Tradeshow Strategy Session" (see item below).
Come on out and we will tell you all about this global visibility for the Wireless and Telecom industry in Alberta.
Call for Demonstration Projects
The project year is well underway, but opportunities exist for additional projects in 2005.
Would you like to participate in a Wireless City project?
Do you have a suggestion for a wireless project you would like to see us develop?
Would you like to bring a Calgary-based company to our attention?
If you think that your product would be a candidate for a Wireless City project, we would like to hear from you.
Wireless City Global Tradeshow Session
May 4th @ 4:00 at the Alastair Ross Technology Centre
Building on the success of the CeBIT 2004 and CeBIT 2005 collaborative tradeshow successes, the purpose of this exploratory meeting is to poll Marketing executives in Alberta's wireless industry about a comprehensive program to ensure that the industry is present and visible at a portfolio of tradeshows every year over a three-year period.
We feel this will continue to build on the already-growing global recognition for our wireless cluster, and also provide consistent opportunities for our companies to be exposed around the world. We're thinking about doing 5 tradeshows per year, CeBIT, 3GSM, an Asian show (probably ITU), CTIA and CWTA or some other suitable Canadian show.
The purpose of this gathering is to review the collaborative booth experience so far, and to get your feedback on the expanded program. You should attend if you are the marketing executive for your company, and any of the following is true:
- You or your company have exhibited at these shows in the past, either on your own or as part of a pavilion
- You think you might be interested in the future
- You need more information on the pros and cons of exhibiting as part of an industry pavilion
- You have relevant experience to lend to the discussion
We will meet at the Alastair Ross Technology Centre, 3553 31 Street NW at 4:00 to 5:00, and then release you to participate in the WiTec Networking event to follow:
For further information, contact Richard Belzil at (403)284-6406 or rbelzil@calgarytechnologies.com.
WiTec Spring Networking Event
May 4th @ 5:00 at the Alastair Ross Technology Centre
WiTec Alberta will be holding its spring networking event on May 4th. This is a chance to mix and mingle with the rest of the industry, and trade war stories. Its a pizza and beer event, so no need to get your tux dry-cleaned.
Please RSVP by email to Karen Robinson (krobinson@calgarytechnologies.com) at WiTec Alberta by Monday, April 25th so we can reserve a slice for you.
News & Events
1) WIRELESS TO THE MAX
Please take note of the following CWTA conference taking place in Toronto on April 13th, 2005 – A Forum on Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access - Everything you NEED to know about WiMAX
For more information please see http://www.cwta.ca/CWTASite/english/conference/WiMAX.html
2) ICT Expo http://ictexpo.com scheduled for April 14-17, 2005,
at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)
Please contact:
Ken Fong, Marketing Manager - Toronto Office
Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Tel: (416) 366-3594 Fax: (416) 366-1569 Email: ken.kk.fong@tdc.org.hk
3) Trilateral Technology Summit, May 2 & 3, 2005
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Join Mayor David Bronconnier, Calgary, Canada, Mayor Ed Garza, San Antonio, Texas, and Mayor Ricardo Canavati, Monterrey, Mexico at the 2005 Trilateral Technology Summit.
Register Today! Visit www.trilateraltechsummit.com or phone (210) 207-8100.
4) South American Wireless Trade Mission, October 2005
Ms. Katia Rivadeneyra, Trade Commissioner to Peru, was in Calgary during the week of April 11 to talk with local wireless companies interested in doing business in Peru. If your company was missed on this visit, please contact Katia at katia.rivadeneyra@international.gc.ca, or through the local Industry Canada office c/o Crystal Larm at (403)292-6643.
Ms. Rivadeneyra also advised us that the Government of Canada is organizing a Wireless Trade Mission to the Andean Region (Venuzuela, Columbia, Equador, Peru, Bolivia) in October 2005, culminating with the Andicom 2005 tradeshow in Cartagena. If your company is interested to participate in the trade mission, or you would just like more information, please contact Rana Burley at rana.burley@international.gc.ca or at (613)944-1438.
Local Success
Wireless Dynamics Inc. Announces the SDiD Card;
The first RFID Reader/Writer SD Card
Wireless Dynamics Inc., a leading provider of wireless ODM designs, products and services, announces the SDiD(TM) Card, the first RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) Reader/Writer SD (Secure Digital) Card in the industry. Now professionals can use their Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) and Smartphones as portable RFID terminals. Applications include reading and writing RFID tags for the health-care, pharmaceutical, retail logistics, and homeland security industries. Wireless Dynamics powerful SDiD(TM) Card offers a seamless management solution for real-time inventory, asset and document tracking.
More: http://www.wdi.ca./news.shtml
Wireless Fast Facts
Did you know that WiTec Alberta, the industry association supporting Alberta’s Wireless and Telecom sector, offers a website database of more than 300 Alberta companies that you can search by more than 30 sub-sectors? Visit www.witec.ca.
Wireless City is an initiative of WiTec, Alberta’s Wireless and Telecommunications industry and was created to assist small and medium-sized enterprises by showcasing their innovative wireless technologies and practical solutions. Wireless City brings together Calgary’s wireless equipment makers, application designers, telecom service providers and end users to create industry-specific demonstration projects, practical examples that demonstrate complete, end-to-end wireless solutions. Wireless City gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors Western Economic Diversification, Alberta Innovation and Science, Calgary Technologies Inc., TELUS Mobility, Nortel Networks, Bell, and Cisco Systems.
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