Montréal NEWTECH

I’d like to thank you all for coming to the first Montreal NewTech meetup tonight at Station-C. For those of you who missed it, I’ll be posting the demos soon.

We had three great demos tonight, and hopefully we’ll continue to showcase other cool Montreal startups every month. Our next meetup will be either on Nov 4th or 11th. I’ll update the group page when we know for sure. For now, there are a few things you could do to contribute to the Montreal tech community:

• Participate! There are several other networking events in Montreal. Start going to some of them and get involved in the community.
• Tell people what you’re working on. If you’d like to demo your product/startup at the next NewTech, please email me at demo@mtlnewtech.com.
• If you’re a blogger, photographer, video blogger, write about the startups who demo as well as other interesting people you meet in these events.

Here’s the line up for next week’s meetup:

Brownbook.net - the business directory that anyone can edit. (Presented by Basil Berntsen)

Tungle - free web-based scheduling service that makes it easy to coordinate meetings with other professionals no matter where they are or what time management software or groupware application they use. (Presented by Jacou Sarrazin)

XtraNormal - It’s an easy & automated movie-making webapp. Without any skills in 3D or movie direction, users can create their own movies from our template library using only text as the input. Everything is generated automatically. (Official launch is tomorrow - Oct 6th)

Special thanks to Station-C for providing the space and supporting the Montreal Tech community and YowTRIP (aka me) for the refreshments.

Station-C - first coworking space in Montreal.

YowTRIP - Social network for travelers.

See you all on Tuesday!

Yesterday we had our first Montreal NewTech meetup at Brutopia. It wasn’t an official meetup and we had no demos, but it was a great time with some Montreal tech enthusiasts. We had about 10 people talking about technology and projects they’re working on.

On a personal level, it was great for me to meet some people on my second day in Montreal. So, if you couldn’t make it yesterday, there’s still lot of opportunities to get involved in the Montreal Tech community!

There are a lot of different events happening weekly. I’ll post them here under the “More Events in Montreal” section. Some other sources for what’s happening in Montreal are: Montreal Tech Watch and TechVibes.

Here are a few events happening next week (if you know of others, please share them):

• BitNorth Conference - Sept 5-7
• Montreal Video 2.0 - Sept 8
• Montreal Entrepreneur Breakfast - Sept 9

And there’s always something else going on… Every single week, so come join the Montreal Tech community. Share what you’re working on, see what others are doing, get involved!

We’re now looking for people who would like to demo their startup/project in our October NewTech meetup. So, if you’re looking to get feedback, alpha/beta users, partners, investment… That’s a great opportunity for us all to help each others out. Send me an email at: demo@mtlnewtech.com

You show your web app for 5 minutes, followed by 5 minutes Q&A.

Hi all, I’m in here in Colorado in final preparations to come to Montreal on Monday. I would like to remind you about our first meetup on Tuesday (Sept 2nd). There will be no demos at this meetup. Just an informal get together at Brutopia for some good beer and talk startups.

So, if you still have some room for more beer after Startup Drinks tonight, I would love to meet you all next week.

If you do plan on attending it and have a Meetup.com account, please RSVP here. (If you decide last minute, no worries, just come by on Tuesday and look for us)

I’m going to bring my camera and maybe we can take some video of some of us introducing ourselves to the community: what we’re working on, what we’re looking for… anything. Then I can share it in here for others to see… So, prepare your pitch if you’d like to share anything.

Hope to meet you all next week. I’ll be wearing a red Meetup.com shirt

PS: You can also join our Facebook group and/or our LinkedIn group!

We just created a Montreal NewTech Facebook group, so if you’re a Facebook user, please join us there and invite your friends/colleagues too.

We have also added some other tech/entrepreneur events happening in Montreal in the next weeks on the left. If you’re hosting an event or know about another one, please let us know.

There are a lot of interesting events happening every week in Montreal and you should join this active tech community. A couple of other resources for finding events and more Montreal tech info are: TechVibes and Montreal Tech Watch.

Also, be sure to check out some of the Montreal bloggers on the right.