The June Wired Wednesday is a special event – it will be held in partnership with Net Change Week and will take place at MaRS. Net Change is a week-long event designed to explore how social technology can bolster social change. Presented by the Social Innovation Generation team at MaRS (SiG@MaRS), Net Change Week will tap into the potential that exists when new methods of communicating, organizing and mobilizing are brought to bear on chronic social issues. More details at NetChangeWeek.ca.

Whether it's your first Wired Wednesday or you've been with us since the very beginning, join us for another fabulous night of invaluable insights, new & old friends, & of course your lovely hosts from RedWire (www.redwirenation.com). 


Date & time: Wednesday, June 10th, 2009, 6-9pm
Location: MaRS, 101 College Street, Toronto, ON
Theme: Social innovation
Guest speakers: Tim Walker, Beka Economopoulos, Sam Dorman

Guest speaker bios

Tim Walker
Tim Walker is co-founder of Biro, a pioneering online creative firm that advises movement-leading organizations from around the world working for sustainability and social change.
This includes non-profits, charities, campaigns and campaigning green business. Drawing on almost a decade of experience in field, Tim provides strategic council for the company’s select tribe of long-term clients – including Greenpeace UK, 350.org, Global Zero and Brighter Planet – helping them grow their movements online. He is also the former Communications Director at the Adbusters Media Foundation.

Beka Economopoulos
Beka Economopoulos has 15 years experience as a grassroots field and online organizer, working with local, national, and international NGOs, community groups, and activist mobilizations.
Prior to her current role with Fission Strategy, Beka created and ran the Online Organizing department at Greenpeace USA. She is also the co-founder and director of Not An Alternative, a volunteer-run non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, whose mission aims to integrate art, activism, technology and theory in order to affect popular understandings of events, symbols and history. She has been interviewed extensively and quoted on CNN, BBC, and the NY Times.

Sam Dorman
Sam Dorman proudly bears the scars of many (mostly) successful technology battles fought on behalf of nonprofit organizations throughout the years.
With a background in communications strategy, new media, and facilitation and training, Sam brings a strategic and comprehensive creative approach to his work. He recently served as Managing Director of the League of Young Voters, a national youth political empowerment organization, before which he was the organization's first Director of Technology and Internet Programs, and he worked at MoveOn during the 2004 election.