Posts from the ‘Show’ Category

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    [VIDEO] Palomino and Healthcare IT

    October 24th, 2012 | health, healthconnect, Show | karim | 1 Comment

    Palomino Inc. is a Toronto-based software and web solutions provider, creator of the WebPal Application Suite. The WebPal Suite enables medium-sized organizations to take their business processes online and interact with clients on a whole new level. In this final episode on healthcare and technology, Karim Kanji hosts Palomino System Innovations Inc. CEO Markus Latzel. [...]

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    Komodo OpenLab – developing inclusive technologies

    October 17th, 2012 | health, healthconnect, Show | karim | Comments Off

    Our third episode of our Heath-focused show is a conversation between Karim Kanji and Komodo OpenLab co-founder Mauricio Meza.  Komodo OpenLab develops inclusive technologies that facilitate the daily lives of people with disabilities. In this clip we find out about how Komodo was started and what problem they are attempting to solve. To watch the [...]

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    [VIDEO] In conversation with Life Sciences and Healthcare Analyst at MaRS

    October 10th, 2012 | health, healthconnect, Show | karim | Comments Off

    With our HealthConnect study underway we are very excited to present this conversation with the Life Sciences and Healthcare Analyst at MaRS Discovery District. Hadi Salah helps life sciences and health care entrepreneurs get the market intelligence they need to grow their companies. MaRS is where science, technology and social entrepreneurs get the help they [...]

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    HealthAware.ca (#HCTO) [VIDEO]

    October 3rd, 2012 | health, healthconnect, Show | karim | Comments Off

    Nikolai Bratkovski is an entrepreneur with a track record in healthcare Internet ventures. Most recently, Niolai founded HealthAware. HealthAware is free online service that takes the pain out of health appointments. Their goal is to help patients find health practitioners around them, see their availabilities in real-time, and book appointments online instantly. He also co-founded [...]

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    Quinzee: Helping Consumers Save Money and Energy [VIDEO]

    September 26th, 2012 | Show | karim | 1 Comment

    Karim Kanji has known Quinzee co-founder Faizal Karmali from the days when they were both in Scouts together making and sleeping in Quinzees on frozen lakes. So it was a sort of full circle reunion to have them both in the XConnect studio chatting about Faizal’s new startup: Quinzee. Quinzee helps consumers (residents and businesses) [...]

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    Travel and Social Media [VIDEO]

    September 19th, 2012 | Show | karim | 2 Comments

    Alicia Taggio is a Social Media Specialist with Flight Centre here in Toronto. She has been described by a former co-worker as having “the rare knowledge of how to run social media successfully within a large enterprise for a well known brand. She is the REAL deal.” In this excerpt we talk about the unique [...]

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    The Making of Mr. Viral (VIDEO)

    September 12th, 2012 | Show | karim | 1 Comment

    Viral marketing, social media and crowd-sourced funding. All these terms are important in the area of independent film-making. Currently, our city (Toronto) is knee deep in glitter and glitz as the Toronto International Film Festival has taken over. Therefore, we thought it would be relevant to chat with industry insiders on how they use social [...]

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    GameDay Interactive – #GCTO (Video)

    August 29th, 2012 | gaming, Show | karim | Comments Off

    Today marks our fourth and final GameConnect (#GCTO) episode. In this video, Karim Kanji chats with Nicholas Murphy who is the Founder and CEO of GameDay InterActive. Nicholas is also the founder and creator of several other InterActive games including Rapid Roulette, The ProSports Exchange (PSX), Pick-A-Square as well as GameDay InterActive! Nicholas and his [...]

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    InGamer – #GCTO [Video]

    August 22nd, 2012 | gaming, Show | karim | Comments Off

    Nic Sulsky is the Co-Founder of InGamer. The InGamer 3-screen social gaming platform turns a passive sports-watching audience into an active one. InGamer provides sports, live event broadcasters & brands a platform that greatly diminishes audience fragmentation, eyeballs being distracted and early disengagement. It stimulates a stickiness that will allow partners to more effectively monetize [...]

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    Spongelab – #GCTO [VIDEO]

    August 15th, 2012 | gaming, Show | karim | 1 Comment

    Alex Hayter is the Marketing Manager for Toronto-based startup SpongeLab Interactive. Spongelab is a Global Science Community. Spongelab Interactive is a group of scientists, teachers, animators, artists, and programmers passionate about science education. They believe that cutting-edge technology and stunning interactive media should be available to everyone, regardless of fiscal constraints. In this short conversation [...]

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