I’m hoping to get Gurbaksh Chahal to speak at DemoCamp Toronto # 25 on January 26, 2010.
Who is Gurbaksh Chahal?
Gurbaksh is a successful entrepreneur having sold Click Agents for $40M and in 2007 BlueLithium for $300M to Yahoo. He has started his third venture, gWallet, which recently raised $12.5M.
For the Chahal family, as for many immigrants, education was paramount, but G left high school at sixteen to form Click Agents, an Internet advertising company, which he sold two years later for $40 million. In January 2004, he launched a second company, BlueLithium – the next generation in Internet advertising. The company was focused on data, optimization, and analytics and became a pioneer of behavioral targeting. BlueLithium was named one of the top 100 private companies in America three years in a row by AlwaysOn, and in 2006, it received highest honor as Top Innovator of the Year. (Previous winners included Google, Skype, and Salesforce.com.) On September 4th, 2007, Yahoo! announced that it was acquiring BlueLithium for $300 million in cash.
How can I help?
If you’re a social platform developer, this Facebook, MySpace, OpenSocial, etc. and you’re interested in learning about gWallet and what Gurbaksh is currently working on, I need you to update your Twitter or Facebook status and @gchahal or Chahal Wow! indicating that you’re interested in hearing him speak at DemoCamp. Just like our friend Mark Zohar did.
Datamartist is a piece of Windows software designed to enabled the extraction, transformation and and load (ETL) of data from SQL databases, Access databases, Excel files, and other sources. The goal is to help IT analysts and developers in small and medium sized businesses or departments in larger organizations to access and manipulate data needed to inform their organizations. It’s a great piece of desktop software that is for sale (imagine that!). The best part, James Standen informed me a few days before the demo he was concerned because he was still working on getting the code to work. I love demos of functioning code.
Oshoma Momoh – 5 Blocks Out
Osh and Katrin presented their local community built around enabling neighbourhoods, 5 Blocks Out. The tool is built around helping communities share, discover and engage with their community. It is about those things that make your city great. The schools, the daycares, the restaurants, the spots, the excursions, the places off the beaten path that make a city a great place to live. You should check out 5 Blocks Out.
Geoffrey thanks for capturing the video. Make sure you check out Geoffrey’s Toronto Tech Jobs blog where he examines and breaks down the technology job postings. Whether you agree with it or not, it’s a great way to start to critically think about employers (and their HR departments).
Geoffrey Wiseman has published Adam Thody’s presentation on DataTO.org at DemoCamp Toronto # 24.
It’s great to see Adam and Mark Kuznicki sharing the great work they have been doing for toronto.ca/open to reach out, engage, educate and inspire Toronto software developers about the opportunities that exist in remixing the city data sets in their applications. The enablement of local businesses like 5BlocksOut, HomeZilla and others will be great.
Satoshi Takano (@SatoshiTakano) has posted the complete video of Gary Vaynerchuk’s talk with Saul Colt at DemoCamp Toronto # 24. It was a great conversation about entrepreneurship, wine, and social media.
Gary Vaynerchuk in Toronto @DemoCamp 24 from Satoshi Takano on Vimeo.
I’m cross posting Tom Purves live notes from StartupNorth. Make sure you check out StartupNorth or WirelessNorth.
DemoCamp24 in Toronto is sold out, for those following at home, some live notes:
First up: Gary Vaynerchuk:
Greatest takeaway: big game is patience, way too many ppl give up right before it’s about to happen. If you don’t have the [...]
Wow there was 17 submissions for the 6 demo slots at DemoCamp Toronto #24 happening on December 3, 2009 which is now sold out. Thanks to everyone that applied. If you didn’t get accepted, you’ll have another chance, DemoCamp Toronto #25 and #26 are happening on January 26, 2010 and March 30, 2010.
PHP Quebec & ConFoo are hosting a Career DemoCamp on Wednesday, December 2,2009 in Montreal. It’s a very interesting concept, the goal is to introduce local developers to startups and other web projects for the purpose of employment. Apparently, Microsoft is paying for the space as part of TechDays Montreal and Joey, bless his heart, [...]
DemoCamp Edmonton 9 is happening on Thursday, November 19, 2009 starting at 6:30 pm MST at the University of Alberta, ETLC building, room E1-017. There’s a great list of demos including:
CIE
BookThatBet
Willowglen
CrazedCoders
MotionVoter
Max Gaming
Event Details
DemoCamp Edmonton 9
When: Thursday, November 19, 2009 6:30 PM
Where:
University of Alberta
ETLC Building, Room E1-017
Edmonton, AB Canada
We’re really lucky to have Saul Colt working his ass off in Toronto. He’s done a great thing. He’s invited his friend Gary Vaynerchuk to come to Toronto and talk to startups about his book, Crush It, and his demand generation (read social media usage) for WineLibrary.
That’s right, Gary Vaynerchuk in Toronto on December 3, [...]
Introducing Lift@Home Toronto and DemoCamp 2019 [ticket link]
LIFT Conference is an international tech conference based out of Geneva, with events in Switzerland, France and Korea. For the first time this year, Toronto has been invited to participate as part of the Lift@Home. Lift is not your usual tech conference in that [...]
