Urban Vancouver

The Canadian Ecademy Roadshow

By Boris Mann on April 14, 2004 - 10:55pm

Ecademy is an online networking site seeking to expand it's Canadian membership.

There will be a maximum of one hour of speakers/presentations to leave plenty of time for networking.

See the Ecademy website for more information.

Updated: location now confirmed as Century Plaza on Burrard.

Update 2: Stewart Marshall (here's Stewart's Ecademy Profile) sent out updated information on speakers:

I am pleased to annouce that Jordan Stratford and Nigel Collett have agreed to speak.

Jordan is a Senior Creative Director and Brand Marketing Professional with extensive media, marketing, print and interactive design experience.

He has considerable experience in branding, print and interactive design has led him to a myriad of projects for such clients as AT&T, Nortel, NASA's Astronaut Memorial Foundation, Florida's nNovation Learning Group, the United Nations Centre for Global Studies, Industry Canada, Sport Canada, the Royal BC Museum, Vicam Global Capital, Renegade Motorcycle (Australia), FiloNet (Seoul, Singapore), MCA / Universal, Alcan, CARE Canada, the CBC, and developed a Destination Marketing Organization for Yahoo! Brasil.

Jordan's published papers include in 2003; Less, Better: Consumer Branding and "Solutions Fatigue"; in 2001, eLearning, Broadband, and Rural Canada; in 2000, Latin America's Telecommunications Boom; and in 1998, Personal Technology.

Nigel Collett has been Director, Information Technology and a member of the Senior Management Committee of Tourism British Columbia since April 2000. He is responsible for all aspects of Information Technology for the corporation, a new position created to integrate technological strategies with the organization's business plans. Most recently he has been instrumental in forming a new technology partnership with T4G, Microsoft and Q9 Networks for the renewal of Tourism BC's technology infrastructure and business applications which will result in a relaunch of the consumer web site www.hellobc.com in September 2004.

Collett brought to the organization over 17 years of experience in providing business solutions to the financial services and utility industries. For the past four years he has worked for the Energy Delivery Services Division of BC Gas Utility Limited and was responsible for managing Information Technology investment. Prior to that he worked briefly as a consultant for WESTECH Information Services Inc., and for 8 years with a subsidiary of the ITT Corporation in the Lloyds of London marketplace in London, England.

Collett is a member of the Canadian Information Professionals Society and the Project Management Institute. He was awarded a Bronze Medal by the Pacific Coast Gas Association in 1999 for services to the Gas Industry.
Tourism BC is an independent Crown corporation that operates under the direction of an industry-led board of directors and is responsible for marketing Super, Natural British Columbia to the world.