The concept

Refresh Events is a Toronto-based community organization initiative dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the interactive industry through affordable, accessible and relevant digital media programming. We provide designers, developers and other interactive types with a launching pad for connecting to others within the interactive community.

Why you should attend our events

Attendees will walk away inspired, empowered, energized and ready to apply the knowledge they’ve acquired at our gatherings. Attendees are also afforded the opportunity to mix and mingle with their like-minded peers and industry superstars.

Who attends our events

Our audience consists of web designers, web developers, information architects, flash designers/developers, motion graphic artists, project managers, and creative directors, as well as entrepreneurs and a handful of superstars from Toronto’s interactive community. In other words, we encourage creative talents of all skill levels, streams of business and disciplines to participate through discussion, collaboration and the sharing of ideas.

What sets us apart

Refresh Events is focused on inspiring, educating and sparking dialogue through the organization of free or affordable events, open to all creative talents of all levels and disciplines within the interactive community.
Our goal is to help you improve the skills specific to your discipline, and be a relevant and timely source of information that you can leverage to “up your game”.

What others are saying about us

“StayFresh events are a great opportunity to meet people in the Toronto web community (and beyond the GTA – I met someone at the last one who came all the way from Niagara Falls!). There are always interesting Ignite presentations and a really great guest speaker. Justin and the Refresh Events crew are organized and put on great free events for the community. I’ll definitely be at the next one!”
– Erin Bury, Community Manager, RedWire

“Every time I attend one a Refresh Events gathering, I am absolutely blown away by the passion and innovation that runs throughout the Toronto tech community. Each month, Refresh brings together some of the most creative people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Forget talking the talk and walking the walk — these folks are RUNNING. And, thanks to the hard work and commitment from Justin, Refresh allows those people to grow, learn, and connect like never before.”
– Brian Gilham, Creator, TTCUpdates

“Refresh Events covers the rare gamut of both variety of topics and depth of ideas presented within their sessions. This ensures that attendees remain engaged not only while attending, but also afterwards, often directly acting on outcomes from the sessions.”
– Darius Bashar, Founder, Daily Challenge

“I thoroughly enjoy attending Refresh Events for the networking, the engaging conversation, and the interesting and knowledgeable speakers.  Each time I leave an event, I come home with pockets full of business cards and a head full of exciting ideas.”
– Tiffany Strobel, Consultant, Vortex Mobile

Want see what it’s all about? Join us at our next event!

Learn more about our mission, our event structure, and we’re all about. Background Information.

The Team

• Justin is the founder of Refresh Events, and works behind the scenes bringing together the most engaging and influential minds in Toronto’s vibrant technology scene. During the day, he can be found at Big Bang Technology helping with community outreach, blogging about building communities, and helping strategize the future of the Internet. He can be found reading social media marketing blogs, promoting Refresh Events to the community, or networking with industry superstars. Justin is a member of the Seneca College Digital Media Arts Advisory Board.
• Elaine Chen won four Shoppers’ Drug Mart colouring contests as a child and is consequently now a visual designer with 8 years experience in web and print. She is currently an Art Director at Sapient, working mostly in the financial, telco and mobile space. Previously she designed websites and created educational animations for the Ontario Science Centre. Elaine is Refresh Events’s pixel-pusher, grammar fascist, candy-buyer, cheerleader and sounding board. For more information about her, visit her site.

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