Haven’t heard of DEMO? It’s the launchpad for emerging technology and trends. Each year over 2,500 people in the United States and China attend DEMO to experience innovation at its birth. At each DEMO event, a hand-selected group of new products are introduced to the world for the very first time to global press and prolific bloggers, investors, corporate acquirers, strategic partners and buyers.

Throughout its 20 years of existence, DEMO has earned a reputation for consistently identifying new innovations that are most likely to disrupt the markets they serve and/or change the way we use technology overall. DEMO will take your product from concept to customer!

The DEMO team will be looking to meet with ten companies, so if you’re considering launching a new product at the DEMO Spring 2011 Conference, please apply here.

If you don’t have a product to launch, fear not. There’s a free get-together being held at The Century Room in the evening, so come out and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs, industry insiders and a few special guests. Sign up here!

Open Coffee
Bridgehead Coffeehouse
109 Bank Street, Ottawa
10am to 1pm

Mike Lee, the VP of New Ventures at Rogers, will be presenting at DemoCamp 9. You’ll get an opportunity to hear what Rogers’ plans are to work with and support tech ecosystems across the country, and what their investment plans are. I’m hoping for a lively Q&A as well. The second featured presentation will be Tim Bray. Tim is a technologist with a long history of being involved in interesting things. Although he’s based in Vancouver, he spends a lot of his time traveling and presenting around the world. The presenting companies have been selected and are as follows:

• Recotype – Recotype is an open framework for requesting and receiving recommendations on Twitter
• Yummy Republic – a wireless platform to link take-out restaurants with internet to enable them receive online orders and send back confirmation to customer instantly. YummyRepublic includes bespoke GPRS terminals, and several servers to control those terminals.
• Troovy – a web and mobile-based local discovery platform. Users find recommended places and people based on their own travel and feedback patterns.
• Deets.me – cloudy contacts
• Layerboom – Layerboom provides hosting companies with a comprehensive software platform which gives them the ability to turn their dedicated servers into virtual private server clouds.

Register to attend DemoCamp Vancouver here. Article excerpted from the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society.

Date: October 20, 2009. Location Communitech common space in the Accelerator Centre Hagey Blvd, Waterloo, On.

More information can be found on the Startup Camp wiki page

Date : October 15th, 2009 Time (Unconference session) : 3pm to 6pm EST Time (Standard Conference) : 6pm to 11pm EST Location : SAT – Société des arts technologiques Address : 1195 Saint-Laurent boulevard, Montreal This is the fifth edition of Startup Camp Montreal, an event dedicated to everything Startup. It is the forum where early stage companies, investors and on-lookers alike can share information and validate pitches live. Join us as we learn from each other about the ins and outs of pitching a start up. This event is not just for Montrealers, all are welcome. Rogers Ventures funded Thoora will be presenting this evening. Full details here.