Toronto StartupDigest – October 31, 2011

by Founders on November 1, 2011

Below is an archived version of the Toronto StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Toronto. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! Happy Halloween folks! This week’s notable events include iOSTO’s first meetup at the Artful Dodger pub and Mobile StartupsTO meetup on pricing and app metrics. Next week’s highlighted events include Ruby Hack Night, AccelerateTO, Geeky Drinks and Boardgames (we’ll be playing Settlers of Catan!), and Mobile Monday.

Be sure to check out meshmarketing on Nov. 15. The event features a morning of food-for-thought keynotes, followed by an afternoon of hands-on, interactive and engaging workshops and panels. Speakers include Klout.com’s Joe Fernandez, WestJet’s Greg Hounslow and Edelman’s Steve Rubel. The discount code to get 10 percent off the regular ticket price is “mesh10off”.

As a reminder, Toronto Startup Weekend is coming up on Nov. 18-20, so be sure to register now before it gets all booked up!

Please let us know if we’re missing any key events and we’ll be glad to include them in future digests through our submission form.

- Will

Toronto StartupDigest is curated by:
Will Lam – Founder of Date Ideas and keeps a blog on Entrepreneurship
Josh Sookman – CEO, Guardly
 
 

What’s Going on in the Toronto Startup Community

Engineering-IT Career Fair

When: Tuesday, November 1. 10am – 5pm

Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St. W, Toronto, ON

Looking for a change? Do you have at least 2 years of experience in computer technology, telecommunications, multimedia or other related fields? Why not come and explore new career horizons at the Technology Career Fair!

 

iOSTO – First meetup!

When: Tuesday, November 1. 7 PM

Where: The Artful Dodger, 10 Isabelle St, Toronto, ON

We are trying to organize something informal for the first one so we can get to know each other. Maybe some presentations. For now, the event is set to be at the Artful Dodger, it’s close to Yonge and Bloor Station and Wellesley Station.

 

Solid PHP & Code Smells: Part 1

When: Wednesday, November 2. 7 PM

Where: MarketCrashers Inc. 231 Wallace St, Toronto, ON

Take a big step towards becoming a “PHP Rock Star” by taking part in this awesome five part series on Object Oriented design in PHP. SOLID is a collection of principals which help programmers to write maintainable and extendible object oriented code. In this five part series Vic Metcalfe will explore each of these principles in detail.

 

MobileStartupsTO: Ep #7 Figuring out pricing and app metrics

When: Thursday, November 3. 7 PM

Where: Ryerson DMZ, 10 Dundas St. East, AMC-502, Toronto, ON

If you are going to be successful in starting a mobile company, you’re going to have to learn how to set and measure the right numbers! In this session, we’ll talk about mobile-related numbers in two parts: pricing and app metrics.

 

Top Upcoming Toronto Startup Events

Nov 15 - MeshMarketing

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