What better way to spend your lunch than with Calgary’s creative minds…

Our Speakers include:

Monday, November 22nd - 12:00 noon -1:00 pm

I’m creative staff you can’t manage me. (and, the 10 things I wish someone would have told me before I graduated)
Michael J. Sikorsky, Robots & Pencils
Bissett Entrance Level Atrium, Mount Royal University

Michael, CEO and founder of Robots & Pencils spends the majority of his time working on all things iPhone and iPad. In 2010, Robots and Pencils won the Innovation/Leaderhip award from Digital Alberta for our iPhone work. Michael is an inspiring speaker and is not one for taking the beaten path. Michael has been invited to speak at Cyberport Hong Kong, Harvard Business School, MIT, Stanford, Community 2.0 Las Vegas, MESH Toronto and has been interviewed by the Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Business Week, UK Guardian and more.

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Tuesday, November 23th - 12:00 noon -1:00 pm

Spare Time Creativity
Neil Egsgard, Kensington Interaction
Bissett Entrance Level Atrium, Mount Royal University

Neil Egsgard invests in what he calls social capital.  Instead of buying a bigger television or a faster car Neil spends his free time and extra cash on starting community projects.  Founder of the Kensington Interaction, Neil transformed an old boarded up window on a main street in Kensington into a public art space and a mural that reflects the hardware store’s history in the neighbourhood.

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Wednesday, November 24th – (10 am – 12:30 pm)

DIRTT Movers + DIRTT Bags - DIRTT Environmental Solutions

Bissett Entrance Level Atrium, Mount Royal University

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DIRTT Acts Out!:
(10am – Noon) A Creative + Interactive Tug of War . . .

Our design friends from DIRTT will simulate the creative process for the International Student Design Award (Office Environments) 2011.  Peek and participate in a process to create:

• A flexible and open learning environment that promotes creativity and design for 4 different divisions, and which provides a functional ‘homebase’ for 2-3 ‘private-able’ offices

• An environment that satisfies the demand to ‘feel protected’ and ‘promote the ability to concentrate’ while at the same time catering to the ‘communication and networking’

• Provides a solution that addresses scarcer resources

Mega Minds Geoff Gosling (Product Poobah) and Jason Kessler (Digital Diplomat) lead the process. Yip yip!

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(12:10pm – 12:50pm) Lunch + Lounge with DIRTT!

How DIRTT Promotes One of the Most Innovative Corporate Cultures in Calgary

People are the backbone of the DIRTT ideal.  Entrepreneurial, empowered, indefatigable, fun and resourceful. Drop by for a slice + conversation about the trust, openness and talent critical to the organizational and creative culture at DIRTT.

Julie Pithers (Marketing Goddess) and the rest of the team (Mark Greffen, Jason Kessler, Nancy MacEachern, Diane Huynh, Geoff Gosling + more) from DIRTT answer the burning question, “Shaken or Stirred?”

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(2:00pm 3:30pm) It’s Okay to Have a Beautiful Mind!
Stories of How High Tech and Brand Creative Geeks Contribute to DIRTT Innovation

The programmers, information design, marketing, and graphic design nerds, all beautiful, have a ton to do with the constant innovation culture at DIRTT. Come and get the ‘low down’ on mapping your technical and creative know-how onto an ideal career path, one where you really are doing what you love.  Overclock your life already.

Nerdists Mark Greffen (ICE Ingenious) Nancy MacEachern (Graphic Design Guru),  Jason Kessler (Digital Diplomat), and Diane Huynh (Materials Maven) spill the top secret secrets about the DIRTT Brand being mad sexy and how programming ICE Software became a videogame for design – with brains for business.  And, there’s a Java connection at DIRTT too. Savvy?

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Thursday, November 25th - 12:00 noon -1:00 pm

World Class Creativity Happens here in Calgary
Critical Mass
Bissett Atrium, Mount Royal University

Critical Mass is an international Marketing and Design firm here in Calgary. They work with big names like Nissan, Adidas, NASA, Rolex, and even Budweiser. It’s amazing to know such great work for the world’s biggest brands is happening just down from the Calgary Tower. Come meet folks from the Critical Mass team and learn how they do it!

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Friday, November 26th - 12:00 noon -1:00 pm

Who You Are, What You Do
David Brunning, aka THE KID BELO
Bissett Entrance Level Atrium, Mount Royal University

Voted the best visual artist of 2008 by Calgary FFWD, BELO is a non-stop art-making machine. With pieces all around the city, including on the side of the Camera Store, Art Central, and inside Snatch Nightclub, BELO has defined himself as outside of one who defaces public but someone who is recognized as an artist and changing the minds of Calgarians with regards to street art and creativity in general.

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