Comments on: Power Breakfast http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:08:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8523 Anonymous Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8523 I thought the event was good as well. Great summary you've covered everything they both said yesterday. BOT has a blog, who would have guessed it... I thought the event was good as well. Great summary you’ve covered everything they both said yesterday.
BOT has a blog, who would have guessed it…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8522 Anonymous Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:31:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8522 It may well be true that “tech centres thrive when nerds meet rich people”, but I doubt that many rich people were at this event. In this context, “rich people” are those who made millions from selling a startup and are now angel investors. Not people who work for IBM and Accenture and the big banks. The Brainhunter EVP’s comments about the “employee's market” can easily mislead some into thinking that there is a vibrant market for technology innovators. The truth is revealed by your other take-away that “there’s a high level of specificity in what companies want: specific skills, experience and expertise.” Which means “just code up the following specs using the following designated tools.” Brainhunter, like most tech recruiting firms, finds candidates for an opening via a database search for requirements such as “2 or more years of JavaScript”. How else could they deal with the “750,000 job seekers in our database”? Toronto is <strong>not</strong> “home to IBM’s Toronto Software Lab, Canada’s largest software development facility”. It’s in Markham. Yes, the “Toronto” Software Lab. It may well be true that “tech centres thrive when nerds meet rich people”, but I doubt that many rich people were at this event. In this context, “rich people” are those who made millions from selling a startup and are now angel investors. Not people who work for IBM and Accenture and the big banks.

The Brainhunter EVP’s comments about the “employee’s market” can easily mislead some into thinking that there is a vibrant market for technology innovators. The truth is revealed by your other take-away that “there’s a high level of specificity in what companies want: specific skills, experience and expertise.” Which means “just code up the following specs using the following designated tools.” Brainhunter, like most tech recruiting firms, finds candidates for an opening via a database search for requirements such as “2 or more years of JavaScript”. How else could they deal with the “750,000 job seekers in our database”?

Toronto is not “home to IBM’s Toronto Software Lab, Canada’s largest software development facility”. It’s in Markham. Yes, the “Toronto” Software Lab.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8521 Anonymous Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:17:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8521 It seems like it was an interesting event. I only have one question, it sounds like there may be something wrong with wearing a suit or with working on King and Bay. Is that the tone you wanted to give to the introduction, and if so, what is wrong with wearing a suit? It seems like it was an interesting event. I only have one question, it sounds like there may be something wrong with wearing a suit or with working on King and Bay. Is that the tone you wanted to give to the introduction, and if so, what is wrong with wearing a suit?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8520 Anonymous Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:54:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/11/29/power-breakfast/#comment-8520 First of all, thanks, Joey, for an excellent summary of this morning's event! I'm going to link to it from our blog at <a href="http://www.bot.com/blog" rel="nofollow">www.bot.com/blog</a> for the benefit of people who missed the breakfast. I'm glad that you found the event so useful and interesting. We started this series and formed an ICT Advisory Committee to help bring <em>everyone</em> together -- buyers and sellers, innovators and technologists, ICT and corporate leaders, big and small players. Our hope is to create a home for networking and collaboration for the ICT community across the Toronto region. We've been really pleased with the reaction and the involvement in our Committee. FYI, just a couple of points about your post: the host you were wondering about is Dave Dobbin, President of Toronto Hydro Telecom and Chair of our ICT Advisory Committee ... interesting that you found it 'suit-y' because we're bringing in a 'no ties required' rule for these events ... and the turn-out was 170 people, including many CIO's. Anyway, thanks again for a comprehensive posting. Hope to see you at our next Technology Innovators Breakfast on January 31 with Bill Morris of Accenture Canada. - Grant Humes, Interim President, Toronto Board of Trade First of all, thanks, Joey, for an excellent summary of this morning’s event! I’m going to link to it from our blog at http://www.bot.com/blog for the benefit of people who missed the breakfast.

I’m glad that you found the event so useful and interesting. We started this series and formed an ICT Advisory Committee to help bring everyone together — buyers and sellers, innovators and technologists, ICT and corporate leaders, big and small players.

Our hope is to create a home for networking and collaboration for the ICT community across the Toronto region. We’ve been really pleased with the reaction and the involvement in our Committee.

FYI, just a couple of points about your post: the host you were wondering about is Dave Dobbin, President of Toronto Hydro Telecom and Chair of our ICT Advisory Committee … interesting that you found it ’suit-y’ because we’re bringing in a ‘no ties required’ rule for these events … and the turn-out was 170 people, including many CIO’s.

Anyway, thanks again for a comprehensive posting. Hope to see you at our next Technology Innovators Breakfast on January 31 with Bill Morris of Accenture Canada.

- Grant Humes, Interim President, Toronto Board of Trade

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