The second in a series of grade-based products, Didi & Ditto: The Wolf King (First Grade) proposes a complete learning package, where children practice thinking skills, literacy skills, math skills, science and creativity. Children can play the game as a learning adventure or choose specific skills to practice. Didi & Ditto is an outstanding early learning product with a fresh new look that combines an exciting world with fun and lively games, lovable characters and the motivation of a mission to accomplish. Kutoka’s mission is to create unique and compelling software products for children, by finding new ways to marry entertainment and education.

Accepted by Richard Vincent

BITE is Canada’s interactive television channel, celebrating the best in comical, irreverent and sexy Canadian and International short film, animation and games. BITE is a truly interactive network, allowing viewers to connect with and collectively enhance the BITE experience. BITE makes the viewers; the viewers make BITE The audience drives this channel. Establishing a culture of viewer submission and continuous feedback via the forums and blog, BITE provides the opportunity to showcase emerging productions. BITE is available non-stop 24/7. Rich audio and visual content is available as mobile download and streaming, video on demand, Bite Radio Podcast and via the web at bitetv.ca and SMS chat-to-screen. BITE is the complete package developed for the techno-generation.

Accepted by Jeffrey Elliott

Founded in February 2000, ecentricarts provides innovative new media solutions to organizations in the arts, culture, not for profit and education sectors. The Canadian Tapestry virtual exhibit was developed to be the gateway into the depth and breadth of the Museum’s collection. This online, bilingual exhibit was designed first and foremost as an educational resource, introducing users to the worlds of wonder and beauty that the Textile Museum of Canada’s collection represents. From a design standpoint, the graphic user interface and functionality were developed to ensure that the user’s focus was placed on the textiles themselves, something they remain very committed to, given the beauty of the objects.

Accepted by Keith Durrant

Since 1985, BioWare Corp. an electronic entertainment company has been developing story-driven videogames, and has been the creative force behind some of the world’s best-selling, award-winning videogames. Recently merged to form BioWare/Pandemic Studios, they continue to be recognized for their mastery of epic storytelling and complex characters. Jade Empire is a martial arts role-playing game released exclusively for the Xbox. Discover an ancient and mysterious world full of compelling characters set in a graphically beautiful, fantastic new world inspired by the myths and legends of ancient China. In your adventures you will face powerful human and supernatural foes, learn exotic and magical martial arts, and discover the darkest secrets of the world.

Accepted by Craig Priddle

Sort It Out! is a package of resources for Alberta students and educators about waste management, using the City of Edmonton as an example. The package includes three posters, six short videos on DVD, a student activity booklet and Sort It Out.ca, a fun and interactive online exploration of waste management. On the website you can build a Sort It Out buddy, discover lots of information about waste management and quiz yourself on how much you know. Sort It Out was produced by ACCESS, Canada’s only private provincial educational broadcaster, produces and delivers television and multimedia learning products and services for learners of all ages and needs.

Accepted by John Verburgt

CBC.ca is the online English-language publishing arm of the CBC, providing News, Arts, and Sports information of interest to Canadians, wherever they are.

In order to attract and hold its audience, web coverage needs to take advantage of key qualities of the medium: it is always available, the user is able to choose which content to view, and it is interactive. CBC.ca’s Olympic content was perfectly suited to the web’s advantages. While the main focus of the section during the Games was to provide up-to-the-minute coverage of events as they happened, there was also a wealth of content providing background information about the sports and the athletes participating in them. News articles were always linked to a variety of related stories and features. The pages were filled with high quality images from the Olympics, accompanying new stories and in depth features. The web section complemented CBC Television’s coverage of the Games by allowing the audience to go online to vote for the 3 Stars of each hockey game involving Canadian men’s and women’s teams. A spectacular Flash interface allowed users to drag and drop their choices in order of preference.

Accepted by Andrew Lundy

Rocketfuel Productions
http://www.hotrocket.ca
Edmonton, AB

Founded in 2005, Rocketfuel Productions is an Alberta-based company that produces original and licensed entertainment programming across platforms on the web, mobile and broadcast devices. Their products explore new forms of audience engagement and interaction, producing profitable, enduring franchises that take an integrated cross-platform approach to entertainment. Rocketfuel has established a unique production model that concentrates on creative development, financing and profitability enhanced by leveraging capacities of parent companies, Hotrocket and Redengine, two of Alberta’s market leaders in interactive and IT development.

Accepted by Ken Bautista

Shop To It Inc.
http://www.shoptoit.ca
Calgary, AB

The Vacuum Design
http://www.vacuumsucks.com
Nelson, BC

John Demco
Co-Founder, Director
Webnames.ca Inc.
http://www.webnames.ca
Vancouver, BC

Creator/founder of the .CA top-level domain name for Canada, John served as its initial registrar on a voluntary basis from 1987 until 2000. He was a founding Board member of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority and currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer as well as Manager of Computing Facilities at the Dept. of Computer Science at UBC. In 1997 John was recognized by the Prime Minister as one of the founders and builders of the Canadian Internet in 1997 and also received a CANARIE IWAY Award for Community Service in 2001.

Accepted by John Demco

Raja Khanna
Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder
Quick Play Media
http://www.quickplay.com
Toronto, ON

Stacey Spiegel
CEO, Creative Director
I-MMERSION
http://www.i-mmersion.com
Toronto, ON

Quick Play Media
http://www.quickplay.com
Toronto, ON

QuickPlay Media is a pioneer in inventing, making, packaging, distributing and managing the deployment of rich media applications for mobile devices. Specifically the company develops mobile videos services and interactive applications. QuickPlay Media works with content partners to brand the services for delivery through leading wireless company networks. QuickPlay Media was the first to provide mobile video solutions in Canada and now provides leadership in this category to all major carriers in Canada - Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, Rogers Wireless and SaskTel with additional carriers in the US coming soon. QuickPlay Media has also signed content and distribution agreements with leading global brands including, ESPN, CHUM, Accuweather, Fox, CBC and E!.

Accepted by Raja Khanna

Blast Radius
http://www.blastradius.com
Vancouver, BC

Elluminate Inc.
http://www.elluminate.com
Calgary, AB

Daniel Ouellette
New Media Artist
DJO Studios
http://www.djostudios.com
Roseneath, ON

New media artist Dan Ouellette was twice presented with awards at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for being a "Top 100 Media Producer of the Year". He’s recognized for producing award winning educational, corporate and entertainment interactive titles. Having served a number of years in the corporate world as Art Director and Media manager developing Content Management Systems, e-learning software for Microsoft (over 60 titles) & various corporate online solutions Dan developed courses that he’s now teaching at both Loyalist and George Brown College. Dan also provides consultation and media lessons to staff at Toronto’s Ad Agency, TBWA. On the flip side Dan is also a performing musician. In 1994 he received a Gold Record with his band, Jughead, for the song “Hockey Song”. Dan keeps his students wired into the bleeding edge of New Media bringing more than 20 years of perspective and experience into the classroom.

Accepted by Daniel Ouellette

Bruce Clayman
President
Great Northern Way Campus
http://www.gnwc.ca
Vancouver, BC

Larry DeFlorio
Head of Art, Modeling, Lighting and FX Departments
Mainframe Entertainment Inc.
http://www.mainframe.ca
Vancouver, BC

Adrian Crook
Relic Entertainment
http://www.adriancrook.com
Vancouver, BC

After spending five years as a Producer at EA Canada, Adrian founded his own 60-person, publicly traded Vancouver-based videogame company. Most recently, Adrian was the producer of The Outfit, an Xbox 360 action game created by Vancouver’s Relic Entertainment. Managing at team of 100 people, Adrian applied all of the learning acquired in the previous decade of his career in order to produce a Triple “A” product on time and on budget.

Accepted by Justin Dowdeswell

Christine Larouche
TFO - TVOntario
http://www.tfo.org
Toronto, ON

Damir Slogar
Big Blue Bubble Inc.
http://www.bigbluebubble.com
London, ON

Robert Scales
Raincity Studios
http://www.raincitystudios.com
Vanncouver, BC

In 2003, Robert founded Raincity Studios, an award-winning, full service, new media firm focused on web marketing, web 2.0 development and web design. Raincity also develop web-based communication applications for educational institutions such as BCIT. Robert Scales contributes articles to various online journals including Urban Vancouver, 2010.Daily Vancouver and his own blog RobertScales.org. Robert holds a diploma in Business Management and a Senior Management Certificate in New Media and Web Development from BCIT. Recently Robert co-produced a series of workshops on Web 2.0 and the Olympics at the BC Canada Place in Torino, Italy durring the 2006 Winter Games.

Accepted by Megan Cole

Ryan Johnson
dthree
http://www.rjworx.com
Toronto, ON

Tim Willison
Organic
http://www.organic.com
Toronto, ON

Nate Smith
The Vacuum Design
http://www.nsmith.com
Nelson, BC

Having started teaching graphic design at the Miami Ad School and after working for Juxt Interactive and The Attik in the U.S, Nate brought his experience back to Canada, and founded The Vacuum Design in Nelson, BC. His work has been featured in Design Interact/Communication Arts, Design for Freedom, Shift Japan, Ventilate, and other design magazines and publications. He continues to be a regular artistic contributor to Numb Magazine. His client list includes Pepsi, Coke, ESPN, Kawasaki, 20th Century Fox, AOL Time Warner, and many others. His work on the Shimano XTR brand building site was featured in Cre@te and Computer Arts magazines, and won a number of awards including a One Show Merit winner awards, a runner-up at Cannes, and an Art Director’s club NY Merit award. Nate continues to produce top-tier work for high profile clients in the US, Canada and Japan.

Tommy Ferlatte
TommyFerlatte.com
http://www.tommyferlatte.com
Caplan, QC

Norma Penner
Ecentricarts Inc.
http://www.ecentricarts.com
Toronto, ON

James Eberhardt
marblemedia
http://www.marblemedia.com
Toronto, ON

As Director of Technology at marblemedia, James has led the technical development of marblemedia’s award-winning interactive projects such as thisisdanielcook.com and deafplanet.com. He automated a custom system to create and edit thousands of animations for hours of game play for the mobile/online game ‘Black Coffee’ on burnttoastopera.com. Highlights of James’ experience include creating games and video for mobile devices, creating tools to integrate American Sign Language and closed captioned video, educational games, and iTV applications. James remains committed to the media community with his involvement at conferences such as Flash In The Can, MXNorth and as a presenter for Flash In TO. He has taught a new media program for under privileged youth through St. Stephens, and has spoken at high schools and universities.

Accepted by James Eberhardt

Andrew Berdan
Big Blue Bubble Inc.
http://www.bigbluebubble.com
London, ON

Corwin Derkatch
corwin.ca / Crystal New Media
http://www.corwin.ca
Regina, SK

Andra Sheffer
Bell Fund
http://www.ipf.ca/
Toronto, ON

Andra Sheffer is the Executive Director of three private funds supporting the Canadian television and new media industries: the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, the Independent Production Fund, and, the COGECO Program Development Fund.

Through the creation of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Andra has helped to encourage partnerships between Canadian new media and television producers to develop and create fresh, innovative, multi-platform content for the new technologies and the traditional broadcast marketplace. These new synergies have created an interactive future with benefits for all Canadians.

Accepted by Andra Sheffer