The Forum meets eight times a calendar year, on the 3rd Thursday of every month, breaking for summer holidays and Christmas.

2004/2005 Season: sept - oct - nov - jan - feb - march - april - may

September 23, 2004

Location
Entrust (1000 Innovation Drive, Kanata)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Lean Sofware Development

Roundtable/Speaker
Rob Bell, Webplan
Tony Ralph, Webplan

October 28, 2004

Location
Nakina Systems (309 Legget Drive, Suite 309, Kanata)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Secrets of Successful Startups

Roundtable/Speaker
Gary MacKay, Co-founder and VP Engineering, Nakina Systems
Bruce Lazenby, President and CEO, FreeBalance
Peter O'Blenis, Founder and VP Product Development, TrialStat
Duncan Klett, Co-founder and VP Supply Chain Research, webplan
Jeff Cass, President and COO, MXI

November 18, 2004

Location
Freebalance (1101 Prince of Wales Drive, Suite 200)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Collaboration with Universities in R&D

Roundtable/Speaker
Jonathan Barker, CEO, TrialStat
Hindal Mirza, Business Development Prime, OCE Inc (formerly CITO)
Dr. Rama Munikoti, VP Software Engineering, Eion
Don Campbell, VP Product Innovation and Technology, Cognos
Raj Narula, BDC (formerly CEO of TenXC)
Dr. Trevor Hall, Director of the Centre for Research in Photonics, U of O

January 20, 2005

Location
IBM Palladium Campus (770 Palladium Drive)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Bridging Requirements to Development

Roundtable/Speaker
Guylain Rochon, Director of Product Development, Freebalance
Marc Cowan, Group Product Manager, Adobe
Marc Gravelne, Director of Development, Cognos
Chris Cass, Product Manager, Mxi

February 17, 2005

Location
Corel (1600 Carling Ave)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Managing Change

Roundtable/Speaker
Gail Oxley, Corel
John Shortt, Watchfire
Ernie Foster, Webplan
Steve Judges, Autoskill

March 17, 2005

Location
MXI (1430 Blair Place, Suite 800)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Using Open Source in Commercial Software Products

Roundtable/Speaker
Thomas W. E. Prowse, Senior Counsel, Carrier Networks, Nortel
Mike Michalyshyn, General Counsel, QNX Software Systems
Francis Beaudet, Chief Architect, Macadamian
Adrian Cho, Manager of Intellectual Property, IBM's Ottawa Software Lab

April 21, 2005

Location
Adobe (785 Carling Ave.)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Forecasting and Planning

Roundtable/Speaker
Joe Bevk, Director, Sales Operations, Corel
Carlos Fox, Partner, Reid Eddison and Founder, Intento
Kevin Simzer, Senior VP Marketing, Entrust

May 19, 2005

Location
Kinaxis (formerly Webplan) (700 Silver Seven Road, Kanata)

Time
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Topic
Mergers & Acquisitions

Roundtable/Speaker
Carey Stanton, VP Corporate Development, Watchfire
Debbie Weinstein, Partner, Labarge Weinstein
John Shortt, VP Product Development, Watchfire
Terry Cass, Group Engineering Manager, Adobe
Dave Vicary, CEO, Nakina Systems

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