Fade to Play

Last Thursday I attended Democamp Vancouver 04 at Workspace. It was the third one I attended and the event was well attended by local participants.The night began with Battledecks as Linda Bustos (above) beat Jordan Behan.

1. 2 people from the crowd are chosen (by elimination or volunteering or voting…) and go head-to-head in DemoCamp’s installment of BATTLEDECKS
2. Each contender is given a 6-to-8 page Keynote Presentation on the spot and will present their fabulous, ground-breaking, earth-shattering, mind-blowing business/project/idea/nonsense to the crowd, inspiring us all on whatever it is they are revealing.
3. Think: “Gesture. Flow. Credibility. Jargon.” It will really help.
4. Winner will be professed by crowd applause and cheering.

Next there were four people/teams that spoke about their demo for 4-6 minutes:

• James Sherrit as CEO, discussed the mission of Ad-Hack
• Tom Kingston spoke about financial models for start-ups from VanFM
• Chris Sel and Brenda Mclaren of Nethooks, spoke about their social network site for students, alumni, and young professionals
• Amy Walkerof Momentum spoke about the magazine for urban bikers.

Afterwards we attended an after-party at Flux where we socialised and had food/drinks.

Good times for all.


There are flickr photos here:


Relevance: Opportunity to network and keep up to date on interesting people and ideas within Vancouver.