CreativeMornings/Vancouver with Stewart Butterfield
Event Information
Description
CreativeMornings Vancouver sold out in under 3 minutes!
Let's see how we do next month with speaker #2 Ian Grais.
You will be able to sign up for this event on Monday, August 29th, 11:00am. Thanks!
NOTE: On the morning of the event, if you have not checked in by 8:50 am your ticket will be made available to individuals on the waiting list.
DATE
CreativeMornings/Vancouver on Friday, September 2nd, 8:30am -10:00am
SPEAKER
Stewart Butterfield is the co-founder of Flickr, the popular photosharing website. Named by Time magazine as One of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Butterfield is a founding father of participatory media. Alongside the giants of social media -- Facebook, MySpace and YouTube -- Flickr has produced a seismic shift in the way people use technology in their everyday lives. Newsweek calls it "a poster child on how a well-executed Net effort can make big changes in people's habits." His latest project is Glitch, a highly stylized social online game from his startup Tiny Speck.
Butterfield grew Flickr from a tiny Canadian operation to a worldwide phenomenon. As "The Eyes of the World," Flickr boasts over 85 million users a month, and is the largest repository of publicly available photographs, with over 5 billion pictures, and over 2.5 million new photos uploaded every day. In 2005, Butterfield sold Flickr to Yahoo!, where he continued to work, before leaving in 2008 to pursue his next project - entering the growing world of massively multiplayer online gaming.
Butterfield is the co-founder of the gaming startup Tiny Speck, whose debut title is an ambitious massively multiplayer online game called Glitch. Glitch hopes to revolutionize online gaming the same way Flickr revolutionized online photo sharing. Butterfield has been nominated for the Chrysler Design Award, and has been named a Best Leader byBusiness Week, and one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 by MIT. He also founded the 5k Awards, a competition highlighting the best use of simple design solutions.
HOST
This month’s event will be hosted by the generous folks over at W2 Media Café and co-presented by the BC Chapter of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada. If you are not familiar with our supporters, please visit them online to learn more!
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ABOUT CREATIVEMORNINGS
CreativeMornings is a monthly morning gathering for creative types. Each event includes a 20 minute lecture, followed by a 20 minute group discussion. The gathering begins at 8:30am with the topic presentation starting at 9:00am and everyone taking off for work at 10am. CreativeMornings are free of charge!
There are chapters around the world including New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, and now Vancouver!
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