The event took place in City Hall in downtown Stratford, across the street from the Stratford Institute building, which will be home to the new ICF Institute in 2012.
The City Hall Auditorium was filled with community and business leaders, electronic and print media and special guests, including senior executives from Toshiba’s Japan and USA offices. They had gathered to learn more about the Institute and to promote an innovative project that will also be underway in 2012.
Shortly after Noon Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson welcomed the audience and described the work that Stratford had done as one of the world’s designated Intelligent Communities. He emphasized that Stratford is becoming a place where innovation and beta tests of new digital technologies flourish. He noted that Toshiba, Research in Motion, and others, have joined Open Text in committing to Stratford for their high-end strategic initiatives. The mayor noted that it was because it had established itself as a Top Seven community in 2011 and one that was conducive to creativity, innovation and an openness to support R&D, test bed projects and the study of Intelligent Communities.
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