Archived presentation, Tobias Lütke, Jaded Pixel

Archived presentation, Michael Weiss, Carleton University

This is the second in the eBusiness cluster series of events dedicated to Ottawa area Start-ups. This event will focus on the supply side of commercialization or “how to build a better mouse trap”. For this event we have drawn on the experiences of Tobi Lutke chief technology instigator at Jadedpixel and Michael Weiss professor at Carleton University.  Both presenters offer unique start-up perspectives from the Academic to world class implementation. Please join us for insights into excellence and how to build a better mouse trap.

Date:	Wednesday October 17, 2007
Time:	6:00 p.m. –  9:00 p.m.
Location:	bitHeads, 1309 Carling Ave. (East side of Westgate Mall)
Cost:	FREE of charge -  please rsvp to kdaize@ocri.ca complimentary snacks and beverages are also provided.

Speaker Bios

Tobias Lütke, Jaded Pixel
Tobias Lütke or Tobi (born 1980 in Koblenz) is a Germany programmer and creator of the popular Shopify e-commerce platform and Typo weblog engine. He also co-founded jadedPixel, a technology company in Ottawa, Canada where he now lives.
Tobi has been part of the Ruby on Rails core team since its interception in 2005 and has released a series of popular open source projects such as "Liquid template engine" and "ActiveMerchant", two core technologies of the Shopify project and smaller gems like Paypal-lib, login_generator and Hieraki.

Michael Weiss, Carleton University
Michael Weiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, and is a member of the Technology Innovation Management program. His areas of research include open source ecosystems, Web 2.0 and web services, social network analysis, and product architecture and design. Michael has published widely, most recently on the evolution of open source communities, web services, and licensing of open services. Prior to joining Carleton he was working with Mitel on a next generation service creation environment.