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mesh is Canada's digital transformation and innovation event taking place in Calgary and Toronto each year.

Sponsor Spotlight: Monster’s Job Mission

By mesh12

mesh has always been a platform for connections. We love hearing the whispers of new ideas as attendees network their way for two days, but it takes great people to make these types of initiatives/dreams/conversations come true.

We first partnered with Monster at meshmarketing11 and it’s been a friendship that continues today.  Monster is the evolution of the “job board” in this digital world we all share.  Their coolest innovations are changing the way connections are made.  In fact, they’ve made it their mission to help you find better candidates with technology like:

Career Ad Network®: Monster’s patent pending ad-network solution, the largest global recruitment-focused ad network which reaches 106 million active and passive users per month.

Power Resume Search: Monster’s proprietary 6Sense® Semantic Search Technology, Power Resume Search provides unrivaled candidate matches. 6Sense Semantic Search doesn’t just look for keywords—it “understands” concepts and context, and returns matches based on actual, relevant experience, skills, education and more.

SeeMore™: Monster’s new cloud-based talent management platform that gives recruiters unprecedented access to Monster’s proprietary search and analytics tools.

BeKnown: Monster’s professional networking app on Facebook® enables job-seekers to harness the power of their personal network to break open new career opportunities.

But, wait, there’s more!!

Monster is offering a special offer on a 30-day Job Posting or a 14-Day Power Resume License to our very own mesh community.

Click here for a 30-Day Job Posting for only $525 (a savings of more than 30%) or Click here for a 14-Day Power Resume License for only $695 (a savings of more than 20%).

Sponsor Spotlight: The Web Blooms at Florist One

By mesh12

mesh sponsorDid you meet Brian Gomes at mesh last year? If you didn’t, you should this year! His story and his passion are the elements that make mesh more than just a conference.

Brian has been part of mesh since 2006, having attended every year. This year, he returns not just as an attendee, but as a sponsor.  I believe he is the truest and best definition of what a “friend of mesh” sponsor is all about.  It also helps he is one heck of a nice guy!

Last year Florist One announced the Florist One API on the mesh blog, and told the story of how their API was inspired by mesh.

As an online florist with a partner program, the Florist One API is a free tool that lets  partners create and embed flower storefronts into their own websites and applications. Orders from flower storefronts are transmitted to Florist One in real-time for processing and fulfillment through local florists in the U.S> and Canada. Partners sending orders through flower storefronts are paid a commission on flower sales.

The result was a bunch of really cool flower storefronts!

Stewart Enterprises, a national operator of funeral homes, added flower storefronts to their funeral home websites that offer their own custom line of flower products and are delivered by local florists of their choosing.

Frontrunner Professional, a maker of online memorials for funeral homes, added flower storefronts to their online memorials. Website visitors viewing a memorial can buy and send flowers to the funeral service without ever leaving the funeral home’s Website. Frontrunner uses the Florist One API to offer flowers directly from their application to create new revenue streams for its funeral home clients.

But what about small independent funeral homes not affiliated with software providers – how could they easily implement a flower storefront without development resources? This was a problem Florist One solved by eating their own dog food.

Florist One used their own API to create a flower storefront that could be added with three lines of Javascript code. The result was a pretty slick flower storefront that an independent funeral home like Hansen Spear could add to their flowers page. The flower storefront is branded as Hansen Spear. Hansen Spear selects the local florists making the flower delivery, and creates a new revenue stream for itself. All this is done in minutes by adding a few lines of Javascript code to a page.

Florist One is feeling pretty pleased with itself – creating an API that lets flower storefronts be created anywhere, and then taking it one step further by using their own API to allow their partners to create flower storefronts for funeral homes in minutes.

It is their story – their API was inspired by mesh and now in the spirit of mesh, they want to share it with you!

Congrats to mesh’s Hosted Startup Selections

By mesh12

In addition to having a great line-up speakers, we’re really excited about a new wrinkle, the mesh hosted startup program in which a group of entrepreneurs can attend mesh for free.

We were overwhelmed with the enthusiastic response to the program, which made it extremely difficult to select the entrepreneurs to invite. Our original goal was 20 invitations, but we decided to expand it to 25, and then 29.

The way the program works is that participants get to enjoy two days of great speakers, conversations and networking – with the only requirement they spend 45 minutes meeting with the program’s sponsors – Ernst & Young, Microsoft and ME Consulting.

Our first cohort of startups includes:
Speechbobble Inc.
Viafoura
SampleSource
Remote Stylist
REfficient Inc.
Atendy Inc
Mulberry Media Interactive
iNotForProfit
Mimetics Canada
Gloveslap Social Stadium
Granify
Jobdeals Inc.
Spently
UME Golf
ePocket
mTriage
Gijit
Trystingtrees
Suprpod
Inklyo Ltd.
Lilikoi Data
Rayku
Tunezy
Next Parliament
Weever Apps
Verelo Inc
Cream
Uberflip
Greengage Mobile

Tickets for mesh can be purchased for $679.