Sue McGill

Advisor – Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone

Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) is a multidisciplinary workspace for research and learning. This hub of digital media innovation, collaboration and commercialization is home to both entrepreneurial companies and industry solution-providers. With access to overhead, business services and a rich network of contacts, entrepreneurs and researchers can accelerate product launches, and contribute to Canada’s growing success in the digital economy.

Entrepreneurship Mentor – The Next 36

The goal of The Next 36 is to help launch the careers of Canada’s most promising and innovative undergraduates. The program will identify these students through a rigorous selection process, and give them the academic foundation, practical skills, role models and networks to become Canada’s next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. Students learn from high-profile business leaders, entrepreneurs and academics while wrestling with the challenge of building a new venture from idea to market.

Co-founder & Executive Director – JOLT Accelerator

2012-04-02

JOLT is a technology accelerator dedicated to building high-growth web and mobile companies that promise to transform the way consumers and enterprises interact with technologies. At JOLT, our goal is to dramatically improve your startup’s execution and time-to-market. We work closely with entrepreneurs from initial product launch through the next stage of company development and fundraising. We embrace constraints. Design experiences. And build companies.

Engineered for Success: JOLT Technology Accelerator

Both our economy and our culture are changing with surprising velocity, leaving vulnerable any business that is settled and standing still. In order to remain relevant, organizations must keep moving. This presentation will focus on the work being done at the JOLT Technology Accelerator, which embraces this new world and approaches change head-on in order to assist early-stage companies. Also discussed will be the importance of developing partnerships with outside organizations & entrepreneurs.

Starting You Up: Entrepreneurship Accelerators

Today, markets and businesses are no longer driven merely by efficiency, but also creativity and innovation. Anyone with a spark of an idea and the willingness to work hard can build a company capable of disrupting the world we live in. This workshop will focus on how an entrepreneurship accelerator can assist the business development process, and why bringing in a diverse network of creative talent is important.