*** You must RSVP to get a nametag! *** (or be socially ostracized)
This is a casual, social group for technologists to come together, mingle, and perhaps find a partner in crime or two.
Come meet some of the interesting startups in The Next 36, an elite university-level Canadian entrepreneurial leadership program!
Rough format:
8pm - show up, socialize, chill
9pm - introductions, some words from our sponsors, then watch a handful of startups from The Next 36 do ninjafast speedpitching
9:40pm - plot to take over the world
Awesome gold sponsor:
Nonprofit government-backed Canadian "National Centre of Excellence" and wireless company accelerator, Wavefront
Ultrafriendly recruiting sponsor:
Talent, opportunities, and connections: GuruLink recruiting - tried, tested, and true since since 2002 (hey, that rhymes)
Gracious space sponsor:
Dynamo Toronto "startup" Wave Accounting - fast, easy, totally free small business accounting (man, they should totally license that slick tagline from me)
Benevolent beer sponsor:
The good people at Great Lakes Brewery are contributing a few cases of beer. Awesome!
<*Note: $5 is suggested donation and voluntary; feel free to shell out $9309482 if you really want to>
At any given Hackernest meetup, you may find people who are:
- curious about developing on Ruby on Rails, but far too attached to Cake PHP to ever take the plunge
- looking for a tech/entrepreneur/new business story to cover
- Objective-C experts who secretly hate themselves for working on iPhones/iPads/Apple products
- looking to recruit a 5th or 6th engineer for their venture-funded TORONTO-BASED tech startup (no, seriously, it's true - these actually do exist; I happen to be part of one)
- looking to write articles/stories about the obscure/interesting/hilarious hacks you've pulled off
- totally oblivious and just wandered in because they heard there was booze (!?)
- building a top-secret app out of their basement that's going to change the way the world does X
- scrambling to find a partner to work with on a well-paying contract that's just a wee bit too much workload for the anticipated deadline
- heroes because they're part of the burgeoning community that will reverse Toronto's brain-drain
- ...incredibly talented, smart, entrepreneurial, and absolutely dangerous to the status quo
Chances are, you'll fit right in if you're a(n):
- web developer
- software developer
- web designer
- network administrator
- database administrator
- systems administrator
- front-end designer/developer
- programmer
- coder
- engineer (electrical, computer)
- tech enthusiast
- tech/entrepreneur-oriented media/journalist
- really, really obsessive/compulsive blogger/Tweeter
- recruiter looking to poach PHP/Ruby/Python/Java developers for your team/firm
- internet entrepreneur
- mobile developer
- search engine optimization (SEO) professional
- software/hardware hacker/h4ck3r
- technical writer/project manager/business analyst
- 1337 individual
...and aren't a douchebag. <3
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