Tuesday May 19th, 2015 – 1pm
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1:00 PM – Sports Panel
In studio: Chris Pope, Reporter, 570 News
Advertising costs for the Pan Am and Para-Pan Am games in Toronto are in the millions of dollars. The Toronto Sun reported that one slickly produce spot for Television cost over $5 million, and the government agency that produced the ad won’t say how much more it might spend. How are ticket sales going? Do you care about the Pan Am games? Will you go to an event? Meanwhile, the #Babwatch is in full swing. Where will Mike Babcock end up next season?
1:30 PM – TECH SPOTLIGHT
Chris Sharpe, Director of Education & Community Programs, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony has partnered with Communitech to organize ‘Hack the Orchestra”‘ – the first hackathon in the world to give hackers a full professional orchestra and concert hall to work with. This 36-hour hackathon is open to students and seasoned software developers. Hackers get to work with the full Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Music Director Edwin Outwater, Centre In The Square tech crew and others. The KWS plans to demo the winning solutions during a set of KWS concerts in September. It’s not just bragging rights up for grabs…prizes have a total cash value of 5-thousand dollars. Imagine how technology could be used to enhance the live concert experience…Chris Sharpe joins us now to share the details.
1:45
n studio: BrianStewart, CEO & Les Magyar, COO MetricWire
MetricWire allows researchers to collect data from people through their smartphones. For example…for pharmaceutical clinical trials you can provide real-time feedback on how you feel while on a drug (as opposed to reporting to a doctor every week or month on what has happened). They are working with Johnson & Johnson amongst other big name pharmaceutical companies.
