mesh’s Marketing Keynote: LinkedIn VP International Arvind Rajan
There’s little doubt that marketing is a dramatically changing landscape these days. But among shifting audience loyalties, the relentless growth of digital, the true emergence of wireless, and the always-connected generation, one thing remains constant: marketing today is all about connecting.
Be it connecting with an audience, connecting via technology, connecting with like-minded others or connecting with a feeling, connecting is becoming the overarching theme of marketing in the 21st century.
Given this, who better than Arvind Rajan, VP International of LinkedIn, to be the keynote conversation of the marketing stream at mesh10? Arvind has been in the world of grassroots or connection marketing for many years, and through his role leading LinkedIn’s International efforts is – literally – at the hub of their growing ecosystem which makes personal and business connections possible.
A very engaging and knowledgeable speaker, Arvind will kick-off the marketing stream on Day Two of mesh10 on May 19th. Don’t miss it.
Tickets for mesh can be purchased here.
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mesh’s Business Keynote: Paypal CEO Scott Thompson
Since PayPal was launched in 2000, it has become the world’s leading global online payment system – making it easy for millions of people to buy and sell products and merchandise. In many respects, Paypal has been verb as in “Just PayPal it to me”.
Given PayPal’s ubiquity and continued strong growth, we’re thrilled to have PayPal president Scott Thompson as the business keynote for mesh this year. We’re looking forward to hearing Scott offer his insight on PayPal’s strategic direction and how the global e-commerce market is growing and evolving.
Before joining PayPal, Scott worked for Inovant, a subsidiary of Visa that was created to oversee its global technology. As Executive Vice-President of Technology Solutions at Inovant, he was responsible for all development, support and maintenance of Visa’s global payment system.
Visit the mesh Web site for more information about our keynotes, panels and workshops. Tickets for mesh, which happens May 18 and 19 at the MaRS Collaboration Centre in downtown Toronto, can be purchased here.
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Bill Buxton to Keynote meshU
For the last couple of years, meshU has been a well-kept secret – a one-day event featuring hands-on workshop about Web design, development and team management.
We hope to change meshU’s low profile by introducing meshU’s inaugural keynote speaker, Bill Buxton.
One of the world’s most influential designers, Bill is currently a Principal researcher at Microsoft Research and the author of “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”.
His experience also includes time as a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc.
We’re really excited that Bill will be meshU’s first keynote, and that he will set the stage for an amazing day.
If you’re looking buy meshU tickets, you can register here.
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mesh keynote update: Matt Mason
For anyone who was looking forward to the mesh keynote by Pirate’s Dilemma author Matt Mason (and that includes all of us on the mesh organizing team) we got some bad news over the weekend. Unfortunately, Matt has run into some visa problems in the United States, and he won’t be able to make it to mesh. While we are disappointed that we couldn’t work things out in time — as is Matt — we do have a top-notch replacement for him as the society keynote: Dr. Michael Geist, the University of Ottawa law professor and copyright expert.
Dr. Geist was originally scheduled to do a presentation Wednesday afternoon about how Facebook and other social media tools are being used for grassroots lobbying and advocacy purposes, building on his experience in setting up a Facebook group opposed to Ottawa’s anticipated copyright legislation. In Matt Mason’s absence, we have asked Dr. Geist to adapt his presentation as the keynote for the society stream, which will take place at 10:40 a.m. on Wednesday. Taking the place of his original presentation Wednesday afternoon will be a panel discussion on “Managing the Mozilla Way” with Mic Berman, John Resig and Mike Shaver, moderated by Michael McDerment.
For more information, please see the mesh schedule at www.meshconference.com/schedule2008.
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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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