Platinum Sponsors




The BC Technology Industry Association is an industry-funded organization supporting the growth of British Columbia’s strong knowledge economy. Our membership of 2700+ member companies, employs over 60,000 workers and represents companies of all sizes and sectors.

 

Pragmatic Marketing is proud to have participated in EVERY ProductCamp since their inception. We conduct the world’s most popular product management training with more than 60,000 attendees from 5,000 companies in 23 countries. Product management certification from Pragmatic Marketing is the industry standard with 12,000 product managers and marketers earning the designation Pragmatic Marketing Certified. Indicative of our worldwide success, Pragmatic Marketing has been recognized four times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America.


 

As buildings and electricity grids begin to take advantage of a wide range of technological and regulatory developments, there are unprecedented opportunities to improve the management of the world’s energy and to increase energy productivity in millions of buildings around the world.

Pulse Energy was founded in 2006 to make a rapid and significant impact on the energy efficiency of the world’s buildings. Our co-founders come from complementary backgrounds; one from the energy sector and then managing energy for 700 million square feet of office buildings, and the other from being co-founder and CEO of one of the world’s leading Business Intelligence companies.

Our Energy Management Software technology, Pulse™, was developed in partnership with a number of leading organizations with advanced building automation and metering systems already in place. By designing the entire product around the needs of facility managers, energy managers, operations managers, and executives, we have created an energy management solution of unrivaled accuracy, ease of use and relevance. In fact, Pulse™ has been recognized by the UC Berkeley Center for the Built Environment as one of the top three products in the energy visualization market.

 

Sage North America began not as one company, but as the efforts of many entrepreneurs who built their successful products and businesses with a sincere focus on their customers. Today, our company represents the culmination of that combined entrepreneurial spirit, drive, and vision.

For more than 30 years, companies that have joined the Sage family have assisted small and midsized businesses with a wide range of business management applications and services. With roots reaching back to the 1970s, our company has grown and developed to meet the evolving needs of our customers through a combination of internal product development and acquisition.



Gold Sponsors
 


Goulet Associates specializes in the preparation of SR&ED claims for medical researchers and technology companies.

Understanding who, what and how it qualifies is our expertise, as we maintain intimate familiarity with CRA's complex SR&ED guidelines, so you and your accountants stay focused on what you do best.

We begin with a free, no-obligation consultation to determine your eligibility.
 


Silver Sponsors
 
 

The Association of International Product Marketing & Management The AIPMM (www.aipmm.com) was established in 1998 to bring awareness to the emerging field of product and brand management. Over the years, we have established internationally recognized Certified Product Manager, Certified Product Marketing Manager, and Agile Certified Product Manager credential programs and a standards-based Product Management Framework. We advocate for the role of product manager, whatever it is called within an organization, and we bring recognition to those who excel. As a truly international organization, the AIPMM serves individual practitioners and corporate members in 60 countries spanning the globe.

 

Pivotal Product Management provides award-winning, experience-based product management training and consulting services, helping companies apply best practices in real-world product management for improved product success rates.

Cofounders and principals Mara Krieps and Linda Merrick are listed in the Puget Sound Business Journal’s TechFlash "Top 100 Women in Seattle Tech" (2009) and are recipients of AIPMM’s “Excellence in Product Management Education” award (2006-07). They are featured speakers at the AIPMM Product Management Educational Conference and in AIPMM's ongoing educational webinar series (www.aipmm.com).

Our international client list includes Amazon, American Express, AT&T Wireless, Bank of Bermuda, Business Objects, Cisco, Compassion International, Data I/O, Drugstore.com, Getty Images, Google, GE Medical, Microsoft, PPG, Premera Blue Cross, Railinc, Real Networks, Respironics, Russell Investment Group, T-Mobile, Union Switch and Signal, Varolii, and Zango.


 

ZIGZAG Marketing is a product management and product marketing training and consulting firm founded in 2001. We specialize in product portfolio management. 

Our product management framework and training programs give product management and product marketing the leadership and execution skills to determine the markets most conducive to growing the company as a whole, creating a strategy to penetrate those segments, then delivering the best mix of products, value propositions and sales tools to execute the strategy.

ZIGZAG Marketing’s framework and training programs translate from the classroom to reality easier than any other provider in the industry, which means you get results faster. We guarantee it! 
Central 1 Credit Union is the central financial facility and trade association for the B.C. and Ontario credit union systems. It's an "umbrella organization," representing member-owned retail financial institutions that serve 2.9 million members and hold $70 billion in assets.

From headquarters at the Credit Union Centre in Vancouver, B.C., and an office in Mississauga, Ont., Central 1 provides leadership and support to a network that operates more than 800 retail branches in the two provinces.



Ideavibes believes in the wisdom of the crowd. To help organizations tap into this, we have developed two hosted web apps:. The Ideavibes Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Apps are easy to implement, and let you harness the ideas, wishes and actions of your crowd to make decisions on products and features, solve problems, and encourage engagement.

 
Breakfast Sponsor

For entrepreneurial technology companies, Corporate Recruiters is a key asset for human capital. Our search firm has an unparalleled track record for recruiting technology executives and professionals from CEO's to senior individual contributors. With our knowledge of the local business climate - including capitalization, candidate availability, product commercialization, and government policy - we provide our clients and candidates with more than a good fit. We give them what it takes to grow a successful technology company.

Venue Sponsor
 

In 2007, Simon Fraser University opened the Segal Graduate School of Business, the most recent addition to the university’s downtown centres. The Segal Graduate School is located in the landmark Bank of Montreal former headquarters. The elegant 1916 building has been sensitively restored and expanded to 60,000 square feet to accommodate the finest in meeting and classroom facilities.

A remarkable mixture of the old and the new, the Segal Graduate School of Business offers those requiring space for meetings, seminars, banquets or presentations the latest in design and technology within a comfortable and distinguished setting.

Photographer Sponsor 

JosephCruzPhotography.com

For all your professional photographic needs. Specializing in Event photography (wedding and corporate parties), as well as portrait and head shot, food and product photography.

 
Videograph Sponsor 



Other Kind Sponsors

Quantum Whisper empowers companies to realize the maximum value from agile development by ensuring that product management is market-driven and that development is prioritized for utmost customer satisfaction and profit.

 
Prize Sponsors



 
Media Sponsors