Sponsors

Province of New Brunswick

KIRA recognizes the continued support of our Platinum Sponsor.

Outreach Productions

The KIRA organizing committee is pleased to have Outreach Productions as its Multimedia Partner for 2006. Outreach has been recognized with two International Cindy Awards, three Aegis Awards, two Communicator Awards and most recently, an International Summit Award placing them in the ranks with the World's finest producers.

CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI is the 8th largest independent IT services company in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies employ approximately 25,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide from offices in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific as well as from centers of excellence in the US, Europe, India and Canada.

xwave

xwave, a division of Bell Aliant, is one of Canada’s largest information and communications technology (ICT) providers. The company has more than 30 years of experience serving key industries such as defence, security and aerospace, healthcare, justice and public safety, and government. This is rounded out by domain expertise in areas such as Business Intelligence and Enterprise Resource Planning, as well as partnerships with leading technology developers including HP, Microsoft, and IBM.
In New Brunswick, xwave employs more than 300 people and provides services to clients such as NB Power, Service New Brunswick, the Province of New Brunswick, McCain Foods, Atlantic Lottery Corporation and JD Irving. xwave itself is the recipient of a KIRA in Export Services, earned for the company’s successful export of corrections technology initially developed for the Government of New Brunswick and now adopted by three U.S. states.

Acron

At Acron, we specialize in providing capability engineering solutions to a broad and diverse clientele, ranging from multi-national conglomerates and consortia to government agencies.

We help our clients capture, synthesize and transfer situational information, organizational knowledge and individual experiences to better enable those protecting the public to make better decisions faster, there- by improving the speed and quality of crisis response, and ultimately safeguarding critical infrastructure and saving lives.

Acron’s products and services fuse the latest information and communication technologies with learning best practices to help clients improve their operational effectiveness, extend the reach of their existing infrastructure, and prepare to respond to natural or man-made disasters.

UNBF-Faculty of Computer Science and UNBSJ - Faculty of Business

UNBF-Faculty of Computer Science and UNBSJ - Faculty of Business

Stewart McKelvey

Stewart McKelvey proudly celebrates over sixteen years of innovative leadership as Atlantic Canada's first and largest regional law firm. With a distinguished heritage reaching back to Canada's confederation, our law firm has established an international reputation for generating results. More than 220 lawyers and 300 staff in our six locations have a single objective: the best results for our clients

Innovatia

Innovatia, a subsidiary of Bell Aliant, provides end-to-end knowledge solutions encompassing technical documentation, training, knowledge support, and professional services. Named one of the world’s Top 10 learning and outsource training companies, Innovatia delivers innovative solutions to industry-leading organizations to accelerate business productivity throughout a product or process lifecycle.

Mariner Partners

Mariner Partners Inc. is a multi-faceted consulting and IT services company. Our Passion is to Innovate in the Face of Complexity. We come at problem solving in a unique way… our methodologies don’t restrict you to predictable outcomes. Instead they unleash and accelerate, by combining our skills and experience with your opportunities and courage, to arrive at your unique solutions. If your organization is facing the challenge of change in the face of adversity, then Mariner can help. Our Passion to Innovate, combined with our skills, experience and persistence, deliver unique value.

J.D. Irving Ltd.

J.D. Irving Ltd.

New Brunswick Innovation Foundation

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is an independent corporation focused on stimulating innovation as a means of improving productivity and enhancing the knowledge-based economy. The Foundation supports targeted and leveraged investments for the development and growth of promising, innovation-based start-up and early stage companies and for innovative applied research in New Brunswick. For more information, please see www.nbif.ca

GrowthWorks

At GrowthWorks, we offer regionally based venture capital funds right across Canada. These GrowthWorks managed funds include the Working Opportunity Fund, GrowthWorks Canadian Fund, GrowthWorks Commercialization Fund, and GrowthWorks Atlantic Venture Fund. We manage funds with a total of over $800 million in assets, with a primary focus on Canada’s high growth potential sectors: information technology, life sciences and advanced manufacturing.

Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialize in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Our consultants and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

Lansbridge

Lansbridge

Microsoft

Microsoft

Service New Brunswick

Service New Brunswick is the provincial government's multi-channel service delivery provider. It is also responsible for real property assessments, land information infrastructure and four registries: the personal property, corporate, vital statistics and land registries.

OAO Technology Solutions

OAOT is a global leader in Managed IT Solutions providing strategic business solutions, enterprise IT operations, and human capital management to Fortune 500 corporations, global outsourcers, and government agencies.

CA

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifiescomplex information technology (IT) management across the enterprise for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT.

Remsoft

Remsoft