Archive for: May, 2017

C2 Montreal – Commerce meets Creativity and truly anything BUT business as usual

C2 Montreal – Commerce meets Creativity and truly anything BUT business as usual. I was, once again, very honoured to speak at this year’s C2 Montreal conference. This was the sixth annual round for the Sid Lee founded, otherworldly Cirque du Soleil marketing extravaganza – a creativity-meets-commerce conference that is about as far from most run-of-the-mill…

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Forget dancing flowered garlands – Google Lens is AR with real utility

Forget dancing flowered garlands – Google Lens is AR with real utility. Right now AR (Augmented Reality) is having a moment, and it’s moving beyond rainbow vomit, puppy dog-ears and flowered garlands dancing around your head. Announced last week at Google’s I/O developer conference, Google’s new ‘Lens’ technology lets you employ the power of search utilizing…

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Toronto as a Technological Futurescape

Toronto as a Technological Futurescape. What a future-forward couple of weeks for Toronto. First, Uber says they are going to build a new lab for their autonomous vehicles program here. Then, Omers Ventures raises another $300 million fund, taking them over a billion dollars in funding for their startup ventures ecosystem. And, if those aren’t hot…

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Elon Musk TED Talks his way into a BORING Future

Elon Musk TED Talks his way into a BORING Future. And… that’s ‘boring’ as in drilling, not yawning people. I don’t know how he consistently does it, but good old Elon stole the recent TED 2017 event in Vancouver this year, yet again, even garnering more interest than the Pope’s TED Talk (if you can…

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Think Beyond Content 2017 Trend Report

2017 Trend Report Launch: Think Beyond Content. We officially launched our latest trend report – Think Beyond Content – out into the ether with a keynote at MagNet (North America’s largest gathering of magazine media stakeholders). Our newest report explores a cacophony of examples that showcase how brands are not only thinking of a world…

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