Learn about each company attending Think Engineering 2012. The companies are here to get to know you, and for you to get to know them! This is a great opportunity to build professional relationships with managers and employers.
Alpha Technologies Ltd. – Power Solutions
Alpha Technologies Ltd., a member of The Alpha Group, is an established leader in the design, manufacture, service and installation of powering solutions for the Telecom, CATV (Canada), Traffic, Security, Medical, Industrial, and Renewable Energy industries. The company offers a broad portfolio of high-quality, feature-rich solutions that can be customized to suit almost any application and environment offering the highest performance and best value in the industry. With a focus on being your power solutions partner, Alpha builds on over 30 years of experience to develop solutions that resolve customers’ unique powering challenges.
BC Cancer Agency – Healthcare Solutions and Research
The BC Cancer Agency, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, provides a province-wide, population-based cancer control program for the residents of British Columbia and the Yukon. Research is an essential part of the BC Cancer Agency’s mission to not only find the causes of cancer, but to find better treatments for prolonged life and better quality of life. The BC Cancer Agency operates five regional cancer centres, providing assessment and diagnostic services, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and supportive care.
BC Hydro – Energy Systems
BC Hydro’s primary business activities are the generation and distribution of electricity. For years the Transmission of that electricity has been facilitated by the BC Transmission Corporation on behalf of BC Hydro and other power providers in B.C. The new Clean Energy Act consolidated BC Hydro and BC Transmission Corporation, as of July 5, 2010, to provide a single entity that will plan and deliver the clean energy required to meet British Columbia’s growing demand for electricity while fostering job creation throughout the province and helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions. BC Hydro operates 30 hydroelectric facilities and three natural gas-fueled thermal power plants. About 80% of the province’s electricity is produced by major hydroelectric generating stations on the Columbia and Peace rivers.
Broadcom –Hardware and Software Systems
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®. A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is one of the world’s largest fabless communications semiconductor companies with 2009 revenue of $4.49 billion, and holds over 4,500 U.S. and 1,900 foreign patents, more than 7,800 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data.
CH2M HILL – Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management
As a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction management, CH2M HILL has the human and technical resources, the international footprint, and the depth of know-how and experience to help clients achieve success in any corner of the world. From chemical plants in Buenos Aires to super cleanrooms in Japan, from nuclear cleanup in Colorado to wastewater treatment plants in New Zealand, CH2M HILL’s project experience and the markets it serves are as diverse as the world itself. A team of experts brings the knowledge gained from a wide range of projects around the world, rigorous attention to detail, and a capability to create innovative solutions that are also models for the industry. The firm’s solutions keep sustainability always in mind, along with government regulations, environmental concerns, maintenance requirements, and public perceptions. CH2M HILL is the only engineer-procure-construct company that offers this wide spectrum of expertise, knowledge, and services across varied industries and government agencies. This scope and scale sets the firm apart in its capability to partner with clients and achieve strategic and operational goals.
Fransen Engineering – Consulting
Fransen Engineering is a dynamic, multi-discipline team of specialists providing consulting engineering services to support industrial clients in maintaining and upgrading their facilities. We pride ourselves in delivering a collaborative and flexible approach to projects. Company culture is based in the sharing of knowledge and aptitude in order to respond quickly to meet the varying needs of clients. We remain dedicated to developing long term relationships with clients while pursuing stable, challenging, and satisfying work for Fransen Engineering’s diverse team. Sectors served by Fransen Engineering includes but is not limited to oil & gas, power generation, pipeline and distribution.
Fortinet – Network and Wireless Security
Fortinet is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and a market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2010 Fortune Global 100. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices around the world. Founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen, Fortinet is led by a strong and seasoned management team with deep experience in networking and security. Fortinet’s market position has been validated by widespread recognition by industry analysts, business organizations, and media.
Hatch – Engineering and Management Consultancy
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and with office presence on six continents, Hatch is an employee-owned, multidisciplinary professional services firm that delivers a comprehensive array of technical and strategic services including consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, project and construction management. Hatch has served clients for over 80 years and has project experience in more than 150 countries around the world in a wide variety of sectors ranging from Mining, Metallurgical, Energy, and Infrastructure. With 10,000 people in over 65 offices, the firm has more than $35 billion in projects currently under management.
Honeywell – Conglomerate
Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do. Honeywell’s business units encompass a broad range of fields including energy, aerospace, automation & control, consumer electronics and transportation systems.
MDA – Software Systems
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was incorporated in 1969 by two British Columbia entrepreneurs, John MacDonald, and Werner Dettwiler with the objective of providing innovative electronic solutions for complex customer requirements. Over the past four decades MDA has created a highly skilled organization that provides advanced information solutions which capture and process vast amounts of data, produce essential information, and improve the decision making and operational performance of business and government organizations worldwide. The Company delivers a broad spectrum of information solutions including complex operational systems, tailored information services and electronic information products. MDA’s operational information solutions address all aspects of the complex information life cycle including data collection, data processing and management, information extraction, information distribution, and ultimately decision making.
PMC Sierra – Hardware and Software Systems
PMC-Sierra is the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solutions provider, offering its customers technical and sales support worldwide through a network of offices in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. PMC-Sierra provides semiconductor solutions for Enterprise and Channel Storage, Wide Area Network Infrastructure, Fiber To The Home, and Laser Printer market segments. At PMC-Sierra, we are dedicated to enabling connectivity and empowering people! With industry-leading solutions for enterprise and channel storage, wide area network infrastructure, fiber to the home and laser printer/enterprise markets, we are determined to meet our customers’ needs while ensuring our staffs have a great work environment.
Schlumberger – Oil Field Services
Schlumberger Limited is the world’s leading oil field services company supplying technology, information solutions and integrated project management that optimize reservoir performance for customers working in the oil and gas industry. Today, our real-time technology services and solutions enable customers to translate acquired data into useful information, and then transform this information into knowledge for improved decision making-anytime, anywhere. Harnessing information technology in this way offers enormous opportunities to enhance efficiency and productivity.
SAP – Business Software Solutions
Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world’s largest business software company – with more than 54,000 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide. Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.
Schneider Electric – Electrical Equipment and Energy Management
As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions to make energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green across multiple market segments. The Group has leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centres/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. With 19.6 billion euros sales in 2010, the company’s 110,000+ employees are committed to help individuals and organizations.
Solaris Management Consultants Inc. – Consulting
Established in 1993, Solaris Management Consultants Inc. is a multi-disciplined engineering, procurement and construction management company, servicing the oil & gas and petroleum industries. Solaris specializes in the design of gas plants, compression facilities, metering stations and pipeline laterals. Two main areas of service form the core of Solaris’ Operations: Project Management and Engineering Design. Solaris has led the industry by staying on the cutting edge of design and project control technology. Solaris aims to develop a mutual, clear understanding of the client’s needs to ensure successful project execution. Solaris’ approach is distinguished by tailoring service to clients’ operational systems, resources and business priorities, and problem solving with clients to develop fit-for-purpose and cost-effective solutions. Our employees enjoy opportunities to work collaboratively on challenging projects and are able to progress their careers more rapidly than comparable organizations within the same industry.
Stantec – Consulting
Stantec, founded in 1954, provides professional consulting services in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects. Continually striving to balance economic, environmental, and social responsibilities, we are recognized as a world-class leader and innovator in the delivery of sustainable solutions. We support public and private sector clients in a diverse range of markets, at every stage, from initial concept and financial feasibility to project completion and beyond.
In simple terms, the world of Stantec is the water we drink, the routes we travel, the buildings we visit, the industries in which we work, and the neighborhoods we call home.
TELUS – Telecommunications
Headquartered in Burnaby BC, TELUS is a leading telecommunications provider in Canada, whose services include internet access, voice, entertainment, and satellite television. TELUS’ largest enabler business unit, Business Transformation & Technology Operations (BTTO), delivers future friendly solutions to our clients and team members on a national scale, including a robust suite of voice, data, IP and wireless services. BTTO also leads strategic and transformational programs such as broadband wireless and wire line initiatives and next generation service management projects. Our team members focus on designing, planning, building, operating, and assuring the entire TELUS network while also delivering client service excellence.
Teradici – IT and Network Solutions
Teradici, based in Vancouver, Canada, is a fabless semiconductor company delivering both hardware and software solutions. Driving innovation to fundamentally change the way people use and deploy computers, by developing technology and solutions that deliver a true, uncompromised PC user experience over IP networks. With our unique concept which we call PC-over-IP, we deliver an uncompromised experience while providing rigorous security and superior management of the computing system. Since 2004, we’ve focused on designing and developing silicon-based technology that will forever change the way enterprises compute. The concept is simple, bridging a true PC or workstation computing experience over the network.
