Creative Niche is a creative recruitment and workforce management firm founded in 2002. The firm connects leading companies with top talent to create the most unique, inspired work possible, while creating a positive experience for all. Creative Niche’s core services include temporary, contract and permanent staffing for a wide variety of digital, advertising, marketing and creative positions across industries. With offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Cincinnati, and Amsterdam, the firm works with global advertising, digital and PR agencies, as well as large public and private organizations.

With Adobe® Creative Cloud™, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all. Plus, Creative Cloud members automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. And, with cloud storage and the ability to sync to any device, your files are always right where you need them. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams.

With the reach of the Windows install base, there’s no bigger market opportunity than Windows.  Check out the Windows Store for resources to help you through the design and development process. Build Your Windows 8 App Today

The School of Communication Arts at Seneca College provides top quality graduates who are employed in digital media, animation, graphic design, advertising, broadcasting, indie music, corporate media production and digital imaging industries. Located at the Seneca@York campus, students enjoy top-quality facilities in classes lead by a faculty of industry professionals. For program information visit www.senecac.on.ca, or call 416 491 5050 X3419.

Fuel™ is a global Youth Engagement company and digital agency. We help Fortune 500 global brands connect with Millennial and iGen audiences with deep, digital brand experiences that include immersive virtual worlds, mobile apps and social gaming, branded entertainment, interactive multi-screen experiences, interactive rich media advertising, and digital loyalty programs. We were one of iMediaconnection’s 25 agencies to watch in 2012, and we’re a hell of a lot of fun to work with.

Humber College is proud to be a part of FITC from its very first year.  We provide training for the interactive media community through programs that include Web Design & Interactive Media, Multimedia, 3D Animation and Game Programming.

Unity Technologies is the creator of Unity, an intuitive and flexible development platform used to make wildly creative and intelligently interactive 3D and 2D content. The “author once, deploy everywhere” capability ensures developers can publish to all of the most popular platforms. Unity Technologies boasts a thriving community of 1.5 million registered developers including large publishers, indie studios, students and hobbyists. Unity Technologies aggressively re-invests in its award-winning 3D development tools and democratization initiatives, such as the Asset Store digital content marketplace and Union game distribution service, in order to remain at the forefront of innovation. Unity Technologies is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

Architech creates custom software applications for organizations that want to innovate and thrive in their evolving environments. Ultimately, our goal is to wow our clients in everything we do. We believe that applications should make lives better. They should make people smile. Applications should inspire, enable, and just plain make sense. Our approach accelerates time to market, delivering shorter development cycles so clients can explore exciting, new opportunities. Architech – Creating Software Joy.™

Assiniboine Community College is committed to being a college that is the first choice of students, that students enjoy attending, that students are proud to graduate from and whose graduates are sought after by employers.

CinequipWhite Inc. is the sales division of William F White International Inc, Canada’s oldest and largest provider of motion picture, television and theatrical production equipment. With offices across the country, CQW has the most extensive inventory of equipment in the industry, including the very latest in technological advances. We have established a reputation for excellence as one of the best production rental and sales firms of the world and as one of the foremost leaders in our field. Our teams of professionals work hard to establish and maintain strong longstanding relationships with supplier and client alike.

Founded on integrity and trust, our mandate is to find the best possible solution with the client and to provide support on an ongoing basis. We stand behind our products and service, and we firmly believe in listening to the needs of the client, offering quality solutions for professional needs.

Kendo UI is everything professional developers need to build HTML5 sites and mobiles apps. In the complete integrated package you will find a jQuery-based toolset that includes rich UI widgets, powerful data source, dynamic data visualizations, blazing fast micro-templates and .NET wrappers, specifically designed to be used with the ASP.NET MVC framework from Microsoft. All of this is backed by Telerik’s industry leading technical support. If you haven’t checked out Kendo UI yet, you can download a fully functional free trial with technical support here.

Canada’s public producer and distributor, the National Film Board of Canada is devoted to new forms of storytelling, helping to reinvent the grammar of 21st-century media and art. The NFB’s acclaimed content can be seen at NFB.ca and on apps for smartphones, tablets and connected TV. The NFB’s Digital Studios produce interactive documentaries and animation, mobile content, installations, and participatory experiences from an English-language unit based in Vancouver and a French-language unit in Montreal. The NFB has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 6 Webbys and 12 Oscars.

Opera Software produces web browsers for computers, mobile phones, TVs, and other connected devices, with 275 million users (and counting) worldwide. Opera also creates tools, market information, educational articles (with the main hub at dev.opera.com) and other useful resources to help developers, designers and others do their job better. Opera is passionate about breaking down barriers, so everyone can share in the power of the Internet — Opera’s vision of one web for all remains at the heart of what they do.

The City of Toronto is committed to creating an environment for business to thrive. The City’s Economic Development and Culture Division staff helps business navigate municipal programs and processes and provides consultation services and hands-on solutions to assist business at every stage of development from start-up to growth and expansion. Learn more about how we can help.

We have a simple philosophy at Vitamin T: to personally place the best creative talent in the best jobs for the best ad agencies and mid-sized companies around. Connect with us at vitamintalent.com.

Xtreme Labs is the leading provider of mobile solutions to the world’s most important companies. Our award-winning team partners with internationally recognized brands to transform their mobile vision into a mobile business. We offer innovative expertise across all platforms and industries to create best-in-class mobile experiences. Our ongoing partnerships with prominent organizations are a testament to our staying power.

Vancouver Film School’s 13 world-class programs equip you for the career you really want. In what will be the most intense and creative year of your life, you develop extraordinary work, collaborate with other talented students, and learn from accomplished industry professionals. In VFS Digital Design, for example, you learn in an environment bristling with creative energy that mirrors the real design world, while arming yourself with industry-ready skills in communication, interactive, and motion design.

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Fiction is a shared collaboration of forward-looking artistic innovation. With a combined twenty years experience in the digital age, we come to the table with a shared passion and vision that thrives on tailoring motion design that speaks precisely for you. Whether it’s an opening title sequence, commercial or interactive website, we are comfortable in any working environment, using 3D design, photography, typography and dynamic motion graphics. This frees us to run with an idea and apply any form to it we wish without constraints, giving it limitless imaginary possibilities. Our goal is to deliver brilliant creative work under the guidance of precise marketing objectives.

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Loopmedia is a digital brand design and full service production studio. We are innovators in the area of brand design and content creation and can deliver a full range of digital services across all platforms. We create vivid and memorable branded content and with nearly two decades of experience, we do it well. Loop’s specialties include brand design, identities, 3D animation, motion graphics, live-action video production, mobile content, web design and app development. Through targeted business development, we have built an expertise in working with entertainment, tech, cosmetic, healthcare, sports and finance companies.

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As a leader in original music and sound design, we understand that technology is only as good as the people who use it. Our highly skilled team of composers and sound designer/mixers are passionate about their craft. You can see it in the studio—and hear it everywhere else. From the small screen to the big screen, online to on the radio, Clean Cuts is a soundboard of creativity. Our environment inspires ideas, attracts clients and achieves results because of one very simple reason: we listen.

MailChimp is an email-marketing service that makes it easy to design exceptional email campaigns, share them on social networks, integrate with web services you already use, manage subscribers, and track your results. You’ll love mixing and matching MailChimp’s templates, features, and integrations to suit your needs—think of it as your own personal publishing platform.

Your work is beautiful, so is getting paid. Thousands of creative people use FreshBooks, the leader in online invoicing and time-tracking. When Mike McDerment, co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, accidentally saved over an invoice back in 2003, he turned his frustration into a better way to manage the accounting for his small business. Since building the company from his parent’s basement, FreshBooks has helped more than 6 million people collect billions of dollars. Based in Toronto, FreshBooks serves paying customers in over 120 countries. Learn more or sign up for FreshBooks.

SplitElement Inc. is a digital agency providing concept and production solutions to the advertising and media industries.
Our focus is on discovering and utilizing innovative technological approaches for mobile / tablet application and public space installation development.

With a heavy emphasis on experimentation and prototyping, SplitElement works to evaluate low-risk, highly innovative solutions on behalf of our clients. Leveraging our wide knowledge base and decades of collective experience, we strive to ensure that the most appropriate technology and approaches are used on a per-project basis.

Digiflare is a digital agency at the forefront of creating award-winning connected user experiences. We harness the potential of Web, Mobile, Tablet, Connected TV, Game Consoles, and emerging devices to deliver engaging solutions to our top-tier clients.

Digital Primates is an industry-leading application consultancy focused on delivering large-scale, high-quality enterprise, video and mobile applications for our clients.  Our methodologies enable clients to successfully complete projects, either through guiding their team or by leveraging our own developers and architects in the process.  Our senior consultants are uniquely positioned as trainers, authors, and speakers providing clear communication and leadership to any team.

Immersion is the leading innovator in haptics (aka “touch feedback”) technology. Using Immersion’s Haptic Development Platform, Android developers can transform the UX by adding realistic, power efficient, vibration effects to their apps. The Haptic SDK includes sample code, tech forum, over 120 predesigned haptic effects complete with an effect preview app for testing, and a conversion layer that ensures that touch effects are optimized across all Android handsets. Learn more about our tools at developer.immersion.com and hear what we have to say at blog.immersion.com.

Loopmedia is a digital brand design and full service production studio. We are innovators in the area of brand design and content creation and can deliver a full range of digital services across all platforms. We create vivid and memorable branded content and with nearly two decades of experience, we do it well. Loop’s specialties include brand design, identities, 3D animation, motion graphics, live-action video production, mobile content, web design and app development. Through targeted business development, we have built an expertise in working with entertainment, tech, cosmetic, healthcare, sports and finance companies.

With offices in Toronto and Vancouver, Relish Interactive is an interdisciplinary team of designers, developers, and animators that focus on delivering delicious digital stuff.  Our team is small, senior, talented, and efficient.  We are developers who can code and explain it in non-tech speak.  We are designers who strive to innovate, yet understand the big picture and know how to meet client goals and deadlines.

Chow Productions Inc. is a Toronto based company led by a young talented team. Our trio adds a modern, creative twist to capture memorable moments at your corporate or family events. We specialize in photo and video event coverage including creative digital experiences, commercials, and branded media. While bringing you the best event coverage, we continue to expand our talents, making short films and other projects!

Globacore is a creative technology company specializing in large format multitouch surfaces, game development, and unique human computer interactions using both physical and digital elements.  With the depth of knowledge of traditionally trained computer scientists and the aesthetic vision of digital artists we have the key skills and talents to enable us to stay at the bleeding edge of interactive design and development.  Globacore’s emergent interactive displays have been installed in cities around the world including Paris, Cannes, London, Barcelona, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and all over the US and Canada.  Working with advertising agencies, marketers, brand strategists, exhibit designers and museum curators we encourage our customers to come to us with any idea for an interactive system no matter the difficulty.

Pearson Technology Group is the most respected publisher of technology books for all levels of knowledge and experience from imprints including Peachpit Press, Que, Sams and Adobe Press. At their booth, Pearson is partnered with Swipe Design, an independent bookstore that brings together the finest collection of architecture, design and advertising books from around the world. Show Special: 30% off all titles.

RAC Digital Arts College offers career training in Digital Media, Game Design and Sound & Music Recording. Founded in 1984, RAC’s colleges in Toronto and Montreal provide an inspiring learning experience for those who believe they were meant to be creative. Students from around the world come to RAC for the opportunity to learn how to create impressive sounds, digital content, and interactive games.

Vancouver Institute of Media Arts (VanArts) is one of the world’s most highly respected visual, media and performing arts schools.  Through specialized instruction, small class sizes, experienced faculty and industry connections, VanArts has over 18 years of experience in launching graduates’ careers for the animation, games and visual effects industries worldwide, plus careers in photography, acting, broadcasting and web development.