Are you ready for Toronto’s entrepreneurial event of the year?

Join Chris O’Neill of Google Canada, Austin Hill of Brudder Ventures, Leila Boujnane of Idée Inc., Nancy Peterson of Homestars, Darren Anderson of Vive Nano, Erin Bury of Sprouter, Mike McDerment of Freshbooks and many, many others at the Small Business Forum – Toronto’s entrepreneurial event of the year!

On October 19th, more than 2,000 entrepreneurs, prospective entrepreneurs and small business owners will attend Enterprise Toronto’s 10th annual Small Business Forum. This year’s theme – finding and retaining customers!

When: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
255 Front St W, Toronto, ON, Canada

Joins us!

So I Married a Designer… Relationship Advice for Designers and Non-Designers Alike. This IxDA presentation could end up being pretty hilarious. Ah I am totally familiar with the push and pull between designers and developers (in a tech startup). So I am curious to hear what Casey McKinnon has learned! I have war stories to share!
Event date:  April 20, 2010 – 6:00pm – 8:00pm. Registration and additional details here. And IxDA has a its own Toronto website now. Get involved!

I am very excited to announce HackTO. The idea behind HackTO is to have a series of APIs made available by local startups. And connect these APIs with local developers to build – in a day – amazing applications.

We are still working out all the details – much planning ahead – but here are the basics:

• DATE: Saturday May 15. This is an all day hackhaton. We will be providing breakfast and lunch.
• LOCATION: TBD. We are still working out the location details. It will be downtown.
• AVAILABLE APIs:  Freshbooks, Idée, PostRank, CanPages + more. We will be announcing additions to these APIs in the coming days.
• SIGNUP: Sign up is currently open, there is a $10 fee for registration.
• JUDGING AND PRIZES: We are working on awesome prizes for the best applications developed during the hackhaton. Stay tuned for details.

If you’re with a technology company or startup you think ought to be involved, get in touch lboujnane (at) ideeinc.com or just say hi or ask questions.

Cyberposium is the premier MBA technology conference in the world. Held annually at Harvard Business School, Cyberposium facilitates an interactive network of current and future business leaders to engage in a provocative dialog about technology and its impact on business and society.

The conference is organized entirely by current MBA students at the Harvard Business School and is the primary campus event of the school’s TechMedia Club.

hmm… I guess current and future business leaders don’t include women? OK there are 4. That’s it? 4?

SaveourNet.ca is Partnering with Rabble.ca for a very special event. Held during Net Change Week in Toronto, SaveourNet.ca and Rabble.ca will present Toronto’s Open Internet Town Hall, which will be filmed by TheREALNews.com.

Where:

Live from the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto, 1214 Queen St. West

When:

Monday June 8, 2009 at 7pm

Featured speakers for the Town Hall include:

Mark Surman (Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation)

Rocky Gaudrault (CEO of Teksavvy Solutions Inc.)

Steve Anderson (Co-founder of SaveourNet.ca)

Derek Blackadder (National Representative with CUPE)

Until now, Canada’s Internet has been an open network and a level playing field for free speech, innovation, and consumer choice. All that is now under threat.

Being held during Net Change Week in Toronto, Toronto’s Open Internet Town Hall is designed to give local citizens the chance to shape Canada’s broadband future. As Canada falls behind other OECD countries on Internet speed, cost, and openness, SaveourNet.ca will host a lively discussion guided by panelists representing web innovators, social change leaders, and public policy gurus.

DemoCamp is a show and tell for Toronto’s entrepreneurs so mark your calendar and participate!

Important Details

• Monday, May 25, 2009  from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Apply to present
• Register to attend
• Join the email announcement group

Format

There will be 3 types of presentations.

1. Demos – limited to 5 minutes and limited to 2 slides
2. Pitches – 15-20 slides limited to 5 minutes must cover 15 slides in Pitch Coach
3. Ignite – structured slide format, 20 slides by 15 seconds/slide = 5 minutes

Pitches is a new addition to DemoCamp. Pitches allow local startups to get feedback about their idea and company. Pitches follow a structured format: 5 minutes and 15 slides. Feedback will be provided by a set of Toronto luminaries, followed by questions from the audience.

Looking forward to seeing you all there. And as always: DemoCamp is made possible by the awesome sponsors who have continusouly supported our efforts. Become a sponsor and support DemoCamp Toronto Edition 20. This is an anniversary!

I attended part of the first SciBarCamp Toronto last year. I had a great time and met some amazing people. What I really enjoyed was the ability to meet scientists, artists and technologists all in a single space. What’s awesome about that? Well a lot really: I spend my days in the software world, but I am passionate about science, design, architecture and art. These very different discipline all come together at SciBarCamp because every participant has interests that are as focused and varied as mine with an underlying passion for science. So I am glad to see the SciBar team (Eva Amzen, Christine Buske, Jen Dodd, Jamie McQuay and Sunny Tsang) back at it for the second round.

Register now. SciBarCamp Toronto is happening Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th.

I am going to the Future of Bikes event. I am dreaming of getting my bike out on the road again. It has been years that Maxx (my bike) has been languishing in the basement and with the Hell of the North race this weekend I am really thinking about it. I will pop by the race this weekend to take some photographs and do a long run in Northern conditions! Very much looking forward to it.

The Future of Bikes