Toronto's 1st Annual Timmy Awards

We're excited to present Toronto's 1st Annual Timmy Awards (http://blogs.techinmotionevents.com/to-timmy-awards/) in an effort to recognize the best places for technology professionals to work. We asked the Toronto tech community to weigh in by nominating companies they believe deserve to win and then voting for the finalists!

Organizations and individuals will be crowned the winners in each of the categories below on August 18th. The evening will begin with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, music and product demos from the best of the best in Toronto tech.

Toronto's Best Technology Manager:

Andrew Santorelli – SaaS Development Manager of Kanetix
Bohdan Zabawskyj – CTO of Mercatus Technologies
Claudia Navas – Senior Manager, Global Implementation of Scotiabank
Cory Thomas – VP, Engineering of Career Cruising
Damian McCabe – VP, Engineering of Connected Lab
Jason Field – CEO of BrainStation
Matt Vandermolen – Director, Technology of Momentum Digital Solutions
Robert Burko – CEO of Elite Digital
Sam Ward – Vice President of Alliants Technology
Soheil Seyfaie – Director, Development of Achieve3000

Toronto's Best Tech Startup:

ChargeMore
Glam Card
LookBookHQ
Rover Parking
Top Hat
TribalScale
Turnstyle
UXP Systems
Wealthsimple
Xocial

Toronto's Best Technology Work Culture:

BrainStation
Connected Lab
ExperiencePoint
Klick
Questrade Financial Group
theScore
TouchBistro
TWG
Uberflip
Universe

This year's Timmy Awards will be presented by...

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• Host - Daniel Eidan: General Manager of BrainStation

Daniel Eidan is BrainStation Toronto's General Manager. He graduated from UofT with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics where he studied and did research with professors such as Allan Borodin, Stephen Cook and Geoffry Hinton. Since then he has worked as a full stack and mobile developer on numerous projects. He moved from a Product Architect role into the General Management position to oversee more components of the BrainStation campus.

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• Presenter - Raine Qian: Head of Product Design at VarageSale

Raine is the head of product design at VarageSale. She is an award-winning designer who has led product design projects across diverse industry verticals including retail, media, finance, lifestyle and healthcare. In addition, she is a frequent speaker on product design and the former organizer of Future With Design, an event series for forward thinking designers and individuals.

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• Presenter - Razor Suleman: Founder & Former CEO of Achievers

Razor is the Founder & former CEO of Achievers, a leading provider of SaaS based rewards and recognition programs. Razor built Achievers from an idea to a company with a $100M run rate. Under Razor's leadership, Achievers has raised over US$35 million in venture capital from leading firms including Sequoia Capital. Razor graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University’s School of Business and MIT’s Entrepreneurial Masters Program. He has won dozens of awards including Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award, BDC’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Human Capital Leadership Award from HR Magazine.

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• Presenter - Damian McCabe: Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

Damian is the co-founder and VP Engineering at Connected Lab. Past clients include RBC, Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Target and Walmart. Damian is passionate about building the world's best technical and design teams and solving extremely ambitious problems. Damian's work has been featured in CBC and the Globe and Mail.

More about our Demo Companies:

Go Tours (http://www.gotourscanada.com/) is one of Earth's most innovative tour companies and counts themselves among the first on the planet to bring live-streamed 360 tours and events to the world. Building on 12 years of success in Canada's tourism industry the company has built a portfolio of highly rated Walking and Segway Tours, Corporate Events and School Tours in Toronto, Barrie and other pop-up locations across Ontario.

3DPhacktory (http://3dphacktory.com/) is Canada's full service 3D printing and design studio headquartered in Toronto. We offer high-resolution, multiple material 3D printing service to customers in a wide range of fields. It's never too early in a project to send us an inquiry!

ChargeMore (http://www.chargemore.ca/)manufactures new and innovative cell phone charging station platforms. With its high speed charging technology and modern advertising capability ChargeMore has been recognized as a leader in the industry. This branded, patent pending technology, is being sold to thousands of customers across Canada and the United States.

More about our Sponsors:

City of Toronto (http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=8e79f9be8db1c310VgnVCM1000006cd60f89RCRD)

Toronto is Canada's largest city, the fourth largest in North America, and home to a diverse population of about 2.8 million people. It is a global centre for business, finance, arts and culture and is consistently ranked one of the world's most livable cities. For information on non-emergency City services and programs, Toronto residents, businesses and visitors can visit http://www.toronto.ca, call 311, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or follow us @TorontoComms.

StartUp HERE Toronto (http://startupheretoronto.com/)

StartUp HERE Toronto celebrates Toronto’s innovation community by sharing local success with the world. StartUp HERE Toronto connects entrepreneurs to programs, resources and events to help them start, grow and scale their business in Toronto, no matter the sector, be it food, fashion, music or manufacturing. StartUp HERE Toronto is the story we tell. Visit http://www.startupheretoronto.com for more information.

FITC (http://fitc.ca/event/webu16/)

FITC will be coming to Toronto October 3rd-4th for their Web Unleashed 2016 event at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre! Buy your tickets here using the code 'TechInMotion' : http://fitc.ca/event/webu16/

QS World Grad Tour (http://www.topuniversities.com/events/qs-world-grad-school-tour/usa-canada/new-york?utm_source=tech_in_motion&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WGST_F16_New-York&partnerid=8433)

Beat the competition and love what you do – pursue a grad degree!

Meet face to face with admissions directors from top-ranked graduate schools, learn about the best Masters and PhD programs in the world, find out how to tap into $1.7M worth of exclusive scholarships to fund your grad degree and more!

Saturday, September 10th from 12:30pm – 6:00pm at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (255, Front St. W., North Building, Level 200)

Don’t forget, to be eligible for free entry, you must register online in advance at: http://goo.gl/Irvi0v

More about our Food Sponsors:

Panago Pizza (http://www.panago.com/): Celebrate the ultimate Canadian summer with a whole lotta bacon! Introducing our two new Ultimate Canadian Pizzas topped with mouth-watering bacon and back bacon, pepperoni, sautéed mushrooms, mozza and cheddar. Available with Jalapeño Ranch or Italian Tomato Sauces - $14 medium. Or, stick with our favourite, True Canadian pizza. On Sale Now $12 medium. And try our new Chocolate Chunk Pretzel Cookie with Caramel Dip! It’s the perfect post pizza treat!

Check out our other summer deals and order online at http://www.panago.com or call 310-0001.

Platterz (https://www.platterz.ca/): Platterz is the free online platform for ordering catered food. With over 200 restaurants and caterers to choose from, ordering shareable food to the office has never been easier.