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CUSEC 2008 is pleased to announce Radialpoint, Avanade, Microsoft and 76design as our newest sponsors. Radialpoint, Avanade and Microsoft will all have booths at CUSEC. Radialpoint will also be sponsoring the CUSEC 2008 Banquet (more info to come) and 76design will be sponsoring the CUSEC Pub Night.

CUSEC would like to welcome Direct Energy and Autodesk as sponsors for 2008. Direct Energy will also be hosting an interactive event for which more details will be announced in the near future. Both Direct Energy and Autodesk will have booths at CUSEC, so remember to bring your CVs!

We would like to welcome MANSEF, TELUS, Concordia University – Faculty of Engineering, Concordia University – Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering and Scout Design to CUSEC 2008. Thank you to all our sponsors for their continued support.

Amazing work by various members of the organizing team in securing the initial round of sponsors for CUSEC 2008. We welcome aboard SAP, Evertz and IBM for CUSEC 2008. All three companies will have booths available at the conference and will be recruiting for various positions, so remember to bring your resumes!

Neeraj and the sponsorship team are on fire! We now have nine companies setting up booths at our career fair.

For those of you who are a little slower then others that means you should be printing out at least nine copies of your resume.

So who is the ninth company you ask? IBM of course!

John, I can’t keep track… what companies are going to be at CUSEC? RIM, Infusion, BusinessObjects, Telus, Direct Energy, Infusion, EA, CAE and now IBM.

Not to shaby my friends. Not to shaby.

Wowa… with only four days left until CUSEC 2007 opens their doors to approximately 300 attendees we were able to seal the deal on one last sponsor. You might of heard of this company… Google! Yeah, you have heard of them… interesting…

This is awesome. They are joining us as a Silver Sponsor, they are going to have a booth at our career fair and I hear they might even have some swag to give away to those who drop by their booth.

Congrats on the team this year for securing another excellent sponsor. A company whose products and software engineering practices CUSEC attendees use and look up to.

We are getting a lot of first time sponsors this year at CUSEC. This… is… awesome. First we signed Infusion, then Business Objects, followed by RIM (Research in Motion), then Telus and now Direct Energy. And of course let’s not forget past sponsors who are back on board from previous years which includes Concordia Universities Faculty or Engineering and Computer Science, EA, O’Reilly and APress. I am stoked.

Ok, I tried it. Stoked is so not a word that come out naturally for me but like I say, you need to try everything at least three times.

Here is more information on Direct Energy:

Direct Energy is one of North America’s leading integrated energy companies and a member of the Centrica group of companies. With operations across Canada, Texas and the north-eastern United States, Direct Energy delivers C$8 billion of energy and related services to over five million residential and commercial customers. Worldwide, the Centrica group of companies provides energy and other services through more than 32 million customer relationships. If you are about to graduate, or are looking for an internship, put your drive, energy and skills to work in a career at Direct Energy. To find out more, visit our website at www.directenergy.com or www.directyourenergy.com/opportunities, Key Word – IS GRAD.

See you on the flip side!

P.S. I am leaving Toronto on December 21st and should be in Montreal until just after CUSEC and then returning to my regularly scheduled program. I am looking forward to getting a lot of skiing done during the next 30+ days.

First came O’Reilly and now we have Apress on board giving us 10 books and 10 t-shirts to give away as door prizes after our keynote presentations.

Apress L.P., based in Berkeley, California, is the fastest-growing publisher of technical books in the world today. It is dedicated to meeting the needs of IT professionals, from novice to expert. Apress is dedicated to publishing titles of the highest quality and has compiled a team of authors that is a “Who’s Who” of the high-tech industry.

We are pretty much at a 10% chance of you winning something. Sounds yummy!