Category: Technology
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Web Summit Tech Conference Lisbon, Portugal Nov 2025
By Sally Warburton In its 10th year in Lisbon! Ten years! Announced CEO Paddy Cosgrave at the Opening Ceremonies at MEO Arena, Lisbon to a massive crowd. An eager crowd. A tech-loving, AI crowd! Paddy said “Ten years ago it already felt like the world was changing fast, but it’s nothing compared to how fast the…
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Elevate Festival 2025 October 7- 9 Tech Conference
By Sally Warburton On Tuesday, October 7th, the area around Meridian Hall and & St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, on Front Street in Toronto was buzzing with energy and excitement about the upcoming days of the 9th year of Elevate. Elevate is a Canadian non-profit started by CEO Lisa Zarzeczny. The event held in Toronto has evolved since 2017…
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The Web Summit Vancouver 2025
By Sally Warburton And the title reads ‘Massive Tech Conference Comes to Vancouver!…’ The first ever!…the inaugural Web Summit Vancouver! What a beautiful city for having the Web Summit. May 27 – 30 were the dates. The tech conference days were jam-packed with new technologies, start-ups, pitches, connections and business. It was a success. Heavy…
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IDS-The 26th Edition of Interior Design Show 2025
By Sally Warburton The opening night of the Interior Design Show took place in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Building, 255 Front St W, Toronto. This evening opened the IDS Show for its 4 day event. The opening night included the opportunity to visit the designer booths and to speak to the designers. Live entertainment,…
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Web Summit Lisbon, Portugal-2024 – Where the Tech World Meets
By Sally Warburton The 15th annual Web Summit took place November 11th to 14th, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. And what a beautiful and welcoming city Lisbon is! It’s eight years since the November 2016 first edition of Web Summit in Lisbon. The Web Summit took place at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL), located in the…
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The 6th annual Elevate Festival @Meridian Hall-October 1st – 3rd, 2024
By Sally W. The 6th annual edition of Elevate Festival took place October 1st – 3rd, 2024 in Toronto. Founded in 2017 as a Canadian non-profit organization. It is an intimate and accessible event for all attendees. The opening night started with a few special start-up pitching presentations. Amber Mac was the animated MC for…
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Collision Tech Conference @The Enercare Centre June 17 to 20, 2024
by Sally Warburton This year’s collision tech conference was a special one as it was the last one in Toronto. Collision is moving next year May 2025 to be in Vancouver and will be called Web Summit Vancouver. Toronto Collision 2024 brought together over 30,000 of tech’s brightest minds from June 17 to 20. Attendees discovered…
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The Web Summit Qatar @Doha, Qatar-February 26 – 29,2024
By Sally Warburton For the first time, the Web Summit was held in Doha, Qatar. The gem of the Middle East. A beautiful setting of palm trees and warm weather for a wonderful Web Summit… The sold out Web Summit Qatar started with the Opening Ceremonies at DECC (The Doha Exhibition and Convention Center) located in West…
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The Web Summit Lisbon 2023
By Sally Warburton November 13 – 16, 2023 Lisbon, Portugal The Web Summit started the evening of Monday, November 13 – The Opening Night: A celebration of Portugal ceremonies held at the Altice Arena. First on Centre Stage was a series of entrepreneurs selected to speak about their start-ups to the crowd of over 50,000. Next the…
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The ELEVATE FESTIVAL Toronto 2023 @The Meridan Centre-Tues.,Sept.26th-Thurs.,28th,2023
By Sally W. The Elevate Festival took place in Toronto from September 26th to 28th, 2023. Tuesday September 26th evening was the opening night. The doors to Meridian Hall opened at 5pmwith a big crowd of people waiting outside to eagerly get in. Opening the event was Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow who praised the start-up sector…
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Collision Tech Conference@ENERCARE CENTRE,-Mon., JUNE 26-Thursday.,June 29, 2023
By Sally Warburton June 26 – 28, 2023 was the 3rd in-person Collision Conference in Toronto. And it has grown… massively! The 3 day international tech conference was a very, very busy hive of activity! Learning, networking and promoting every type of tech business from every corner of the world. From the minute it started…
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Elevate Festival 2022, Sept. 20-22
It was 3 days , 350 speakers and 30,000+ Attendees. for the Elevate Festival 2022. Day 1 of Elevate Festival featured CEO & Co-Founder of Elevate, Lisa Zarzeczny and special guests kicked the night off with the story of Elevate and how great it was to reunite innovators for another in-person festival! On the Main…
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COLLISION Conference – June 20-23, 2022 – Enercare Centre, Toronto
Toronto welcome back The Collision conference with open arms. The main events were held in the Enercare Centre during the daytime and it’s patrons filling different areas of the cities for the ”After Hours” events at night. It was impossible to go anywhere without seeing a Collision wristband for a few days and for good…
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM DAY 2 OF CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK
Starting off day 2 of Canadian Music Week was “Spotlight on Japan” where we learned ways in which we can bridge the gap between the music industries in Canada and Japan. This session was brought to us by CAAMA, FACTOR, Global Affairs Canada, and Ontario Creates.One of the day’s highlights was the featured keynote with Hipgnosis Songs Founder & CEO, Merck Mercuriadis.…
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Collision North America’s Fastest Growing Tech Conference
By Sally Warburton Collision North America’s Fastest Growing Tech Conference Collision’s international Virtual Tech Conference 2021 attracted over 38,000 people online and brought together Fortune 500 companies, presenters and participants of tech sectors from all over the world. The schedule had an incredible line up of Tech companies, investors, startups, with CEO’s, actors, politicians including…
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