A woman who works 90 hours a week and used a 72-step checklist to find a husband through online dating. A man who was obsessed with the formation of celestial bodies and discovered two new moons around Pluto. A humanoid robot that can hold a conversation with people. What do these three things have in common?
They will all be featured speakers at Moses Znaimer’s ideacity conference in Toronto next week – June 19, 20 and 21 at Koerner Hall. The conference is known as “Canada’s premier meeting of the minds” and gathers 50 of the planet’s brightest minds to come to Toronto each June and speak to a highly engaged audience of 600 – and you could be in that audience! ITBusiness.ca is happy to be a media partner of ideacity. Our Community Bloggers have been busy doing speaker interviews ahead of the conference and will also be on site to blog about the conference this week. Read their posts below:
ideacity blogs
Ideacity is a hidden gem of the Greater Toronto Area, even though it’s known as “Canada’s premiere meeting of the minds.” If you happened to be walking past the footballers at University of
Published on: June 24th, 2013
Ashley Huffman
@chicktech
Kenneth Mike Merrill, also known as “kmikeym,” the first publicly traded person. Merrill is also an office manager, entrepreneur, and sometime artist. He has been his own personal stock market since early 2008.
Published on: June 20th, 2013
Monica Goyal
@MonicaNGoyal
When approaching both the challenges and opportunities posed by big data in the IT space, it's popular to try and quantify just how much data the world is generating on a daily basis.
Published on: June 19th, 2013
Brian Jackson
@brianjjackson
“Everything is amazing right now, but no one is happy” is a notorious quote by Louis C. K.. Indeed, everything is awesome. So much so that it takes companies coming up with something truly
Published on: June 17th, 2013
Ashley Huffman
@chicktech
Next week IdeaCity comes back to Toronto for another three days of "smart people talking about big ideas." Every year the audience listens as the world's most renowned thinkers and personalities present on
Published on: June 13th, 2013
Karim Kanji
@karimkanji
Michael Nicula is the Founder & CEO “HCM Soft”, a SAP HR based software, the creator of Wi-Py.com, an online payment application similar to Paypal, only free of charge, the founder and leader
Published on: June 12th, 2013
Marylka Empey
@MarylkaE
Martha Stewart made headlines when she announced on national TV that she was joining an online dating site. Amy Webb could give her a few pointers about looking for love. A storyteller, serial
Published on: June 11th, 2013
Kayleigh Platz
@write_girl
