The Canadian Women in Communications 2013 Awards Gala will take place at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel. The evening will begin with a cocktail reception at 5 p.m. and will continue with dinner and awards at 6 p.m. A dessert reception will then take place at 9 p.m. Visit the website for more details.

The Canadian Spectrum Summit 2013 will take place at Ryerson University. Speakers for this event include Bernard Lord, president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, Michael Marcus, chair of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communication Policy, 2012, and Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board member Phillipa Marks, among others. Visit the website for more details.

The Data Effect conference will take place at the Ottawa Convention Centre and will look at how the use of Big Data can improve outcomes in areas such as healthcare, drug and social policy research and public safety among others. Speakers will include Bernard Lord, president and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, Alison Brooks, research director at IDC Government Insights and Jacomo Corbo, the Canada research chair in information and performance management among others. Treasury Board of Canada President Tony Clement will also make a keynote address. Visit the website for more details.

The Banff World Media Festival 2013 will take place at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in June. This yearly event brings together more than 150 professionals from the television and digital media sectors to participate in various panels and master classes on co-production, scripted content and pitching among many others. Visit the website for more details.

Join Conservative MP Tony Clement for an expert discussion on the future of open data in Canada. Other guests will include open innovation expert David Eaves, Albert Lai, co-founder of Kontagent and co-founder and CEO of Viking Games, Kevin Merritt, founder and CEO of Socrata, Edward Ocampo-Gooding, co-founder of Open Data Ottawa, Ray Sharma, founder and chair of XMG Studios and Stephen Walker, senior director and chief information officer at the Treasury Secretariat. Tune in online at www.youtube.com/user/TonyClementMP or on Google+ at plus.google.com/+GoogleCanada. For more information contact Lauren Brent at 613-954-2894 or Lauren.Brent@tbs-sct.ca

The 2013 Canadian Internet Forum will take place at the Ottawa Convention Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive. The event will feature a keynote address by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart on the Internet landscape in Canada, as well as a panel discussion with Karen Mulberry from the Internet Society, CRTC commissioner Tim Denton, Matthew Johnson from MediaSmarts and technology journalist Shane Schick. Visit the website for more details.

Startup Canada will present Bridging the Financial Literacy Gap, the first of its 2013 Live Series events that focus on hot button issues within startup communities to advance Canadian entrepreneurship. Startup Canada said the event will be live-streamed from the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management Centre for Executive Leadership. Speakers will include Maxime Bernier, minister of state for small business and Jeff Cates, managing director at Intuit Canada. The event will also feature a panel discussion with participants from the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund and the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education. Visit the website for more details.

The Banff World Media Festival will hold Banff Industry Day Toronto at the Four Seasons Hotel, 60 Yorkville Avenue. Speakers for this event will include Kevin Crull, president of Bell Media, Keith Pelley, president of Rogers Media, John Cassaday, CEO and president of Corus Entertainment Inc. and Paul Robertson, group vice-president broadcasting and president of Shaw Media as well as CBC English services executive vice-president Kirstine Stewart. The event will be moderated by Peter Sussman, executive chairman at Aver Media. Visit the website for more details.

The Women's Executive Network will host a National Breakfast series event focused on Canada's most powerful women. The event will feature a round table discussion with Karen McBride, president and CEO of the Canadian Bureau for International Education, Karen Meades, president of Ottawa Health Services Network Inc. and Roseann O'Reilly Runte, president and vice-chancellor of Carleton University. All three women are winners of the network's Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Awards. The price for network members is $65 plus HST and $82 plus HST for non-members. The breakfast will take place at the Rideau Club, 99 Bank street on the fifteenth floor.

The 2013 Canadian Wireless Trade Show will take place at the Toronto Congress Centre. The show will feature hundreds of exhibitors and many informative seminars. Attendee registration will open in March. Visit the website for more details.