MeshU Workshops: Toronto, May 17th

MeshU – short for “Mesh University” – takes place on Monday, May 17th at the MaRS Collaboration Centre (101 College Street, just east of University). It’s a series of workshops for web designers, developers and “suits” that takes place the day before the Mesh Conference (“Canada’s Web Conference”) and will feature 12 workshops divided into “Design”, “Development” and “Management” streams delivered by people with real-world startup/tech business experience.

I’ll be there, as both an attendee furiously taking notes (which I’ll post here) as well as a representative of Microsoft Canada and Silverlight, who are MeshU’s event partners.

Keynote: Bill Buxton

Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, human-computer interaction guru extraordinaire and fellow alumnus of Crazy Go Nuts University, will deliver the morning keynote. Every presentation I’ve ever seen him do has always inspired me and given me at least three new ideas, and I expect that this one will be no different. He’s an intelligent, engaging and interesting speaker – don’t miss your chance to see him live!

MeshU Sessions

Here are the MeshU sessions:

• Design Track
  • Principles of Design – Meredith Noble (Usability Matters)
  • [Untitled] – Asa Raskin (Mozilla)
  • [Untitled] – Adrian Belina (Jam3Media)
• Developer Track
  • Data Chemistry – Chris Thorpe (The Guardian)
  • [Untitled] – Diana Clarke (FreshBooks)
  • Scaling Your Tech Teams – Joe Stump (SimpleGeo)
  • Lean Product Development: Learning is the Killer Feature – Dan Martell (FlowTown)
• Management Track
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy: Building and Scaling Inside Sales – Isaac Garcia (Central Desktop)
  • Customer Milestones to Startup Success – Sean Ellis (12in6)
  • How (and Why) to Build a Data Warehouse 101 – Antony Upward (Edward James Consulting)
  • Hiring Mistakes: A How-To Guide – Ben Baldwin (Clearfit.com)

Registering for MeshU

Alas, the $49.00 student tickets for MeshU are sold out. Here’s what remain:

• Regular tickets: CAD$289.00 each
• “Friends of MeshU” sponsorship: CAD$1000 each – with this, you get:
  • 1 regular ticket
  • 1 student ticket
  • Your logo on the MeshU site and at the event
• “Really Good Friends of MeshU” sponsorship: CAD$2000 each — with this, you get:
  • 2 regular tickets
  • 2 student tickets
  • Your logo on the MeshU site and at the event
  • A table at the event

To register for MeshU, go to the MeshU registration page.

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.