When

Tuesday, May 8, 2018 from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
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Where

Canadore College Parry Sound Campus 
1 College Drive
Parry Sound, ON P2A 0A9
 

 
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Contact

Andrew Ryeland 
West Parry Sound Smart Community Network Inc. 
705 746-9481 
andrew@smartnow.ca 
 

West Parry Sound Smart Community Network Inc. 
AGM & Special Meeting with Guest Speaker 

We are pleased to provide you with the details and logistics of our WPS SMART meeting on May 8th 2018. Please note that the formal annual general meeting is a subset of the WPS SMART Special meeting.   We did this to accommodate an invitation to the broader community to hear our guest speaker portion of the meeting.

 

Catherine Crofton - Keynote Speaker

Catherine will engage the audience with both an address and participation regarding the positioning of Blockchain technology and will illustrate examples of:

  • What it is, key characteristics
  • Smart Contracts and their potential
  • Usage in developing countries
  • How ‘Mining’ works
  • How it differs from the Internet
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Implications and applications in industry, social and government transactions
  • How it might replace your services

 

About Catherine:

Catherine Crofton is a results-driven sales and marketing leader in the technology sector. She has 25 years of progressive experience within both the Technology and Communications industries. Catherine has a proven track record in helping both start-ups and seasoned companies achieve phenomenal revenue growth.

Catherine was the 5th employee at start-up Q4 Inc., where she ran Sales and grew the company to a valuation of over $60 million dollars. She developed a best practice approach to online investor communications that drew 1000s of industry peers and IROs to her webinars.

Catherine’s best practices helped shape a product suite that attracted 35% of the Dow Jones, 30% of Fortune 100 companies and 20% of the NASDAQ composite as clients. She ran Inside Sales for North America for Vision Critical.

Catherine is now Managing Director at Extreme Innovations where she is helping develop several exciting Blockchain initiatives.