events
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 [...]
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 a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
