I’m back from the SXSW 09 Interactive Festival that took place in Austin, Texas. Tons of people, dozens of panels and keynotes, tradeshows and parties. There was a lot to see and people to meet. A crazy week for Nicolas and me. Austin, Texas For my first time in Texas, Austin welcomed us with a [...]

Tonite was the first edition of iPhoneDevCamp, organized by Sylvain Carle from Praized Media and hosted at Station C. For a first edition I didn’t expect that many people. We were about 40 and for the most, iPhone developers having done real projects. An high quality audience. The camp was divided in two parts; a [...]

A couple of days ago, I attended StartupCamp Montreal 2 that took place at the SAT. It’s an event where early stage companies share information and validate pitches live during a 8 minutes presentation; they get immediate feedback from investors and the audience. Keynotes were good and it was great to catchup with startup fellows. [...]

I’m back from the Web 2.0 Expo that took place last week in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. The schedule was tight with dozens of conferences, keynotes and companies in the exhibit hall. There was definitely a lot of see. The Moscone Center is kind of a famous place — this is where Steve Jobs [...]

Web 2.0 Expo will be held next week in San Franciso, California from April 22–25. This year, I’m really excited to attend the event and I look forward to meet great people. There are tons of conferences; I’ve already cherry picked my favorites but it’s still a very busy schedule. I’ve also registered my profile [...]

The release of the iPhone SDK, a couple of weeks ago, has raised a lots of attention especially amongs developers, attracted by the quality of the platform as well as by the business model of the App Store. After having some discussion about mobile projects on Twitter, Heri from Montreal Tech Watch started the Mobile [...]

Blitzweekend just started tonite and I attented the kick-off party of this two days event, at the Sherbrooke University. The objective of Blitzweekend is simple but quite challenging: gather your team, build and launch a product in the time of a week-end. But Blitzweekend is more than a code challenge for geeks. Some of the [...]

I’m glad our presentation at DEMO today went fine. For those of you who haven’t seen it live, here is the video of the 6 stressful minutes. UPDATE (31-01-08): Nice. We just won the DEMOgod Award.

Xtranormal, the startup I work for in Montreal, is going to present our technology on-stage at the DEMO event, on Wednesday, Jan. 30th and at station 42 for those who can make it to the event. DEMO is a launchpad for emerging technology taking place in Palm Springs, California. Lots of startups are getting launched [...]

I’ll be attending my first BarCamp Montreal this saturday, november 3rd. The schedule is kind of heavy — 9AM to 8PM — but it looks fun. See you there!