On Wednesday November 28th, Toronto Talks Presented Ready, Set, Sell!! with Doug Bolger , Chief Learning Officer with L(earn)2 . This was an interactive selling skills seminar for IT Professionals.

On October 30th, Toronto Talks Presented 7 Steps to High Tech Start up Success with Sofia Andreou, M.Eng., Senior VP of Business Strategy with OceanLake and Chris Koressis, B.Sc., LLB., a Senior Partner at Fogler Rubinoff who specializes in IT Ventures, on Tuesday October 30th at 7pm at Metro Hall Room 313.

Chris Koressis practices in the area of business law, including mergers and acquisitions and information technology ("IT"). Chris discussed the legal aspects of setting up a corporation including buy-sell agreements, arranging of capital, and team implementation.

In September, Toronto Talks presented TAX TALK with Jerry Henshall, a Chartered Accountant with CA4IT and Janie Goldstein, Vice President of the Canadian Medical Discovery Fund on Tuesday September 25th at 7pm @ Metro Hall, Room 313.

Janie Goldstein, B.Eng., P. Eng., M.B.A.,(Harvard), Vice President of the (CMDF).Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund , discussed the Tax benefits of investing in a is a labour sponsored investment fund (LSIF). If the LSIF was invested into an RRSP and you are in a 48 percent tax bracket, she illustrated that a $5000 investment would only cost $750.

Our August speaker, Fazila Nurani, B.Eng., LLB., discussed On-line Privacy and Security.

Her dynamic presentation discussed how businesses are concerned about security breaches and the invasion privacy. How do businesses build customer trust in such an environment? One important step is the creation of an effective privacy policy. Studies show that the existence of a strong Web site privacy policy is a major consideration for Internet users when deciding whether to provide personal information on-line. What should the policy cover?

Our July speaker, Natalie Melling, President of Open Corporation, suggested that organizations can justify making long term commitments to E-Commerce projects in spite of short term downfalls by launching an "online weather balloon."

Our June speaker featured Carolyn Burke who discussed herh her vision of the future of what is to come. Her insight into P2P application was resourceful as was her view of e-security in this process.