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Schneider Electric offers a comprehensive response for residential, building, energy and infrastructure and data and networks markets with energy efficiency solutions that help turn energy saving into growth!

Schneider Electric has unique positions to provide innovative integrated solutions making energy safer, more reliable, more efficient and more productive. Combining leading edge new businesses – building automation and security, installation systems and control, power monitoring and control, critical power and cooling services – to our historical strengths of power and control, we provide comprehensive unique answers for residential, building, energy and infrastructure and data and networks markets.

We have developed a unique worldwide capability to provide these solutions and transform the way people power & control their environment. Our solutions help customers reduce costs, stay connected at all times and tap into an ultra pure, secure and uninterrupted power supply.

http://www.schneider-electric.com/

Discover what over 138 years of business security experience means to you.

Working to help secure the majority of Fortune 500 companies, as well as businesses of all sizes, Tyco Integrated Security is the experienced partner you can rely on for advanced business security solutions.

A HISTORY OF LEADERSHIP.

A PASSION TO ADVANCE BUSINESS SECURITY.

http://www.tycois.com/

For 100 years the innovative ideas from Siemens have helped make Canada a better place. From the Atlantic to Pacific oceans, more than 4,400 employees in Canada work together to provide answers that last in the fields of industry, energy and healthcare, as well as deliver infrastructure solutions for cities. Sales for Siemens in Canada in fiscal 2011 (ended September 30), were $3.0 billion CAD. The company has 61 offices and 13 manufacturing/assembly facilities across Canada.

http://www.siemens.ca

Integral Analytics (IA) creates concise solutions that are essential to the success of our clients. An analytical software and consulting firm, IA includes experts in engineering, statistics, software design, and operations research.

Based on sophisticated analytical methods, Integral Analytics creates powerful tools that can reach every aspect of the energy industry. Our tools provide our clients with precise valuations and forecasts, faster and more cost effectively. Our products will bring clarity to your business, benefit your budgets, and ultimately provide more harmony with our ecosystem.

Using sophisticated stochastic methods that explicitly value the effects of extreme weather at the hourly level, IA's Causal Simulation Models are currently used to:

• Value DSM/DR programs in support of IRP planning
• Forecast loads for T&D engineering and reliability planning
• Measure transformer overloading and load at risk (LARA),
• Value customer margins and loads for cost-to-tariff, customer switching, and fixed bill analysis
• Optimize supply-side resource planning
• Measure structured commodity value and utility Value-at-Risk (VaR)
• Report nodal and locational cost of supply

http://www.integralanalytics.com

RuggedCom designs and manufactures Rugged communications equipment for harsh electrical and climatic environments. Founded by people with strong backgrounds in electric utility and industrial automation we at RuggedCom have a first hand understanding of the needs and issues faced by our customers. This is reflected in RuggedCom's industry leadership in pioneering technologies and products which offered the world's first IEC 61850-3 compliant Ethernet switch suitable for use in electric utility substation environments, the world's first IEEE 1613 Class 2 error free communications devices, the world's fastest network fault recovery and the world's first fully managed IP67 rated Ethernet switch. Other industry specific innovations have made our products the product of choice for high-reliability, high-availability, mission-critical communications networks deployed in harsh environments around the world.

Our corporate headquarters are located in Concord, Ontario, Canada with regional offices in ten locations across the United States and Europe. RuggedCom sales representatives and distributors can be found in over 25 countries around the world to provide knowledgeable and timely support.

http://www.ruggedcom.com/

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) 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 2011 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.

Fortinet's flagship FortiGate security appliances deliver ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security designed to help protect against application and network threats. Our broad product line of complementary solutions goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise - from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and applications.

Fortinet generated $434m revenue and 34% year-over-year growth in 2011. The company is solidly profitable with more than $600M in cash, and has been cash flow positive for more than six years.

http://www.fortinet.com

Frost & Sullivan enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. We leverage 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from over 40 offices on six continents.

http://www.frost.com

Founded in 1891, the Canadian Electricity Association (CEA) is the national forum and voice of the evolving electricity business in Canada. The Association contributes to the regional, national and international success of its members through the delivery of quality value-added services.

At the heart of CEA is a core of corporate utility member companies. In addition, major electrical manufacturers and corporate consulting companies and several hundred other company and individual members are grouped within CEA's broad structure.

Vision: The Canadian Electricity Association will be the voice of the electricity industry.

Mission Statement: A safe, secure, reliable, sustainable and competitively-priced supply of electricity is essential to Canada's prosperity.

CEA is the voice of the Canadian electricity industry, promoting electricity as the critical enabler of the economy and Canadians' expectations for an enhanced quality of life.

Strategic Goals: Based on extensive consultations with the leaders of CEA's member companies, the Association's strategic goals provide a comprehensive roadmap to addressing the industry's most pressing issues.

Six main priority areas present the framework for CEA's objectives:

• infrastructure;
• energy efficiency;
• technology;
• regulation;
• environment; and
• security.

http://www.electricity.ca/

APPrO is a non-profit organization representing more than 100 companies involved in the generation of electricity in Ontario, including generators and suppliers of services, equipment and consulting services. APPrO members produce power from co-generation, hydro-electric, gas, coal, nuclear, wind energy, waste wood and other sources. APPrO's members currently produce over 98% of the electricity made in Ontario.

For the first 17 years of its operation, the organization was known as IPPSO, the Independent Power Producers' Society of Ontario. In 2002, when Ontario's electricity market was officially opened to competition, the organization began a process in which it broadened its scope to include more generators, and changed its name to APPrO, the Association of Power Producers of Ontario.

http://www.appro.org/

Electricity Today Magazine (with a combined Canada and U.S. print circulation of 23,000 electric power professionals and a total reach of 40,000 readers) is distributed in both print and digital format to North American T&D electric utility engineering, construction and maintenance personnel, and consulting engineers.

http://www.electricity-today.com/

Navigant Research is a market research and consulting team that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research and demand assessment, and deep examination of technology trends to provide a comprehensive view of these industry sectors.

http://www.navigant.com/pikeresearch

Smart Grid Today's mission is to deliver daily, unbiased, comprehensive and original reporting on emerging trends, applications and policies driving the modern utility industry -- in a signature format our founders have developed over 40 years in the trade news business, featuring highly concise and easy-to-understand news copy based on trusted reporting, exclusive interviews, informed analysis and strategic insights that our subscribers rely on to succeed every business day. SmartGridToday.com features a complete searchable archive of over 4,0000 articles and hundreds of downloadable PDF files, events calendar, discounts on selected items and more. Do not miss out on a single day of the deepest reporting on the smart grid you can find anywhere. Visit http://www.SmartGridToday.com/TRIAL to sign up for a 14-day risk-free trial today.

http://www.smartgridtoday.com/

Over 800 of Toronto's most influential Property and Facility Managers, Developers, Leasing Agents, Service Providers, Industry Influencers and Commercial Real Estate Professionals in its membership roster, representing 80 per cent of all commercial and industrial real estate companies in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

http://www.bomatoronto.org/

Since 1952, award-winning Building magazine has been reporting on the news and issues of Canada's building development industry, bringing together the various components of the building process, presenting new concepts, defining the trends, and introducing innovative products. Read by building developers, property managers, architects, builders and contractors Building magazine provides advertisers with an opportunity to reach the complete building development team through one publication.

http://www.building.ca/

The Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) is the voice of the Canadian information and communications technologies (ICT) industry. ITAC represents a diverse ICT community spanning telecommunications and internet services, ICT consulting services, hardware, microelectronics, software and electronic content. ITAC's community of companies accounts for more than 70 per cent of the 572,000 jobs, $140.5 billion in revenue, $6.0 billion in R&D investment, $31.4 billion in exports and $11.4 billion in capital expenditures that the ICT industry contributes annually to the Canadian economy. ITAC is a prominent advocate for the expansion of Canada's innovative capacity and for stronger productivity across all sectors through the strategic use of technology.

http://www.itac.ca/