Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the opportunity to address the committee, and a special thank you to the member for Don Valley East for the introduction.
First, I'd like to introduce the team. We have Mark Patterson, the director of the Ted Rogers Career Centre. We have Mr. Doug Walker, the CEO of WhoPlusYou, and Mr. Jay Tanner, the chief technology officer.
I bring greetings from our president, Sheldon Levy, who would have been here but is at convocation.
The context is that Ryerson has a long tradition of dealing with career-based education and with entrepreneurship, innovation, and commercialization. One of our goals is really to have the best university in Canada in terms of connecting our students and recent alumni to work and related careers.
At Ryerson University, we've also established the Digital Media Zone, and that particular enterprise really does foster new innovative ideas and technologies. One of them is the WhoPlusYou system, which is really a new way of looking at the Canadian job market, and it's actually turning it around. We now have businesses driving the agenda, rather than simply having people looking for jobs. It's the reverse: jobs are chasing people rather than people chasing jobs.
The purpose of this presentation is twofold: first, to introduce you to the capacity of the WhoPlusYou system, and second, to give you some ideas of our future plans to develop the system more fully.
I'm going to turn the presentation over to the CEO of WhoPlusYou, Mr. Doug Walker, who will talk about the system.
Doug.