Can two of the nicest young moms you’ll ever meet, from the small town of Devon outside Edmonton, Alberta, produce a revolutionary sanitizing device that’ll be a must-have in every young mom’s baby bag? Certainly Tasha Bertrand and Annemarie Brattland have a fightin’ chance. Their new product, the Bert & Bratt Baby, is one of those why-didn’t-anybody-think-of-this-sooner ideas – a baseball-sized and shaped, light-weight (four ounces) near-instant and on-the-spot sterilizer for baby pacifiers, bottle nipples, small teething toys and sippy cup tops. The Bert & Bratt Baby is ingenious in its simplicity. Picture this scene: Baby has thrown his or her pacifier on the floor. The dog has had a good sniff. Resisting the urge to wipe said pacifier on her jeans and pop it back in baby’s mouth, mom must head to the kitchen (with baby under-arm), put water to the boil, leave pacifier in the boiling water, remove, let it cool, dry, and finally be returned to ...

Deloitte's annual Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions January breakfast is becoming a must-attend event in Edmonton, thanks to the quality of the information and the entertaining way in which forecaster Duncan Stewart shapes the presentation.   The first year Deloitte held the event, in January, 2011, a handful of people attended. Last year, about 100 came. This year, on Jan. 24, 2013, the ballroom at Sutton Place was full. TEC Edmonton was proud to be a sponsor of the event. Thanks to Deloitte's Jeremy Webster for his words of praise about our not-for-profit, start-up company incubator and accelerator.  "TEC Edmonton is a powerhouse in the city's technology commercialization world," said Jeremy. "TEC has expanded its assistance far beyond the University of Alberta. Laine Woollard (TEC Edmonton's in-house  legal counsel) has done more licensing deals than anybody else in Northern Alberta. And TEC's Executive-in-Residence prog ...

    Here's a couple of events happening in Edmonton this next week that the TEC Edmonton network might find interesting. The fledgling but active Alberta Clean Technology Industry Alliance (ACTIA) holds a Clean Drinks session Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Shaw Conference Centre's Salons 8 and 9, starting at 5 p.m. It's a mixer with three presentations on energy efficiency and green building. One of the speakers is Ken Hanasy, CEO of TEC Edmonton client MagWall. Cost is $20 at the door, or you can register here. Next Wednesday, November 7, is  Health Technology Symposium 2012, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Delta Centre Suite Hotel with a reception and technology showcase from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.. TEC Edmonton Entrepreneur In Residence Jim Armstrong will be a panel participant, and past and present TEC Edmonton clients Cleankeys, Darkhorse Analytics, Orpyx, Qwogo and Technology North will be in the technology showcase.  The Symposium's title is Digital Health ...

    September, 2012 TEC Edmonton, 4000 TEC Centre, 10230 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5J 4P6 Switchboard: 780 492 8977 www.tecedmonton.com Dear Friends of TEC Edmonton,   Welcome to the TEC Edmonton e-mail newsletter for September, 2012, a recap of a productive summer for Edmonton’s business incubator and accelerator for startup/ innovative/ knowledge-based companies, and a preview of the shape of things to come.   For updates on TEC Edmonton activities, follow TEC Edmonton on Twitter (@TEC Edmonton), LinkedIn (TEC Edmonton) or subscribe to TEC Edmonton’s TEC Talk blog . The TEC Talk blog is updated several times a week, with information and stories about startups, innovation and technology from a Northern Alberta perspective, whether related to TEC Edmonton or not.. TEC Edmonton Client Survey:  Wanting objective performance metrics to judge its impact on the early-stage companies it serves, TEC Edmonton s ...

Alberta Venture Magazine has a new column, called "Lunch With", in which a young executive is invited to pick a person with whom he or she would like to talk business. The senior executive acts as a mentor for an hour or go, picks the place to eat, and gets a free lunch in return for advice duly recorded and added for the column by Alberta Venture Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Ganley. The kick-off Lunch With column has a strong TEC Edmonton flavour. The senior executive asked to provide advice was Shaheel Hooda, past president of several Edmonton companies who is back with TEC Edmonton as a part-time Executive-in-Residence. The young business people were gasfitter Greg O'Hare and electrician Scott Pratt of Kitscoty, Alberta, who have invented a portable machine that can capture excess natural gas usually flared from energy collection pipelines and nodes, and re-direct it into low-pressure utilitiy gas distribution lines (like ATCO's retail gas distribution system in Edmonton) for ...

  Imagine you’re a busy doctor, a surgeon at a teaching hospital.   You’ve got to deal with patients, personnel, operating room schedules, teaching courses, interns, attending conferences, organizing workshops, keeping up with advancements in your field, conferring with colleagues, running a research laboratory, distributing and marketing your own books or surgical manuals … and remember to be at Johnny’s Little League game by 5 p.m. and don’t forget that your wedding anniversary is this weekend. It’s all on computer of course, all electronic … but the doc is faced with a bewildering number of organizational and knowledge software programs, all with high security levels, all needing individual sign-on, ID, passwords etc. And few of the programs, if any, talk to each other at even a most basic level. Enter Qwogo. Developed originally by Dr. Robert Hayward, a medical doctor, health informatician, professor and director of the Centre for ...

TEC Edmonton Executive-in-Residence Jason Ding is featured in the City of Edmonton's Edmonton stories website, and we're glad he has good things to say about TEC Edmonton!