New meshU speakers and sessions: John Lax and Kevin Hale
The details of speakers and sessions for meshU continue to develop, and some great stuff has gone up on the site over the past few days. We’re very pleased to announce that John Lax of Teehan+Lax and Kevin Hale of Infinity Box (the mad geniuses behind Wufoo) are now locked and loaded - details on the site, and we’ll be saying more about these sessions soon.
I’m excited about everything we have coming up, but meshU is really starting to take shape and it’ll be a blast. Nice words from John about the lineup: “I am planning on doing something really special for the presentation because, to be honest, I am totally intimidated by the other speakers.” Join us! Tickets are on sale here.
Tags: Infinity Box, John Lax, Kevin Hale, mesh, mesh08, meshU, Teehan Lax, Wufoo
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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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A Few Minutes with Ethan Kaplan
This is cool - Mahalo Daily has an interview with Ethan on YouTube. If you joined us at mesh07 you might remember Ethan from a panel on media. This year he’s returning as a keynote. We’re big fans and the interview is great - get a preview of what we’ll be discussing with Ethan at mesh08!
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It’s time again for 15 minutes of fame
Now that mesh tickets are on sale, we’d like to get an early start on 15 Minutes of Fame, the mesh session that introduces you to web entrepreneurs and their startups. On each of the two conference days we do a 15 minute segment with three deserving entrepreneurs and/or their startups, who get five minutes each (hence the 15 minutes) to talk to the attendees about their idea and why they are the best thing to happen to the Web. Last year’s winners were Octopz, DemoFuse, FiveLimes, Conceptshare, SneakerPlay and Wild Apricot - there’s video, too.
Head over to the sign-up form and make your pitch — in 250 words or less — about you and your company or idea, and tell us why we should give you five minutes in front of the mesh crowd. If you get selected, you get a free one-day pass to the conference as well as those five minutes of glory. Of course, past winners aren’t eligible, and you must be this big to apply.
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The mesh08 Suggestion Box
One of the smartest things we did for mesh07 was ask you to give us your comments on how we can make mesh better in 08. We got a ton of really useful comments and emails that made for great reading in the days after mesh07.
Now, as we get going on mesh08, we’re going through them again and thinking about possibilities, and once again we’d like to ask you for your thoughts. First, if you didn’t get a chance to comment on mesh07, here’s the original post - leave us a comment if you have any suggestions. Second, we’d like to hear from you on specific panel or workshop or other session ideas for mesh08. We’ve made it pretty far on our own by just speaking with people here and there, but we wanted to open things up further and get your input right here on the blog - if there’s a speaker or a topic or something else you want to see at mesh08, please speak up and let us know what you think. We can’t promise that your idea will make it to mesh, but we do promise to take every suggestion seriously and to do our best to make mesh08 worth your while.
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What do you want mesh to be?
One of the real pleasures of being involved in mesh is hearing the ideas that people have for improving it. We get lots of comments - the great majority very positive, some critical but constructive, and others, well, not so much. But we really do appreciate and think carefully about all feedback, and use it to try and make mesh better.
So we’d like to ask everyone who came to mesh - whether you were a speaker or a guest - and anyone who didn’t come - whether because mesh07 wasn’t quite what you wanted or just because you couldn’t make it - to chime in and give us comments on what you’d like to see at mesh, how we could make it better, things we didn’t quite get right - or anything else you’d like to say to help us make mesh better.
You can leave your comments on this blog if you’d like, or just email them to us at info@meshconference.com. And once again, thanks for meshing with us.
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