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York Technology Alliance

Get plugged into the Greater Toronto Region Tech Community with the YTA.

YTA Peer Groups are where fast-growth technology company leaders, entrepreneurs and executives come together to exchange information and best practices that will help them expand their businesses and compete in regional and internation markets.

Peer group participants generate lasting relationships through meeting regularly to network, learn and lead their organizations to achieve even greater business success.

•  Discover best practices through peer experience •  Create powerful business connections •  Learn how others adapt business theory to real life success •  Keep up-to-date with directives and developments •   Draw upon the knowledge and practical experience of subject 

matter experts •   Build your personal brand and corporate identity with peers, 

presenters and partners

Peer Groups

Peer Groups•  Downtown CEO•  Tech CEO•  CFO•  People Matters (HR)•  Technical Project Management•  Marketing Leadership•  Sales Leadership•  Leaders of Emerging Companies•  Legal Perspectives•  Service Executives•  Cloud Computing•  Women Leaders in Technology•  Clean Tech•  Digital Strategies•  Export Developments

I attend the monthly CEO peer group meetings and what I have found is over the last 12 months the group has started to gel and form a cohesiveness where we share ideas; they may be current issues or could be things that are troubling us, and I find as a group we are able to work through a lot of issues. It has been very constructive for me.

”“

www.yorktech.ca

Insight

Network

Collaborate

and Grow

Keynote Luncheons

Monthly luncheons at the YTA are a chance to connect with peers, clients and top- level professional service providers. These sessions are designed to keep you current on the issues, opportunities and technological advances affecting your business and connect you with other members of the technology community.

Speakers at these events are leaders in the technology sector. The experiences, issues and insights at these sessions are sure to be current and relevant to your business growth.

2012 Luncheon Topics

•  Microsoft on Cloud Computing As a Business Model•  Deloitte Predictions 2012•  Where’s the Money: Finding growth funding •  YTA Technology Leadership Awards Luncheon•  Economic Update with Dawn Desjardins, RBC Assistant Chief Economist 

Previous Luncheon Topics•  Green IT - Impact or Impasse?•  Creating a winning strategy for     privacy and security•  Deloitte Predictions 2011•  Seeing the Cloud from both Sides•  Learn from the Leaders with Ben        Bar-Haim of AMD•  Monetizing Mobile Apps

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Learning Labs

The YTA offers two types of peer-directed training sessions designed to offer innovative approaches in a compressed time frame so you can quickly make a difference, with the back-up and dialogue to help you apply your new-found insight as soon as you are back in the office – or on your laptop!

Bootcamps

YTA Bootcamps are intensive deep-dive training sessions on a specific topic area of recurring business focus - by subject matter experts and tech industry leaders who have learned and applied the information to better grow their businesses or themselves.

YTA Bootcamps are realistic “shortcuts to success”. See the YTA website for upcoming programs

Seminars

Any time of day is good for a healthy serving of learning.

Whether breakfast, lunch or in the evening, YTA seminars are informative learning sessions designed to leave you with I-can-go-do-that-right-now insight.

Seminars are organized around issues that are current and vital in the tech sector today. They rely heavily on tech ex-perts who are YTA members and have been-there, done-that, and can share insights that work.

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YTA Peer Groups are where fast-growth technology company leaders, entrepreneurs and executives come together to exchange information and best practices that will help them expand their businesses and compete in regional and internation markets.

Peer group participants generate lasting relationships through meeting regularly to network, learn and lead their organizations to achieve even greater business success.

•  Discover best practices through peer experience •  Create powerful business connections •  Learn how others adapt business theory to real life success •  Keep up-to-date with directives and developments •   Draw upon the knowledge and practical experience of subject 

matter experts •   Build your personal brand and corporate identity with peers, 

presenters and partners

Peer Groups

Peer Groups•  Downtown CEO•  Tech CEO•  CFO•  People Matters (HR)•  Technical Project Management•  Marketing Leadership•  Sales Leadership•  Leaders of Emerging Companies•  Legal Perspectives•  Service Executives•  Cloud Computing•  Women Leaders in Technology•  Clean Tech•  Digital Strategies•  Export Developments

I attend the monthly CEO peer group meetings and what I have found is over the last 12 months the group has started to gel and form a cohesiveness where we share ideas; they may be current issues or could be things that are troubling us, and I find as a group we are able to work through a lot of issues. It has been very constructive for me.

”“

www.yorktech.ca

Insight

Network

Collaborate

and Grow

Keynote Luncheons

Monthly luncheons at the YTA are a chance to connect with peers, clients and top- level professional service providers. These sessions are designed to keep you current on the issues, opportunities and technological advances affecting your business and connect you with other members of the technology community.

Speakers at these events are leaders in the technology sector. The experiences, issues and insights at these sessions are sure to be current and relevant to your business growth.

2012 Luncheon Topics

•  Microsoft on Cloud Computing As a Business Model•  Deloitte Predictions 2012•  Where’s the Money: Finding growth funding •  YTA Technology Leadership Awards Luncheon•  Economic Update with Dawn Desjardins, RBC Assistant Chief Economist 

Previous Luncheon Topics•  Green IT - Impact or Impasse?•  Creating a winning strategy for     privacy and security•  Deloitte Predictions 2011•  Seeing the Cloud from both Sides•  Learn from the Leaders with Ben        Bar-Haim of AMD•  Monetizing Mobile Apps

www.yorktech.ca

yorktech.ca

YTA Peer Groups are where fast-growth technology company leaders, entrepreneurs and executives come together to exchange information and best practices that will help them expand their businesses and compete in regional and internation markets.

Peer group participants generate lasting relationships through meeting regularly to network, learn and lead their organizations to achieve even greater business success.

•  Discover best practices through peer experience •  Create powerful business connections •  Learn how others adapt business theory to real life success •  Keep up-to-date with directives and developments •   Draw upon the knowledge and practical experience of subject 

matter experts •   Build your personal brand and corporate identity with peers, 

presenters and partners

Peer Groups

Peer Groups•  Downtown CEO•  Tech CEO•  CFO•  People Matters (HR)•  Technical Project Management•  Marketing Leadership•  Sales Leadership•  Leaders of Emerging Companies•  Legal Perspectives•  Service Executives•  Cloud Computing•  Women Leaders in Technology•  Clean Tech•  Digital Strategies•  Export Developments

I attend the monthly CEO peer group meetings and what I have found is over the last 12 months the group has started to gel and form a cohesiveness where we share ideas; they may be current issues or could be things that are troubling us, and I find as a group we are able to work through a lot of issues. It has been very constructive for me.

”“

www.yorktech.ca

Insight

Network

Collaborate

and Grow

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Membership

The Mission of the YTA is to foster a collaborative community for technology companies to connect and grow.

The YTA community represents technology companies and their leaders, IT departments, government enablers, and industry advisors – all passionately focused on cultivating a vibrant technology industry ecosystem throughout the GTA. Just one membership fee and all leaders of your tech organization will be recognized as full members… simply sign-up individually on the YTA website and each will be recognized as they register for any of the YTA services or programs.

The YTA purpose is to better enable tech business growth through a set of member programs uniquely targeted to the sector including:

•  Business Networking for members•  Peer to Peer Exchange, Member events•  Timely knowledge and practical understanding•  Keynote Luncheons, LearningLABs, Seminars•  Awareness building of the success of tech in York  Region and in the GTA

Belonging to the YTA provides members with:

•  Interaction that solves real problems•  Collaboration to increase business growth •  A sense of community and encouragement •  Opportunity to grow and share leadership•  Insight to sector change

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