Date: February 28, 2012
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Place: Sutton Place Hotel, 10235 - 101 Street, Edmonton, AB
This networking event is an opportunity to interact with over 300 local entrepreneurs, innovators and business people and browse displays from a few of Edmonton's leading technology companies.
Date: February 3, 2012
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: CSC 3-33, University of Alberta Campus
Shogi is one of the major variants of chess. The material balance is less important and the branching factor is greater than in Western chess. Because of these properties, creating a decent computer shogi player was a difficult challenge.
In this talk, two main features of the computer shogi program Bonanza, one of the strongest shogi programs, will be presented. One main feature is the optimization method used to train the full evaluation function with more than ten million parameters. The other is a game tree search method which is more brute-force and less selective than other popular approaches. We close with some comparisons of the algorithmic differences between chess programs and Bonanza.
Date: Jan 27-29, 2012.
Startup Edmonton and GameCamp Edmonton join forces to bring you Startup Hackathon and Global Game Jam - the city’s biggest-ever 54 hour marathon of coding, design, and lots of energy drinks. Make an app, make a game - just make something people want. Developers, designers, marketers, players, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over the weekend, teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas, and culminating in a final demo night where teams show off their prototypes and receive valuable feedback.
For more information and to register, click here.
Date: January 18, 2012
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Science B 142, University of Calgary campus.
Lecture on how new remote sensing and geophysical techniques such as ground-penetrating radar and unmanned aerial vehicles enable us to monitor changes occurring in the Arctic.
For more information or to register, click here.
Date: January 25, 2012
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: Room 2-926, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave.
The U of A Alumni Association and StartUp Edmonton bring the inspirational TED talks to downtown Edmonton. Bring your lunch and be inspired by some of the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers as they present the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Watch a selected TED Talk video presentation (selection is kept secret) then join the group in a discussion about the presentation. What better way to feed your mind over the lunch hour?
For more information or to register, click here.
Date: January 18, 2012
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
From news to knowledge in 60 seconds: The dynamics of networked content production on Wikipedia
Speaker: Pasko Bilic, PhD Candidate, University of Zagreb
For more information or to register, click here.
Date: February 24, 2012
You have a business idea, but don’t necessarily have the business training to launch your company. The more you brainstorm about transforming your vision into a venture, the more questions you have. What are the legal issues with creating a company? Where is the financing going to come from? Am I targeting the right market? Find out by participating in the TEC VenturePrize business plan competition.
For more information, click here.
Date: January 19, 2012
Time: 4:30-6:30 pm
Place: Teatro — 2000 8 Avenue SE, Calgary AB
The Elevator Pitch is a quick, succinct summation of what your company makes or does and it is one of the most effective methods available to reach new buyers, clients and investors with a winning message. Join us for an afternoon of networking PLUS test your Elevator Pitch skills during the Open Mic portion of the event.
For more information and to register, click here.
Date: March 12-13, 2012
Place: Matrix Hotel, 10640-100 Ave, Edmonton AB
This conference will discuss how cloud computing technologies can be applied to achieve business transformation while mitigating proprietary barriers to entry. While seeking to define intelligent and innovative methods of enterprise cloud design and service delivery, the Canadian Cloud Council aims to accelerate the speed of cloud adoption and utilization in Canada.
For more information or to register, please click here.
Date: February 8, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall
As the Internet came to be, we were all excited by the awesome possibilities that would be realized once this free-flowing, open network allowed musicians, artists, scientists and engineers around the world to instantly share their work. Remixing, collaboration, and new innovations would be the result. But while there have been great examples of open source projects (like Wikipedia) fueled by the wisdom of crowds, there are many examples where open source culture has fostered nasty group dynamics and mediocre collaborations. Have we glorified open-source software, free information and collective work at the expense of individual creativity? Or is open source culture here to stay?
For more information or to register, click here.
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