Microsoft Alumni Network

The Microsoft Alumni Network is an impressive worldwide community of alumni who share a common experience of having worked at Microsoft. Founded in 1995 by a few alumni who wanted to stay connected, the Alumni Network today is a member organization representing more than 48,000 alumni in 54 countries. While we are independent from Microsoft Corp., the company supports our mission through member benefits and program support. We’re entrepreneurs, tech innovators, career professionals, nonprofit leaders, volunteers, and lifelong learners.

We are managed and led by committed, talented people working as staff members, serving on our board, and volunteering their time to support the Microsoft alumni community.

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Women in Alliances

Alliance Best Practice Ltd (ABP) is a research and benchmarking consultancy based in the UK. We specialise in helping clients to optimise their business to business alliances through the use of identified best practices.

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Women of the Channel

Women of the Channel celebrates and fosters female leadership across the IT channel year-round, continuing and building on the conversations and ideas sparked at our industry-leading Women of the Channel events and brand new Women of The Channel Online site. We provide a forum for sharing perspectives on life and work, recognizing the unique contributions of the women shaping today’s channel, and finding the tools and knowledge to grow and advance both personally and professionally.

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Invest Ottawa

Invest Ottawa is the lead economic development agency for knowledge-based industries in Canada’s Capital, facilitating economic growth and job creation in the City of Ottawa. Guided by a vision to help realize Ottawa’s full potential as a globally-recognized, innovative and future-ready city, and the best place to learn, work, live, and play, Invest Ottawa delivers venture development and global expansion programs and services that catalyze the growth and success of entrepreneurs and firms. These include: small business training; mentorship; acceleration for technology firms; foreign business and investment attraction; local business retention and expansion in targeted sectors; commercialization; and marketing Ottawa’s diversified economy and high quality of life. Since 2012, Invest Ottawa has worked with thousands of startups, scale-ups and SMEs; helped firms to attract more than $565 million in capital; contributed to the creation of more than 7,670 jobs; and attracted more than $446 million in domestic and Foreign Direct Investment.

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Ideagen

Ideagen’s mission is to create a platform for cross-sector collaboration by the world’s leading brands, companies, NGOs, and public sector entities.  By strengthening connections and fostering communication, we will highlight the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on a global stage, and bring together leaders and luminaries, artists and athletes to accelerate innovation and solutions to many of the world’s most vexing issues.

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