I was in attendance at the F5 Expo Launch Party yesterday, January 26th. What a great turnout! The place was packed with over 200 people – and all eyeballs were fixated on the many screens around the V Lounge as Malcolm Gladwell appeared within the Mingleverse online universe (think Second Life) to take questions from [...]

Host of Tech Talk Expert on Global TV News and show organizer, Lindsay Smith asked me to join her advisory board this year to help with the latest edition of the Massive Tech Show to be held in April 2010. The event has lost some steam over the past couple of years and is looking [...]

Guy Kawasaki at SXSW 2009.
Lucky me. I got to sit down with marketing guru and popular author, Guy Kawasaki across from our ServerBeach booth just minutes ago at SXSW. A Tweet up was brought together at the Opera booth with Guy who fielded any questions. He’s really excited about his latest venture, Alltop. He’s launching [...]

I was invited by Techvibes to write a blog post about the first ever Structure 08 conference hosted by GigaOM, which I attended and my company PEER 1 sponsored. It was held on June 25th in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center:
Just got back from the Structure 08 conference hosted by GigaOM and [...]

Just returned from South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX. My first time and what a great event! If you’re wondering where the web 2.0 world has been the last few days, well I found them all on 6th Street. Social media was the talk of Interactive. From the continuing quest for enhanced monetization model [...]

We’re sponsoring Launch Party Vancouver tomorrow evening at The Republic on Granville Street. The event kicks off at 5pm with a handful of demos from local start-ups looking to show off their products/services to a primarily techie, marketing and venture capital crowd. Launch Party is described as “a lively mixer for the city’s brightest entrepreneurs, [...]

My friend Moe is hosting the upcoming SOHO – SME Business Conference and Expo on October 16th in Toronto and 30th in Vancouver. I’ve attended, exhibited and spoken at the conference in the past and it’s a very worthwhile event for entrepreneurs, startups and small business owners who want to learn how to grow their [...]

Got back Friday night from Office 2.0 in San Francisco. The place felt like ground zero for web 2.0 and SaaS companies. The St. Regis was buzzing with people clamoring to find out primarily the impact social media and networking will have on enterprise. Also, product demonstrations from new startups and growing firms like Spanning [...]

Are you looking for a jump in your marketing/communications careers? Business Development Institute, Adrants, and Advertising Week are hosting AdEx, the Advertising Industry Experienced Hire Diversity Recruiting Program. The event promises to connect top agencies and marketers with experienced candidates from diverse backgrounds. Your application to the program is confidential and you will attend private [...]

BarCamp Vancouver 2007 takes place on Saturday, August 18th, 8:30am to 5:30pm at WorkSpace Vancouver, 400 – 21 Water Street in Gastown. BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. All [...]