Free Tickets to Elevate? You Got It.
Enter the Connected Caption Contest for a chance to win tickets to Elevate Tech Fest.
Love tech? Love product? Love Elevate Tech Fest? So do we!
That’s why here at Connected we’re giving away two tickets to Canada’s largest and most coveted tech conference of the year plus entry to our invite-only brand launch party the night of September 26. All you gotta do is share your favourite quote about product strategy and/or development. Wicked, right?
Contest Rules
- Share your favourite quote from a leading software product figure on Twitter or LinkedIn. For example, “Prototyping at work is giving form to an idea, allowing us to learn from it, evaluate it against others, and improve upon it.” — Tim Brown, CEO @ IDEO
- Tag Connected (Twitter: @connectedio) in the post with the hashtag #ElevateProduct (that’s the event we’re organizing on 9/26, check out our amazing roster of speakers here!)
- You can make up to four entries — two each on Twitter and LinkedIn
- The winner will be selected on Thurs 9/20 at 12PM
Let the quoting begin!
Why “Product”?
Software-powered products are one of the leading drivers of business growth today. Just look at the apps in your pocket, the speakers in your home, the devices you wear — and increasingly the cars we ride in.
Yet between rapidly changing technologies, high customer expectations, and the need to move fast, the development of successful software products remains an ongoing challenge. As an integrated product development firm, our mission at Connected is to help ambitious product builders make progress by taking a holistic approach to product. Because building great products is a team effort.
Why Elevate?
On the eve of our fourth birthday, Connected recently completed a huge rebrand and dropped the “Lab” from its name. It’s a huge milestone for us and we’re really excited to share it with the world. On top of that, we were recently announced by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers for the second year in a row. And just last week, we were selected by LinkedIn as one of the Top 25 Startups in Canada. So let’s just say the timing was perfect.
About Elevate Product
Our lineup of speakers is full of product innovators and leaders including Gibson Biddle, former VP of Product at Netflix; Satish Kanwar, VP & GM of Channels at Shopify; and Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of ProdPad and Mind the Product. You can see our full speaker lineup on Elevate’s website or see below for our schedule.
Elevate Product Schedule
9:30 | Welcome | Mike Stern, CEO @ Connected
9:40 | Fireside Chat | Catherine (Kit) Ulrich, Managing Director @ FirstMark Capital
10:15 | Keynote | Satish Kanwar, VP & GM of Channels @ Shopify
10:50 | Lightning Talk | Seema Lakhani, Head of Product @ Wattpad
11:00 | Lightning Talk |Speaker TBA
11:10 | Fireside Chat | Alan Klement, Principal @ Idealized Innovation
11:55 | Lunch
13:05 | Keynote | Gibson Biddle, Former VP of Product @ Netflix
13:55 | Keynote | Alan Klement, Principal @ Idealized Innovation
14:30 |Keynote | Janna Bastow, Co-Founder @ ProdPad
15:05 | Lightning Talk | Speaker TBA
15:15 | Lightning Talk | Sabarish Gnanamoorthy, Founder @ Waypoint AR
15:25 | Panel Discussion | Amar Varma, Co-Founder & COO @ Autonomic; Seema Lakhani; Janna Bastow; and Moderator Brian Crofts
16:00 | Ending Remarks
19:30 | Connected Brand Launch Party @ Ricarda’s Toronto featuring musical guests Dwayne Gretzky & Skratch Bastid
Any questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out at hello@connected.io
