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 Adele McAlear - bio / twitter
Death and Digital Legacy.
Adele McAlear is a marketing consultant specializing in social media and has been building communities online since 1999. With mainstream adoption of social media, people are living more and more of their lives on the web. Adele is exploring the ripples that death causes in web communities, and the roles that privacy, law, software development and technology play at our most critical human moments.
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 Alistair Croll - bio / twitter
TL;DR.
Alistair works on too many things, including web monitoring, cloud computing, augmented reality, startups, music, and producing events. He’s too busy to keep track of all of those. |
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 Andrew Culver - bio / twitter
Chance. Take one. I’ll show how to go operational with it.
Andrew is a composer and the founder and CEO of iLiv. He first programmed I Ching chance operations on a PDP-11 at MIT in 1982, but he’d been using them analog for a while before that. |
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 Annie Dussault
Comment construire un Quin-zhee!
Annie Dussault works for the McGill University Health Center in the telehealth department. She is also a scout which is how she was introduced to winter camping about 10 years ago. |
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 Chris Arsenault - bio / twitter
Entrepreneurial Capital
An entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, and looking for the next best entrepreneur to back! |
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 Georges Duverger - web / twitter
Le poids de l’air
Having survived years of engineering school, Georges has witnessed the public and the private in human-computer interaction labs and inspiring start-ups. In a quest for fresh air, he left the old continent to craft Web applications into new territories. |
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 Jeff Scott – twitter
Digital grammar
Jeff Scott, a consultant at NATIONAL Public Relations, focuses on technology and social media. His love of language, inherent geekiness and passion for writing drove him to make this presentation in the hopes of encouraging you to reconsider hitting the “Send” button. |
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 Jonathan Ginter – twitter
“Life is a river” – how to pay attention to the proper flow of your life.
Jonathan Ginter has a profound interest in history, science and whether this present moment is more real than the next universe over. He currently works in IT as a product manager and spends fair amounts of his spare time traveling with his wife. |
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 Jonathan Karpfen - bio / twitter
Where have all the users gone? Putting the ‘Who’ and the ‘How’ back into the ‘What.’
Jonathan Karpfen is a market researcher and user experience designer. A former member of the creative team at Airborne Mobile here in Montreal, he most recently was a manager at Ipsos Reid in Ottawa. Jonathan spends his days dreaming of returning to live and work in La Belle Ville. His presentation is inspired by failure. |
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 Max Finder – twitter
What I’m learning in University
Max Finder is pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He collects VHS video tapes, enjoys salsa dancing and playing monopoly. |
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 Michael Boyle – twitter
Counting is not analysis; Plus, how I learned to love the long tail
Michael Boyle is a partner at Nexalogy Environics and a long-time member of the Montreal web building and social media communities. An early blogger (mikel.org), Michael has worked as a consultant, e-business manager, online marketing lecturer (McGill), project and product manager, and started as the assistant editor of one of the first academic journals to go 100% electronic in 1994. |
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 Sebastien Paquet - bio / twitter
How to Become a Culture Hacker
Sébastien Paquet has spent the past decade playing with the idea that technology can be a catalyst for changing culture. He loves connecting the dots. He is never bored. |
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 Syl Aucoin – blog / twitter
An Ex-Hobo’s Basic Street Survival Guide.
Having spent over a year on the streets of Montreal as a teenager, and now living a “normal” successful life (including a Plateau apartment, an awesome job in Telehealth and even a pet), Syl offers an interesting insight on what to do (how not to die) if you end up on the streets. |
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 John Brohan – blog / bio
Anonymous Medicine
John Brohan works in the intersection of health, computers and
cellphones, and is fascinated by the fact that MD5 hashing can be
used to store medical data anonymously. |
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting the first Ignite in Montreal on March 2nd, during the 
