- NextMEDIA ‘08 was a smashing success! We have videos!
Couldn’t make it out to Banff this June for all the action at the soldout NextMEDIA conference? You can still catch up on some of the highlights!
Leila Boujnane chats with Kris Krug from NextMEDIA about the conference, TinEye and participating on the “Canada’s Hottest Digital Media Innovators” panel.
Jeremy Wright from b5media, Markus Frind of Plentyoffish and Boris Wertz from Nexopia joined Leila on the panel where they discussed their technologies, communities and how they are growing their innovative companies.
You can catch all of Kris’ interviews including Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton who was the keynote speaker this year on Blip.
- Idée nominated for AlwaysON’s Global 250 in Innovation
Nominations for Idée? Yes indeed! We’re happy to share our recent nomination to the AlwaysON Global 250, quite the honour!
Each year AlwaysON honours the top 250 private companies from across innovation and recognizes them at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit held July 22-24th at Stanford University, California. Very exciting!
The event features the most innovative companies, eminent technologists, influential investors and journalists in keynote presentations, panel debates and private company CEO showcases. The Summit at Stanford’s goal is to identify the most promising entrepreneurial opportunities and investments in the global tech industry.
We are looking forward to the summit in July!
- 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.
- Lunch 2.0 at Wishingline a delicious affair!
Scott and the awesome team at Wishingline were super hosts for the second Lunch 2.0 (Canada) event, thanks again! Their new office space in the east end of Toronto is fantastic.Along with the yummy pizza from Pizzaiolo and tasty desserts from the local bakery, the Wishingline studio was filled with interesting folks and great conversations.
Did you miss out? Maybe you want to host the next Lunch 2.0 event here in Toronto! Pop on over to the Lunch 2.0 blog for more information, then ping us here at Idée and we’ll help you get organized, spread the word about your event on the blog and make sure you have what you need to connect with the Toronto technology and design community!Looking for Lunch 2.0 photos? Coming right up!
- So many events, so little time!
Our always-on-the-go CEO Leila Boujnane is attending the Founders and Funders event in Toronto the evening of June 4th and then jumping on a plane to NYC for an early morning panel appearance in New York on the 5th! We are trying to see if we can fit her with a superwoman cape to beat the New York City’s early morning traffic…In New York she will be speaking on the Anti-piracy: Fighting Online Infringement panel at the 2008 RPAC Annual Conference.
Organized by The Association of American Publishers‘ Rights and Permissions Advisory Committee (RPAC), the panel also includes Suzanne Telsey (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.), Peter Anaman and Ronald Dove (Covington and Burling LLP) and Bill Sampson (Cengage).
Pop by and say hello if you happen to be near the NYU Kimmel Center on June 5th or, if you are heading to western Canada soon, stop in at NextMEDIA for a chat in Banff on the 8th!
** Photo Ben30
- Business News Network (BNN) features TinEye
We were excited when Canada’s only all business specialty channel, the Business News Network (BNN), picked up the TinEye story and featured it on After Hours May 6th.We were even more excited when they asked us back to do another segment! Leila Boujnane, our CEO, was in studio with Kim Parlee and Andrew Bell on Friday, May 9th to talk about TinEye and the exciting things happening at Idée!
You can watch the five minute segment on Business News Network or pop by our website, we’ll have the link for you in the Press and Events section. Fast forward to 41:20 for the piece.
- Spring in Toronto means ‘mesh’ is in the air!
Interested in learning “How to Demo Like a Demon“? If your answer is yes, you should sign up for meshU this year!
Our CEO Leila Boujnane and David Crow, User Experience Evangelist at Microsoft, have teamed up for what is sure to be an exciting and informative session as part of three learning streams at the first ever meshU on Tuesday, May 20th.What is meshU?
meshU is a one-day event featuring small, focused workshops by those who have earned their stripes in the startup game; people who can talk knowledgeably about everything from interface design to using Amazon’s S3 distributed server network. The mesh organizers hope this addition to the mesh conference will meet a growing need in Toronto for practical, down-to-earth information about tools, knowledge and expertise for startups, web designers and developers of all kinds. meshU will be held the day before the mesh conference, and will be happening at the MaRS Collaboration Centre in downtown Toronto.
As always, the team behind mesh, Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Mike McDerment, Rob Hyndman and Stuart MacDonald have brought together the best and brightest to present! With folks like Daniel Burka (Digg, Pownce), Kevin Hale (Infinity Box Inc, Wufoo) and Avi Bryant from Dabble DB, meshU is sure to be an amazing addition to the mesh experience.
Tickets are available online at eventbrite. The helpful folks at mesh are also available to answer questions or tell you a bit more about mesh and meshU. Mike McDerment is the right fellow for the job and he can be reached at mike[at]meshconference.com or call (647) 204-380.
Tickets to meshU ‘08 [May 20]
Tickets to mesh conference ‘08[May 21 & 22] Sold out
- Paul Bloore to present at Ruby on Rails Project Night, May 13th @ 6pm
The Idée team is busy this week! While our CEO is across the country in California speaking at Red Herring, our CTO is stepping in to present at tonight’s Ruby on Rails Project Night.Organized by Corina Newby from The System of Things (TSOT), the May Ruby on Rails Night will be held at the TSOT offices which will open at 5:45pm with presentations starting at 6pm. The interest has been high and with a crowd of about 40-50, a great venue and awesome presenters it will be a fun and informative night for all!
Tonight’s event will feature:
Steven Baker (quarter-turn.com), who will launch the evening by exploring “Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec”
Andrew Burke (shindigital.com), who returns to discuss ‘Using the “Command” Design Pattern Elegantly”
and our own Paul Bloore, co-founder and CTO of Idée Inc., feature presenter for the evening, who will demonstrate our highly successful image search APIs.
If you’d like to attend contact Corina to confirm your space. She can be reached at corina.newby@tsotinc.com or via the facebook event page.
- Leila Boujnane speaks on ‘Women CEOs in Tech’ panel at Red Herring on May 13th
Insightful roundtable sessions, VC and CEO key-note speakers and presentations by the most exciting start-ups in the region - sounds like just the place to find our CEO Leila Boujnane!Red Herring North America, which runs from May 12-14, is held in San Jose, California and offers the over 300 CEOs, venture investors, government officials and senior corporate business development executives an exciting three days of scheduled events and informal networking opportunities.
The Women CEOs in Tech roundtable is sure to be a lively and informative discussion and boasts an all-star list of participants from the tech sector. This Tuesday, May 13th, Lalee Sadighi, reporter for Red Herring, will moderate the panel which includes:
- FirstRain, Penny Herscher, President and CEO
- Infobright, Miriam Tuerk, President and CEO
- LogLogic, Patricia Sueltz, CEO
- Serus, Indu Navar, CEO
- Idée Inc., Leila Boujnane, CEO (that’s us!)
If you are in the area, drop by and say hello!
- Lunch 2.0 is back, mark your calendars for May 30th!
Join the great team at Wishingline for Toronto’s second Lunch 2.0 event happening Friday, May 30th, noon to 1:30 at the Wishingline studio in Toronto.Our hosts had this to say about the upcoming occasion:
“Come out and meet like-minded people from Toronto’s design and tech communities and help us inaugurate our new studio space, rock out on the finger drums, and check out the comings and goings of our strange neighbours across the street all while enjoying yummy pizza and fizzy or otherwise bubby beverages.”
Sounds like an event not to be missed! What’s also great is that lunch is totally free, just make sure you register soon as space is very limited. Directions, tickets and all the rest of the details are available at Eventbrite.
What’s Lunch 2.0 you ask? Check the official Canadian Lunch 2.0 website to find out.We look forward to see everyone at the Wishingline offices May 30th!
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