An Open Invitation to the February 2012 Moncton CyberSocial Monthly Networking Event.` When: Wednesday February 8, 2012 at 5:00 PM Where: The Moncton Club ~ 115 Queen St Cost: Free The Moncton CyberSocial Committee is pleased to welcome our headliner for the Wednesday February 8 – 2012 ~ CyberSocial Monthly Networking Event. The New Brunswick Investment Management Corporation (NBIMC) The New Brunswick Investment Management Corporation (NBIMC) is the trustee and investment manager for the pension assets of over 50,000 members of the Public Service, Teachers’, and Judges’ defined benefit pension plans. Located in Fredericton, NBIMC is the largest institutional investment manager in Atlantic Canada with assets under management of approximately $9.1 billion at March 31, 2011. The Corporation is profiled at: www.nbimc.com George Long, Senior Portfolio Manager – Private Equity, will be providing an overview of the Atlantic Opportunities Private Equity Fund – a separate investment portfolio created to evaluate local investment opportunities. More information is available at  http://www.nbimc.com/Investments/AtlanticOps.aspx   The CyberSocial Committee is also pleased to present an afternoon workshop at 1:00 PM to showcase the progress underway at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of New Brunswick. The Director of the Centre Dr. Ken Kent will present an update on the ambitious UNB and IBM collaboration for the Next Generation Java Virtual Machine supporting Multi-core Processing. This development is international in scope and will deliver a ground breaking enabling technology that is expected to pave the way for a new wave of high performance computing for Internet services. This is very big for the industry and it is unfolding right here in NB. Our afternoon Workshop will also feature Kelly Ashfield from the UNB office of Research Services explaining the support mechanisms available to foster industry collaboration with UNB and other research activities. Funding to support industry collaborations will be outlined via Richard Isnor of NSERC and Ian Baird of MITACS. These scenarios are favoured and UNB has been very active as a consequence in the Moncton Community. Come by and find out how you can take advantage of these unique opportunities. Event attendees are also welcome to take a “Minute at the Mic” to announce anything you feel may be of interest to our members. Mark your calendar for this unique event and bring a friend. You can stop by early and/or stay late We hope to see you there!   Moncton CyberSocial works in cooperation with many organizations including:

Special Notice:    The Wallace McCain Institute`s Entrepreneurial Leaders Program (ELP5) is searching for the “top 15” high growth potential entrepreneurs in NB and the surrounding region. Read more... or watch the videos to get a better understanding of the Entrepreneurial Leaders Program. This Month’s CyberSocial WorkShop (Starting at 1:00 PM) The Director of the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies at UNB, Dr. Ken Kent – Presents ~ Next Generation Java Virtual Machine for- Massive Multicore Systems PLUS Kelly Ashfield from the UNB office of Research Services – Presents ~ An overview of Industry Collaboration with UNB Plus Richard Isnor of NSERC and Ian Baird of MITACS will talk about Funding to support industry collaborations.   Seating for this workshop will be limited, so please RSVP for attendance. http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/2817905431   View other News After the event you can stay and enjoy our Free Networking Event! Thanks to our featured sponsor NRC for assisting with planning this month’s event.

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On December 14, 2011 from 3:30pm to 5:00pm the Moncton CyberSocial  is hosting a special mini-Workshop on  Agile Programming and SCRUM – at The Moncton Club 115 Queen Street

Please Register for this event at EventBrite
Presented by Sébastien Aubé of Cognitive X Systems

Outline of the Agile Programming presentation:

• What is Agile? / The Agile Manifesto
• Basic Concepts (Iterations, Teams, Co-Location, Working software)
• SCRUM in Agile
• What is SCRUM?
• Roles in SCRUM team
• Core Roles and Ancillary Roles
• SCRUM meetings
• Daily Scrum
• Sprint Planning Meeting
• Review and Retrospective
• Measuring progress
• Open discussion and questions as time permits.

Our Featured Guest Speaker for this month’s Networking Event ~ 5:00pm to 7:30pm is Martin Montplaisir – Business Technology Manager – HealthConnect Inc

HealthConnect Inc., headquartered in Moncton, NB, is a provider of outsource services to the Pharmaceutical industry. First established in Toronto, ON, HealthConnect has been in operation for over 20 years and employs nearly 40 workers. The company is made up of four different divisions, which support their information and education services related to health and wellness:

· The Patient Care division consists of a Contact Centre and provides product information and support to consumers, patients and healthcare professionals.
· The Clinical Care division manages clinical trials and patient adherence programs to help patients use medications appropriately.
· The Brand Care division offers Strategic Consulting Services.
· The Pharmacy division provides mail order dispensing, prescription consulting and information support.

Continually evolving, HealthConnect prides itself on providing tailored services based on Client needs. Some of the more recent services HealthConnect has offered consist of Social Media and Facebook Monitoring.

About Martin Montplaisir ~ Business Technology Manager
Martin currently leads a 5 member team at HealthConnect including: Back end Developer, Web Developer, IT Network/Phone Specialist, Data Analyst, Programmer.
Assets to manage: Contact Center, Fulfillment house, On-line Pharmacy

Martin has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He has worked for with many small organizations in the IT industry which have grown and sold to public traded companies. Some of these companies:

1: Whitehill Technologies sold to Skywire, Oracle, and Thomson Reuters
2: BelTek Sold to High Jump
3: Kleinmundo sold to Thomson Reuters

This has led him to travel to over 25 different countries working for fortune 500 organizations in the Legal, Distribution, and Manufacturing markets.

His passion is both business and technology and to how they relate to each other. He is currently getting his PMP certification through St. Mary’s University and has recently just come back from Peru doing the Inca trail and living in the Amazon forest for 2 weeks.