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May 12

mesh/ITAC Digital Commerce Forum

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The Greater Toronto Area (aka GTA) is filled with talented people innovating in the
fields of online commerce and digital content. Combine that talent pool with the strong current of enterprise that distinguishes the city and the result is a burgeoning digital-commerce cluster.

The mesh/ITAC Digital Commerce Forum is designed to provide a gathering place for this community of innovators and entrepreneurs, something that we believe passionately in at mesh.

The success of the mesh conference and meshUniversity indicates there is a strong appetite for networking, inspiration and business and professional development in the Web-centric business community.

The mesh/ITAC Digital Business Forum is designed to extend these opportunities throughout the year. The Forum will meet regularly in the Toronto area (with occasional forays into other locales) to share best practices and to keep up to date with emerging ideas and technologies.

Future events include the following:

The Stratford Institute: Digital Cultural Innovation on a $10 Million Scale
Date: May 14, 2009 – 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: The Spoke Club, 600 King Street West, 4th Floor, Toronto

In May 2008, the University of Waterloo, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and Open Text Corporation, along with a number of other stakeholders, announced the creation of the Stratford Institute. The institute will be a major research and commercialization force in at the global forefront in digital media technology, bringing together leading researchers, businesses and entrepreneurs to create, examine and
commercialize opportunities in digital media and create jobs of the future.

Open Text has been a driving force behind this initiative and believes there is an enormous opportunity for Ontario to play a leading role in the development of business, government and cultural applications of digital media. No one is more excited about the innovative potential of this new venture than Open Text Chief Information Officer Eugene Roman.

Eugene will present an overview of the Stratford Institute, how the institute was conceived, and how it will function and engage students, innovators, corporate participants, government, and what its role will be in the community. His presentation will detail how the Stratford Institute can serve as a resource for digital technology companies of all sizes
throughout Ontario.

Please go to http://www.itac.ca/digitalbusiness for more information about this free
event.

May 12

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Spinning Your Wheels for a Great Cause

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SpinTO is a fundraising project that kicks off with a party on May 15 celebrating the Friends for Life Bike Rally from Toronto to Montreal in support of the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation.

Last Thursday evening, our friend and Microsoft developer evangelist, David Crow personally donated $500 to the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation through our SpinTO project. With that donation, he issued a challenge via Twitter.

We saw that challenge, and wanted to offer our support to spinTO and David’s effort. Soon, Idée Inc. CEO and long-time HIV/AIDS advocate Leila Boujnane, David Suydam of Architech Solutions and Jaimie MacPherson of Mischief Media joined in on the effort.

All told, within a few hours in one evening we raised over $3,000 to help men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS through the work of the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation.

The challenge still stands, but we also encourage you to join the community at an event that will make a difference for others. On May 15, join us at the spinTO at Mod Club. It is sure to be a great night for a great cause.

Learn more here.

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Thanks!

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With a few days of sleep under our collective belts, we – Mark, Rob, Stuart, Mathew and Mike – would like to thank everyone for making mesh ’09 and meshU ’09 such great events.

We want to thank attendees for their enthusiasm, energy, curiosity and willingness to participate. As much as we spend a lot of time trying to come up with great content, it’s what our attendees bring to the table that makes mesh so amazing.

We want to thank all of our speakers for their time and effort. From top to bottom, we were impressed with your enthusiasm and generosity in spending so much time engaging with everyone.

A big thank you to all of our sponsors such as Microsoft, Edelman, CIRA and CNW. mesh couldn’t happen without you. Thanks to Sandra MacDonald for all your work with our sponsors.

Thanks to our volunteers for helping make everything run so smoothly.

Thanks to everyone at MCC Planners, particularly the amazing and tireless Sheri Moore, for making mesh and meshU run so seamlessly.

Thanks to our technology partners – mDialog, FileMobile, Sweet Caesar, Viigo, Rypple and Flip – for delivering tools and services that made the mesh experience that much better.

Thanks to Roz Allen and Mark McKay (and Stuart Macdonald!) for doing such an amazing job filming, editing and posting so much video.

Thanks to MaRS and Allen Gelberg for being such a great hosts.

Last, but not least, thanks to our wives, partners and children for being so supportive, patient and understanding!

If you have feedback on what you liked about mesh, what could be improved and new things you would like to see, you can do it here.