Dynamite Thursdays June 15th, 2011

Date: Wednesday, June 15th


Time: 5:30-8:00pm


Location: ING Direct Café




Theme: This event will highlight 5 companies that have developed cutting edge Digital Media technology and/or services. All technology demonstrated at the event is commercial ready. Event attendees will be able to learn about these new innovations while networking with fellow industry stakeholders.



Audience: Professionals from the Marketing, Web Development, Mobile, Software Development, Social Media, Gaming, Digital Media and Venture Capital.



Presentation Details: Each company will have a table set up to showcase their technology. They will also make a 3-5 minute pitch on the technology that they are displaying at the event. It will be a judged competition. 5 people will be selected as judges and they will account for 50% of the score. The remaining 50% of the score will be from audience voting at the event.



Participating Companie:



Agility CMS Agility is cloud-based software for managing internally produced and user generated content across web, mobile and social media. They make content management easy for everyone on your team.

Easy for Developers : Developers can implement Agility-managed sites in ASP.NET Web forms or MVC. Development time is reduced by 50-100% over building custom.

Easy for Content Editors : Content Editors can manage sophisticated content structures efficiently with little or no training. Agility is so easy to use that we receive less than 1 support email per user in a given month.

Easy for Designers: Agility provides unlimited creative freedom to your design team. There are no constraints to work around during your design process. That's why the top media companies and advertising agencies choose Agility.

Easy for Marketers : Marketers can publish content to web, mobile, and social media with a single click. They can then use best of breed tools for search, analytics, email marketing such as Google search and Omniture SiteCatalyst.


Fotobounce Applied Recognition is the creator of Fotobounce, a powerful photo organizer that is growing rapidly and getting great reviews. Fotobounce offers a uniquely secure way to manage and share full-resolution photos without leaving your photos exposed on a public website. Fotobounce is a FREE photo organizer available for download from http://fotobounce.com. It utilizes industry leading face recognition technology to speed up the tagging and organizing of your photos. It also enables private peer networks for sharing, avoiding the need to place your photos on a public website. When you create any album, you can easily share that with your friends and family, including all people tags. You can email photos directly from your mobile device to Fotobounce via Fotomail. Additionally, the mobile website, fotobounce.mobi, enables secure of access your photos remotely from any mini-web browser or desktop browser – from a friend's home, for example. Most importantly, remote access is protected with banking level data encryption.


About Mobeo Actions Speak Louder. So Throw a Flaming Cabbage.
Play and interact with your friends by adding an awesome game environment to your everyday world. Drop. Throw. Score. Have fun! Think of it as "Mario Kart" for your phone's Google Maps, without the racing. You can drop a Slippery Banana at your brother's favourite coffee shop for him to trip on during his next visit, or throw a Flaming Cabbage at your friends when they're at the mall. Mobeo makes everyone's daily routine more exciting!

  • Proprietary location technology enables fluid gameplay no need for check-ins
  • Cross-platform messaging, friending, gifting and twitter & facebook integration drive social experience
  • Real-time feedback enabled by push notifications
  • Powerful privacy controls limit who can see your location or personal profile
  • Users can earn achievements and points that go towards levelling-up and unlocking new features
  • Unique location-based gaming that creates new & more effective advertising opportunities
  • Free to download & play for Android, iPhone and soon BlackBerry


Parade! Parade! is an innovative digital branding company that integrates the latest digital technology with social media to engage consumers in a way that rapidly builds off and online communities. Our team of creative technologists and strategic marketers build every strategy on four fundamental pillars: Engage, Share, Build and Measure.

Engage!
Parade! offers an interactive experience that strengthens brand loyalty, shares the brand message and begins the relationship.

Share!
Parade! enhances events to be engaging, memorable and "shareworthy" on all of the most popular social media and mobile platforms. Parade! maximizes the impact and retention of every event and seamlessly allows participants to share their experience instantly.

Build !
Parade! works closely with its partners to build strategic objectives and incorporates the tools and technology needed to build loyalty, traffic and sales.

Measure!
All Parade! event packages include a comprehensive report providing crucial marketing information and analytics. Parade! event research and analytics support the partners' program strategy, providing valuable information and a database for future promotions and communication strategies.


Wattpad Wattpad is a social digital entertainment platform for readers to explore original fiction and connect with their favorite writers. Writers can share what they have written on Wattpad ‐ a novel, a short story or a poem ‐ with readers and fans from around the globe on www.wattpad.com and through apps available for over 1,000 different mobile devices including iPhone/iPad, Google Android, Windows Phone 7, Nokia, BlackBerry, and Samsung.

Key Metrics

  • 6 Million monthly users
  • 1 Million app downloads a month
  • Over 1 Billion minutes spent last quarter
  • Average of 30 minutes per visit
  • 1.5 Million stories available
  • 1.5 Million stories available
  • Top eReading app in all major app stores
  • Grew 4x in 2010
  • Usage doubling every 6 months


Loose Button
Who we are:
Loose Button helps consumers discover, try and purchase quality beauty and skincare products through a natural and unparalleled shopping experience. Loose Button Inc.

How we do it:
Loose Button offers a monthly membership program (the Luxe Box) where consumers can try out products before they decide to buy it at full price. Each month, three to five deluxe-sized product samples are mailed out to paying members in an elegantly designed box.

Presented by:


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Brushfire North

North by Northwest