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Tom Emrich is the founder of We Are Wearables, the largest wearable tech community in North America, with chapters in Toronto and Chicago. They bring tech communities together to learn, discuss and celebrate the wearable technology space. He is also the Editor and Chief at Designers of Things covering the Internet of Things, 3D Printing and wearable tech and the Senior Editor for BetaKit where he focuses on tech innovation.
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Marissa Wu is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Onyx Motion. She is a graduate of the Engineering Science program with a major in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto as well as a graduate of The Next 36 Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute. She brings a diverse background; from both Sales and Marketing at Procter and Gamble to published biomedical research in Langmuir, a leading materials journal. After gaining experience all over the world from Europe to India, she brought her entrepreneurial passion to the role of CTO for startups such as OpenInvite, before founding Onyx Motion. Marissa is excited about the intersection of biomechanics and technology and its potential to disrupt the wearable tech industry.
A "technology catalyst", Sandy Kemsley has a 20-year history of software design and systems architecture in several technology areas, combined with a deep understanding of business environments and how technology can impact them. She has also founded and run three companies – a systems integration services company, a software product company, and her current consulting company – with responsibility for corporate and financial governance, strategic direction, team hiring and management, and day-to-day technical contributions.
She blogs about BPM, enterprise architecture and other intersections of business and technology.
Joe Dee is Head of Product & Technology at Cossette Health, one of our sponsors. Cossette Health is the health group within Cossette, Canada's largest communications agency. Cossette Health also runs a startup accelerator, aimed at building world-class health startups for our clients by providing access to our agency services, funding, space, and client distribution, to rapidly scale early-stage companies.
Dr. Sean Wise specializes in helping emerging and high growth potential organizations jump on the trajectory and turn a profit. His intense, entertaining and direct approach has earned him a loyal following of disciples who swear by his lessons and best practices for business success.
With 15 years of seed funding experience, Wise has helped found five business ventures of his own to date, the first at age 16. When seeking the best in business, CBC recruited him as online host and industry advisor for their hit show, Dragons' Den. Dr. Wise held this post for the first five seasons of the show. Wise's third book, HOT OR NOT: how to know if your business idea will fail or fly! was released in 2012 and sold 30,000 copies in the first six months.
Assistant Professor, Technology Analyst & Commentator, Digital Producer
Ramona is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Design and Creative Director of the Transmedia Zone, an incubator for the future of media, at Ryerson University. She has spoken at events including Social Media Week, SXSW, NXNE, TEDx, Ignite, the World Future Society, and Tribeca Interactive. Her work has been featured at i-docs in Bristol, UK, Power to the Pixel in London, UK, and at TFI Interactive, part of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
Professor, Inventor, Co-Founder of InteraXon, Chief Scientist at Meta
Steve Mann is widely regarded as "The Father of Wearable Computing". His work as an
artist, scientist, designer, and inventor made Toronto the world's epicentre of wearable
technologies back in the 1980s.
- Inventor of HDR, Eyetap Digital Eye Glass (predecessor to Google Glass), and Smartwatch
- Founder Of MIT Media Lab Wearable Computing Group
- Chief Scientist, Creative Destruction Lab incubator at Rotman School of Management
CUTC is not like any other conference. In fact, we’re an anti-conference. We don’t have boring old talks about markets or economics and outdated tech. Instead, we're giving you the latest and greatest from a Machine Learning Challenge from Microsoft to CGI's Imagine Challenge and top entrepreneurs like Ted Livingston from Kik and Michael Katchen from WealthSimple. You'll get to hack, learn and maybe even leave with a some extra swag and $2500 in prizes. We even have a Wikipedia Page (that’s when you know we’re legit!). Join 300 other leaders on May 7-8 at the MaRS Discovery District. Don't miss out and join the imagination!
Amin leads Shopify for Startups program and works with Shopify's business and engineering teams to drive app partner success. He also works with entrepreneurs all around the world and helps them grow their accounts and businesses strategically.
Info:
E-commerce is the biggest thing on the planet right now - it’s a $1.6 trillion dollar industry (the only trillion dollar industry that is expected to keep growing at double digits rate every year). This incredible rise of e-commerce was powered by platforms like Shopify, Netsuite, Magento, and Bigcommerce. APIs provided by these companies enable developers and entrepreneurs to make a greater impact with their creativity and create innovative e-commerce applications. This workshop presents the data and trends of this trillion dollar industry and helps you find new opportunities to create the next big e-commerce application.
Particle Photon IoT Workshop
> with Lindy Wilkins & STEAMLab mentors:
Udit Vira, Winnie Kwan & Tuck-voon How
Lindy Wilkins is a Toronto based community organizer, educator, Maker, and general enthusiast. Lindy currently serving as a director at Site 3 coLaboratory, co-founder of Make Friends Monthly, and active member of the Toronto Maker scene.
Info:
This 2 hour workshop will give you all the knowledge you need to connect your Particle Arduino compatible microcontroller to the Internet! You’ll build a web interface to control it, collect data to a spreadsheet and connect to IFTTT for Twitter, SMS, email, weather, space station updates and much more data sources.
Notes:
IIntermediate-level workshop, so we assume you already have basic knowledge in electronics and Arduino.
Important: you must set up your Particle Photon Microcontroller before the workshop. Follow this getting started guide: https://docs.particle.io/ guide/getting-started/start/ photon/
Make sure you have done these steps:
Download Particle smartphone app
Create a Particle account to log in
Connect your Particle Photon microcontroller to your account and to the wifi network
Log in to http://build.particle.io and upload and run Blink on your microcontroller
Nadim works as a Full Stack Engineer at a Private Hedge Fund. He works with traders and quantitative analysts to build tools to visualize market data and improve trading efficiency.
Info:
D3 (Data Driven Documents) is a Javascript library that enables you to display and visualize data in a meaningful way. During this workshop we’ll cover the basics of using d3.js to visualize static and realtime data. Beginners are welcome as very little prior programming knowledge is required.
I am an industrial engineering student at Ryerson University. I can't turn away a good (or horribly terrible) movie. I spend most of my free time with my family (my parents, siblings, their respective spouses and children-- for those keeping track; 16 individuals and counting), whom I love dearly.
My role on this team is to organize and train volunteers to help everyone have a great time at the 2016 hackathon!
When you see me, say 'hi', because even though I transiently may seem like it, I DO NOT bite. :)