Media Advisory - Update - Scotia Capital's Telecom and Tech Conference to be
Broadcast on Web

TORONTO, Nov. 15 /CNW/ - Scotia Capital and our Network Research Group extend an invitation to you to attend our 11th annual Telecom and Tech Conference. This year's participating companies represent a broad range of service and product providers in the Technology and Telecom sectors. Presentations will be interactive and promise to deliver timely insights and views to conference participants. We look forward to your participation. Audio portions of the presentations will be broadcast live on the web beginning at 9:00 a.m.

Scheduled presenters and times* are:

Tuesday, November 16

9:00 a.m.  9:30 a.m.  10:00 a.m.  10:40 a.m.  11:10 a.m.  1:20 p.m.  1:50 p.m.  2:20 p.m.

MTS Allstream, Pierre Blouin, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bell Aliant , Karen Sheriff, President and CEO Sandvine Corp, Dave Caputo, President and CEO Rogers Communications, Nadir Mohamed, President and CEO Cogeco Cable Inc., Louis Audet, President and CEO BCE Inc., George Cope, CEO CGI Group Inc., David Anderson, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Open Text Corporation, Paul McFeeters, CFO

Listeners may access the conference live via a web audio link at www.scotiacapital.com.  The conference will be archived on Scotia Capital's website for three months.

* Agenda is subject to change. See www.scotiacapital.com for most current schedule.

Scotia Capital is the wholesale banking arm of the Scotiabank Group, offering a wide variety of corporate and investment banking and capital markets products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Scotia Capital provides full-service coverage across North America, and also serves selected niche markets globally. It has 29 offices and more than 300 relationship managers organized around industry specialties. For more information, please visit www.scotiacapital.com.

Scotiabank is one of North America's premier financial institutions and Canada's most international bank. With close to 69,000 employees, Scotiabank Group and its affiliates serve approximately 12.8 million customers in some 50 countries around the world. Scotiabank offers a diverse range of products and services including personal, commercial, corporate and investment banking. With more than $485 billion in assets (as at July 31, 2009), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (BNS) and New York Exchanges (BNS). For more information please visit www.scotiabank.com.

For further information:

Joe Konecny at [phone] or [email protected]