Events

Design Exchange

Take advantage of four days of free admission with your IIDEX/NeoCon Canada badge. View the DX feature exhibition MILANO MADE IN DESIGN. Explore the DX’s Permanent Collection of post 1945 Industrial Design, the only collection of its kind in Canada. Hours are 10 AM to 5 PM weekdays, and 12 PM to 5 PM weekends. For more information, call 416.216.2160 or visit www.dx.org

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche is a 12 hour contemporary art exhibition commissioned by the City of Toronto. Modeled after the event by the same name in Paris, Nuit Blanche Toronto is at once a “high” art event and a free populous event that embraces the carnival and is accessible to the public. From sunset to sunrise city spaces or neighbourhoods are transformed into temporary exhibition “zones”. Alongside the Nuit Blanche Exhibition presented by the City of Toronto, cultural institutions from museums to artist run centres open their doors and offer free all night access to contemporary art. Unusual or forbidden spaces become sites of contemporary art open for all-night discovery and rediscovery such as parks, swimming pools, libraries, and heritage buildings. Nuit Blanche is a Live With Culture initiative that demonstrates the City of Toronto’s commitment to the arts by raising awareness of Toronto’s thriving cultural scene both locally and internationally.

www.livewithculture.ca

IIDEX/NeoCon Canada Product and Booth Innovation Awards

The IIDEX/NeoCon Canada Innovation Awards are a high profile event exclusively for IIDEX exhibitors. The importance of design, innovation and sustainability is reflected by the sponsorship of the awards by Canadian Business Magazine who will also publish a special supplement on the Innovation Awards in early December 2006. Join your industry colleagues, presidents of professional associations and leading designers to celebrate this important event. This award honours excellence in design, creativity and the achievement of a long list of criteria including: problem solving, budget strategy, and environmental responsiveness and marketing issues among others.  This event is no-charge

Exclusive to IIDEX - Canadian Business Magazine Supplement on Award Winning Design

For the first time ever in Canada a major Canadian consumer magazine, Canadian Business will publish a special supplement highlighting the winners of the ARIDO Awards of Excellence and the Product and Booth Innovation Awards. The supplement will appear in early December and will showcase the best our industry has to offer as well as provide Canadian Business readers with detailed coverage on the importance of the Canadian design sector and the vital role it plays in the Canadian economy. 

Click here for the Product Innovation Award Entry Form.
Click here for the Booth Innovation Award Entry Form.

Sponsors:

IIDEX/NeoCon Canada Welcome Reception

Join in the traditional end-of-day celebration as the IIDEX/NeoCon Canada show floor shifts into hospitality mode. Meet up with friends and colleagues while touring the exhibit floor prior to the ARIDO Awards celebration which takes place in Heritage Court immediately following the cocktail reception.

2006 ARIDO Awards of Excellence

ARIDO Awards of Excellence 2006
Inspired by Good Works

Celebrating conscientious design, living and Good Works, the ARIDO Awards of Excellence gala is a must-attend event.  Join us for an elegant and celebratory evening, featuring an inspirational address from Craig Kielburger, social innovator and founder of Free the Children, followed by a three-course dinner and the much-anticipated ARIDO Awards of Excellence. Our MC for the evening, Ray Staples, joined by ARIDO President, Lynn McGregor, is sure to keep things moving, and has warned us well in advance that she does intend to visit each winning entry for herself - just in case we missed anything!  For those of you who don’t know Ray, she is an ARIDO Life Member, served as president of ARIDO in 1974 and has been a favourite personality on Citytv’s CityLine.

Exclusive to IIDEX - Canadian Business Magazine Supplement on Award Winning Design
For the first time ever in Canada a major Canadian consumer magazine, Canadian Business will publish a special supplement highlighting the winners of the ARIDO Awards of Excellence and the Product and Booth Innovation Awards. The supplement will appear in early December and will showcase the best our industry has to offer as well as provide Canadian Business readers with detailed coverage on the importance of the Canadian design sector and the vital role it plays in the Canadian economy. 

A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact ARIDO at (416) 921-2127 ext. 233 for details.

Tickets: 
Early Bird Rates - Before Sept. 15:
$150 per person; Tables of 10 - $1450.

After Sept. 15:
$200 per person; Tables of 10 - $1950. 
Business Attire.

Tickets for the ARIDO Awards of Excellence will be mailed to you separately by ARIDO. If you have any questions regarding the awards ceremony, ticketing or sponsorship of the awards please contact: Jenn Taggart / ARIDO 416-921-2127 or 1-800-334-1180, Ext. 226 or via email to

Healthcare Site Visit and Sustainable Tour (SE 4)

Healthcare
9:30 - 11:00 AM
MaRS

MaRS was created in 2000 by a group of visionary business and community leaders concerned about Canada’s performance in the innovation economy. By fortunate coincidence, the site of the old Toronto General Hospital was for sale as part of a redevelopment plan of the University Health Network, and the MaRS College of Founders took the initiative of securing the land to build a convergence centre. This became the physical anchor for the MaRS vision. The MaRS Centre will be a 1.5 million square-foot facility. The Tour will be conducted by:

Nina Gazzola is the Director of Operations and is also responsible for Tenant Relations. She is an integral part of the Real Estate, Property Management Team and the Operations of the MaRS Centre.
Allen Gelberg: Allen Gelberg is Director of the MaRS Collaboration Centre and manages all aspects of the MaRS Collaboration Centre.

Site Visit 2

Sustainable Site Visit
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
SAS Canada Headquarters

SAS Canada’s newly completed corporate headquarters, located at 280 King Street East stands eight storey’s high and features the latest advancements in environmental and architectural design. It is these qualities that are allowing it to become the first commercial office building in Toronto that is LEED* (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) registered.

From the outset, SAS’ vision for the building was clear: apply practical pollution prevention technologies to lower costs and environmental impact, use recycled over raw materials when possible, create a better work environment for SAS employees and revitalize the downtown east community.

True to its promise, today the building uses 30 to 50 percent less energy then that of a comparable building of typical design. Rainwater collected in tanks is treated and reused in the flushing of bathroom fixtures and appliances. Its structural concrete contains a high percentage of recycled material. These are only of few of the ways the new SAS headquarters has implemented their environmentally friendly design; for a complete listing visit www.sas.com/280King.

The tour will be conducted by Jerome McDermott, SAS Canada’s manager of real estate development.

CEU Credit: 0.1
Fee for both tours is $85

The bus departs and returns from outside of Hall A at the Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’ Blvd. at Exhibition Place at 9:00 AM Sharp. Space is limited to 25 people.

Stratus Vineyards Sustainable Site Visit (SE3)

Join in the fourth annual off-site GREEN event; a bus journey that includes an escorted tour and wine tasting at Stratus Vineyards. Stratus is a sustainable, innovative winery located in the heart of Niagara wine country in the historic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Stratus is dedicated to growing and producing limited quantities of premium wine by adhering to the principles of rigorously low yields and a harvest mandate that relies on hand picking and meticulous attention to fruit selection plus the production of wine based on a true gravity flow system.

Stratus Vineyards is the first building in Canada to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the Canada Green Building Council. Stratus is at present the only winery worldwide to fully achieve this designation. The innovative building was designed by local architect Les Andrew of Andrew Incorporated Architect with a chic tasting room and boutique by Diego Burdi of Burdifilek. A representative of the architecture/design team and the owner of the winery will be present to provide a first hand tour of this world-class facility.

The bus departs and returns from outside of Hall A at the Direct Energy Centre 100 Princes’ Blvd at Exhibition Place at 9:00 AM Sharp.

September 30, 2006
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
CEU Credit: 0.1
Fee: $85
Fee Includes: Morning coffee, wine tasting and lunch sponsored by Teknion
Sponsored by: Teknion

PPG Presents: Translating Emotions and Thoughts into Colour and Design

A designs emotional connection is as important as its function and beauty. The responsibility now lies with the designer to understand their users’ deepest needs and desires and presents their users with colour and design is authentic and meaningful. To learn more on this exciting topic please join Josette Buisson, Artistic Director of Pittsburgh Paints will present the 2006 Destinations for Colour and Design.