Thursday, February 21
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Meet our MC
David Crow, Community Animator at StartupNorth - Evangelist in Residence at OMERS Ventures
David Crow is currently the Evangelist in Residence at OMERS Ventures. Previously he was the founder of Influitive. He has been a consultant and advisor with startups focusing on product, marketing and early customer customer acquisition. He is the host of DemoCamp, Founders & Funders and can be found stirring the pot at StartupNorth.ca. Talk to David on Clarity.
@davidcrow
/in/davidcrow
davidcrow.ca/
09:30am - 10:00am
Registration
10:00am - 10:30am
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Customer Development on the Innovation Spectrum
Brant Cooper, Author - The Lean Entrepreneur
Brant help startups get started. In this book, “The Lean Entrepreneur” Brant and co-author Patrick Vlaskovits break down why lean, why now, how to, and provide extraordinary examples of entrepreneurs applying lean principles inside and outside tech. Brant is a happy papa, loyal brother, and appreciative son. Talk to Brant on Clarity
@brantcooper
/in/brantcooper
leanentrepreneur.co/
10:30am - 11:00am
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Who Owns Product Development?
Mike Beltzner, Head of Product - Wattpad
Mike has spent over 10 years acting as a bridge between product design, strategy, management and execution. He started as a product designer at IBM, became Director of Firefox at Mozilla, and most recently joined Wattpad as Head of Product. He is a problem solver, a product manager, a software designer, an erstwhile teacher, an occasional dreamer, a full time pragmatist, and a stalwart Canadian.
@beltzner
/in/mbeltzner
www.wattpad.com/
11:00am - 11:30am
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UX + Lean = Awesome
Kate Rutter, Co-Founder - LUXr
Kate is a User Experience strategist and designer with a talent for bringing companies and customers closer together through lean strategies, inventive design and participatory practices. Kate’s background spans technology, marketing, interactive media, business management and organizational development.
@katerutter
/pub/kate-rutter/2/495/39b
luxr.co
11:30am - 12:00pm
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Customer Acquisition
Laura Fitton, Inbound Marketing Evangelist - HubSpot
Laura Fitton, HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Evangelist, previously co-authored Twitter for Dummies and founded oneforty.com. Laura is credited with convincing Guy Kawasaki and thousands of tech execs that Twitter would have real business value. She founded the first Twitter for Business consultancy, Pistachio Consulting, in 2008 and has been speaking professionally about the business use of Twitter since 2007. Talk to Laura on Clarity.
@Pistachio
/in/pistachio
www.hubspot.com/
12:00pm - 01:00pm
Lunch
01:00pm - 01:30pm
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Understanding Lifetime Customer Value
Danielle Morrill, Founder and CEO - Referly
Danielle Morrill is the CEO & Cofounder of Referly. She was previously the 1st non-founding member of cloud communications platform company Twilio. She advocates for and advises entrepreneurs through Startup Weekend, Twilio Fund, and as a mentor to 500 Startups. She was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Social/Mobile Technology in 2011. Talk to Danielle on Clarity
@daniellemorrill
/in/daniellemorrill
refer.ly/
01:30pm - 02:00pm
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Scalable and Repeatable Business Models
Scott Kveton, CEO/Founder - Urban Airship
Scott Kveton is the co-founder and CEO of Urban Airship, which helps the world's top brands do great things in mobile. Kveton is widely recognized as an expert on mobile app strategy, user engagement and cloud infrastructure, and was named a Top 10 Mobile Mover for 2012 by VentureBeat.
@kveton
/in/kveton
urbanairship.com/
02:00pm - 02:30pm
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The Art and Science of Growth Hacking
Dan Martell, CEO and Founder - Clarity
Dan is the co-founder of Clarity a marketplace that connects entrepreneurs to get great business advice. Previously he co-founded Flowtown, a social marketing platform for small businesses. An award-winning entrepreneur, at 25, Dan formed his first start-up. Now he spends the majority of his time looking at ways to build a bridge between Silicon Valley and New Brunswick, Canada. Talk to Dan on Clarity.
@danmartell
/in/dmartell
www.danmartell.com/
02:30pm - 03:00pm
Break
03:00pm - 03:30pm
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Don't be a Dummy, Avoid Focusing on the Wrong Metrics Too Early
Michael Litt, Co-Founder and CEO - Vidyard
Michael graduated from Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2011. During his tenure at the University, he co-founded LittEnergies, PhoneWreck and Redwoods Media. During his 4th year of studies, Redwoods Media grew to over $300,000 in revenue and the necessity of a platform to manage the content became apparent. Talk to Mike on Clarity.
@michaelrlitt
/in/michaellitt
/secure.vidyard.com/
03:30pm - 04:00pm
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Leveraging Disruptive Fundraising Technology
Mark Organ, Founder and CEO - Influitive
Mark Organ is the founder and CEO of Influitive, helping companies mobilize their army of advocates to produce massive increases in referral leads, reference calls, social media participation and more. Previously Mark was the founding CEO of Eloqua, the world leader in marketing automation software, recently acquired for $871M. Mark has both bootstrapped companies and financed them with over $40M raised across 12 rounds. Talk to Mark on Clarity.
@markorgan
/in/markorgan
influitive.com/
Seats are limited - Register Now
The Venue
Venue
245 Church Street
ROOM: Lecture Theatre ENG 103
Toronto, ON Canada
Venue
GROWtalks Toronto will be hosted at George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre. Paid public parking is available everywhere.
GROWtalks Pre-Party
GROWtalks Pre-Party!
Wednesday February 20th, 8pm to late (night before event)
Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina Avenue
More info here
