www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, April 14, 2016 | 10 FUTURES nomination deadline Halton Region and Haltech Regional Innovation Centre are encouraging community members to nominate technology companies that foster innovation and excellence for the Halton FUTURES Innovation Awards. The new awards recognize the significant accomplishments of technology companies who have developed innovative and commercially successful products or services in Halton. They're part of the inaugural Halton FUTURES Innovation Summit and Awards taking place June 2 at Oakville Conference Centre, 2515 Wyecroft Rd. The event aims to bring together the technology innovation and entrepreneur community to connect, collaborate and celebrate new technologies being developed in Halton. "The Halton FUTURES Innovation Summit and Awards is an opportunity to engage with Halton's innovation and tech entrepreneur community, raise awareness of emerging technologies that will transform our world as we know it, and to celebrate our made-inHalton innovations," stated Rina Carlini, CEO and president of Haltech in a press release. "This event will also connect large corporations with innovators and entrepreneurs from high-growth startups and SMEs (small medium enterprise) to enhance partnership opportunities and help drive innovation and business growth at the local and global levels." The summit portion of the event, Building our Connected Future, will highlight how information technology, digital media, and advanced manufacturing technologies will drive the development of smart cities impacting communications, infrastructure, transportation and health care. Speakers include: · Santiago Faucher, PhD. P .Eng -- global director of technology development at HATCH; · Vincent Mifsud, C.A., B.Comm. -- CEO at ScribbleLive; · Lucy Casacia -- vice-president of Cities and Infrastructure Projects at Siemens Canada Ltd.; · Neil Cawse -- CEO of Geotab; · Keith Loo -- open source lead at Microsoft Canada; · Robert Maduri -- president at Throwback Entertainment; founder of Cloud3, Halton's Digital Media & Tech Incubator; · John Carlan -- managing director of Javelin Technologies; · Farzad Rayegani -- Sheridan College, director of Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Design Technologies. The Halton FUTURES Innovation Awards presentation will follow summit discussions. Nominations are being accepted until Friday (April 15). For more information and program details, visit www.haltonfutures.ca. We've Got It All Bright open living space; Programs for all interests; Excellent food and Exceptionally friendly service. Close to Bronte Waterfront, golf courses and walking trails. Inside Or Out Skyway JewellerS For a limited time only Just down the street from the new Oakville Trafalgar Hospital YOU MUST SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT! FROM $3,200 CALL TODAY FOR YOUR PERSONAL TOUR! SUITES STARTING 905-582-0395 3136 Dundas Street West, Oakville, ON (Bronte Rd & Dundas St.) www.verveseniorliving.com 905-827-0700 · www.skywayjewellers.com 2501 Third Line and Dundas Oakville, Ontario