Connect IT is put on by the students of the Information Technology Management (yours truly is in the same program) at Ryerson University.  Each year the one day conference covers a different theme and topic related to global trends in IT Management.  This year the event’s tag-line is “Small Rooms, Big Ideas : weaving our social fabric with technology”, which focuses on IT helping to create global cities:
The advancements of Information Technology (IT) in the past decade have pushed this discipline and industry into the forefront of solving increasingly complex …

There are two events now happening at MaRS on February 24th.  FacebookCampToronto 5 is starting at 6pm, the event already has 221 confirmed guests on it’s Facebook event page, and before that, just announced today, Jay Goldman will give a talk on “New Models of Web Application Development”:

New Models of Web Application Development
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with a myriad of sites and users out there that want to share information. But with the growing trends in social media applications also comes …

The session schedule for PodCamp Toronto 2009 is now open for people to edit and to put their sessions into the time-slot of their choosing.
44 of the more than 50 sessions have been scheduled so far, so if you want to plan your time you can get a pretty good idea of how things will play out.  Needless to say that figuring out a plan with the more than 50 sessions being run over the two day event will be challenging for most.
There are so many interesting sessions being run …

Taking a cue from BookCamp London, a group of Canadians have organized an unconference in Toronto to bring together authors, publishers, and technologists to discuss the future of the book.  BookCampTO is a free one day event being held June 6th at the MaRS Centre already has a list of 45 session ideas that people have volunteered to lead, or that people want to hear discussed.
“The future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.”
Some of the 45 session ideas listed for BookCampTO include:

Building community to …

The first ever GenY Toronto Tweetup is happening tonight at Alleycatz by Eglinton and Yonge Street at 8pm.
30 people have already RSVP’d ‘Yes’ to the event so there’s sure to be a big crowd there.
What is Gen Y? There are a few descriptions
“The Generation Y are sometimes called the “Trophy Generation”, or “Trophy Kids,” a term that reflects the trend in competitive sports (as well as many other aspects of life) where “no one loses” and everyone gets a “Thanks for Participating” trophy.” – Wikipedia
But a nicer name and description …