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Adobe Creative Cloud gives you all of the Adobe web and UX tools, along with industry-leading design, video and photography apps, so you can create without limits. With ongoing enhancements, a growing library of training resources, sharing and collaboration capabilities, and access to your content from almost anywhere, Creative Cloud is always evolving — just like you.

Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. RIM’s portfolio of award-winning products, services, and embedded technologies include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems, and software/hardware licensing agreements.

BlackBerry is an open platform that provides a variety of development languages and runtimes designed to fit your skills. Your choice will be based on a combination of familiarity, possibly having a pre-existing codebase as well as the target devices you wish to serve. For more information please visit www.blackberry.com/developers

Seneca College is one of the top public post secondary training institution in Canada. The School of Creative Arts and Animation is a recognized global training leader in animation, interactive media, documentary filmmaking, graphic design, music, acting and illustration, and is ranked among Canada’s top training programs for animation and visual effects.

Algonquin College, located in the Nation’s Capital has the widest range of courses of any college in Ontario and provides customized training programs to business and industry professionals.

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.

We’re the same as everyone else. We’ve got the standard stuff – handshakes, shiny apples and smiling kids. Then you notice something different. Our images and creative elements are technically perfect. And then you see the price – totally reasonable. In fact it’s free until we launch!

You also notice that our shooters are not thinking like photographers. We’re designers and art directors. We think like you. Then you discover some of our work that’s off the beaten track.You start seeing how our images really get at the heart of your creative process. Suddenly you realize how different we really are.

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.

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.

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.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 705 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 636 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web’s largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks ). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK™ eReading product offering, customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK eBook Readers, devices from partner companies, and hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software.

Brass Monkey’s patent pending technology transforms an iPhone or other smart device into an intuitive controller for web based single or multi-player games. Using Brass Monkey software, experiences previously only available through game consoles like Nintendo Wii are now possible using WiFi enabled electronics. Brass Monkey provides fully immersive experiences with displays ranging from personal computers, Internet enabled TVs, kiosks and large billboards. Our mission is to build and deploy developer tools that will become the worldwide standard for use in connecting mobile devices and displays. Brass Monkey provides Software Development Kits (SDKs) for the following endpoints: iOS, Android, Unity 3D and Adobe Flash. We are currently working on additional platforms including Windows Phone 7 and HTML5.

Electrotank is a leading provider of high-performance multiplayer game technology. Our products include ElectroServer, the most robust real-time multi-player game server for Flash, Unity 3, iPhone, Android, XNA, and HTML5; and, the Electrotank Universe Platform (EUP), an extensible end-to-end platform for the rapid development of unique virtual worlds, MMORPGs, and social games in Flash and Unity 3. Our clients include Ubisoft, Webkinz, Neopets, Beanie Babies, Meez, Mattel, Spinmaster, MTV, Comedy Central, and many others.”

Contemporary Media programs at Fanshawe College emphasize hands-on learning using emerging techniques and technologies. We offer programs in Interactive Media Design and Production, Media Theory and Production, Advanced Multimedia and Contemporary Media Theory and Production. Professors are respected professionals with strong ties to industry so they focus on developing the skills that you need to succeed. When you graduate, you’ll enter your chosen profession with experience and confidence.

The City of Toronto offers many programs and services to help residents and businesses. These are even more important in times of economic uncertainty. We are improving our services to help Torontonians – especially youth and people looking for work. For business owners and new start-ups we want to provide you with the information and the tools you need to help make sure your business is a success.

Created in 1997, the CFC Media Lab provides a unique training, research and production think-tank environment for emerging new media content developers, practitioners and companies. CFC Media Lab has graduated more than 200 professionals through its various programs and services including Interactive Art Entertainment Programme (IAEP), Interactive Project Lab (IPL), Interactive Narrative Feature Program (INFP), and NBC Universal Multiplatform Matchmaking Program (MMP). An internationally acclaimed and award-winning facility, graduates of the CFC Media Lab emerge as leaders in the world of interactive media, produce innovative projects and start up 21st century companies.

Media Templeは、カリフォルニア州ロサンゼルスに本拠地を置くWebホスティングとクラウドサービスのプロバイダです。1998年から(mt)は世界中の企業や個人消費者向けに、Webサイト、アプリケーション、仮想サーバー、電子メール、その他の各種インターネットコンテンツのホスティングに関するプロフェッショナルサービスを提供してまいりました。(mt)のインフラストラクチャは、米国の東海岸と西海岸のトップクラスのデータセンターで、約10万の顧客と100万以上のWebサイトにサービスを提供しています。

(mt) Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since 1998, (mt) has provided businesses and consumers around the world with professional-class service to host websites, applications, virtual servers, email, and other rich Internet content. (mt)’s infrastructure serves approximately 100,000 customers and over 1 million websites in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States.

O’Reilly spreads the knowledge of innovators through its technology books, online services, magazines, research, and tech conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, O’Reilly has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

IdN is devoted to bringing designers from around the world together to communicate with one another, learn from one another and inspire one another.

TAXI is the global creative network of today, a meeting place for creative professionals around the world to connect with each other, stay updated with industry movements, and showcase their works towards prospects and opportunities.

Launched in 1986, Applied Arts is Canada’s premier magazine of visual communications offering gorgeous imagery, strong opinion, timely information and essential industry insight to senior and emerging creative professionals in graphic design, interactive design, advertising, photography and illustration. In addition to the magazine, Applied Arts offers a variety of media platforms to deliver relevant content and special industry events, including the annual Creative Futures Expo, which delivers a pipeline for aspiring art students to connect with industry professionals. Whether delivered in print, online or in person, Applied Arts continues to provide unmatched inspiration and relevant information to Canadian creative professionals.

The BIZMEDIA is a digital video strategy + production company that partners with brands, agencies and corporations to develop premium video content.

CTV, Canada’s Olympic Network, is also Canada’s largest private broadcaster. Featuring a wide range of quality news, sports, information, and entertainment programming, CTV is Canada’s most-watched television network. CTV Inc. also owns radio stations across the country and owns or has interests in leading national specialty channels, featuring news, sports, factual, arts, entertainment, music, youth and fashion programming. Official broadcaster of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and London 2012 Games of the Olympiad, CTV Inc. is owned by CTVglobemedia Inc., Canada’s premier multi-media company. More information about CTV may be found on the network’s website atwww.ctv.ca.

Design Edge Canada is an essential source for graphic design news and trends. The magazine is distributed for free, by request to all professional graphic designers across the country. To subscribe, please visit www.designedgecanada.com

Pixel to Product is a research study of the Canadian digital media economy. It’s purpose is to conduct qualitative, quantitative, and behavioural research of the Canadian digital media ecosystem and its associated workforce; namely, the number of digital media service providers operate within Canada or their characteristics (number of employees, location, revenue, etc). We’re also conducting research to understand the working habits, salaries, and skills of producers of digital media content. Our final report outlining these findings will be coming in May 2011; stay tuned to our website (http://49pixels.ca/) for more information.

Work smarter and stay inspired with instant and unlimited access to the largest online library of Animation, VFX and Motion Design. Stream, search and build your own playlists from thousands of exceptional TV and cinema spots, music videos, virals, broadcast and title designs, game cinematics, and short films complete with production notes, credits, toolkits and links for every project. Each monthly issue also includes advanced training courses from Digital Tutors and free MP3 music tracks.

Influxis provides global streaming networks, and an online platform for building and deploying video, WebRTC, and IoT solutions. Use our service to push the creative boundaries of internet technology. Seriously, go ahead, we’re very happy to help.

3Di Solutions is a boutique firm of passionate designers, artists and technologists with over 20 years of combined experience in industrial, interactive and game design. We are pushing real-time 3D game engine technologies to the limit to create the highest quality interactive 3D content on every platform, from online and mobile applications to massive out-of-home touch displays. We help clients in advertising, marketing, manufacturing, and retail take advantage of powerful interactive technologies, creating exciting new ways to connect and interact with their audiences through fantastic immersive experiences.

Almer/Blank is a boutique digital production agency that specializes in bring your brand to every screen. Based in Venice Beach, California, Almer/Blank is an Adobe Solution Partner that creates outstanding interactive experiences for all connected devices — iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, Playbooks, and, of course, web and desktop — for Fortune 500 brands like Toyota, Apple and IKEA.

For more information, visit YourBrandEveryScreen.com

DesignAxiom is a full service interactive development shop specializing in the creation of large-scale and complex interactive applications for Flash, Silverlight, and mobile platforms.

At Grip Limited we have no preconceived ideas about the form our ideas should take, where they should be placed, how big or small a budget ought to be. Anything goes. It’s a clean slate every time. Interactive is at the hub of everything we do. And the hub of interactive is our Flash Developers. They help us create an array of rich user experiences. And, make our work look cool as well as deliver results. We could have called what we do “Holistic Marketing”, “360º Experiences”, or even “Full-Service Services,” but we chose Intercommunipackastratapromotising™. We think it says it all. And it was easier to spell.

henderson bas kohn is an award-winning advertising agency rooted in insight and fuelled by creative ideas, strategic precision, and measurable results. Our world is connected and portable. Advertising is in motion. Communication requires action from media to mobile, social to sample, tablet to table. Because these are more than just channels, they’re the foundation of new creative thinking. How do we know? It’s where we live.

Founded in 2002, with offices in New York, London and Dublin, Lab49 is a strategy, design and technology consulting firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services industry. Lab49’s clients include many of the world’s leading global investments banks, hedge funds and exchanges. Lab49 designs and delivers some of the most sophisticated financial applications in the industry today, and has an impeccable delivery record on mission critical systems. Visit http://www.lab49.com/ andhttp://blog.lab49.com/.

Social Graph Studios is a Toronto based developer of top Facebook and iPhone titles, serving over 9 million monthly users. Our goal is to develop incredibly fun games and applications that add flavor to the social experience.

QNX Software Systems Co., a subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM; TSX:RIM), is a leading vendor of operating systems, middleware, development tools, and professional services for the embedded systems market. Over the past 30 years, QNX software has become a big part of everyday life. People encounter QNX-controlled systems whenever they drive, shop, watch TV, use the Internet, or even turn on a light. Its ultra-reliable nature means QNX software is the preferred choice for life-critical systems such as air traffic control systems, surgical equipment, and nuclear power plants. And its cool multimedia features have QNX software turning up in everything from in-dash radios and infotainment systems to the latest casino gaming terminals.

Lunch is a content production network founded by internationally awarded EP & CD Amy Miranda. We’re a group of independent companies and artists who believe that making things should be as easy as ordering lunch. We are collaborative by design and innovative by nature. We believe in working together with a select group of amazingly talented people and our clients to make really great stuff. It’s that simple. We are #bettertogether and we look forward to collaborating with you!