The Social Agenda at mesh and meshU
They say that all work and no play is no fun, and the same applies to mesh and meshU.
After listening to terrific keynotes, panels and workshops, it’s important to relax, have a refreshment and meet some new people. So, here’s the social schedule for mesh and meshU
meshU:
After meshU on May 20, there will be a social at The Lounge at the Drake Hotel (1150 Queen St. W.) from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. This event is open to everyone (meshU ticket holders will get a complimentary cocktail from the Drake). The cocktail ticket and your invite will be included in your registration package at the registration desk at meshU.
mesh:
After the first day of mesh on May 21, the social in the MaRS Atrium will happen from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. This year, it’s being sponsored by tripharbor.ca, the new cruise start-up launched by our own Stuart MacDonald.
The after-party is happening at Rockwood Club (31 Mercer Street) from 7 p.m. to midnight. Sponsored by the Social Media Group, the after-party is a great night where we will continue to mesh with the Toronto tech community, including everyone who attended meshU.Transportation to Rockwood will be provided by Expedia.ca. As well, we are pleased to announce that we will be working with LittleGeeks.org to raise funds for their worthy mission of donating home computers and Internet connectivity to children in need.
There will also be an after-after-party on May 22. Stay tuned for more details.
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Get ‘Em While You Can
With two weeks to go before mesh, we wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder that if you are planning on coming, buy now to avoid disappointment.
We expect to sell out next week at the latest. You can buy mesh tickets here and meshU tickets here.
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Win Tickets to mesh and meshU!
In conjunction with CommandN and Amber MacArthur, we’re running a contest featuring a free ticket to mesh and meshU.
For more details, check out the video below. You can find the “rules” here.
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mesh Schedule is Live!
Unlike the iPhone, which won’t be released until some time later this year, the mesh schedule is ready for consumption!
We’re excited about the keynotes, panels and workshops that are divided into four streams: society, media, marketing and business. Like the past two meshes (Editor’s note: Is that a real word?), we encourage every session to be interactive with lots of Q&A, discussions and conversations.
You’ll also notice that the schedule has plenty of slots between sessions to network, do demos, relax, blog, etc.
The schedule for meshU, a one-day event featuring hands-on workshops about the tools used to build online applications/service, is also available.
Tickets for mesh can be purchased here, while meshU tickets are available here.
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Last Call for 15MOF!
With about a month to go before mesh, we’ve got a few last details to nail down.
One of them is selecting the six companies/entrepeneurs for 15 Minutes of Fame, who will each get the opportunity to give a five-minute presentation in front of more than 400 people.
So, here’s one last call for 15MOF submissions. Get ‘em in by the end of the week by filling out a short online application.
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mesh meetup and meshU student tix
One quick reminder and one update on meshU:
The quick reminder is that we’re having a mesh meetup at the Irish
Embassy tonight (April 21) starting at about 7:30, so swing on by if
you’re in town and get some pre-mesh socializing in — the snacks are
on us.
The update about meshU is that we’re releasing a batch of 25
discount-priced ($30) student tickets for the day-long workshop event (more
info at the meshU site), so if you’re studying Web
design or development or programming or anything along those lines –
or know someone who is — be sure to book a ticket soon, because they
will probably go quickly.
To be honest, offering student tickets was something we meant to do
from the beginning, but it kind of slipped through the cracks during
all the planning of mesh and meshU — thanks to a number of our
friends and fans for calling us on it. We think it’s a great way of
giving back to the community, and helping the young Web developers and
designers of tomorrow.
mesh on!
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mesh08 keynote: Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon
A quick update to let everyone know that Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, is coming to mesh 2008 as our keynote speaker for the business stream (you can see the other keynotes here, as well as some of the other great speakers and panelists we have lined up). We’re pretty excited to be able to bring one of Canada’s leading Web entrepreneurs to Toronto for one of mesh’s “keynote conversations.”
Garrett co-founded StumbleUpon in 2001 with several university friends while he was finishing his degree in software engineering at the University of Calgary. He and a couple of the other members of the StumbleUpon team later moved to San Francisco after getting venture financing, and last year the company was acquired by eBay for $75-million. Garrett is still responsible for StumbleUpon’s product design and strategy, and the service has more than 3.5M members.
mesh on!
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Let’s mesh @ The Irish Embassy
After a lot of work behind the scenes, the preparations for mesh ‘08 and our new event, meshU, are nearly complete. We’ve got some great keynotes - Matt Mason, Club Penguin’s Lane Merrifield and Warner Brother’s Ethan Kaplan - and some terrific panels featuring people such as blip.TV’s Dina Kaplan, Digg’s Daniel Burka, RedFlagDeals’ Derek Szeto and and Techdirt’s Michael Masnick.
Needless to say, we’re excited! So, let’s get together for some pre-mesh conversation, food and a few adult beverages on April 21 at The Irish Embassy. (Update: why not drop by the Facebook page and let us know whether you’re coming)
Here are the details:
When: Monday, April 21
Where: The Irish Embassy Pub & Grill, 49 Yonge Street (Click here for the Google Map.)
Time: 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Tickets are going fast for mesh and meshU. You can purchase your mesh tickets here, and your meshU tickets here.
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Ryan Carson at mesh and meshU
One of the great privileges of travelling to conferences is you get to meet extraordinary people - people who inspire you. About two years ago, on a long day after speaking at Web 2.0, I bumped into Ryan Carson. We’d never met, but we’d exchanged emails and talked on the phone. We decided to grab a quick bite to eat and a long story short, over the next three hours I discovered I’d found a kindered spirit.
Ryan is a sharing entrepreneur. Using his blog, other peoples blogs and his conference company, he invests a tremendous amount of energy sharing what he has learned building several businesses - including two web applications (DropSend and Amigo).
Ryan is going to speaking at mesh about “founders stories” and meshU about making the jump from your 9-5 to becoming an entrepreneur:
Leaving your 9 to 5 to launch your own company is exciting but a bit scary. With everything riding on your success you need to make sure that you have the best advice from the folks who’ve done it all before - that’s where this start-up workshop comes in.
I’m delighted to have Ryan (who’s flying from England to join us) at meshU and mesh, and I want to congratulate him and his wife Gill on their one week old boy Jackson. Thanks for coming Ryan; especially during such a special time.
CommunityLend.com Gets Fresh Coat of Paint
Only time will tell whether Canadians embrace peer-to-peer lending as enthusiastically as consumers in the U.K. and the U.S. but Toronto-based CommunityLend’s new and improved Web site is impressive - clean, sharp, easy to navigate. Given that educating consumers is going to be a significant challenge, CommunityLend’s Web site will clearly be an important marketing and sales.
We’re excited that Michael Garrity, CommunityLend’s co-founder, president and CEO, will be participating at mesh one of our marketing panels. Given his experience, which includes being vice-president of sales and marketing with ePost, Mike is sure to provide some valuable insight.
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