Montreal Tech Watch

OK. Here’s the catch. We view Blitzweekend as a grassroots events. However, people were requesting everyday information, so I am publishing now what we have for Blitzweekend, due next week.

This is not a final schedule for the event; and you can view it as a BarCamp wiki page, which just gives an idea of what to expect. Feel free to comment or to add your suggestions.

Location
1111 rue St-Charles, Longueuil, in front of the Longueuil metro station.
Blitzweekend will take all the ground floor of Université de Sherbrooke’s Longueuil campus.

Presentations (tbc)
- The story behind the startup standoutjobs : From idea to launch, by Ben Yoskovitz, Standoutjobs
- Utiliser Ruby on Rails pour créer une application facebook, David Fugere, Code Genome
- Comparaison des différents plateformes Python, Arach Tchoupani, MontrealPython
- Aides et subventions aux entrepreneurs au Québec et au Canada, Yann Rousselot, partenaire, Présent Profit
- Business plans and pitching to investors, Joško Bobanovi? , principal, iNovia Capital

Prizes and giveaways
- Surprise prize from Flow consulting to the winner of the make track
- One full day of consulting at Embrase, which helps startups and entrepreneurs perfect their business plan
- Blitzweekend T-Shirts for those who registered before 18th February

Experts (tbc)
- Guillaume Thoreau, user interface and UXP consultant
- Marc-André Cournoyer, Ruby guru at Standoutjobs
- Yann Rousselot, Présent Profit
- Embrase team for business plans
- Alistair Croll, marketing, founder of RedNod
- BDO, chartered accountant
- 10 more (tba)

Schedule
- Cocktail from 5.00pm Friday 29th February
- 5 presentations, starting from 6.00pm

- breakfast, starting from 8am, March 1st
- launch of the event
- start design and development 9.00 am
- dinner from 12 to 1pm
- Experts avalaible from 3.00 to 5.00pm, by email at hello@blitzweekend.com or twitter
- 10pm, end of the first day of Blitzweekend

- breakfast, 8am, March 2nd
- Experts avalaible from 1.00 to 2pm
- 4pm, end of the time given to teams
- each time present, each attendee vote by email at to hello@blitzweekend.com
- Feedback by panel

Team presentations
- must have a working demo
- tell about development, design of product, challenges during Blitzweekend and then tell what actions were taken to overcome these challenges
- if it’s a commercial project, present market and business plan

Panel for commercial projects
- Etienne Lagacé, iNovia Capital
- Vincent Guyaux, Embrase
- Hang Le Hong, Globalex

Partners
iNovia Capital, early seed VCs
BDO, chartered accountants
Globalex, insurance and financial services
Flow Consulting, business consultant
Embrase, business consultants for startups
Guru, energy drink
Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil campus

Registration
Go to the wiki and add your name to the list of attendees. (password is c4mp)

Important: Register before Friday 22nd February, otherwise you won’t have a wifi connection.

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