About Lean Startup Machine

Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use Customer Development and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service.

Bring your team, or come alone and new teams will form on Friday night.

Registration deadline 7/12

Speakers & Mentors

  • Alistair Croll
    Alistair Croll
    Solve For Interesting
    Author, entrepreneur, and analyst, Alistair has built new products in technology companies for over 20 years. He's had a few exits, a few mistakes, and a lot of fun along the way.
  • Mike Gozzo
    Mike Gozzo
    Appifier
    Mike Gozzo is an engineer and strategist who has worked for some of Montreal’s most innovative technology firms. His experience inspired Appifier, a platform that brings web publishers to life on mobile phones and tablets by creating native app experiences that bring visibility, discoverability and monetization to digital publishers.
  • Adam McNamara
    Adam McNamara
    Shopify
    Adam is the Director of Mobile Products at Shopify. He was a co-founder of Select Start Studios (acquired by Shopify).
  • Anastasia
    Anastasia
    Sandbox PM An Idea to Launch Company
    I’m an award-winning product strategist, CEO of a fabulous marketing and PR agency, speaker, published author and mother. I have spent over 20 years achieving amazing results in bringing ideas and products to market in the high-tech, music and retail industries.
  • Marc Gingras
    Marc Gingras
    Research In Motion (Tungle)
    Life student of Entrepreneurship: Tungle (RIM), Nimcat (Avaya), Gytek (Entrade), Innovatech Montreal (VC).
  • Jake Hirsch-Allen
    Jake Hirsch-Allen
    Multiplicity Accelerator
    By background a startup, intellectual property and international criminal lawyer, I currently consult on business development for a number of Montreal and Toronto-based tech startups and on government relations for Incentives for Global Health.
  • Sean Morrow
    Sean Morrow
    DigiCity.me
    Outgoing, hyper local, mobile dude with a passion for marketing, automation and good times. Keen sense of humor. Into my 2nd startup now.
  • Michael Nussbacher
    Michael Nussbacher
    Epilogger
    Michael is CEO and Co-Founder of Epilogger, a service that acts as the central hub for all activity around events. He brings experience from the Advertising industry, and is a serial entrepreneur and blogger. Michael is also one of the minds behind Mashable Social Media Day and Movember.
  • Nikolai Bratkovski
    Nikolai Bratkovski
    HealthAware
    Nikolai is an entrepreneur with a track record, expert in healthcare space and digital marketing, avid supporter of lean startup movement. He founded multiple successful ventures including HealthAware, SIMMS, CardioTrust, and MarketAware.
  • Ian Jeffrey
    Ian Jeffrey
    FounderFuel / Real Ventures
    Marketer and Entrepreneur. Launched businesses both in Montreal and San Francisco. Winner of multiple international awards. Foodie and Wine enthusiast. Father of two boys and Husband. Die hard HABS fans
  • Derek Jen
    Derek Jen
    Engagement Labs
    Derek has been involved with startups since 2006. Once an engineer but is now focused on business and marketing. He's occupied several lead project and operational roles and is currently the Senior Product Manager @engagementlabs. #entrepreneurship #startups and he's a big #foodie.
  • Jeremy Edberg
    Jeremy Edberg
    Ind.
    Jeremy was the first employee at reddit and an advisor for Year One Labs, a Montreal based startup incubator. He has expertise in scaling systems, businesses and communities.
  • Mikael Cho
    Mikael Cho
    ooomf
    Mikael is the founder of ooomf, a Montreal-based startup building the future of social app discovery. Prior to ooomf, he co-founded 2 startups and graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Psychology.
  • Olivier Gourment
    Olivier Gourment
    Agile Montréal
    Olivier has helped multiple startups grow to the next level, using Lean and Agile techniques. Frequent speaker and member of the board at Agile Montréal.
  • Steve LaChance
    Steve LaChance
    Live Rides
    Born entrepreneur. Creator of Live Rides. Passionate about the disruption of status-quo in old, dirty industries. He hates Big Oil.
  • Nicole Picard
    Nicole Picard
    Tailor Made Studio
    Nicole has been an entrepreneur for 10 years as a Fashion designer & Educator in the fashion & Language field. She has owned 2 different clothing companies, been a co-director /consultant for the non-profit ,The S.W.A.P team and a mentor to new aspiring business professionals in Fashion or Creative Industries.
  • Laurent Maisonnave
    Laurent Maisonnave
    Seevibes
    CEO of Seevibes — the leader in Social TV Ratings, which was selected in 2011 by FounderFuel as one of nine high-potential startups in Canada. After 14 years of experience in the tech and web industry in Europe, Middle East and North America, I like to build kick ass team and to lead ambitious project. I'm always focused on my goal: success!
  • Sergio Escobar
    Sergio Escobar
    Consultant
    Eight years of entrepreneurial experience in the strategic development of new business and products. Sergio has recently accomplished a business strategy mandate with a financial services company for establishing, from scratch to pre-commercialization, a new NFC payment and loyalty system using mobile phones.
  • Alain Wong
    Alain Wong
    Wajam
    Innovating in social search at Wajam and bus travel at Busbud. Previous startup adventures Standout Jobs and Akoha. Dance choreographer at Cat's Corner.

The Organizers

  • Trevor Owens
    Trevor Owens
    Lean Startup Machine
    Founder at Lean Startup Machine
  • Fran Rawlings
    Fran Rawlings
    MUJER
    Co-organizer of LSM Toronto. Avid cyclist. Manage small non-profit @MujerOrg. Interests include social enterprise and community development.
  • Jonathan Buccella
    Jonathan Buccella
    Biz Inc
    Co-founder of Biz Inc, Western University's first student incubator. My passion is helping young entrepreneurs grow their business. A start-up 'Jack-of-all-Trades'.
  • Carolyn Van
    Carolyn Van
    thirdocean
    Carolyn is a Founder and Partner of thirdocean where her role consists of leading business strategy and operations, client service management, project and execution management and internal development. Carolyn is known by her colleagues for her straight forward and direct communication style, high-level strategic thinking and planning, her love for clean organizational processes, getting down to the root cause/challenges and wiggling her way towards hard objectives.
  • Derek Jen
    Derek Jen
    Engagement Labs
    Derek has been involved with startups since 2006. Once an engineer but is now focused on business and marketing. He's occupied several lead project and operational roles and is currently the Senior Product Manager @engagementlabs. #entrepreneurship #startups and he's a big #foodie.
  • Rose Marie DeSousa
    Rose Marie DeSousa
    Stratégiste d’entreprise et formatrice
    Rose Marie DeSousa a une expérience internationale établie de plus de huit ans et possède de nombreux contacts dans plusieurs secteurs d’activités, auprès des PME où elle a occupé les postes de directrice des ventes et directrice de marketing. En plus d’avoir dirigé son entreprise dans le secteur de la cosmétologie pendant plus de huit ans, elle a acquis au cours des six dernières années une expérience considérable à titre de consultante et formatrice en milieu de travail et auprès des gestionnaires de PME.
  • Ranender Bhanot
    Ranender Bhanot
    Event Planner

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Our Awesome Partners

  • The Agile Community of Montreal, a non-profit organization, aims to promote and support the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience on Agile development software and its methods and practices (XP, Scrum, Agile modeling, etc..), allowing to produce and deliver solutions for greater business value, better by significantly increasing the satisfaction of those involved in this creation.
  • Montreal Girl Geeks is an offshoot of the worldwide Girl Geek Dinners, started by Sarah Blow. Our community makes tech (high and low), skills (soft and hard) and networking (contacts and friends) accessible to women of all age groups and backgrounds.
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  • Impact aims to foster a spirit of entrepreneurship among high school and university students. The view at Impact is that the entrepreneurship embodies something bigger than just starting a business–-a mindset towards life that can help achieve any dream.
  • The Socialight Conference is Canada's ultimate entrepreneur and leadership event that brings together over 1,000 small business owners, startups, community leaders and young professionals for a day of empowerment and inspiration from world renown innovators and speakers.

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