Digital Okanagan turns two this June. We started off in 2010 as the organisation that threw 2nd Thursday socials and an occassional educational seminar. 2011 kicked off with our busiest event – the January 2nd Thursday social (over 200 people packed our Jan, Feb & March 2011 socials at Urban Distilleries, Hannahs and Streaming Cafe). [...]
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Digital Okanagan is a community of designers, developers & communicators who share passions for digital media, education, innovation & collaboration.
OKDG Spring Hath Sprung Roundup!
If you couldn’t make it out on April 24th to see Shawn Talbot and John vanderWoulde speak at the last OKDG night, you missed out on some spectacular passion-sharing, story-telling and awe-inspiring design and photography! But fear not, dear friends! While Shawn is gadabout-ing with his camera, you can check out the images he presented [...]
Continue Reading →World Fame for Startup Weekend Okanagan 2012
Coming into organizing an event like Startup Weekend, we can honestly say that, for the most part, we didn’t know what exactly to expect. Because of the vibrant tech community in the Okanagan (courtesy of initiatives like OKDG, Lean Coffee, and Accelerate Okanagan’s programming), we knew that there would be a good base of people who would be on [...]
Continue Reading →OKDG March (Beyond the) Madness
Wowee! What a night last Tuesday at OKDG. A great group of new attend-ers, mixed up with the OKDG hardcores, came out to hear a couple of speakers, drink a pint or cuppa, maybe have some dinner, and hang out. I was lucky enough to be one of the presenters, alongside Frithjof Petscheleit, and our [...]
Continue Reading →OKDG’s March Madness Event
Brilliant Speakers – March 27th 2012 If we were betting fellas we’d say that the odds are looking pretty good — OKDG is 3 for 3, with a meetup every month so far in 2012! We have two incredible speakers lined up for March 27th. Cynthia Gunsinger has adept “customer wrangling” magic and will entrance, [...]
Continue Reading →Okanagan Startup Weekend Wrap Up
This past Sunday at the Kelowna Art Gallery, amidst a passionate and emotional presentation and judging ceremony, the grand finale of Startup Weekend Okanagan took place. What started as the vision of a few Kelowna developers, became an event that will be long talked about in the Okanagan tech community. The first Startup Weekend Okanagan [...]
Continue Reading →Join us THIS SUNDAY for the Startup Weekend After Party.
Digital Okanagan, Accelerate Okanagan & BCIC invite you to Judgement Night – the wrap-up event for Startup Weekend Okanagan. Join event sponsors rt Strategy – Brand Transformation Agency and New Monaco Development Corp and Startup Weekend participants for a night of intrigue, innovation and excitement. Discover what ideas have been developed over the weekend, see [...]
Continue Reading →Startup Weekend – Key Links
Main Website: okanagan.startupweekend.org Judgement Night (Closing Presentations & Party): judgementnight.eventbrite.ca MicroMobs (for attendees only) : Micromobs Twitter Account: twitter.com/swokanagan Twitter Feed: #swokanagan Facebook: facebook.com/digitalokanagan
Continue Reading →User Sign-Up, Forums, Groups etc
A quick note to let visitors to the site know that we are currently playing around with and testing some additional backend functionality for the Digital Okanagan site using BuddyPress and BBPress. You might see a couple of odd things going on while we do so. Pls ignore them while we experiment
Startup Weekend: No Talk, All Action: Launch a Startup in 54 Hours
Startup Weekend hit the news today. The following article appeared on Castanet News. Thanks to the team over at Castanet for publishing this! From March 2nd to the 4th, 2012 Kelowna will host its first Startup Weekend at the Kelowna Innovation Centre. For those unfamiliar with the event, Startup Weekend is a weekend-long, hands-on experience [...]
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