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Is Your Business Positioned for the Future

York Technology Association (YTA) Panel on “Is Your Business Positioned for the Future?”
On September 24^th, 2008 CareerMatch, a Yoush Consulting company, sponsored this YTA luncheon and panel event as the Company of the Month. CareerMatch has been active in the York Region at both the business and public / social level since 2001, sponsoring events from Youth sports teams to business events such as this. Currently, CareerMatch is actively working with the Markham town towards to enable business growth in the region for future. This particular panel discussion was of particular interest to SMB in order to better understand the challenges and the true role of the internet in their business operations. The panel itself offered an extraordinary line of successful CEOs including:
Dr. James Norrie, former F-500 Executive, Associate Dean of Ted Rogers School of Business, and an entrepreneur in the eBusiness arena.
Mr. Osama Arafat, Chief Executive Officer of Q9 Networks
Larry Keating, President and CEO of No Panic Computing

The event had a surprise visit from the Canadian/Mexican delegation of IT businesses and CareerMatch had the opportunity to welcome them in their native language. This was a testimony to of the diversity in York Region and why it is known as Canada’s technology capital

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