Holiday Inn on King Location http://www.hiok.com/location.htm
From the Airport...
The Holiday Inn On King is approximately a 30 - 40 minute cab ride from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Alternatively, a regular Airport Express shuttle bus service leaves the airport every 20 minutes (during peak times) or 30 minutes (during off peak times) for a number of major downtown Toronto hotels, including the Holiday Inn On King. The shuttle bus service also picks up guests for return trips to the airport.
If you are travelling by car...
From the North…
Travel south on Highway 427 to the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way). Take the QEW east, which turns into the Gardiner Expressway. Travel into Downtown and take the Spadina exit north. Travel north to Adelaide Street and turn right. Follow Adelaide 3 blocks east to Widmer Street and turn right. The Hotel entrance is located on the right side, just before King Street.
From the South (Niagara Falls)…
Take the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way) east, which turns into the Gardiner Expressway. Travel into downtown and take the Spadina exit north. Travel north to Adelaide Street and turn right. Follow Adelaide 3 blocks east to Widmer Street and turn right. The Hotel entrance is located on the right side, just before King Street.
From the East (Kingston / Oshawa)…
Follow Highway 401 westbound to the Don Valley Parkway (DVP). Take the DVP south to the Gardiner Expressway into Downtown. Take the Spadina exit north and travel north to Adelaide Street. Turn right on Adelaide and follow 3 blocks east to Widmer Street. Turn right. The Hotel entrance is located on the right side, just before King Street.
From the West (Windsor / London)…
Follow the 401 eastbound to Highway 427. Travel south on Highway 427 to the QEW (Queen Elizabeth Way). Take the QEW east, which turns into the Gardiner Expressway. Travel into Downtown and take the Spadina exit north. Travel north to Adelaide Street and turn right. Follow Adelaide 3 blocks east to Widmer Street and turn right. The Hotel entrance is located on the right side, just before King Street.
Public Transportation
If you're taking public transportation, the hotel is merely four blocks west of the St. Andrew's subway station located at the corner of King Street and University Avenue. And it is just five short blocks northwest of the city's train station, Union Station.

Please send me a confirmation email if you are interested to attend
info@kadotranslations.com
Iolanta

Dear colleagues,
On February 16, 2007 SDL TRADOS Technologies Forum - Toronto will take place.
It is a free seminar.
Here is the agenda if you are interested to attend:
Date: Friday 16th February 2007, 09.30 - 16.30
Location: Holiday Inn on King
AGENDA
09.30 – 10.00 Registration
Tea, coffee & pastries
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome
Bill Willette, SDL TRADOS Technologies
10.15 – 11.00 Guest presentation
Freny Liska, Senior Translator, Rotary International
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45 SDL Trados Synergy and a sneak peak of SDL Trados 2007
Todd Perrault, SDL TRADOS Technologies
11.45 – 12.30 Guest presentation
Steve Iverson, President, Iverson Language Associates
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break
13.30 – 14.15 The SDL TRADOS Certification program
Tamara Wasserman, SDL TRADOS Technologies
14.15 – 14.45 SDL TRADOS Support and Customer Services
Pascal Boivin, SDL TRADOS Technologies
14.45 – 15.15 Coffee break
15.15 – 16.00 SDL MultiTerm Technology, are you really managing your terminology
properly?
Todd Perrault, SDL TRADOS Technologies
16.00 – 16.25 Q and A session
16.30 Close

Best,
Iolanta

If we are to get serious and do it like a business meeting, where someone does a demo on a software, wouldn't we need a projector? And whatever other equipments required?

Hi , at this point why not to meet more often?
For ex.: in March - friendly lunch ,
in April - CAT meeting? or something similar...

Do we really wish to have a formal seminar instead of friendly (and loud) lunch atmosphere with lost of experience and interesting info. exchange? Can we arrage for someone to talk about CAT software in a separate lunchroom? Just suggestions.

Somebody told me today that if you a resident of North York you can reserve a room at this centre. I wonder if there is any truth in this and if it is worthwhile investigatining???

because I'd prefer to have a pretext to leave the Steel City for a few hours. :) I prefer Toronto.

How about Hamilton, or Guelph, or even Oakville (as it was mentioned in the beginning), for a change? I live 3 hours N/W of Toronto, so of course, I'm biased... :-)

Halton is just too inaccessible. Toronto is on the GO lines and has public transportation. There are many libraries and other public venues in Toronto.

Hi Guys,
I have great news. What do you think about the Halton Multicultural Council as a place to meet next time? The suggestion is not coming from me, but from the Translation & Interpretation Coordinator. She's my boss (to start with) and was very excited to join our meeting, but couldn't make it. She'd love to meet with you guys, especially when it comes to arranging a professional lecture. I guess she can help us with that too. Thoughts.....

Sure I was just entering a thought. It was a lot of fun to be so loud though. :) That means a lot of people were "voicing". I kind of find the kind of functions where people just mostly sit there wait for a few people to do all the talking kind of boring.

You are right, Angie, we were so loud, but for the next time Eva is planning to invite somebody from a CAT company to give a presentation, so a library would be the most appropriate place for that. After the "official part" we can continue in an ice-cream parlor or even at water attractions. We also have to know the prices.

sounds good

Hello Eva,

Would a library requires us to be quiet though? I noticed we were quite noisy last time, with all of us excitingly trying to converse with one another. I don't know if you would find my suggestion rather silly, but perhaps a venue like a partyroom at McDonald's or some restaurant like that might be better? The fastfood party rooms are usually favoured by kids' birthday parties, but they could be for us too. Or maybe the party room of some other restaurants for us "grown-ups". Hmm?

No problem.

I just now got to see the pictures, they're nice, thanks, Eva. I like that idea about meeting again in early spring. Sure, you can share the e-mail address, it's not a secret. It's great that the meeting was such a fun. Thank you one more time.

:)

Hi Eva
I have nothing against sharing my email address.
Thanks

Sorry..
So...

I am very happy that all of us had a good time. For our next meeting (early Summer) I will try to arrange someone with a CAT tool to provide as with a live presentation or I will get someone from one of the CAT companies (Trados, etc.) to talk to us. I will also look into some "private place" (library?) where we can have a room for just us.

I am not in the position to release anyone's e-mail address without consent.

If you are OK with your e-mail address to be shared with others from the powwow, please reply with simply putting an "OK" in your Post Title.

My e-mail address is balATsympatico.ca (The AT stands for @. spam prevention)

I also want to say thank you to Eva for organizing our meeting and to everyone that swoed up .
Eva,please send us a mailing list with the emails of all attending the meeting .

Looking forward to see you again.
Yolanta
(Kado)

Thank you Eva and everyone who attended for providing this lovely opportunity to meet and discuss profession matters. Hope to see you guys again soon.

Dear Eva, thank you very much for organizing this event. Thanks everyone for the cheerful company, valuable suggestions and interesting stories. And I think nobody will forget the Chinese expression of the day. :)
I also have a few photos to add.

Eva, thank you so much for organizing this Powwow!! I have a couple more photos that I will send to your email so you can include them on the same site as yours. It was great to meet everyone!

It was beyond any expectations I had, everyone wes so incredibly warm and Eva welcome everyone as if we were at her home.....Thank you Eva and to my colleagues for being there...Pasquale

I am joining everyone else in saying thank you so much Eva and everyone else for contributing to this event and I am looking forward to the next gathering, hopefully in the summertime!

It is hard to find another title. You organized an event, booked seats for 16 and 17 people showed up...that is SUCCESS! I will certainly attend the next event if I can.

Eva, thank you so much for organizing the event and also for the nice photos!!

Hi, everyone!I just wanted to thank Eva once more for the great time we all had on Saturday.

Thanks to everyone. I have a few more photos of the powwow. Where can I post them?

It was great meeting everyone. I hope someone got a photo of Eva too! Thanks again.

Thanks Eva for making it all possible and thanks to everyone who came. Hope to see you all again!

Thank you for everyone who came to Shops's yesterday. I think we all had a great time. I am still not able to enter the browniz and the verifications but as soon as the site allows me I will do it. The photos I took can be seen on: http://homepage.mac.com/evabal/PhotoAlbum21.html