the birth of mesh
In 2006, our six founders saw the power of digital and its capacity to transform the workplace and our lives. Digital was crossing disciplines. It was breaking silos. And people needed a space to discover, process and talk about the changes happening all around them.
To answer that call, our founders launched mesh as a platform where discussions of mind-blowing transformation could take place. mesh brought four broad audiences together:
- Marketing (the blue thread)
- Society (the orange thread)
- Media (the red thread)
- Green (the business thread)
Looking back, we’re convinced this meshing helped redefine what it means to host a conference. We embraced complicated and diverse subject matter. We said bye-bye to mundane presentations with stodgy powerpoint decks. We introduced fireside chats, we didn’t shy away from people who dropped the occasional f-bombs, and we flipped the focus from the stage to the audience. We embraced and reflected back the very change our audiences were seeing all around them.
It’s an understatement to say the founders were onto something. For 10 years, mesh hosted more than 6,500 of the brightest leaders affecting the digital transformation landscape for two days of inspiring talks, meetups and more. We’ve built a loyal and passionate community of meshies. We’ve created space for improbable ideas and watched them become reality.
And we’re doing it again.
mesh’s evolution
After the pandemic, mesh came out of hiatus and has hosted multiple events in Calgary and Toronto.
Our founders’ vision was right: digital is changing everything. Every. Thing. Maybe more than we ever realized. So we took a step back. We saw how the transformative power of digital expanded far past the web and into the very being of companies, industries and society.
We knew we had to evolve. To transform, if you will.
mesh is now a digital transformation event. Whether it’s mobile, analytics and cloud or robotics, full automation and AI, digital technologies are reshaping how everything gets done. Today, mesh still delivers on the promise of creating innovative, boundary-pushing discussions that explore how digital is shaping our lives.
With new partners, we’re opening our doors to professionals from every industry to become meshies. We’re inviting people at all levels of their digital transformations to share their stories, challenges, successes and questions with our community. We live, breathe, talk, host, criticize, love and hate digital transformation. Like always, our goal is to help passionate visionaries shape and build a future we’re all excited to experience.