We’re very excited to be talking Timeraiser at Lilac Festival this weekend. So excited in fact, that we’re giving away a pair of WestJet Tickets to Lilac Festival attendees! Check out the live feed below and enter to win.
Be sure to check out our contest details on our Facebook page.
I recently heard the statement that Toronto has two seasons: Winter and Construction. Well, this summer put the construction blues behind you and take a peek at some of the fantastic festivals and events happening every week across the city. To start the season off right is “Doors Open Toronto”, where the theme this year is Architects and Architecture.
Quick Reference for Buildings to Visit during Doors Open Toronto:
Saturday, Sunday
One of our favourite local food and environment advocates, Evergreen Brick Works, will be hosting a Doors Open Toronto Festival on both Saturday, May 29th and Sunday, May 30th to help celebrate their new developments to come on site.
If you don’t know what Evergreen Brick Works is, let us fill you in. Evergreen Brick Works is a community environmental centre that inspires and equips visitors to live, work and play more sustainably. They have transformed the former Don Valley Brick Works from a collection of deteriorating heritage buildings into an international showcase for urban sustainability and green design.
Evergreen Brick Works is currently in construction mode, with a grand opening planned for September 2010. Wanna a sneek peek at the final product? Click here to get a bird’s eye view of what’s to come. Better yet, visit in person every Saturday starting May 29th until October for the infamous Saturday Farmers Market, which features a fabulous assortment of fruits, vegetables, wild fish, meat, cheese, milled flours, eggs and oils—all from local farmers.
We’re LIVE from the GenNext Timeraiser in London! Doors open at 7pm at the London Mansion. Check out our live stream of the event and remember: If you’re at the the Timeraiser, enter our WESTJET CONTEST!
Want to win a pair of tickets to ANYWHERE WESTJET FLIES?*
How to Enter:
1. Attend tonight’s Timeraiser (doors open at 7pm)
2. Send a tweet about the Timeraiser using your mobile phone. Entries MUST include the hashtag #Timeraiser, #TRWJ, or #TimeraiserWJ. Don’t have a Twitter account? Enter at our Civic Footprint Kiosk!
3. Watch the entries LIVE on our Civic Footprint Blog (live stream begins at 7pm). Winners will be announced later this evening.
We’re very excited to be in London for the 1st ever GenNext Timeraiser. We finished setting up at the London Mansion this afternoon and filmed a quick sneak peak of the venue. It looks awesome. Can’t wait to see you tomorrow – and remember, you can still get tickets here.
See you tomorrow at the London Mansion – Doors Open at 7pm
I spent the last two days in a bunch of great conversations with industry leaders and thought provokers talking about Canada’s Digital Future at the Canada 3.0 conference in Stratford, ON. While part of me wished there were endless examples of Canadian companies leading in the innovative digital space (many exist), I did appreciate the thoughts about where as a nation, we’re headed with regards to new technologies and its impact on jobs, content and digital product. Global’s Kevin Newman was a great Emcee, too.
Some highlights for me were:
The conversation about the value of knowledge and it’s relation to digital. As we shift from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy, how can we attract top digital/ICT/new media talent and retain that talent in Canada? I particularly enjoyed Sarah Prevette’s (Sprouter) keynote session on Canadian Innovation. Sarah is absolutely right – we need to shout from the highrises about our successes in innovation and call for others to take notice. The same applies in the non-profit sector, with the importance of information sharing and praise for great work. It is interesting to relate the calls for retaining top talent and the showcasing of Canadian innovation in the digital sector to that in the NGO sector.
It has been fun for me to draw parallels between the digital space and the non-profit sector in many of the sessions I attended at Canada 3.0. In session titled “Startup Nation: Entrepreneurs, Apps and the Next Generation of Mobile“, Polar Mobile described some of their process challenges around funding and seed capital. I couldn’t help but see the similiarities to the non-profit sector, with regards to the time it takes to complete grant applications and the requirements that go along with some types of funding. I noted that Polar Mobile (along with other startup tech companies) are driven to outsource their resource development (with a 20% hit) because the requirements to complete applications are much too time consuming, in addition to the development time needed to get a mobile application off the ground successfully. As we continue to expand our local networks and seek top talent in both sectors, more conversations about innovation, change, and streamlined information sharing are needed.
Finally, thanks to Tom Jenkins and the Open Text team for the super fly 3D Flash demo technology on display in the Digital Showcase. That was one cool display, and I can’t wait to play more with that tool. That’s serious innovation at work.
