Sponsors

Established in 2000, Ryma Technology Solutions Inc. is a pioneer and leader in Product Investment Management. We empower our clients with a tailored solution that helps companies make the best well-informed, fact-based product investment decisions, to maximize ROI at all levels, whether for individual products or global R&D budgets, with accountability and traceability for these decisions. Ultimately, our solution provides a company with the ability to better identify and leverage the synergies between their different product groups to deliver more functionality, with quicker time-to-market without increasing product investments. Simply – your company will be more successful, with the ability to create a competitive edge and sustain it in the long term.

SIFE is an international organization that mobilizes university students around the world to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders. We have a head for business and a heart for the world! With the support of our sponsors and our school, SIFE Concordia is able to run a variety of projects, from running an apprentice program for Concordia, McGill and HEC all the way to teaching sustaibile actions to a group of elementary students on the island of Montreal. SIFE Concordia is small team but we pride ourselves on having a small team that pulls their own weight and with such a small budget was able to create economic opportunity of $567,000 last year alone! Find out more about our events at http://sifeconcordia.com

The 280 Group provides Product Management and Product Marketing consulting, contractors, training, certification and templates. Visit www.280group.com for information on becoming a Certified Product Manager (CPM), Agile Certified Product Manager (ACPM), the Product Management Office training/templates and the 280 Group book series, including “The Phenomenal Product Manager”, “Expert Product Management”, “Agile Product Management Excellence” and “The Product Manager’s Toolkit Book”.

Rich Mironov is a serial entrepreneur, seasoned VP Product Management/ VP Marketing, go-to-market strategist and Agile technology “product guy”. He provides full-time, interim and project-based consulting to large and small technology companies. He’s been a mentor throughout the Valley, sharing his expertise in product strategy, pricing/business models, technology roadmaps, and market segmentation. Rich is a veteran of 4 tech start-ups and dozens of client engagements.

The Pragmatic Marketing Framework is the worldwide standard for successful product management. It defines the roles and responsibilities for 60,000 product management and marketing professionals at 5,000 companies in 23 countries. The company been honored four times by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America (2000, 2007, 2008, 2009), the only product management company to ever receive this prestigious honor.

Quantum Whisper provides an online service for product managers that uniquely extends agile principles outside development by establishing a bona fide link between customer demand and product development.The on-demand service captures customer feedback, transforms data into actionable information and allows product owners to objectively score and prioritize product requirements (or backlogs) supported by market evidence (facts). The result ensures the most valuable software is developed and allows product teams to quickly adapt to changing business, market and customer demand.