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CUTC BlogYour Sneakpeek Inside CUTC HQCheck for updates from our organizers about all things technology and CUTC related. Live, From the Holiday Inn on King, it's CUTC 2005!!Thu Jan 20 2005, 6:26AM | by dinu.nesan That's right, keep your eyes right here, we'll be posting live blog updates from the conference!!! The first installment: It's 630am, I'm sitting at the registration desk. In just over an hour or so, this is going to be a whirlwind of activity, but right now most organizers are just trying to catch a few more minutes of sleep. Today we've got such a full line-up of events, it's craaaaaazy! 2 keynotes, 2 sets of seminars, the brand-new TechShow event. I'm telling you, here at CUTC we don't mess around. First day, full throttle baby! I've got some stuff to handle before I'll feel secure that I'm not going to metaphorically trip and fall on my face, but keep tuned here, I'm going to try and catch all the speakers I can and maybe I'll give some thoughts. Also, are you attending the conference? Take advantage of the wireless internet (kindly provided by Bell!) and blog your own thoughts about the conference. Then drop me a line at dinu.nesan AT cutc dot ca (you know how it works, boourns to spam), and we'll give you a shiny new link from right here at CUTC HQ! Attention CUTC Couch Potatos!Wed Jan 12 2005, 10:47AM | by dinu.nesan Hey CUTCers! Do you love nothing more than vegging in front of the TV? But do you wish that you could get a little taste of CUTC while you lounge? The solution is here for you today! Tune in at 5pm to CP24 to see your friendly CUTC media reps: Your PR Team Lead (yours truly, Dinu Nesan) and your Media Relations Office (Diana Low)! We'll be on their weekly tech show "HomePage", and I think we'll be going live, so let's all hope there are no wardrobe malfunctions (har har, I'm hilarious) or lip-synching incidents (this is comedic gold here people). Anyways, tune in (and tape us too!) to see us and hear about what great stuff is going on, not that you don't already know :) Happy New Year!Sat Jan 08 2005, 11:21AM | by dinu.nesan Ok, so it's a bit late for good tidings for the new annum, but hey, cut me some slack :). Things are picking up here at CUTC HQ as we march closer and closer to gameday. Did you know that CUTC was on Slashdot? As always with /. pages, set your comments filter to 0 to avoid the trolls, then read the nice things people have to say about us. That's the stuff that gets me up in the morning. We're proud to note that we confirmed our final keynote, Hisham and the rest of the team were working with Bell for the last little while to get just the right person for CUTC. So go, go read about the wonders of Eugene Roman, you'll see and hear him live in just a couple of weeks. Anyways, I'll try and keep you all up to date on things, the PR Team just finished sending the conference guide to the printers, so when you sit down and look at all the pretty layout and scintillating text, think of us. As always, an interesting read for you: Gizmodo & Gates. I don't know about you, but I always think of Bill Gates as some kind of otherworldly figure, sitting up on top of some mountain made of money, inaccessible to the everyman. Then I read things like this, where he just decides to sit down with a web journalist and talk shop. The geek part of me wishes that he'd find out about CUTC and drop us a line. Seriously Mr. Gates, the email's dinu.nesan@cutc.ca, I would definitely love to swim in your money bin! Until next time CUTC-ers! Interesting ReadThu Dec 16 2004, 8:07AM | by dinu.nesan So we were all really excited here at Camp CUTC when Joel Spolsky confirmed to attend the conference. I mean, wow, when we started out on this whole adventure that is creating an actual conference way back in May, it all seemed so abstract. I mean for me at least, this being my first year as an organizer who's actually doing stuff, and trying to lead a team as well, it was sort of like "yes, build a conference... let's do that". Suffice it to say it was a bit overwhelming at the time. But now, with things just around the and everything coming together, it's totally amazing. And then we go out and land such great speakers like this. It just blows me away how much a group of students can do with nothing more than passion and enthusiasm (and a frightening amount of emails, thanks Gmail for organizing my life!). Anyways, it's finals time here at UWaterloo, so we're all balancing our academic lives against our CUTC lives, myself included. So while I study for population biology, here's Joel Spolsky's take on pricing software. My favorite quote: "Humps mean local maxima! Or camels. But here they mean local maxima!". I totally geek out when math is used in everyday life, I think it's the frustrated mathematician inside this poor scientist (or is it a mathmagician? watch me make this remainder disappear!). Keep watching for more great CUTC updates! 10 Reasons To Attend CUTC!Wed Dec 15 2004, 1:01PM | by dinu.nesan #10. If you want to take a break from school/coop and enjoy catered #9. If you want to party with the best and brightest students from of all over Canada. Our wacky ice breakers, friday night outing in Toronto, Professional Lunches with industry Leaders and semi-formal banquet are the places to be!! #8. If you're into software, then you'll want to see Joel Spolsky, Allan Vermeulen (CTO of Amazon), Alan Ganek (VP of Autonomic Computing at IBM) and more… #7. If you're biotech and/or physics-inclined, then we have Lee Smolin from the Perimeter Institute, Tom Regier from Canada's newly built Synchrotron, and Steve Scherer from the Chromosome 7 Project. #6. If you're interested in mechatronics, then you don't want to miss all the above plus our speakers on MEMs and Nanotech. #5. If you're about saving-the-world and green Engineering, then you'll love the environmental speakers, our 'let's solve Canada's problems' ThinkTank event, and our TechPanel on outsourcing! #4. If you want to expand your contact base and #3. If you want to develop your career skills, then you'll definitely want to participate in our Career expo and go on the tech tours - you may even find yourself a mentor! #2. Steve Cutler is hosting our brand new Jay Leno-style TechShow and finally…….. #1. Any of the above reasons apply to you, and you own a shirt that FAQ - For DelegatesSun Dec 12 2004, 12:23PM | by dinu.nesan Here are a series of questions and answers that you might be having about CUTC and what to do. The answers all found elsewhere on the website, but we thought it would be nice to summarize them all for you here. The CUTC blog, it's all about making your life easier! Do you have a question that isn't answered here? Email me at dinu.nesan@cutc.ca, and I'll get you the info you need. When/where is the conference? CUTC 2005 is taking place January 20 - 22, 2005 at the Holiday Inn on King in the heart of Downtown Toronto.
Hotel Room Information
The early-bird registration price is $99 CDN, if you pay before Monday, December 20, 2004.
The registration fee gives you access to all the events of conference – Seminars, TechShow, TechPanels, Keynotes, TechTours, TechExpo, ThinkTank, CareerExpo, the Banquet and Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner where identified on the schedule. Unfortunately, the registration fee does not cover accommodation for the conference duration.
In order to register for the conference, you have to fill our online Registration Form. The process is broken down into 5 steps as you will see.
You can check to see your eligibility for a subsidy at the Main Registration Page.
CUTC 2005 will be held at the Holiday Inn on King.
CUTC 2005 will be held at the Holiday Inn on King.
Spreading The WordSat Dec 04 2004, 11:27AM | by dinu.nesan Hey CUTC delegates, I thought I'd drop in on the blog and reintroduce myself. I'm Dinu, the PR Team Lead, and a fourth year bio major here at UW. I just spent the last hour or so going over letters to media contacts, and the more I spend going over the stuff we have to offer this year, the more hyped up I get about spreading the CUTC word. I also spent the last couple of days manning CUTC booths here on the UW campus, and let me tell you, it wasn't a hard job to get delegates. I mean, as soon as people see the speaker lineup (way to go AIR Team!) and the events (Go Special Events!), they automatically start getting interested. Make sure you watch this space in the next few days, more and more content is going to be coming up, so keep your eyes here! Seeing as I spent time that I should have been studying watching the Amazon movies that Hisham posted (thanks a lot for helping me procrastinate!), I thought I'd add this article. As the rare scientist on the CUTC team, I thought it should be science-related. So here you go: 100 (Scientific) Things to Do Before You Die. Amazon Short Videos -- Pretty SmartThu Dec 02 2004, 9:12PM | by hisham.al-shurafa So I (Hisham -- Co-Chair) just confirmed Amazon.com as Friends sponsors for CUTC and we have some cool prizes from them to giveaway in the conference. For some reason, this reminded me of Amazon's neat short movies at Amazon Theater. Now that's creative marketing! To make a movie and tell customers they can buy almost any item shown in the movie at Amazon.com is a new idea. I wonder how much addtional sales it got them. My favorite so far is "Do Geese See God". "Tooth Fairy" is not bad, if you look closely, Jeff Bezos is the security guard! Hisham Funny Stuff Until It Happens To YouThu Nov 11 2004, 3:12AM | by cutc On a lighter note: Also take a look in the comments for the tech-related fixes that have since been implemented. Here at CUTC we both love to laugh and love to learn! The CUTC Blog: Your Sneakpeek Inside CUTC HQThu Nov 11 2004, 2:49AM | by cutc Hello CUTC enthusiasts! Big things are happening here at CUTC HQ, most importantly: Registration is live! We've also got some exciting speakers lined up and some more confirmed sponsors too (watch the News for details). You can also start watching this space more and more, not just for conference news and updates. But also to get a little bit of a feel for the people behind the event! That way you can come up to us and say, "hey, great job, and what a great blog too!". That kind of stuff makes us happy. So keep checking the CUTC blog, and sign up for CUTC 2005 now! |
