Hackernest Toronto Monthly Tech Social

*** You must RSVP to get a nametag! *** (or be socially ostracized)

This is a casual, social group for technologists to come together, mingle, and perhaps find a partner in crime or two.

Come meet some of the interesting startups in The Next 36 (http://thenext36.ca/), an elite university-level Canadian entrepreneurial leadership program!

Rough format:

8pm - show up, socialize, chill

9pm - introductions, some words from our sponsors, then watch a handful of startups from The Next 36 (http://thenext36.ca/) do ninjafast speedpitching

9:40pm - plot to take over the world

Awesome gold sponsor:

Nonprofit government-backed Canadian "National Centre of Excellence" and wireless company accelerator, Wavefront (http://www.wavefrontac.com)

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Ultrafriendly recruiting sponsor:

Talent, opportunities, and connections: GuruLink (http://www.gurulink.ca/) recruiting - tried, tested, and true since since 2002 (hey, that rhymes)

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Gracious space sponsor:

Dynamo Toronto "startup" Wave Accounting (http://srn.kr/K5rs4k) - fast, easy, totally free small business accounting (man, they should totally license that slick tagline from me)

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Heroic beer sponsor:

Thanks to the good people at Amsterdam Brewery for saving the day!

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<*Note: $5 is suggested donation and voluntary; feel free to shell out $9309482 if you really want to>

At any given Hackernest meetup, you may find people who are:

curious about developing on Ruby on Rails, but far too attached to Cake PHP to ever take the plunge looking for a tech/entrepreneur/new business story to cover Objective-C experts who secretly hate themselves for working on iPhones/iPads/Apple products looking to recruit a 5th or 6th engineer for their venture-funded TORONTO-BASED tech startup (no, seriously, it's true - these actually do exist; I happen to be part of one) looking to write articles/stories about the obscure/interesting/hilarious hacks you've pulled off totally oblivious and just wandered in because they heard there was booze (!?) building a top-secret app out of their basement that's going to change the way the world does X scrambling to find a partner to work with on a well-paying contract that's just a wee bit too much workload for the anticipated deadline heroes because they're part of the burgeoning community that will reverse Toronto's brain-drain ...incredibly talented, smart, entrepreneurial, and absolutely dangerous to the status quo

Chances are, you'll fit right in if you're a(n):

web developer software developer web designer network administrator database administrator systems administrator front-end designer/developer programmer coder engineer (electrical, computer) tech enthusiast tech/entrepreneur-oriented media/journalist really, really obsessive/compulsive blogger/Tweeter recruiter looking to poach PHP/Ruby/Python/Java developers for your team/firm internet entrepreneur mobile developer search engine optimization (SEO) professional software/hardware hacker/h4ck3r technical writer/project manager/business analyst 1337 individual ...and aren't a douchebag. <3