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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! Can you feel that the holiday season is in the air? It’s a light week for events, so make sure to get some of that last minute shopping done. This week, Monday has the monthly Ruby Hack Night, Tuesday brings some technical discussions for VMWare and MySQL user groups, Thursday has an afternoon discussion on negotiation and dispute resolution, and Friday there is a luncheon for The Next 36, which is a national entrepreneurship program for Canada’s most promising undergraduate students.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.

– Josh

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

Ruby Hack Night
When: December 5 @ 6:30pm
Where: Influitive’s Office, 457 Richmond St. West, Suite 200, Toronto, ON

The idea behind this event is to get new and experienced Ruby developers to connect, find interesting projects to work on, and show off cool things they found over the course of the night.

Each hack night, anyone who wants to lead a project can write their idea on the whiteboard, and spend 5-10 minutes describing what they want to work on. Anyone attending can join up with any of the leaders, and we’ll break into 4-5 groups each working on a cool, interesting problem.

 

Join us for the upcoming Toronto VMUG meeting! This is a great opportunity to come together with your fellow VMware users to discuss virtualization trends, best practices, and the latest technology!

Meeting Highlights: TrendMicro – Reclaim, Simplify, and Improve Virtualization with Security Built for VMware; VMware – SRM 5.0 Presentation and Technical Discussion; Riverbed – Unleashing Cloud Benefits with Riverbed; and Cisco – VSG: Virtualization Aware Security and Technical Discussion.

 

By far the best way to improve database performance is to improve the performance of individual queries. Sometimes this can be a case of just adding a simple index, but other times it will require some additional input to be able to rewrite a query. MySQL exposes a way for us to be able to see the internal path that it uses to execute a query via the EXPLAIN command.

In this presentation, Morgan Tocker will show how to read the cryptic output of the EXPLAIN command, and what it means in practical terms. The target audience is someone who is familiar with how to write basic SQL statements but wants to learn more about how they work under the hood.

 

The Next 36 is a national entrepreneurship program for Canada’s most promising undergraduate students. Key resources are provided to extraordinarily talented young Canadians with the potential to build and lead great organizations. Promising undergraduates are selected from a variety of academic disciplines, and from across Canada, through a rigorous national selection process. The young entrepreneurs selected are placed in teams of four and tasked with building a business. They are provided mentorship from some of Canada’s top business leaders, $50,000 cash and academic instruction from some of the world’s top faculty. The program is spearheaded by a founding group of high-profile business leaders, entrepreneurs, and academics.

 

 

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Good morning Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! This week we’re serving you hot on your plate an #iOSTO meetup that will be a little bit more formal than the previous meetup. Also, with the explosion of tablets flooding the market, watch our for Mobile Startups TO Uptown edition which will cover the working with mobile specifically for tablets. Additionally, there will be the Canadian Innovation Exchange, WattPad’s Open House celebration of their new digs and kickbutt year. For those who are more designed oriented and savvy, our friends at Jetcooper will be hosting this month’s Dribbble TO meetup.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

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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

#iOSTO – objectAtIndex:1
When: Tuesday, November 29. 7 PM
Where: The Artful Dodger Pub, 10 Isabelle St, Toronto, ON

By the feedback we’ve got, the first event was great and most enjoyed the structure-less “Beer it up” style event. We’ll still keep this informal for the first few so that we can get to know each other. And get a better sense of what the Community wants (see I’m using the Community word now).

 

In session #9, we’ll talk about how to make money on the tablet. What are the unique value propositions and challenges of building on the tablet? How do they differ from smart phones? What tools and technologies are tablet-specific? What is the future of these devices?

We can also devote some time to discussing iPad vs. all other tablets. The new Amazon Kindle will be released in the U.S. two weeks before this meetup so it will likely come up in conversation. Other related topics? See you there!

 

We haven’t had one in a while! We’re all moved into our new space, so Jetcooper is cool to host November’s if everyone’s interested.

 

Taking place December 1st, 2011 at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) is the foremost destination for key leaders in the innovation economy to learn from one another, explore new relationships and accelerate the development of the ground-breaking technologies, products and services propelling the Canadian economy into the future.

 

 

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! This week brings a busy Tuesday, with a LeanCoffeeTO to kick-off the day and two great events — Technicity and the Art of Sales Conference. Ladies, on Saturday there’s a crash-course on WordPress at CSI Annex, which I’ll attest to is a pretty great platform for easily publishing a blog or a content-based website.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.

– Josh

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

Rails Pub Nite
When: November 21 @ 7 – 11pm
Where: The Rhino, 1249 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON

RPN is free of cost and everyone interested in web development is encouraged to join us for a pint. Please note that this is a social event, not a user group. There are no technical demonstrations at Pub Nite.

If you are a recruiter or hiring for your start-up, you are free to climb up on a chair and pitch the crowd of 40–50 developers for two minutes. You are then obligated to buy everyone a round of drinks in return.

 

Participants from established and entrepreneurial technology companies, government, and other stakeholders will share ideas and perspectives and jointly explore strategies to further grow Toronto’s technology sector and propel the GTA forward as a global technology centre. This year’s agenda includes extended “discussions on three areas where technology and the city intersect.

 

 

Specifically designed for professionals and entrepreneurs, The Art of Sales is a unique one-day conference featuring five internationally renowned bestselling authors and visionaries, who will share an exciting blend of cutting edge thinking, best practices, current trends and real world experience on today’s most critical sales and marketing issues. This is your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain a competitive advantage and network with over 2,500 of Canada’s most influential sales professionals.

 

Democamp UofT brings together student hackers, developers and entrepreneurs to showcase their latest online projects to an audience passionate about start-ups. By allowing the student body to witness what their peers are capable of, we hope to invigorate their enthusiasm to change the world by harnessing today’s technology, whether it be web, mobile, or tablet devices.

 

Whether you want to start your own blog, or your company website is run on it, WordPress allows you to update and create content easily, while allowing for your own style and customization. You don’t need to be technical to use it, but it can be really powerful if you get your hands dirty and work with the code. In this workshop, Wes Bos is going to show you how to install WordPress, what it all means, and of course, how to edit a theme to make it your own.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Nov 30 – Entrepreneurship 101: Board of Directors and Other Advisors
Nov 30 – Dribbble TO Meetup
Nov 30 - Wattpad Open House (find someone with an invite)
Dec 1 - Canadian Innovation Exchange
Dec 5 – MNP Valuation Day @ MaRS (RSVP: Nathan Monk, nmonk@marsdd.com and cc: Andrea Russett, arussett@marsdd.com)
Dec 6 - Toronto VMWare User Group
Dec 6 - Optimizing MySQL Queries with Explain
Dec 7 - Entrepreneurship 101: Value Proposition
Dec 9 - The Next 36 @ The Canadian Club Luncheon
Jan 25-26 - Dx3 Canada

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Good morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! This weekend Startup Weekend Toronto is finally upon us, where you’ll get 54 hours of pitching, coding and customer development – planting the seeds for the next crop of awesome startups coming out of Toronto. There are still some tickets left for developers and designers, so don’t miss out!

Some notable events to check out this week are the HTML5 developers meetup, Pixel Hack Day, and TorontoJS meetup. In terms of marquee events, we’ve got Screens 2011 and MeshMarketing that each have an awesome lineup of speakers and panels.

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

Nov 14 – TorontoJS – BeerScript

Nov 14-15 – Screens 2011 : Developing for Mobile, Tablets and More

Nov 15 – MeshMarketing

Nov 16 – MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 – Building a Business Model

Nov 17 – HTML 5 Web App Developers

Nov 18-20 – Toronto Startup Weekend

Nov 19-20 – Pixel Hack Day

Nov 21 – Rails Pub Nite

Nov 22 – The Art of Sales

Nov 22 – DemoCamp UofT 2011

Nov 23 – Entrepreneurship 101 – Lived it Lecture – Cleantech

Nov 25 – The Next 36 @ The Canadian Club Luncheon

Nov 26 – Ladies Learning Code – Intro to WordPress

Nov 30 – Entrepreneurship 101: Board of Directors and Other Advisors

Nov 30 – Dribbble TO meetup

Dec 1 – Canadian Innovation Exchange

Dec 6 – Toronto VMWare User Group

Dec 7 – Entrepreneurship 101: Value Proposition

 

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! Monday is Mobile with a session on m-Commerce at MaRS, Tuesday holds the Toronto Tech Meetup, which has been growing in popularity over the last few months – great job to Steven Blinn, who has built up that meetup! Wednesday is AccelerateTO, which is arguably one of the best evening events of the year that blends startups and investors for what I can only imagine is going to be a fantastic night at the ROM.As a reminder, Toronto Startup Weekend is approaching fast 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.

– Josh

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

Mobile Monday – m-Commerce
When: November 7 @ 5:30-9pm
Where: MaRS Discovery District, 101 College St., Toronto, ON

Moderator: Christie Christelis, Founder and President of Technology Strategies International
Panelists: Gary Schwartz, CEO Impact Mobile and Chair of MEF North America; Simon Law, Founder & CTO Admeris Payment Systems; Aran Hamilton, Managing Director of Venture Grower, Advisor to the Task Force for the Payments System Review; Derek Colfer, Business Leader – Global Mobile Product Innovation.

 

We’re going to focus on teaming up newer Ruby developers with more experienced devs. Developers of any skill level are welcome to attend. If you’re interested in leading a project, come in with your ideas and be ready to describe why you think it would be a cool learning opportunity for Ruby developers.

 

We have the lineup for November’s Toronto Tech Meetup. Our start-ups are all Toronto-based BrightMesh, TabbleDabble and Veribook. Vitaly Latush is demoing BrightMesh– the knowledge network with naturally integrated recruiting tools creating a dynamic, collaborative hiring environment. Representing TabbleDabble is Ravin Shah. TabbleDabble provides businesses with mobile interactive touch screen solutions for attracting and connecting with consumers while collecting valuable data. And Keith Chung will show off Veribook’s application that helps small and medium businesses better schedule appointments with their customers.

 

For first-timers, we basically just hang out, play intensely nerdy games like Settlers of Catan, and catch up. If you don’t like drinks and/or games, don’t feel excluded, there will be a lot of non game / alcohol-based socializing as well. This is an open event, so feel free to invite any other geeky friends.

 

Join us for an evening of insight, celebration and connecting. Meet entrepreneurs, investors and supporters from across Canada and Silicon Valley. Ticket price includes drinks & hors d’œuvres. All proceeds are donated to the United Way. Mingle, network with, and hear from entrepreneurs who’ve done it, the companies and individuals who’ve funded them, and those who’ve supported them. Software showcase and demos by Guardly, 500px, Upverter, VizualizeMe, & Rocketr.

 

Join us for a light panel followed by open discussion on creating mobile apps. It’s a great mix and meetup between the orgs and businesses who are thinking about getting an app made, and the people/businesses who make the apps. What do developers need to give a quote that meets all the expectations for cost, delivery, timing, etc? Ask questions, give and get answers. Networking with refreshments to follow!

 

Converting an idea or a lab prototype into a real, customer-ready product is no simple task. Learn how to turn your idea into a successful product by following the “V-model” of concept development. Learn how to differentiate between the steps of product development, including research, design, implementation, testing, verification, validation, operations and maintenance.

 

Do you have a good idea? Are you worried about how to protect it and how to turn that idea into a profitable reality? This workshop is for entrepreneurs that want to understand intellectual property (IP) and how it relates to their ideas.

This workshop will walk participants through the basics of intellectual property, equipping them with the level of knowledge necessary to begin planning their own IP strategies and will feature interactive exercises that will allow participants to work in groups and solve fictional intellectual property problems.

 

What do we do if we can’t research, plan or process our way to success? We have to get lucky. Fortunately, the best kind of luck—that creative force known as serendipity—is the luck that we can cultivate and nurture. Because even if we can’t predict it, we can prepare for it, so that we know what to do with it when it shows up. In this talk, Thor will unveil a new framework—the eight elements of planned serendipity—that organizations and individuals can use to make a habit of serendipity.

 

 

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Rob Woodbridge – Founder, Untethered Mobile
Vahid Jozi – CEO, Igloosity

 

 

What’s Going on in the Ottawa Startup Community

The Ottawa Wireless Event
Time: Thu, November 10, 6:00pm – 9:30pm
Location: bitHeads office, 1309 Carling Avenue, Ottawa

Please join us to network and discuss the business of wireless with professionals from many corners of the wireless sector. The event is open to all wireless professionals free of charge.

 

 

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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
 
 

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.

 

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! There is a big week ahead! X-Summit and DigifestTO take over Toronto this week. DigifestTO specifically has about 12 different events going on — so be sure to check out their website for a full-list of participating events. AndroidTO– is going to be killer, with a fantastic line-up of speakers, so be sure to grab a ticket and make it to some of the sessions.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.

– Josh

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

X-Summit
When: October 24-26
Where: The Carlu, 444 Yonge Street, 7th Floor, Toronto

X marks the spot where interactive digital media innovators meet, collaborate, partner and learn. This two-day business intelligence conference focuses on the areas where cross-media converges, enabling content producers to better tell their stories seamlessly across multiple platforms.

 

CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related
technologies. As an informal, member-supported gathering, we rely entirely on volunteers to help with meeting content, speakers, meeting locations, equipment and membership recruitment. We also have corporate sponsors that provide financial assistance with venues, food, drink, software, services and other valuable donations

 

In a crazy idea of mixing BarCamp, conferences, TED style and communities mixer, we are excited to invite you to our inaugural DevCamp series presented by Make Web Not War. Looks like a great array of speaker topics!

 

Join us this year for a unique conference experience like no other - it will provide a forum for Android developers, Open Source supporters and enthusiasts of mobile technology to learn about the latest product innovations and solutions, as well as new programming techniques, including the opportunity to network with other developers in the community. Come connect with other like minded individuals in the community!

 

Digifest is Toronto’s international festival celebrating innovation and digital creativity. From October 26-30, we will be bringing together some of the world’s best and brightest to showcase next generation digital art and design. Established and emerging designers, technologists and artists will come together during Digifest for presentations, incredible demos, interactive exhibitions and parties.

 

It’s a simple concept: A grassroots effort to help folks in the startup community connect, share experiences and stay in touch. No presentations. No pitches. Just an open environment to share
experiences, issues, and meet some of your fellow up-and-coming startup company leaders!

 

Come learn some of the fundamental concepts and principles of marketing for early-stage startups.

We address the unique challenges of marketing technology products including:
-Knowing when to begin marketing
-Recognizing which marketing activities to do first
-Identifying the goals of your early marketing activities
-Syncing marketing with product development
-Using marketing to fine-tune your business model

 

This month Hacks/Hackers Toronto will devote a full session to a panel discussion on strategy and getting the most out of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Storify, APIs, live events, video, mobile and dayparting techniques. What do our audiences and communities respond to best? Who is interacting with our products at what times of the day, and how? What best practices should be adopted across the industry?

 

This conference will explore emerging themes and practices in locative and mobile media as well as showcases the results of the TIFF Nexus Peripherals Initiative creative jam. Locative Media is an emerging field at the intersection of GPS/mapping, augmented reality, mobile devices and content. As the world moves into a trackable, sensor-rich and location-aware reality – the TIFF Nexus Locative Media Innovation Day looks at what kinds of social practices, entrepreneurial opportunities and artistic endeavors can be unlocked.

 

 

Top Upcoming Toronto Startup Events

Nov 1 - Engineering-IT Career Fair
Nov 7 - Ruby Hack Night
Nov 9 - AccelerateTO
Nov 9 - Entrepreneurship 101: Product Development
Nov 15 - MeshMarketing
Nov 18-20 - Toronto Startup Weekend
Nov 30 - Entrepreneurship 101: Board of Directors and Other Advisors
Dec 1 - Canadian Innovation Exchange

 

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Good morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs! This week we’ve got a handful of high quality events with ECommerceCamp, Toronto Mobile UX Group and an HTML5 Unconference Edition.For those who can’t wait for the next Toronto Startup Weekend in November, there’s a Startup Weekend happening in Hamilton this weekend (Oct 21-23).

Lastly, I want to congratulate Dan Martell on the acquisition of Flowtown by DemandForce. Another win led by a Canadian!

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

ECommerceCamp 8: Innovative Mobile Apps – ECommerce Solutions
When: Monday, October 17. 6 – 9 PM
Where: Fionn MacCool’s, 70 The Esplanade, Toronto, ON

It’s time for Ecommerce Camp #8! This time, we’re bringing in the experts on mobile apps to talk about apps by Canadian Tire, Groupon, Brand Power and more.

 

Let’s share our theories about user experience best practices with a show-and-tell of our favourite app.

 

From Skype to the iPad to Google Docs, business users are introducing consumer-driven technology into the workplace and enterprise IT is struggling to stay ahead of the curve. Will the onslaught of consumerization drive groundswell innovation, or will it lead to a security meltdown?

 

Come with ideas about HTML5-related topics you’d like to discuss

 

 

Top Upcoming Toronto Startup Events

 

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Good Morning, Toronto Startups and Entrepreneurs!Happy Thanksgiving – I hope you are all extremely satiated and filled with enough Tryptophan to keep you in a coma for most of the day! If by chance you’re not reading this on your mobile phone, outside, in the amazing and warm sun (that has somehow returned) … get outside and squeeze in another day of summer!

This week is packed with events — whether you want to geek-out, network and meet other folks in the community or listen to some great keynotes — there’s something in the mix for you. Wednesday evening brings both DemoCamp 30 (I can’t believe you’ve reached 30 already!) and Toronto Tech Meetup.

There are a number of upcoming events finally showing up in the calendar and next week there are two big ones — E-commerce Camp8 (which is sponsored by OrderDynamics, a super-innovative e-commerce platform that everyone should know about) and HTML5 Meet & Learn. In other good news, Startup Weekend Toronto is back on Nov 18-20, 2011 to officially close Global Entrepreneurship Week and is part of the Global Startup Battle! If you haven’t heard of Startup Weekend, it involves local developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts and who join forces to start companies in just 54 hours.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.

-Josh

 

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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

BlackBerry Developer Group
When: October 10 @ 5:30pm
Where: Xtreme Labs Office (9th Floor), 69 Yonge St. #900, Toronto

We are excited to host Tim Neil, Manager of BlackBerry WebWorks, from RIM to present on Ripple/Github and WebWorks platform roadmap. Group feedback will be collected and presented to RIM. This will allow the developer community and Research In Motion to be actively engaged in continuous development improvement activities.

 

We are going to kick off this new user group in style with some lively discussion around Amazon technology. Agenda includes: Model Metrics & Amazon Web Services overview; Customer success story by Augusto Rosa of Shaw Media; and Customer success story by Brent Hughes of Antic Entertainment.

 

Keynote speaker is Elmer Sotto who is the Head of Growth for Facebook Canada, where he is responsible for setting strategy to further grow and engage the Canadian user base. He also helps key strategic partners understand and leverage the Facebook platform.

The goal at DemoCamp is to provide a platform for local companies to launch, get product or pitch feedback, establish a presence for recruiting as well as help with PR and social media awareness. We aim to gather highly connected and talented entrepreneurs, developers, designers, marketers, investors and others to watch and critique entrepreneurs in a safe environment.

 

Presenting are Scanly.ca, where student discounts are a scan away; PMRobot is project management for custom development companies, and Lumasonix, where they are developing next generation equipment for the early detection of cancer. Lumasonix’s approach uses Photo-Acoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) technology to develop a full 3D volume image.

 

It’s been an exciting few months for Ladies Learning Code. We started this past June with a tweet, and three pretty successful events later…we think it’s time to celebrate! Whether you’re a lady who wants to learn to code, a member of our wonderful developer a community, a man or woman in tech or just a fan of what we’re up to…we’d love it if you would join us on October 13th as we celebrate our official launch!

 

Is your business looking for more information on how to develop your tablet strategy? Have you started deploying tablets and are looking to better understand the full range of uses? Do you want to see the latest developments in tablet technologies? If you answered yes to any of these questions then join TELUS for the special event: Tablets. Built for business in T.O. with guest speaker TELUS SMB President Peter Green.

 

Unlike any other FITC event, the format of ETA puts attendees across the table and in discussion with each of the presenters. Thirty-minute presentations are followed by twenty-minute discussions at round tables; with each presenter changing tables every hour. This format provides unparalleled access to real conversations with all of the presenters, something virtually impossible at big events.

This exclusive and intimate event has been designed for creative directors, strategists, c-suite executives and the best of the best in advertising and technology.

 

 

Top Upcoming Toronto Startup Events

Oct 17 - EcommerceCamp8 – Innovative Mobile Apps: Ecommerce Solutions
Oct 17 - Toronto Mobile UX Group
Oct 18 - Rise of the Business User: Enterprise IT and the effect of consumerization
Oct 20 - HTML5 Meet & Learn
Oct 24 - CloudCampTO
Oct 24 - X-Summit
Oct 25 - DevCamp Toronto
Oct 26 - Entrepreneurship 101 – Marketing for Tech Startups – Getting the fundamentals right
Oct 26 - AndroidTO
Oct 26-30 - DigifestTO
Nov 9 - AccelerateTO
Nov 9 – Entrepreneurship 101: Product Development
Nov 18-20 – Toronto StartupWeekend
Nov 30 – Entrepreneurship 101: Board of Directors and Other Advisors