Please join iF for an informative free lunch and networking opportunity presented by KPMG as Chris Howlett (Technology Mentor at the Waterloo Accelerator Centre and the Communitech Hub) discusses Technical Planning for Your Business.

Technical planning is essential for startups.  Success can come in waves and your infrastructure needs to be able to handle potential new customers in a cost effective way.  In this session, we’ll talk about planning and options for both the  “early stages” and “success stages” of your company. 

Please forward this to all of the innovators you know.

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About Chris Howlett

Chris Howlett is well-known in the KW Technology scene, and across the ONE network of Regional Innovation Centres in Ontario. He is currently the Technology Mentor to the fifty companies that are incubating in the Waterloo Accelerator Centre and the Communitech Hub. In the past he has been an Entrepreneur in Residence at Communitech, a Vice-President of several things at Geosign in Guelph and CTO at Maplesoft in Waterloo. He has a long connection with Hamilton, including several years at McMaster where he earned three  degrees in Mathematics.

About Innovation Factory

Innovation Factory (innovationfactory.ca) is a not-for-profit Regional Innovation Centre, located in Hamilton, ON committed to connecting and enabling active collaboration between the city’s communities of science, business, government, academia and finance to accelerate the innovation process and amplify the economic and social impact of key new ideas and discoveries. Funded by the Ontario Network of Excellence (ONE), we are focused on strengthening the next generation of wealth and jobs generators.

About KPMG

KPMG LLP (kpmg.com) is the Canadian member firm of KPMG International. KPMG International’s member firms have 140,000 professionals, including more than 7,900 partners, in 146 countries.  Their clients include business corporations, governments, and public sector agencies and not-for-profit organizations. They look to KPMG for a consistent standard of service based on high order professional capabilities, industry insight, and local knowledge.  Sustaining and enhancing the quality of this professional workforce is KPMG’s primary objective. Wherever they operate they want thier firms to be no less than the professional employers of choice.  Their people embrace KPMG’s values.  These values determine how they interact with clients, with each other and with the world around them. They define what they stand for and how they do things.  They contribute to the effective functioning of international capital markets. They support reforms that strengthen the markets’ credibility and their social responsibility. They believe that similar reform must extend to the professional realm.  KPMG tries to create sustainable, long-term economic growth, not just for our people and clients, but for the broader society, too. We seek to be good community leaders, making a real difference to the communities in which we operate.

About Boomurang

Boomurang is a mobile communication app that allows you to access real-time, location specific information & conversations without the hassle of check-in, or the need to follow friends, people or topics. boomurang.com