Interet Day at McLuhan Festival: Free Admission October 2, 2005

A late-breaking special arrangement has been made with the McLuhan International Festival of the Future that will allow you, as a member of upcoming.org, to attend today's Internet Day programming events for free. If asked for a ticket or pass just say that geoperdis invited you.

There is a tentative plan to have a casual get-together after the presentations end at 5:30pm, so if you plan on attending the presentations come and say hello (I will be wearing a beige baseball cap and navy windshell) and join us for the social afterwards.

The idea is to bring together mediamakers of all stripes (photographers, bloggers, podcasters, writers, designers, musicians, film and videomakers, programmers, developers and others) who are interested or involved in the new media to discuss future events and activities in this city, including opportunities to showcase the exciting work and activity that is taking place in this town right now.

Program details below and at www.mcluhanfestival.com

Hope to see you there.

g

PS. You can RSVP below if you're coming or use this thread to share your comments, insights and questions about this spontaneous gathering experiment.

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Sunday, October 2, 2005
SAM SORBARA HALL, ST MICHAEL'S COLLEGE, 81 St. Mary Street Walk through to Sam Sorbara Hall, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Access also via Emsley Place, North off Marshall McLuhan Way (St. Joseph St., between Bay St. & Queen's Park Crescent)

9:00 AM to 10:30 AM PUSH ? THE eCOMMUNICATIONS ENGINE
Blair Hicken, Vice President Technology
Solutions, TGO Consulting
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM MSN SEARCH
Stephen Evans, Manager, Information Services &
Merchant Platform, MSN Canada


2:00 PM to 3:30 PM INTERNET CULTURE & COMMERCE
Paul Hoffert, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society,
Harvard Law School
Peter Bruck, Director, UN World Summit on
information Society -- UNAVAILABLE


4:00 PM to 5:30 PM END OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Hilton Mijovick, Chairman, Spiritas
Dave D?Silva, President, Spiritas

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6:00 PM to whenever

Social get-together for festival attendees and mediamakers of all stipes. Venue details will be announced at the end of the Information Overload presentation at 5:30 pm. Look for me, geoperdis, in grey glasses, beige baseball cap and navy windshell at a gathering point and contact.