- DemoCamp18 in Toronto
(Photograph by Éole).
Well… you have guessed it: it is time for another DemoCamp. DemoCamp 18 will be held in July. We have all been extremely busy and it has been a few months since our last DemoCamp (held in February!). So put on your blue suede shoes and join us. Details below.
For those of you who are new to DemoCamp: DemoCamp is one of the must attend events (well besides Founders and Funders) of the Toronto tech and startup community. Don’t be shy. If you need introductions or need to figure out who does what, show up early and introduce yourself to the DemoCamp stewards. We will be happy to connect you with others with similar interests (we are all geeks! some of us are even super geeks…).
DemoCamp is brought to you by (in alphabetical order): David Crow, Jay Goldman, Joey DeVilla, Greg Wilson and yours truly.
DemoCamp Details:
- When: Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 from 17:30 to 21:00
- Where: Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue, Toronto
- Registration can be done here
When you register to attend DemoCamp, you will notice that there are 3 type of registration fees:
- A general ticker: these tickets are free. You will need to register as soon as possible as these sell out very very quickly
- Community supporter tickets: these tickets cost $5 and this fee goes toward supporting DemoCamp and helps defray any costs associated with holding DemoCamp
- Community all-star ticket: These tickets cost $10 and again help us defray costs associated with holding DemoCamp. If you are an awesome supporter you would buy one of these tickets!
- Sponsor tickets: These are limited to 5 sponsor and cost $200For DemoCamp 18, we are looking for the best demos and ignite presentations ever…Apply to demo here.
The no Powerpoint (or Keynote) rules apply to DemoCamp, so bring your application and leave the slides home. See you around folks.
- DemoCamp Toronto
Folks: it is on, DemoCamp 17 is happening in Toronto. We are looking for fantastic demonstrations to excite us! So if you are working on anything you think would be an awesome presentation at DemoCamp: we want to hear from you. Now. So please submit your presentation proposal and register to attend.Join us at DemoCamp 17:
Date: Monday Feb 25, 2008
Time: 5:30pm - 9:00pm
Where: Toronto Board of Trade, 1 First Canadian Place, Toronto, ONNow listen folks, DemoCamp is a participant-driven event. It can only get better with your participation, it can only become smashing with your interest and participation. If you are out there, working in technology and interested in helping further build this little community of ours, then come on out. There are no excuses for not participating. If you are a first time attendee: please ping me. I will introduce you. I will take you around and I will make you wonder why you have not attend all the previous DemoCamp. You can ping me at lboujnane {@} ideeinc.com - Looking forward to welcoming you! We are a very welcoming bunch. Really!
Schedule
5:00 – Doors open
6:00-7:00pm – Demos
7:30-8:00pm – Ignite Presentations
9:00 – We move to the pub to continue our conversations and share a few pints.We are looking for demos and Ignite presentations.
DemoCamp rules:
- All demos are 5 minutes demo presentations
- No powerpoint for the demonstrations; we have made a couple of exceptions in the past but really we want to see your working stuff and not a powerpoint. Plus powerpoint is evil - we all know that - and we are good. So no powerpoint!
- Ignite presentations take the same amount of time: 5 minutes. They should be entertaining and fun. You get 20 slides x 15 seconds per slide. All Ignite presentations need to be submitted in advance so either you are ready to rock the house or not!
So, what are you waiting for: submit your demo or Ignite talk now. I will publish a little guide to doing demos at DemoCamp but for now I will leave you with this little write up from Dave Winer and just remember:
If you have five minutes to tell your story, make sure that by the time minute #1 is over, the prospect has seen enough to be totally blown away.
- Democamping at the Board of Trade
Board of Trade + DemoCamp = Awesomeness
I did a presentation at the board of trade as part of the Technology Innovators Breakfast and had a great time. This board of trade session was a democamp facilitated session: ie two technology democamp presentation were done during the board of trade monthly technology innovators breakfast. Anand from Bumtop and I were the two democamp presenters.We managed to bridge the gap between suits + democampers. Michael Murphy, VP and General Manager at Symantec did the first presentation and Anand and I followed with our respective presentations. What did I learn at the Board of Trade? Well quite a few things:
- there are still people in the technology space in Toronto who don’t know about democamp; how is that possible?
- there are still folks who have never been involved with a community driven and community built group such as democamp; some of the questions I fielded had to do with “who runs DemoCamp” and “why should anyone get involved?”;
- we still need to get the word out about what DemoCamp to folks all over Toronto (and the world)
- the bridge between the business, finance and start up community is still very wide; we know of each others existence but we don’t interact much. I wonder every day how we can improve these interactions.
I think that a few more democamps at the board of trade would help create better relationships between the business community and technology in Toronto and could foster some great pollination. I am looking forward to it.
It was very interesting to demo our new visual search labs and see these participants reactions first hand. I wish we had put the labs together a lot earlier than we did. The visual search and multi-colour labs are a great way for anyone to explore visual and colour search since they can play and search a 3 million image collection on their own. There is nothing better than being able to play with something new on your own. The feedback we have received so far has been great and I am looking forward to the next features. I usually start by demo-ing our image recognition service and almost always forget our visual search technology. I get too involved in answering all the image recognition questions!It will be interesting to see who comes to DemoCamp 16 next week at the board of trade and if some of the Technology Innovators Breakfast will join us.
- DemoCamp-ing again
If you have not registered for DC15 (DemoCamp 15) you are going to be out of luck and you will probably miss seeing a great demo and speaker line up. The team (David, Jay, Greg and yours truly) has been hard at work reviewing, planning and so here you have it: DC15
Monday, October 29, 2007
Schedule
15:00 Doors open
16:00 to 17:00 Demos
17:30 to 18:30 Ignite Presentations
19:00 DC15 moves to the pub (Details to be provided later)Location and Directions
Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON Read the rest…
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