It’s been an amazing few weeks – lots of travel and exciting news.

I started this recent road trip in New York at the 2008 KidScreen Summit. We got great exposure after last year’s win for our cross-platform kids game CIE, so we had a busy week of meetings in the Big Apple with new projects, clients and production partners.

After KidScreen, I flew to San Francisco for meetings at the Game Developers Conference with Jason, and then headed to Vancouver to pitch at the Fusion Digital Media Venture Forum. Fusion is the only financing event in the west dedicated to digital media, so we were excited to have the opportunity to pitch to investors from Vancouver, Seattle and Silicon Valley very familiar with the digital entertainment space. After an 8-minute pitch, and a barrage of questions, the judging investors awarded us with the Best of Show award. As a result of this recognition, we won a trip to Seattle and Silicon Valley for follow up meetings with several top-tier venture capital firms.

A few weeks later, I headed to Calgary as a finalist for the Marketing Award of Distinction at the Alberta Business Awards gala event (hosted by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce). Up against stiff competition from Micralyne (Edmonton), Calgary Public Library, and Community Savings (Red Deer), we won the award, which was presented by Ruth Kelly from Alberta Venture. Being personally congratulated for our achievements by Premier Ed Stelmach was a pretty sweet highlight and a great honour too.