events
Startup Empire, the conference you want to be at
This one is going to be the startup event of the season. Some great speakers (and more surprises to come, just you wait) and a great deal for a two day conference (thanks to some generous sponsors) . Very impressed by the job David, Jevon and Michele have done in putting this event together. There [...]
Toronto tech week is coming
In case you haven’t heard, Toronto Tech week is almost upon us. My top picks for next week:
THE CORPORATE ADOPTION OF WEB 2.0 Monday, Sept 22. Sounds like a good panel, and a bunch of great Canadian web companies will be represented as this event is (somehow) combined with the Pick20 web2.0 awards.
Entrepreneurial Summit Tuesday [...]
Planning Enterprise 2.0 seminars in Toronto
Jevon Macdonald and I are thinking to organize a new Enterprise 2.0 event in Toronto towards the end of October. It’s been a while since there has been one in the city, and a lot has been happening in the field. We’d like to structure this event as an intensive how-to session focused on workshops [...]
Open Everything Conference is Open
Mark Surman is proposing a very open series of discussions and events, so open that it’s etirely about the idea of openness itself. Very cool. Registration and propositions are now open. Are you for it or against it? How-to’s and success stories of “open” strategies in the fields of business/enterprise, tech, policy, education, health, [...]
Reboot 10 is on the way
Official Page (will be) here. By good fortune of being nearby in London at the time last year (close enough right?) I managed to catch the first for me, but amazingly ninth annual, Reboot conference in Copenhagen. Reboot is the grand-mum of open/un/bar-like conferences. A lot of smart people, 3 days and the conference is [...]
Startup Fuel
Rick Segal is doing a good thing. He’s organizing VC round tables around the country for start-ups offering conversation and “Sample Term sheets, documents, business plans, PowerPoints”. I caught an earlier iteration of a similar event by Rick and some others a year ago. Let me tell you this stuff is gold. If you’re a [...]
Heading to Mountain View, San Fran next week
I’ll be down in the Bay Area next week for eComm2008 from the 12th to the 16th. Just in town for a few days but looking forward to meeting up with a few geeks and other trouble makers both during the conference and over the weekend. Drop me a line tom [at] thomaspurves.com if you’d [...]
Landing on MaRS this month
As though March weren’t bat shit packed with awesome enough events already (TED, ETECH, SXSW, MIXX08, ECOMM) and of course closer to home ICE08, if you’re in Toronto, you may also want to save time for two promising events happening at MaRS.
Jesse Hirsh and Dr. Greg Elmer’s panel on The Permanent Campaign: The impact of [...]
Going Solo
Lausanne, Switzerland If you are on the continent this March, my friend Stephanie Booth is organizing a conference in her lovely hometown of Lausanne (a short train ride from Geneva) on “Going Solo” and freelancing. Looks like it will be excellent, I know people have been thinking of organizing something similar here for a long [...]
Upcoming Toronto tech/media events
November 20th - CaseCampToronto6 - CaseCamp is back at the century room with presentations from: The Globe and Mail Online, Vortex Mobile, Treehugger.com, and Will super-star Pate of CommandN and ConceptShare
November 27-28 NextMedia Monetizing Digital Media - has what looks like an awesome and jam-packed agenda. I’ll be attending vicariously through Mark Kuznicki and [...]
Hooray, CaseCamp is back
I’m super happy that Chris Matthews will be flying in* to present at the next installment of CaseCamp. Chris is the marketing genius behind the Specialized Angel and the Specialized Rider’s Club (Specialized’s super-popular social media and real-world community for cyclists). Looking forward to seeing Chris again and hearing about the Rider’s Club and the [...]
Thomas Purves
is an Entrepreneur and futurist for hire, lives in the great city of Toronto.
