Getting it Right the First time, RIM and bOK Systems
Jesse Boudreau, Vice-President Blackberry Software Innovations, RIM
Aydin Mirzaee, CEO Founder bOK Systems

Big company or small,  a 1.0 release is always a major milestone.  Get it right and market momentum is much easier build, make a mistake and the consequences can be huge.  We will here from both sides, Aydin Mirzaee founder of bOK Systems, a start-up company with everything on the line, and Jesse Boudreau RIM’s VP BlackBerry  Software Innovations , an  entrepreneur turned executive, with a proven track record of delivering successfully 1.0’s.

Date:	Wednesday November 21, 2007
Time:	6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location:	bitHeads 1309 Carling Ave. (East side of Westgate Mall)
Cost:	FREE of charge - please RSVP to sfitzpatrick@ocri.ca complimentary snacks and beverages are also provided

Aydin Mirzaee, CEO Founder bOK Systems
Aydin graduated from the University of Ottawa with a 9.9/10 GPA only a year ago and ran his own web-consulting firm for a few years to pay his way through university. He was a founding member of the Student World Assembly, an organization that started with 10 members and in only a few years has grown to 12,000+ members in over 100 countries. Aydin helped raise over a quarter million dollars for the SWA during his time with the organization.

Most recently, Aydin is the Founder and CEO of bOK Systems an innovative communications company. bOK is an early stage Ottawa based business that has already succeed in creating an active user base for their product.  bOK is a startup to watch in Ottawa.

Jesse Boudreau, Vice-President BlackBerry, Research In Motion (RIM) Limited
Jesse Boudreau is Vice-President BlackBerry Software Innovations with Research In Motion (RIM) Limited, operating out of the company's Kanata office. His development team is responsible for RIM's new Unite! Product, the BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Novell GroupWise as well as RIM's BlackBerry Maps product.

Jesse joined RIM in 2004 after the company acquired technology assets from his firm J.B. Technologies Inc. Prior to this, Jesse was President and CEO of Pictorius, a venture-backed pioneer in the web application server, application development environment and content management software
markets. Jesse joined Pictorius after a ten-year career at Nortel’s Information Systems group where his responsibilities included managing a multi-site development organization of over 350 application development staff.