The Public Interest Advocacy Centre's (PIAC) annual dinner will take place at Yangtze Restaurant, 700 Somerset St. This event will feature a keynote address by Jean-Pierre Blais, the new chairman of the CRTC.

The Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC) will hold its second annual Canadian ISP Summit at the Toronto Hilton. The event will feature keynote speeches, session presentations, tutorials, track sessions, and general session panels. Speakers will include Jonathan Daniels, vice-president regulatory law at Bell, and Dr. Michael Geist, the Canada research chair in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa among others. Visit the website for more details.

Canada's largest Android development conference, AndroidTO, will take place at Toronto's Scotiabank Theatre. The one-day event will feature speakers such as Kim Pimmel, the design lead for Adobe Systems Inc.'s user experience team, Matthew Patience, technical director of mobile at BNOTIONS, and software engineer, author, teacher and entrepreneur Faisal Abid, who will present "10 Things Every Android Developer Should Know," among several others. Visit the website for more details.

The International Federation of Actors (FIA) will host 150 performers and representatives from 75 countries at the 2012 FIA World Congress. At the event, FIA said performers and representatives will come together to discuss topics such as ensuring decent working conditions for performers, unions uniting to protect performers' rights, and promoting equality as well as non-discrimination in the workplace.

The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Global Symposium for Regulators will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event will host various debates focused on telecom "hot topics" such as net neutrality, innovative spectrum policies, cloud computing and data piracy, as well as broadband implementation strategies. Visit the website for more details.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will present the ITU Telecom World 2012 conference in Dubai. The event will bring together various international speakers for a conversation and debate focused on "the radical transformation of the ICT industry and the crucial importance of ensuring that connectivity in a transformed world is universal, fair, open and secure." Speakers at the event will include Wim Elfrink, executive vice-president of emerging solutions at Cisco Systems Inc., and Ulf Ewaldsson, chief technical officer at Ericsson, among others. Visit the website for more details.

Merging Media 2012 is intended for media professionals from film/television, advertising, interactive content creation, writers, digital media consulting, mobile and web developing, social activism, broadcasting, transmedia content creation, publishing, gaming, and others. The third annual Merging Media Conference takes place Thursday and Friday, Oct. 25-26, 2012. Visit the website for presenters and more information. 

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television (ACCT) will hold a news conference to announce details of its film, television and digital media awards. The awards will be broadcast on CBC on March 3, 2013. Representatives of the ACCT, Helga Stephenson, CEO and Martin Katz, chair, will unveil the new awards design, logo, the name of the Academy's new awards and the awards ceremony host. The news conference will take place at the TIFF Lounge, TIFF Bell Lightbox at 350 King Street West.

Watchdog group the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is inviting Vancouver residents to a town hall meeting to weigh in on the future of CBC/Radio-Canada. The meeting will take place at the Visitor Centre of the Van Dusen Gardens and will be moderated by Arthur Black, a Saltspring Island writer, broadcaster and former host of CBC Radio's Basic Black. The Vancouver town hall meeting is part of a series and will be followed by a meeting in Victoria on Aug. 14, 2012. Visit the website for more details.

The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Canada East Region will host the 2012 Canada Business Communicators Summit on "Communication Trends 2013." This event will take place at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel and will feature various panelists as well as speakers who will discuss emerging trends and technologies that will help delegates get ahead of the competition in 2013. The event will also feature a keynote address from Dr. Darrell Bricker, CEO of public affairs at Ipsos. Visit the website for more details.