Who should attend?
Anyone in and around Guelph interested in software, the web and technology! Startup junkies, wage slaves, consultants, students, indie professionals, engineers, designers, money and marketing guys. If you want to see and talk about some interesting things, and get to know other people in the Guelph tech community, come on out! You don't have to demo to attend.
What could I demo?
The real question is, what would other people find interesting? A web app or cool piece of software you wrote, a neat prototype or project you were part of, even some obscure tool or weird hack you've found that others would find useful, astounding or entertaining. Commercial, open source, homebrew hack, whatever... if you can show it off in five minutes, and think it'll generate questions, conversation or feedback, come out and demo it!
Note: You do NOT have to demo to attend. If, however, you are interested in demo'ing, then contact Brydon with details of your demo for consideration.
Invited Speaker
Tara Hunt will be our invited speaker. Tara "simply has no idea what the big ideas of January 2010 will be as of yet", ie she'll say something but she's not sure what yet.
Tara ‘missrogue’ Hunt, named as one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company Magazine, has spent the past fifteen years living her life online. Tara understands how the participatory web is changing all of our relationships: B2C, B2B and C2C. She doesn’t believe in pushing messages or creating strong brands, only in the power of building relationships. After spending 4 years in San Francisco, she moved to Montreal to write her next book (working title ‘Happiness as Your Business Model’) in August 2009.
Sponsors
Our sponsors this time around are Communitech, Sun, Guelph Chamber of Commerce, and Innosphere.