May 16th, 2012, Toronto ON GoClass LTE Concept received a Platinum award for Research and Development Initiatives at the IMS GLC Learning Impact Conference in Toronto today. A collaboration between LearningMate and Alcatel-Lucent under the auspices of the ng Connect Program, the GoClass LTE Concept is a deep integration of the LearningMate GoClass platform with [...]
I work in an environment where I get to see a lot of “Innovation Centers”. These centers have the purpose of driving innovation in a particular context (company, industry, group etc.). Innovation centers are a mix of spaces, processes, tools for the purpose of collaborating and showcasing. The trick is in the mix of the [...]
Every day we read about new ideas that bring the concept of the Smart City to life – from water systems that predict demand based on the weather forecast and set storage levels appropriately, to street lighting that senses traffic and pedestrian movement to reduce power requirements in quiet neighbourhoods and power management systems that [...]
I don’t know about you, but in my case an idea generally stems from a diffuse magma of thoughts or emotions provoked by various experiences (situations, books, encounters, etc.) that suddenly crystallize or click into a concept that I can clearly see, articulate and advocate. It is like a personal a-ha moment that is induced [...]
The opening of the Alcatel-Lucent EMEA Innovation Center at the end of September near Paris – featuring a brand new ng Connect Gravity Center — exceeded our expectations. I believe all parties – ng Connect members, guest service providers and companies as well as Alcatel-Lucent representatives – were genuinely pleased and impressed. But in the [...]
One of our newest members to the ng Connect Program is digitalmusic.org, the home for the digital initiatives of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), the music industry’s trade association. They have been instrumental in the development of digital music standards and practices today, and they recently evolved their Digital Think Tank working group [...]
We’ve all had that experience – we go to see a game or concert and we enjoy the team or musician, and the environment we’re sharing with other fans, but how much better would it be if the experience were more in-depth, more interactive and even community-driven? We want to see things beyond where we’re seated, [...]
Last week my rusty German was really put to the test as I attended the Communication World in Munich. Little did I know that the world barely extended beyond Bavaria and that without mastering Goethe’s language, there was little a guest could take away from this event. Luckily after a short period of adaptation I [...]
During the EMEA Innovation Centre opening event, I was fortunate enough to lead a roundtable session on how to monetize innovative M2M industry-specific applications. Around the table we had Communication Service Providers, member companies of ng Connect, and various other industry professionals with an interest in M2M. One topic took a substantial part of the [...]
ng Connect attended the 2011 Grow Conference weeks ago in Vancouver, BC. This unique three-day conference brings together the top minds in business, entrepreneurship, technology, and capital to inspire and engage the next generation of disruptive entrepreneurs. This year was no exception – Silicon Valley and Canadian leaders and big thinkers were there sharing lessons learned [...]