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You’re Invited! DemoCamp Calgary Tonight

Patrick Lor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:28:50 +0000

3 reasons to attend:

5 great demos
hear what’s going on in the tech community
meet Calgary’s tech entrepreneurs and influencers
and a bonus reason . . . win a free pass to Barcamp!

Date: April 24th, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (Post DemoCamp meetup TBA)
Location: Calgary Chamber of Commerce – 100 6th Avenue SW
Admission: Free (and bring a friend!)

DemoCamp Calgary in one week!

Patrick Lor — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:32:14 +0000

DemoCampYYC #23 is just 1 week away at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.

Date: April 24th, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (Post DemoCamp meetup TBA)
Location: Calgary Chamber of Commerce – 100 6th Avenue SW
Admission: Free (and bring a friend!)

Please plan on attending:

If you’d like to meet local entrepreneurs, developers and designers.
If you have something you’d like to present. (Read this and contact us here, or email us at organizers [at] democampcalgary (dot) com.)
If you have a community announcement that you’d like to make: you’re organizing an event, developing a project, gather support for a community initiatives.

Upcoming: DCC23 – April 24th, 2012

David Gluzman — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:14:54 +0000

Scene from DCC22

Mark your calendars, DemoCampYYC #23 is coming up on April 24th at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.

Date: April 24th, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (Post DemoCamp meetup TBA)
Location: Calgary Chamber of Commerce – 100 6th Avenue SW
Admission: Free (and bring a friend!)

If you have something you’d like to present, read this and contact us here, or email us at organizers [at] democampcalgary (dot) com.

Also, my offer (David) of a free WineCollective package to the first person to commit to doing an Ignite presentation still stands. :)

Lastly if you missed DCC22, there is a complete video summary of the entire event.

DemoCamp Calgary 22 – Video

gordonmcdowell — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:55:09 +0000

DemoCampYYC22 was held at Calgary’s Chamber of Commerce. Here’s a video summary for those that may have missed it:

00:26	Tom Short started us off with a kudos. Kudos is an in-house solution to increase employee engagement. No algae was shown.
14:35	Lloyed Lobo & Alex Popa showed Startup Gauge which placed them 2nd in Calgary Startup Weekend. Startup Gauge dismisses or validates by having users vote “Cash” or “Crash”. No algae was shown.
23:29	Christian Pekeler introduced Daily Child Care Report as a means for child care professionals to help track and communicate to parents how kids experienced their day. No algae was shown.
31:59	David Gluzman of BlackSquare with “The one hour experiment” recapped his experience using Drupal to create an internal web application in one hour Ignite presentation. No algae was shown.
34:36	Adrian Audet spoke about SFN BioSystems research in photo-bio-reactors for use in natural gas compression stations to reduce CO2 emissions.
46:54	Kevin Timms & Steve Bentley demoed QRZap. Using QRZap mobile web technology, QR Spaces facilitate the delivery of a number of different mobile interactions and rich experiences. No algae was shown.
55:21	Paul Thorsteinson demoed Anthm. Anthm is currently available for iOS devices, and allows those running the app to democratically control the playlist at a party. (Paul explained the social dynamics of having such a voting system available at an event are quite surprising.) No algae was shown.

DemoCampCalgary – Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Patrick Lor — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:25:49 +0000

DemoCampCalgary 22 is less than a week away – and we’ve got a some great demos lined up for you! Each demo will be 5 minutes, and we’ll give them the hook if they don’t give us a true demo. Which reminds us . . . this is a good time to talk about DemoCamp rules:

You must talk about DemoCamp. Bring a friend to DemoCamp Calgary and help support the startup community.
For presenters: No PowerPoint – you must demo a working product; hard clock – your presentation ends when time is up.
For the audience: Support the entrepreneurs – try out their products, make an intro or tell someone who might be interested in the product.

Here’s a few more reasons to attend:

You need to get the word out about something. We’ll give you the mic for a few moments. (Your company is hiring, you’re looking for a job, you have an event you’d like to invite people to)
Meet entrepreneurs, tech geeks, designers, and other great people!

See you at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce @ 6:30 – 2/22/2012.

DemoCamp Calgary 22: February 22, 2012

Patrick Lor — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:03:32 +0000

Please join us for DemoCamp Calgary 22 at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce:

Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Location: Calgary Chamber of Commerce – 100 6th Avenue SW
Admission: Free (and bring a friend!)

We’d like to thank Adam Legge, CEO of the Chamber for supporting the startup community in Calgary. We’ll have a fantastic room for demos and mingling, as well as a cash bar.

If you have something you’d like to present, read this and contact us here, or email us at organizers [at] democampcalgary (dot) com.

DCC21 Video & Summary

gordonmcdowell — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:48:42 +0000

Calgary’s 21st DemoCamp took place at AcceleratorYYC.

00:40	Patrick Rosseau started us off with a BudToBud. An app for listening to music with friends with precise synchronization. A great way to discover new music, and a social way to enjoy it.
09:17	Brian Reimer of Matchloc showed their tool to match project owners to find vendors. (Matching employers with contract workers.)
19:28	Eric Anderson lamented poor communication between condo boards, property managers and their residents. Their solution: Community Point. Keep your condo residents informed, and save paper. Eric is looking for condo board members to help test the software.
29:10	Victoria, one of the directors of AccelerateYYC invited attendees to Startup Calgary’s Launch Party on Dec 1st at MRU.
29:55	Cam Linke invited Calgarians to attend Startup Edmonton, next event is on Nov 22nd.
30:48	Kory Arsenault mentioned Startup Drinks on last Wednesday of every month, often at District.
30:59	Devesh Dwivedi mentioned Startup Weekend which will happen Feb 3rd 2012.
31:55	Ben Reed pimped Robot Academy (sorry can’t find specific URL) and Calgary PROTOSPACE.
33:00	Then I pushed my way past Ben and Pat, grabbed the mic and demanded everyone who still owned a “Digital Versatile Disc player” take a copy of the PROTOSPACE documentary about thorium energy. The DVDs were all taken. No one got hurt.
33:10	Ben St. Pierre then started the demos back up again with Printlogix, a tool for automating the printing of marketing material. A sample business card was designed. However, Bed didn’t go so far as to click the “print” button, as he said that would launch a process in a remote printing facility and hundreds of unwanted cards would have arrived at AcceleratorYYC the next day.
42:16	Cam Linke took to the mic again, this time to demo Touch Metric’s iPhone app Surveyor 2. “Surveyor can help you quickly collect information from the important contacts that you meet at your events.”

In the past, we’ve been asked for demo footage when people want to host their own (isolated) copies of their demo.

Allow me to introduce you to (the relatively new feature): YouTube Video Editor! Which can remix existing (Creative Commons licensed) videos. Click through to the DCC21 YouTube landing page, expand the video description and click [Remix this video!].

Do it. Like a boss.

DemoCamp Calgary 21 happening this Thursday!

David Gluzman — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:11:42 +0000

So many great presenters applied and we had a hard time narrowing it down – to solve the problem? Have more demos! There will be six demos in the main room to start the evening off, once complete, check out some more interactive demos stationed around the AcceleratorYYC’s boardroom table for everyone to check out during the remainder of the evening.

There will be beer and wine sold onsite for cheap ($3 a drink), so bring cash! Otherwise you are welcome to BYOB it as well.

We expect a ton of folks out for this event, so show up early as there’s a limit on how many people we can squeeze into the AcceleratorYYC space. Looking forward to seeing everyone out to support the tech community and AcceleratorYYC’s new space.

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Location: AcceleratorYYC #200 1212 9th Ave SE
Date: Thursday, Nov 17, 2012
Time: 6:00-8:00pm

DemoCamp Calgary 21: November 17, 2011

Patrick Lor — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:32:53 +0000

Please join us for DemoCamp Calgary 21, at the newest and hippest startup place in Calgary, Accelerator YYC. (and btw, congrats to Victoria, Christian and Pieter on the launch of this new venture!!)

We’re going cram everyone into their offices, watch some demos, and mingle afterwards. Should we BYOB, in true startup fashion?

Date: November 17, 2011
Time: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: AcceleratorYYC – 200, 1212 9th Ave SE

If you have something you’d like to present, read this and contact us here, or email us at organizers [at] democampcalgary (dot) com.

A few days left to GROW

David Gluzman — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:33:18 +0000

There’s about 3 days left to submit your startup to the second annual GROW conference.

What is Launch @ GROW
Launch Party is teaming up with Dealmaker Media to host the Opening Reception of the Grow Conference on August 17. Startups from across Canada can compete for a chance to showoff at Launch @ GROW. Only 15 startups will be chosen to showoff on August 17 and 4 lucky startups will have the opportunity to pitch live on stage at the full-day GROW Conference on August 18. To be considered, nominate your startup by June 17, 2011.

Nominate Your Startup
All you have to do is upload a short 2 minute video or photo with a description of your company to the Launch @ GROW startup competition site by June 17, 2011 http://launchatgrow.strutta.com/

Why you shouldn’t miss it?
With over 600 attendees including top tier investors, entrepreneurs and influencers from Canada and Silicon Valley, Launch @ GROW provides you with loads of exposure and is a great platform for you to tell the world your startup story.

Exposure to great investors, who actively invest or are looking to invest in Canada.

Find out more about Grow 2011.