Past Events

Here’s a list of StayFresh events we’ve held in the past.

Gatherings

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  StayFresh10 – Jonathan Dunn

  July 20th 2009
  7pm-10pm
  Centre for Social Innovation: 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 120
  Admission: $5, refunded upon check-in.

  The early days of widespread telephony often involved “party lines” where a community shared a single phone connection. Conversations would be shared, sometimes unintentionally; gossiping was practically a sport but important news could also be spread quickly.

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  Refresh Events @ Net Change

  Be Part of The Change!

  June 11th 2009
  6pm-8:30pm
  MaRS Discovery District, 101 College Street
  Admission: Free

  Net Change is Canada’s first week long, city wide event designed to dissolve the divide between digital professionals and social change-makers. Powered by SiG@MaRS Net Change is a concerted effort to join forces in order to:

  • Minimize overlap between practitioners and capacity builders
  • Have a single entry point for participants
  • Give continuity to stand-alone programming

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  The Game of Opposites

  Dre Labre

  May 25th 2009
  7pm-10pm
  Centre for Social Innovation: 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 120
  Admission: Free

  What happens when subculture becomes pop culture? What small thing is going to become the next big thing? In this presentation, I will discuss a creative technique often used – usually subconsciously, and seldom discussed – to set and predict trends.

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  How "Augmented Reality" and the Mobile Web Changes Everything

  Tom Purves

  April 20th 2009
  7pm-10pm
  MaRS Discovery District, 101 College Street, Collaboration Room 2
  Admission: Free

  Mobile broadband access and ever-smarter phones are shaking the internet out its lofty cloud and bringing the web into the real world. As a result, the old "real world", and many old ideas and many old business models will be running out of places to hide from the pervasive influence of the net.

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  “Passion”

  Peter Flaschner

  March 23rd 2009
  7pm-10pm
  Centre for Social Innovation: 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 120
  Admission: Free

  Passion has always played an important role in humanity’s day to day existence. Until recently though, that passion expressed itself largely in non-work functions. Today passion is more important than ever. We’re free to explore and engage our passions like never before. It’s also never been so critical that we nurture and harness our passions to solve the complex problems our society faces. In this presentation, I’ll present a few thoughts on how as designers we can do that (and what to avoid) and turn the floor over the group to see if we can collectively develop a toolbox to help us produce work that aligns with our own and our audience’s passions.

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  JavaScript Libraries: Prototype and jQuery

  Cameron Westland & Eugene Andruszczenko

  February 18th 2009
  7pm-10pm
  Centre for Social Innovation: 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 400
  Admission: Free

  Cameron and Eugene will perform deep-dives into Prototype and jQuery (respectively) and examine the benefits and drawbacks of using each language. The goal is not to see which one emerges as the “better language”, but instead to promote the concept of the right tool for the job.

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  Advertising 2.0

  December 9th, 2008
  7pm-10pm
  Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto (map)
  Admission: Free

  Hussein Fazal will join us to talk about the social network advertising industry in general. On the agenda will be how the industry has grown in recent months, as well as different ways of advertising your products and services on social networking sites.

• Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up?

  November 17th, 2008
  7pm-10pm
  Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto (map)
  Admission: Free

  There has been a lot of discussion over the years about what exactly information architecture is. These "Defining The Damned Thing (DTDT)" conversations have been primarily around the What, rather than the Who. But who are these people?

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  Shipping an empty box – The challenges of user experience in the enterprise

  October 20th, 2008
  7pm-10pm
  Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto (map)
  Admission: Free

  Jon Lax, a partner at Teehan+Lax will join us on October 20th to provide us with the answers to a very simple question; Why is creating great user experience so difficult inside the enterprise?

• How to build a Facebook Application

  September 15th 2008 @ 7pm
  7pm-10pm
  Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto (map)
  Admission: Free

  Colin Smillie and Roy Pereira, principals at Refresh Partners will show you how to build a Facebook application, show you some tips and tricks, and answer any questions you may have.

Workshops

• Introduction to iPhone Application Development

  James Eberhardt

  June 19th 2009
  9am-5pm
  Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management
  Admission: $150

  James Eberhardt, co-founder of Echo Mobile (www.echomobile.ca) will show you how to create an iPhone application, show you some tips and tricks, and answer any questions you may have. Topics will include:

  • Creating an iPhone project and actually getting it to work
  • Introduction to Objective C and the Cocoa framework
  • The iPhone User Interface Explained
  • Understanding Interface Builder

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