Lead Partners

The Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), an agency of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, is the central catalyst for the province’s cultural media cluster, including book publishing, film and television, interactive digital media, magazine publishing and music industries. The WIFT-T Women in Digital Media Summit & Speaker Series is made possible through the support of OMDC on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism and Culture.

The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus accelerates the advancement of education, research and commercialization. Their focus is on the marriage of creativity, technology and business in the rapidly developing world of digital media. Waterloo Stratford Campus harnesses the creativity of the City of Stratford, one of the country’s most culturally-rich centres, and the entrepreneurial spirit of the University of Waterloo to create a unique institution that drives digital innovation.

Supporting Partners

Dynamix Solutions is a leading managed IT outsourcing service provider, taking care of your technology while you take care of your business. With a comprehensive Managed Service approach, Dynamix makes the complex simple. They deliver a secure, high-performance network with maximum uptime and proactively identify and defuse potential issues. All at a fraction of the cost of staffing your own enterprise IT group.

FITC has produced over 50 events since 2002, with over 20,000 attendees through 19 cities around the world including Toronto, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Francisco, Chicago, Seoul, New York, Los Angeles, and many more. From Flash to Motion Design, FLEX to AIR, Mobile and more, each FITC event stands as a unique and exciting experience that inspires, educates and challenges.

With a fibre optic data grid and a citywide high-speed wireless network, Rhyzome Networks is building the data infrastructure for Stratford’s emergence as a digital technology centre, broadband economy and Intelligent Community.

Stratford is a picturesque community and the setting for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival—North America’s largest repertory theatre company presenting Shakespearean and other classical and contemporary works. The City of Stratford has access to essential business components, such as a diverse and stable economy, a high-capacity telecommunication backbone, an affordable skilled workforce, and a well-maintained and efficient transportation network.

Presenting Sponsor

As one of North America’s leading production facilities providers, Dome Productions offers mobile production trucks and fly-packs (high definition and digital ), telecommunications services (transmission via fibre and satellite, satellite media tours and playouts) and full turnkey host broadcast services (complete management of design, production, engineering, and operations).

Supporting Sponsors

The Bell Fund is a not-for-profit organization certified by the CRTC as an independent production fund eligible to receive and administer contributions from broadcast distribution undertakings. It operates with representatives from broadcasting, television, new media production sectors and Bell ExpressVu and its affiliates. The Bell Fund’s mandate is to empower and advance the Canadian broadcasting system.

As one of Canada’s leading specialty and pay TV broadcasters, Corus Entertainment’s success with niche-focused television brands is built on strong partnerships, compelling content and an expertise in consumer insights-based research.

Media Partners  

Backbone magazine is a broad-based business magazine that focuses on technology for business executives who need to stay up to date. It provides a tangible tool to enhance productivity and agility in the changing economy of Canada. It is the only magazine in Canada with this focus that reaches a large senior business executive audience.

Techvibes.com is a hyperlocal technology blog, events calendar, job board, and company directory. With more than 200,000 visitors and over 375,000 pageviews every month, Techvibes attracts a broad audience with the precision of hyper-local focus.

Community Partner

Digifest is Toronto’s international festival celebrating innovation and digital creativity. From October 26-30, we will bring together some of the world’s best and brightest to showcase next generation digital art & design. Established and emerging designers, technologists and artists will come together for presentations, incredible demos, interactive exhibitions and parties.

For information on partnership opportunities, please contact:

Kim Haladay
WIFT-T Development Manager
416-322-3430 ext. 228
khaladay@wift.com