The <stabletalk> perks keep on coming! We’re asking you to send a pitch of a project you would like to present at Lean Startup Machine Toronto and we will send you and your team to the amazing weekend long event!
What is Lean Startup Machine?
Lean Startup Machine is a metrics-driven startup competition where teams learn to identify the key risks in their business model through hands-on mentorship and our framework of tools. Over the course of the weekend you will do the following:
Ideate a startup or work on the one you have now
Practice Customer Discovery
Research your Target Market
Practice Customer Development
Test your Assumptions in Iterations
Understand your Business Model
Iterate and Pivot (when necessary)
Build something you can Launch
Present your Validated Learnings
How to win free passes:
Send me (amallozzi@cfccreates.com) a one-pager of the idea you would like to pitch at Lean Start-Up Machine Toronto by Friday January 20, 2012 and the best pitch will be awarded free passes for their team to attend!
Be sure to include the following in your submission:
An outline of your idea (include the platform for your project and the audience you wish to target)
Your team (include brief bios of your team members and their role)
Any mock-up images you may have (not required but always nice!)
The McLuhan Mashup Challenge is on and amazing prizes are up for grabs. From October 31st to November 12th, CBC invites you to remix, rework and recreate Marshall McLuhan’s message by creating your own McLuhan Mashup.
What’s a Mashup?
A mashup is media content containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video and animation drawn from pre-existing sources, to create a new derivative work. You are also welcome to use content and elements you’ve created yourself; however, your work must be created from two or more separate pieces of digital content.
What do I need to do?
Start with an idea, gather your media, mash it up in any form you like and upload your most creative reinterpretation of McLuhan’s ideas. Video or Audio submissions must be no more than three minutes long.
More details are on CBC’s site! Good luck to all entrants!
Want to be part of NXNE Interactive? Have an issue you want to talk about or a unique perspective on a topic? NXNEi wants to hear from you!
Submission deadline is Nov. 11th!
NXNE is looking for panel discussions and presentations that will provide a rich and valuable experience for attendees. The topics can cross a multitude of disciplines that intersect with Interactive at some point. We’ve intentionally left out a “categories” field on the submission form because we don’t want to box in your imaginations. Read through the following points and then go ahead and send us your panel and/or presentation ideas for NXNE Interactive.
NXNEi 2012 will take place in Toronto, from June 13-16th at the Hyatt Regency on King St.
All submissions must be in by midnight November 11th.
By submitting a proposal you are not guaranteed acceptance and even after
NXNE accepts a proposal and they maintain the right to cancel it at any time.
NXNEi generally does not offer honorariums or cover travel costs for
presentation/panel submissions. If accepted all people involved in the
presentation will receive conference badges and music festival passes.
If you submit a panel idea, NXNE expects that you will be able to commit
the time necessary to help organize the panel, including finding panelists
and moderators.
NXNE will review and possibly suggest some panelists regardless of the
panelists you put on your panel submissions.
Filmmakers, animators and video artists are invited to submit one-minute silent films an urban population. TUFF pays artist fees and awards thousands in cash and prizes.
Deadline for submissions to TUFF is July 15, 2011. TUFF is free to submit prior to June 1, 2011. After that date, there will be submission fees: $10 (June 1 – June 30) and $15 (July 1 – July 15). Films can be submitted through the TUFF Website.
Canadian Heritage is requesting proposals for the research & development of mobile applications for the Virtual Museum of Canada. The Experimental Lab of the Virtual Museum of Canada tests digital technologies on behalf of the Canadian museum community, providing museums with strategic advice and ways to increase their visibility. Using technology designed for mobile devices, this project will research and develop three Apps, in both official languages:
Mobile WebApp for the Image Gallery and Museums in Canada on the VMC website. This involves mobilizing the page so that it is readable on mobile browsers.
Mobile WebApp for Surrey Art Gallery. Walking tour that can geo-locate artworks within a certain radius.
Native Mobile App for the Centre des sciences de Montreal. This mobile App will use Augmented Reality (AR) and will be downloadable. The App must be device-specific and use a touch framework.
The Centre for Creative Communications, Centennial College, is seeking innovative and forward-thinking proposals from Canadian media, interactive, creative, technology, business and social entrepreneurs for the next wave of children’s media and multi-platform projects to qualify for $50K federal development grants. The new kidsmediacentre, an industry and creative content think tank at Centennial College, will hold an Information Session to interested developers, on Thursday, Feb 24 at 5:30 p.m., at The Centre for Creative Communications, located at 951 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto.
Centennial College’s Applied Research and Innovation Centre (ARIC) has received ten $50K Federal Development grants, some of which are available to help small and medium enterprises in the kids’ technology industry launch the next big idea in children’s media. The grants are part of a coordinated strategy between the federal government and colleges to accelerate innovation and productivity in southern Ontario asking business partners to collaborate on projects and work “hands-on” with College faculty and students in developing new and innovative technologies and services. Businesses are asked to contribute at least $25K towards a project in cash and/or in-kind.
WANTED: Canada’s next award-winning digital documentary!
Do you have a digital documentary idea? One that can attract a large community, win critical success on the world stage, or innovate with a successful business or creative approach? The docSHIFT Institute will support up to four experienced creators with innovative digital documentary project ideas. selected participants will receive mentorship, professional consultation and some financial support to complete their project or create a prototype.
Think your ideas are farfetched? Think again. There’s no limit to what you can create at the CFC Media Lab. In just five months, you will learn from some of the best in the interactive business and develop engage in a collaborative process that will allow you to develop an original prototype.
ACCELERATE YOUR FUTURE
The CFC Media Lab TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Program (IAEP) is Canada’s first post-graduate training and production program based on a philosophy that compelling content is created though a collaborative process harnessing a wide range of creative skills.
Residents learn from a variety of perspectives including academic, industrial, artistic, technological, and practical. Team-based and project-driven, the TELUS IAEP merges the fundamentals of new media with creative collaboration.
More than 92% of CFC alumni are currently working in the Film, TV and New Media industries. Award winning Alumni companies include Stitch Media (stitchmedia.ca), Smiley Guy Studio (smileyguy.com) and Trapeze Media (trapeze.com) to name a few.
Get the recognition and respect you deserve by entering your digital masterpiece into the CNMA’s. TheCanadian New Media Awards (www.nextmediaevents.com/toronto) are taking place December 1st, at the Design Exchange (Toronto), and looks to honour the country’s best individuals, companies and projects.
