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Digital Marketing for Financial Services Canada Summit, June 8-9, 2022

Brenda Tse — Wed, 25 May 2022 05:44:09 +0000

Back for its 12th year, the Digital Marketing for Financial Services (DMFS) Canada Summit will be taking place from June 8-9, 2022.

This event is dedicated exclusively to digital marketers in the financial services industry, the only one of its kind in Canada. As a proponent of digital excellence and customer experience, particularly in the financial services sector, we are excited to attend this unique summit and see how we can further connect the dots between marketing and digital product strategy.

Immerse yourself in two days of interactive sessions, keynotes, panels, and lots of networking opportunities. Here is your chance to build connections with 600+ financial marketing leaders and like-minded peers.

Discover what digital marketing strategies top financial companies are implementing, explore the latest industry trends, and learn best practices from 40+ senior FinServ marketers.

We can’t wait to hear these talks:

Ready, Set, Digital: Accelerating Engagement for FSI Organizations with Jill Grozalsky, Wednesday at 9:40 AM
Optimize Your Self-Service Customer Experience: Proactive, Seamless, Intelligent with Peter Tessier, Wednesday at 11:10 AM
Building Organizational Agility to Minimize Roadblocks and Achieve Long-Term Digital Process Excellence Success with Annu Gulati and Julian Mills, Thursday at 9:30 AM
Is Your Future Digital Marketing Strategy Robust Enough for the Next 5 years? with Nathan Gervais and Elizabeth Walford, Thursday at 3:15 PM

Full summit schedule

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Get tickets for virtual and in-person access starting at $995. Limited availability. All attendees will have on-demand access to view sessions for 3 months post-event.

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The University of Guelph Accessibility Conference, May 24-26, 2022

Brenda Tse — Mon, 16 May 2022 22:34:57 +0000

Ever wonder what accessibility has to do with DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)? From May 24 – 26, 2022, the University of Guelph will be holding its annual Accessibility Conference, which will be delivered virtually via Zoom. This three-day event will allow you to gain insight into the relationship between accessibility and inclusion, equity and diversity.

Attendees at the University of Guelph Accessibility Conference will get the opportunity to participate in workshops and informative sessions regarding themes such as IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility), education, UDL (Universal Design for Learning), and technology. Regardless if you are a novice or an expert on the topic of accessibility, everyone is welcome to attend!

Noteworthy sessions at the upcoming University of Guelph Accessibility Conference

Check out the full lineup and conference schedule.

Register today!

Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to learn how you can leverage accessibility in your organization. Tickets start at $100. Sessions will be recorded and will be available for 30 days after the conference, along with transcripts.

Need help incorporating accessibility into your design process?

Learn about the differences between universal design, accessibility, and inclusive design in our blog post. Check out our approach to inclusive design and inclusive website design services.

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Digital Customer Experience Summit, March 29-30, 2022

Akilah Spence — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:31:38 +0000

On March 29th, 2022, Strategy Institute will be launching its 8th Annual Digital Customer Experience Summit. This virtual two-day event will provide you with tips and tricks to improve your organization’s customer experience (CX).

Catch the latest digital CX trends, how to maximize CX ROI, digital activities and data analytics to provide the best customer experiences, and how to leverage the link between content and SEO.

Participants will also have the opportunity to learn best practices adopted by PepsiCo, McDonald’s, Porsche, Lenovo, Tim Hortons, AT&T, RBC, City of Las Vegas, LinkedIn, Mars, GoDaddy, and more, while networking with accomplished CX executives from reputable brands and over 450 CX thought leaders.

Here are a few sessions we’d like to highlight:

CX data and analytics

Customer data and related insights are a foundational aspect of ongoing product and services decision-making. We often find organizations struggle with knowing what data is valuable and how to leverage it towards improved customer experience. We expect these two talks will bring clarity on how to improve your data practices.

Day 2 Opening Panel Discussion: Actionable Insights – Harness CX Data Analytics for Actionable Insights That Drive Bottom-Line Results with Ashley Fitzgerald, Afshin Ahangar, John Ross, and John Oxford, Wednesday at 10:05 AM
Industry Expert: Harvesting Better Data – The Unstructured Data Goldmine: Target, Extract, & Share Value with Josh Snider, Wednesday at 11:45 AM

Customer journey best practices

Another typical organizational gap covered in these talks: unifying customer communication across all channels and eliminating information silos, often described as omni-channel, or a 360 degree customer view.

Industry Expert: Unify, Streamline, Connect – How to Build Better Customer Journeys with Amrit Dhangal, Wednesday at 10:40 AM
Spotlight Session: Powering Up Digital CX Journeys – Adapt Your Customer Strategies to Meet the New Digital CX: From Consideration and Applications with Kasia Bigda, Wednesday at 3:30 PM

For more information and the full conference schedule take a look at the event website.

Register today!

Tune in March 29th and March 30th for this exciting opportunity to grow your customer experience strategy.

Tickets start at $495 and include live access and networking as well as ongoing access to the conference recordings for up to 12 months.

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Axe-con: Building accessible experiences, March 15, 2022

Akilah Spence — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:32:40 +0000

March 15, 2022, marks the beginning of “Axe-con,” a free virtual event hosted by Deque.

This three-day accessibility conference will highlight best practices for building, testing, and maintaining accessible digital experiences.

Axe-con is a must-watch event for business owners, developers, designers, and accessibility professionals no matter the level of experience. Through these conversations, we can continue to take more assured steps forward towards more accessible websites and digital experiences.

There are a number of sessions set to take place over the three-day schedule to address technical topics like web forms, design principles for disability inclusion, and the future outlook for accessibility. An exciting line-up of experts in the web accessibility and inclusion space will be in attendance and on the speaker roster, providing their knowledge on these accessibility-focused topics.

Here are four sessions that caught our attention:

The Future of the Web and Accessibility with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Tuesday at 9 AM
Screen Readers and Beyond: A Guide to Assistive Technology for Digital Access with Crystal Preston-Watson, Tuesday at 3 PM
Designing for cognitive disabilities with Tolu Adegbite, Wednesday at 11 AM
Accessible Forms: It’s Not as Difficult as You Think with Maria Lamardo, Thursday at 12:30 PM

For more information and the full conference schedule check out the event website.

Full conference schedule

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Tune in live starting on March 15th, or watch the recordings anywhere, anytime. The conference is free for anyone across the world to join in on a great opportunity for building accessibility skills.

For further reading on web accessibility, check out these recent articles

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FITC Toronto 2019 recap: pure imagination

Caroline Dinnall — Sat, 18 May 2019 20:28:38 +0000

Transcript

David Hogue:

What does it really mean to build something that is going to be used by billions of people? What does it really mean to have so much data that only computers have the capacity to make sense of it because it just overwhelms the human brain? What does it mean to make product decisions that can have massive impact around the world?

Michael Fullman:

Any piece of technology, any piece of interaction giving it an individual personality that exists in the narrative story that you’re trying to tell or even you’re internal narrative, it makes it not a piece of technology anymore. It makes it something totally different. And so, the more personality that you can give to it, I think, the better. And, you know, I say personality and that sometimes comes across as it being a character and it sometimes can be, but it can also just be in its outward aesthetic. If you were to take just a television and add a different, completely different aesthetic to it, it becomes something else. It becomes something just a little more magical than just a TV on the wall.

Ginger Leigh:

Sound embodies certain personalities, and so what I do is if I’m working with somebody else’s audio, then I’ll listen to it, and I will translate that into what I’m pulling out of the sound, so different characteristics. What I like to do is pull out those story elements, even if it’s not a literally story, there’s always some underlying idea of even a hint of something happening. The essence of this idea of a story behind every song.

Emelie Baltz:

– Well, our senses affect our perception of the world. So we learn about the world by touching it, by tasting it, by seeing it, by smelling it, by hearing it, and when you start to play with that … So when you start to play with new relationships … So let’s say that I see something red. And then I taste it and it actually tastes like lime, whoa. It really starts to mess with what you think of as real, as right. And so, that ability, and that’s actually called cross-modal experience, so how one sense can affect a different sense. When we start to play with that, I think, there’s obviously all sorts of new creativity that can open up, but it also pushes us to rethink our expectations of the world. And I think that that’s a really cool way of being. And it allows us then maybe to have different kinds of relationships with other people for example. There’s practical application of that, too, not just in making work, but maybe also in our daily lives with how we interact with each other.

Vincent Ramsey-Lemelin:

– If you’re not able to influence how people behave, then you’re not doing anything relevant. It doesn’t matter to people if you’re creating this great AR thing that nobody is actually using. So you need to understand people.

Eugene Meng:

– Meaningful for me means that the experience itself is super useful and it’s also delightful. Useful meaning that users feels like they are using an air tool for a very specific purpose and it is actually helping them and it is better than 2D. And delightful for me means that everything inside of the experience felt smooth and realistic. They didn’t feel like they’re interacting with something that’s fake and they are really immersed inside of the experience.

Lyndsey Munro:

Everyone’s a creative and the tools that are now available to us only just further that.

How far can our minds take us? What’s possible when innovation, technology and creativity is added to the mix?

A global leader in presenting tech conferences, the Future of Innovation, Technology and Creativity (FITC) team took Toronto on a journey to A World of Pure Imagination—this year’s theme of FITC Toronto 2019.

For 18 years, the FITC conference has inspired and educated thousands of digital creatives and industry experts from around the world. This year, over 1000 people sat in on keynotes, panel discussions, workshops and fireside chats at the Hilton Toronto to feed their creative minds. Speakers from Adobe, NASA, Google, Shopify, and many other leading names in the design industry shared their lessons and discoveries in technology and design.

From advances in augmented and virtual reality, to food, sexual monkey gifs, and life-sized robots, there was a lot to see at experience this year. Here’s what we wanted to share with you from this year’s conference.

Food, Senses, and Emotional Engagement

Everyone loves food, but is there more to it than satisfying our stomachs? Food technologist, designer and multimedia artist Emilie Baltz challenged attendees to question the ultimate purpose of food in her talk Food: Not For Eating.

Baltz specializes in storytelling for the senses, (the ability to feel stories physically in our bodies) and food’s ability to inspire innovations in interaction design. She uses food as a material for design, expressing how it can introduce new creativity in the world. This year, she explored how food inspires creativity and engages humans emotionally, suggesting that designers can use these factors as a jumping off point for inspiration.

“It’s not about food, it’s about relationships.” ~Emilie

Baltz

It seems virtual or voice-monitored cookbooks are on the near horizon. With the rise of AI bots and voice assistant tools, cooking by-the-recipe could be transformed into a more interactive and enjoyable experience rather than a chore. Bon Appetit!

Simplicity is a Complex Design Concept

Simple is simple…right?

Not according to Google UX Design Lead David Hogue. He told us why that’s not the case during his talk entitled Simplicity is Not Simple. His top three questions:

How can design be less chaotic?
Is too simple too boring?
Is there such a thing as “just the right amount of complexity”?

Every designer has struggled with at least one of these questions. Thankfully, David had some great answers.

Designers are problem solvers. They can clarify complex systems that come from poor design methods, poor project management, or technological shortfalls. The overall goal is to ensure that what they create is as simple as possible for users.

“Sometimes systems are naturally complex, we design to help people deal with the complex.” ~David Hogue

At the same time, too much simplicity can result in underperforming UX design. With simplicity, you have to meet in the middle. Hogue gave designers three considerations to keep in mind when working to deliver simplicity in UX design:

Ensure that your product or service is efficient.
Ensure that your product is enhancing value to the user
Ensure that your product is helping people learn.

He also Identified key steps designers should take as they embark on the journey of simplicity, which we will be sure to keep in mind for our future projects:

Subtraction
Consolidation
Redistribution
Prioritization
Clarification

Design is Terrifying, Yet Rewarding

Designing interactive robots may be fun, but it is by no means easy. Executive Creative Director Michael Fullman took us through his design journey at VT Pro, proving that his job is messy, rewarding, and includes challenges that you can’t prepare for or anticipate.

As one who designs robotic interactions and 3D products for massive endeavours like Telestron and Coachella, Fullman understands the importance of testing and learning from big design mistakes.

“Getting feedback is the best part.” ~Michael Fullman

Experimentation and adaptation go hand-in-hand in the innovative work that takes place at VT Pro. Fullman broke down three benefits to embracing adaptation—which are also great principles to live by:

Learning as you go.
Taking risks with new technology
Living outside your comfort zone.

Creating a unique type of technology requires a great deal of risk—like the risk of not being understood, or the risk of alienation. But it’s often these risky projects that, if carried through patiently and successfully, set you apart from other designers—in a good way.

For experienced designers and aspiring designers alike, going through the archives of David Carson’s iconic design work was a dream. His session Intuition, Collage and Design took attendees through a fascinating journey of innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography.

He showcased his previous work for brands such as Nike, Pepsi, and Microsoft.

Carson also shared the quirky, painful, and peculiar details of his designer journey, as his work took him all around the world. The moral of the story: do what you love, and have fun in the process.

“If money was not an issue would you still be excited to do that work daily? I think we are in a field that allows you to do that—allows you to not watch the clock and wait on vacations. To seriously enjoy what you do and not do it only to pay bills.” ~David Carson

Carson finished off with a word of encouragement for the next generation of designers who may have felt discouraged at any point throughout their creative journeys.

“Your wave is coming. Hang in there.” ~David Carson

Some other fantastic talks we attended include: Design for Mobile AR: Patterns and Principles by AR and VR Interaction Designer Eugene Meng from Google, Death and UX by Senior Creative Director of Digital and Innovation Vincent Ramsay-Lemelin from Sid Lee, Psychedelics and a Munky’s Cerebral Manifestations by Design Director GMUNK from gmunk.com.

Attending FITC Toronto is always rejuvenating. It’s an open space for designers, creatives, and technologists to share innovative insights, digital development tactics, and creative technologies, while further uniting the digital and design industry. We can’t wait for next year!

Don’t let FITC 2020 pass you by! Until then, live life with a pure imagination.

From the Say Yeah team

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7 most-anticipated talks at FITC 2019

Caroline Dinnall — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:29:24 +0000

Learn from top leaders in the digital, design and media industry from April 29- May 1, 2019

Opening the doors to digital, design and media professionals on April 29 – May 1, FITC Toronto 2019 will host workshops, presentations, installations and informative discussions lead by some of the most successful leaders in the business.

In previous years, the Say Yeah team has had the opportunity to both network and share ideas with industry professionals. Take a look at last year’s conference.

This year, Say Yeah is back, looking forward to interviewing like-minded creatives and strategists from around the world at FITC Toronto 2019. Representatives from Adobe, Facebook, Google and NASA will be attending and we can’t wait to see what we can learn from them.

Here are 7 of our most-anticipated talks:

Making Sound Visible by Ginger Leigh: How do you make sound visible? Let’s find out!
Simplicity is not Simple by David Hogue: Find out how to take a very complicated product and make it simpler for a better user experience.
Everything is Terrifying by Michael Fullman: Exploration and experimentation may lead to your next breakthrough.
Food: Not for Eating by Emilie Baltz: Speaking about her most successful projects, we’ll get an inside look at Emilie’s creative process.
Death and UX Design by Vincent Ramsay-Lemelin: How can UX Design change the way attendees experience something as intimate as a funeral?
The Incredible Shrinking Budget by Jeff Boddy: Looking at the struggles of budgeting and tips on prioritizing quality over quantity.
Round Table: The State of Design in 2029 by Liam Oscar Thurston: Designed to keep the audience thinking about the future, Liam Oscar Thurston will be leading the audience through a debate about the autonomy, mastery, and purpose within design.

Other exciting event features include:

Over 70 industry-leading presenters
Opportunity to interact with the latest tech in the exhibitor area
Must-attend after hours parties and performances
Networking with thousands of other like-minded industry professionals

UX/UI Networking Lunch:

Calling all UX designers, directors, strategists and students! FITC Toronto is hosting a UX/UI networking lunch, open to the public, to discuss industry trends with user experience professionals.

Date: Tuesday April 30, 2019
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: 3 Brewers Adelaide (120 Adelaide Street West, Unit 100, 2nd Floor)

Party Hardy!

Workshops all day, parties every night. After each event day, FITC invites attendants to join them after hours at varying locations to enjoy performances, drinks, games and good music. So grab a friend or colleague and kick-back and enjoy all that FITC has to offer!

Check the schedule each day for party updates!

Leave the FITC conference inspired, informed and enlightened with key insights and information bound to positively impact your career.

Whether you’re highly experienced or new to the industry, FITC is a must-attend event. Get 20% off your tickets now, with our code: SayYeah. Ticket prices vary depending on whether you are a student, group, attending for one day only, attending workshops only, or attending for the entire 3 days.

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NodeDay 2018 Recap—combatting disruption through integrated development

Caroline Dinnall — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 17:35:52 +0000

Transcript

Dan Shaw:

Node.js, and the web platform, are really in this deeply interconnected Venn diagram of technologies, where we have JavaScript, HTML, and the web platform as this common dialect of how we’re able to deliver these dynamic experiences that we need to put in front of our end-users. So, Node, is speaking the same language as it is enabling us to deliver those experiences faster and I expect the broad consensus around, Node and its open governance and the web and its broad usage and standards, to continue to drive innovation, both for developers and for businesses.

Ed Cudahy:

It’s really important that you’re really unified as much as possible and I think that’s what JavaScript and Node moving to the server has helped having, it is language. At the end of the day, it is just the exact same things that primary language is, it’s a means of communication and that’s what it is, and you’re communicating when you write that software.

Shawn Mandel:

The challenge of the network transformation program we embarked upon wasn’t really about technology or systems, even though it was. There are huge investments in technology. Massive IT systems investments, but the more and more you delved into it, it was about a cultural change that needed to be made and how a shift in mindset needed to occur around how the organization went to market in a far more standardized way. So, they’re moving from a world of proprietary technology to an open standard world and that drives a significant shift in how the company operates.

Briana Brownell:

Days like this are really important to bring people together to share ideas because often people are working in an organization, they have close contact with their team, but they’re not necessarily getting outside of that organization, that silo. So things like this, days like this, where you have presentations on different topics and you have different perspectives coming in and discussing different areas of work, I think are really important to be able to take that information back into the organization so that you can use it.

Joel Chen:

I’m working with, all the other Walmart infrastructure teams to make Node.js a more accessible platform for all our development teams. We’re growing out, new tools to make developing secure code easier and seamless.

Tara Z. Manicsic:

One thing that is extremely important to me, that I would like to put a lot more time towards, is this journey and this story of JavaScript becoming a seamless coding platform, front and back. So, to do that, you would want Node on the back end, and this gives so many great possibilities to developers to really hone their skills in JavaScript and be able to code backwards and forwards, the application they need. And, you don’t have to just to be on front end. You can switch your developers around as you like because we always want to keep learning and keep making new things. So, Node, I think is the stepping stone to really making this kind of universal standard of how we code and I think that standards like that are really important to be able to create more and more.

Takara Small:

So Telus and Ahmad were amazing. They have been instrumental in our progress so far. They reached out to us and they saw what we were doing and they’re like, how can we help? And we were just blown away by how supportive they’ve been. They have been instrumental in introducing us to people who want to volunteer with our group and also helping, I think really showing our kids how large corporations care about them as well and I think that’s a really important aspect of teaching kids why it’s important to enter tech.

On May 2nd, TechMasters partnered with TELUS to host NodeDay 2018, a one-day event highlighting how node.js provides a solid digital transformation foundation for legacy organizations. Ultimately, NodeDay was designed to inform leaders about the benefits of using modern programming languages and approaches in order to combat disruption.

Welcoming over 200 C-level attendees and developers at the TELUS digital Conference Space, the event was a source for rich insights on programming, agile approaches, data best practices, and the benefits of working with open source technologies.

Top representatives of the javascript and digital transformation scenes shared a wealth of insights through the various talks, panels, and workshops that took place at NodeDay 2018. Here are some takeaways.

Digital transformation as the DNA in organizations

Every successful business in the world is using technology, whether selling a product or service, actively engaging customers, or supporting how your team works together. With every business looking to improve customer experience and service delivery models, it’s those who can tap into the most effective, transformational technology and processes that begin to set themselves apart. But how do businesses keep up with emerging technologies and practices? How do they know which what will benefit them the most?

Paul Savage, COO at nearForm, says organizations will only know the impact of the right technology in their businesses if they take the time to understand it and always find new ways to apply it.

“The real secret is to build a culture of innovation. It’s not about, ‘I’m on a legacy system. I’m gonna transform, I’m gonna be on a new system and everything’s good.’ It’s building in the capability to change and innovate as you go. Digital transformation will lead to DNA inside organizations where they are constantly changing.”

Organizations need to prepare for, jump into, and understandably ride the waves of digital transformation to become adaptive to new opportunities afforded by emerging technologies.

Applying Node.js isn’t just a trend, it’s a game changer for experience delivery

Node.js is a platform that will continue to bring alignment and efficiency to teams through a shared language across the full development stack.

“Node.js and the web platform are really this deeply connected Venn diagram of technologies where we have Javascript, HTML, and the Web cloud platform as this common dialect of how we’re able to deliver these dynamic experiences for end users. Node is speaking the same language and it is enabling us to deliver those experiences faster,” said Dan Shaw, Strategic Advisor at nearForm.

Large enterprises are adopting Node.js because of community benefits

Principal Architect Joel Chen said that WalmartLabs immediately invested in Node.js as their standard platform for web development, not just for the internal team efficiencies it provided, but in an effort to tap into an open community and follow open standards.

“We wanted to be able to hire people who have existing skills that they could immediately use when they came to WalmartLabs. [Node.js] is collaborative and has a huge community and an open working environment.”

Other topics discussed at NodeDay included security and privacy in digital businesses, data as a driving force for customer delivery, innovation, and inclusivity benefits and practices.

NodeDay 2018 was a great opportunity to channel in on how modern technology, like Node.js, play a role in transforming organizations. We encourage you to stay connected with TechMasters to keep up to date with their future events.

From uncovering new market opportunities to finding new efficiencies through technology and processes, we’re here to help.

If you’re exploring ways to bring new efficiencies to your organization, let’s talk.

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Arts Futures series comes to Ottawa July 4th and Toronto July 5th, bringing design community best practices to the arts

Caroline Dinnall — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:59:45 +0000

Beginning July 4th in Ottawa, art and design will be coming together at Arts Futures, a series of events running from July through August.

Co-hosted by Interactive Ontario and the Cultural Human Resources Council, Arts Futures is a summer seminar series that explores the interconnection of art and design, with arts-focused digital skills, strategy, and human-centred design seminars.

The event series welcomes artists, creatives, designers, innovators, strategists—those who have an interest in seeing how design and digital best practices can shape the arts.

Each session contains two presentations pertaining to the topic of the week with a networking lunch in between.

Topics & Dates

July 4 (Ottawa) and July 5 (Toronto)
Digital Transformation and Inclusive Design
July 18 (Ottawa) and July 19 (Toronto)
Digital Music Technologies
August 1 (Ottawa) and August 2 (Toronto)
Immersive Experiences – Augmented and Virtual Reality
August 22 (Ottawa) and August 23 (Toronto)
Digital Discoverability
August 30 (Ottawa) and August 29 (Toronto)
Closing Keynote: Digital Arts & Culture

We’re pleased to announce that our CEO, Lee Dale, will be leading the digital transformation session at Arts Futures July 4th in Ottawa and July 5th in Toronto.

Arts Future is an event in its own category. The content to be discussed is expected to bring new insight and knowledge whether you’re leading an arts institution, a practicing artist, or otherwise engaged in the arts. We encourage you to take this opportunity to learn how design and digital best practices can help shape your work and bring this knowledge into your regular practices!

Tickets

General sessions registrations are $35 per session ($30 if you are a member of Interactive Ontario or the Cultural Human Resources Council).

We hope to see you July 4th in Ottawa and July 5th in Toronto!

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Join us at NodeDay on Wednesday May 2 to explore digital transformation for legacy organizations

Caroline Dinnall — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:44:08 +0000

On May 2, join us at NodeDay, a one-day event catered to informing enterprise leaders about the benefits of using modern programming languages and approaches to help stave of disruption.

NodeDay is a conference by-and-for enterprise leaders. Hosting over 200 C-level attendees at the TELUS Digital Conference Space, this event is expected to highlight the benefits of Node.js, modern programming languages and agile approaches, and more.

From talks, to panels, workshops and roundtable discussions, NodeDay will empower executives with ways to better support and transform their organizations as technology continues to evolve.

Our CEO Lee Dale will be there to connect with speakers and attendees with a particular interest in digital transformation, experience design, and continuous improvement principles and tactics.

Feel free to connect with Lee on Twitter or at lee@sayyeah.com.

We’re excited to be capturing the event for NodeDay with a series of interviews. We look forward to digging deeper with the speakers about digital transformation best practises at their organizations, including:

Dan Shaw, Strategic Advisor, nearForm
Shawn Mandell, Chief Digital Officer, TELUS
Nithya Ruff, Leadership, Speaker & Board Director Comcast
Kyle Hodgson, Principal Architect, ThoughtWorks
Briana Brownell, CEO, Pure Strategy Inc.

NodeDay invites you to join the digital transformation conversation with a practical look at Node.js and key insights on how this kind of modern technology plays a role in transformation.

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Attend NodeDay to support Venture Kids

Proceeds allocated from NodeDay will be donated to Venture Kids, a not-for-profit that turns youth from Toronto’s underserved neighbourhoods into entrepreneurs.

We hope to see you this Wednesday at NodeDay!

The Say Yeah Team

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