Below is an archived version of the Melbourne StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Melbourne.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

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Melbourne StartupDigest is curated by:
Humphrey Laubscher - Co-Founder of a stealth startup focused on improving businesses through customer feedback and loyalty engagement
Geoff Burns – Designing software products and solutions for 15 years

 

 

What’s Going on in the Melbourne Startup Community

Mobile Monday Melbourne (Free – RSVP)
When: Monday 17 Oct 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: The Order of Melbourne, Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Mobile Monday Melbourne –MAPPING & MOBILE

Speakers:
1. The NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) – Presenter: Mark Whitmore, NAVTEQ
2. Jeppesen – Presenter: David Healy, Technical Team Leader, Journey Planning at Jeppesen
3. Roamz – Presenter: Heather Ann Snodgrass, Head of Marketing & Communications at Roamz

 

Startup Weekend Melbourne Pre Party (Free – RSVP)
When: Wednesday 19 Oct 11 at 7:00:00 PM
Where: Section 8 Container Bar, 27-29 Tattersalls Lane Melbourne, Melbourne

We’re having a Startup Weekend pre-party (Wed Oct 19) leading up to Startup Weekend Melbourne (NOV 4-6th) So come down and have a couple of drinks at the awesome Container bar.

 

The Australian Computer Society proudly presents to you the ACS Tea House Toastmasters Club which is an ACS Special Interest Group where members improve their presentation, speaking and listening skills in a supportive professional environment under the guidance and support of the Toastmasters program. The meetings are fun and entertaining as well as instructional, and we meet every third Thursday of each month.

 

Lean Startup Melbourne features talks by driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Speakers: Kaggle – Jeremy Howard, Rome2Rio.

 

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from start-ups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join us, as long as you come with an open mind.

 

The 21st Century Financial Education Summit features over a dozen world renowned speakers, authors, trainers and coaches, including Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, Tim Ferriss, author of New York Times #1 Bestsellers ‘The 4-Hour Body’ and ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’, Eddie McGuire, Host of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’, Jamie McIntyre, author of ‘What I Didn’t Learn At School But Wish I Had’ and many more!

This 2-Day event is going to be a hands-on personal and business development seminar where you will learn how to accelerate your levels of success and implement the latest and most cutting edge trading, property, internet marketing and business strategies!

 

Melbourne Jelly is a fortnightly co-working event where folks from all disciplines get together at a pre-determined location and share a working environment.

 

 

 
Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

October 25 - TiE (Free for Members, $25 Non-Members, $10 Students)
October 26 - Android Australia User Group (Free – RSVP Mandatory)
October 27 - The Churchill Club ($33 Members, $55 Non-Member)
November 4 - Startup Weekend Melbourne ($99/$69 [Students] – Weekend Event)
December 1 - YOW! Developer Conference 2011(2 Day) ($795-$995)

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

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Melbourne StartupDigest is curated by:
Humphrey Laubscher
Geoff Burns – Designing software products and solutions for 15 years

 

 

What’s Going on in the Melbourne Startup Community

Limited WIP Society – The Home of Kanban (Free)
When: Monday 01 Aug 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 14, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne

Limiting WIP is at the heart of doing more with less and understanding, modelling and executing this principle within an organisation is the challenge most leaders face. Lean and Agile Governance is key to reaping the full benefits of Agile projects and scaling Agile to the enterprise level. So how do you design, implement and run an AGILE/Lean PMO or governance model using Lean/Agile principles?

Melbourne Python Meetup (Free – RSVP)
When: Monday 01 Aug 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: RMIT, Building 12, Level 7, Room 2 Cnr Swanston and Franklin Streets, Melbourne

This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas.

 

Social Media Club Melbourne (Free – RSVP)
When: Tuesday 02 Aug 11 at 6:30:00 PM
Where: The Toff, Level 2, 252 Swanston St, Melbourne

Hear from the peoplebehind on of the biggest PR stunts in Australian history. NAB (@nab) will be speaking about how the campaign came about, how they planned the rollout, the day of launch, how social played a key role, the long tail effects of the campaign and how they managed social media throughout.

 

Melbourne Patterns Group (Free)
When: Wednesday 03 Aug 11 at 6:30:00 PM
Where: ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15, 303 Collins Street, Melbourne

The meeting format is two part, designed to satisfy patterns newcomers and more experienced practitioners alike. All interested people are welcome.

The Churchill Club ($33 Members, $55 Non-Member)
When: Thursday 04 Aug 11 at 5:30:00 PM
Where: Upstairs @ The Leveson Hotel, 46 Leveson St, North Melbourne

Cloud business, its everywhere and it appears to be the future. Large IT departments hate it because it means job losses. Management loves it because it means dynamic IT at a reduced cost. And this is just the public side! Private Cloud services are much bigger and becoming the platform du jour for the big end of town collaboration.

 

Melbourne Silicon Beach Drinks (Free – RSVP)
When: Thursday 04 Aug 11 at 6:00:00 PM
Where: The Deck at The Waterside Hotel Rooftop, Corner of Flinders and King Street (entry via Mercantile Place), Melbourne

Silicon Beach is an informal group for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, the interwebs or technology. The active mailinglist is here.

Social Melbourne (Free)
When: Friday 05 Aug 11 at 8:00:00 AM
Where: 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Social Media Melbourne or #socialmelb is a weekly social gathering of passionate and inspirational Melburnians who have one thing in common: social media. On Fridays at 8am, we collaborate and share ideas, stories and views on a variety of topics from startups to business strategy, the latest news and social change to the latest joints worth a visit around Melbourne.

Top Upcoming Melbourne Startup Events

August 11 – The Growth Faculty (SD Special Early Bird Rate $550 then $650 normally $750 – Code:AFF001)
August 12 - PL4YLUNCH (Free – RSVP)
August 12 - Startup Hackathon – Melbourne (Need to Apply at Website)
August 15 - Gamification Workshop (Free – RSVP)
August 15 - Mobile Monday Melbourne (RSVP Required)
August 16 - The Creative Performance Exchange (Free – RSVP)
August 17 - A Social Entrepreneurs Story (Free – RSVP)
August 20 – ProductCamp Melbourne
October 21 - Sir Richard Branson and Tim Ferriss Summit ($197 for 2 People Special)

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

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A question that’s been going through my mind: what is one thing the Montreal tech community needs to propel itself to the next level? 

This week, you’re spared having to go downtown for your startup events as they’re Sud-Ouest with NodeMTL and Plateau with Startup Drinks Montreal. Construction holiday, festivals and major works everywhere does not a happy commute downtown make!

Montreal StartupDigest is curated by:
Robin Ahn – Organizer, StartupDrinks Canada
Tara Hunt – CEO, Buyosphere

 

 

What’s Going on in the Montreal Startup Community

NodeMTL
Where: CakeMail, 4020 Saint-Ambroise, Suite 144
When: Tuesday, 26 July, 2011

At NodeMTL, Pascal will present us Kerouac, a real-time webapp featuring GPS tracking, a webcam and lots of Node.js magic. Jérôme will then present MongoDB and how to interact with it using Mongoose. Also, expect there to be beer.

Startup Drinks Montreal al Fresco
Where: Macaroni Bar Terasse, 4448 Boulevard St. Laurent (cnr Mont-Royal)
When: Wednesday, July 28, 2011, 6pm

Come make the best of the great weather while it lasts at the Macaroni Bar terasse. Talk tech in the open air as you find others to join in that next idea to change the world.

 

This week starts off slowly with the Victoria Day long weekend but this is no excuse for startups to the slacking off. You can make it a day of learning withe the rest of the community as RPM presents the Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast. We’ve also got the first NodeMTL meeting, Montreal Girl Geeks and Startup Drinks Montreal on offer.

Montreal StartupDigest is curated by:
Robin Ahn – Organizer, StartupDrinks Canada
Tara Hunt – CEO, Buyosphere

 

 

What’s Going on in the Montreal Startup Community

Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast
Where: RPM Montreal, 420 Rue Guy (cnr Notre Dame)
When: Monday, May 23, 2011, 12pm – 8:30pm

Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast is a chance to learn from the very best for next to nothing. Last year’s conference was a huge hit with over 70 entrepreneurs attending this simulcast from Eric Ries’ posse. You can learn about the lean startup methodology from it’s pre-eminent practitioners while surrounded by your peers. Don’t let the long weekend mess with your hustle!

NodeMTL
Where: CakeMail, 4020 Saint-Ambroise, Suite 144
When: Tuessday, May 24, 2011, 6:30pm

Come on out for the first meeting of NodeMTL – a place for Node.js learnings. There are two presentations on offer: first by Christian Joudrey who introduction Node.js and then followed by Scott Burch who will get us started with CouchDB in Node.js.

May Montreal Girl Geek Event
Where: Station C– 5369 Boulevard Saint-Laurent #430 (Cnr. St. Viateur)
When: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 6:30PM – 9PM

Girl Geek events are always well attended and there remain a few tickets left for this month’s event with Rebecca Reich. Rebecca is a music lover who has taken her passion for acoustics into academia and now into business development on for MITACS. She’s going to take us through some of the fascinating technical aspects of hearing and the nature of sound including the latest advances in sound technologies.

Startup Drinks Montreal
Where: Brutopia, 1215 Crescent St
When: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 5:30PM – 9PM

Raise a glass to your favourite startup community this Wednesday at Brutopia. I encourage you to invite any and all friends you want to introduce to the startup scene. It’s a friendly event focused on helping each other and making connections. In true Montreal style, it only gets friendlier in the summer.

 

Top Upcoming Events

May 30 – June 3 – MobileTeach by DevTeach is the biggest Mobile Conference in Canada. The event will be part of their annual DevTeach conference in Montreal (May 30th to June 3rd ) and will feature the best experts in the business. Among the topics covered will be Windows Phone 7 (WP7), iPhone and iPad development with iOS, Android native OS and Mono Cross platform development.

July 9-10 – WordCamp Montreal is a conference about the world’s most popular blogging software WordPress. Developers, designers and users will come together for talks and workshops related to WordPress and to publishing on the web, and to network.

July 13-15 – International Startup Festival is scheduled for the height of summer. Keep your schedule clear as it promises to be a blast of startup fun and knowledge sharing. If you’re not from Montreal and receiving this email, this event is not to be missed. Tickets are on sale now!