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 October 12

Speakers & Mentors

  • A. Traviss Corry
    A. Traviss Corry
    INcubes
    [IN]ternet Biz Developer, Director @incubes INcubator, Entrepreneur, Serial Co-Founder, Mentor, Marathoner, Data Architect http://thePlantEncyclopedia.org
  • Jason Little
    Jason Little
    Lean Intuit
    Jason is an Agile Coach and won LSM Toronto in January. He founded he Silicon Halton Agile Community and is delivering Lean Startup workshops for the local community and the University of Wateroo.
  • Adam Sadowski
    Adam Sadowski
    Adam has worked as a project manager, product manager and executive in Toronto's startup technology scene for over 15 years. He currently coaches professionals on improving productivity and lifestyle through technology.
  • Todd Charron
    Todd Charron
    Planning For Failure
    Todd Charron is an Agile Coach and Consultant in Toronto helping companies build collaborative work places that deliver real business value.
  • David Tran
    David Tran
    Skillcademy
    Founder & Chief Hustler
  • Travis McCutcheon
    Travis McCutcheon
    Student of the startup. Helping take ideas to market. Improving existing solutions. Designing innovative strategies for product development.
  • Tamar-Melissa Huggins
    Tamar-Melissa Huggins
    Driven Accelerator Group
    Tamar-Melissa is the founder of Toronto's first female and minority focused start-up accelerator, DRIVEN. She brings years of digital strategy and marketing communications to her groundbreaking social enterprise.
  • Jason Cheong-Kee-You
    Jason Cheong-Kee-You
    Might Jupiter
  • Jacqueline Nuwame
    Jacqueline Nuwame
    CFC Media Labs
    Mentor at JOLT Accelerator & Sr Training Programs Manager at CFC
  • Satish Kanwar
    Satish Kanwar
    Jet Cooper
    Satish is the Co-Founder of Jet Cooper, a user experience agency for web, mobile and tablet applications. He is the Co-Organizer of Lean Coffee Toronto. He tweets on lean startups, interesting reads, and good coffee.
  • 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.
  • Shawn Button
    Shawn Button
    LeanIntuit
    Shawn is an Agile coach and developer, currently working in an Enterprise Agile transformation. He believes that the Lean Startup methodology can be applied widely outside of just startups. He passionately believes that Agile and Lean thinking has the potential to revolutionize the world, and that Lean Startup adds hugely to this tool set.
  • Alyssa Richard
    Alyssa Richard
    RateHub Inc.
    Fun-loving, unapologetic geek passionate about people and ideas. Intellectually curious. Energetic (highly). Interminable believer in the good in everyone.
  • Ariel Remer
    Ariel Remer
    www.trifunk.com
    Ariel is an entrepreneur who loves the internet (and scotch and mustaches).
  • Jake Hirsch-Allen
    Jake Hirsch-Allen
    Functional Imperative
    startup, intellectual property and international criminal lawyer - director business development @func_i and @oodatech and senior project manager @HealthImpact - diplo-brat and photographer
  • Amit Saxena
    Amit Saxena
    slamit.ca
    Part engineer, part developer, part startup scientist, Amit is solution-focused, utilizing the right technology for the problem rather than simply trying to solve problems with technology.
  • Yoseph West
    Yoseph West
    Wave Accounting
    In the last year and a half, Yoseph founded a startup (Vuru), went through a top tier accelerator (FounderFuel), and scaled that same startup until it was acquired by Wave Accounting this past summer.
  • karim kanji
    karim kanji
    thirdocean
    Karim Kanji is a digital sociologist who connects people and brands across various digital and social platforms.
  • Michael Frankel
    Michael Frankel
    Wave Accounting
    VC at the MaRs Investment Accelerator Fund turned Product Manager at Wave Accounting.
  • Tim Ryan
    Tim Ryan
    Vestiigo.com
    Founder @ CEO Vestiigo.com
  • Jedidiah Liu
    Jedidiah Liu
    Munkbean
    still in the trenches of startup world
  • DANIEL BRODY
    DANIEL BRODY
    IHORSE TECHNOLOGIES
    Over 20 years in the industry, Daniel is an accomplished business builder with extensive success as in diverse industries and history of successful product launches.
  • Theresa Laurico
    Theresa Laurico
    Socialight
    Love & Light @ The World & Mr. Big

The Organizers

  • Joy Williams
    Joy Williams
    GospelFit
    Calmly working with a sense of urgency. In a #LeanStartup World. #WorkingHard #WorkingSmart.
  • Jonathan Buccella
    Jonathan Buccella
    Partner Relations @verelo , Co-Founder of @bizinclondon & all round start-up enthusiast. Always looking for new start-ups and finding ways to help them grow.
  • Eric Floresca
    Eric Floresca
    Taking what comes and finding my fearlessness on the road to becoming the best me while finding my writer's voice and appreciating the joy of each passing day
  • Fran Rawlings
    Fran Rawlings
    MUJER
    My reflexes have an 85% success rate of saving me from calamities. Im an avid cyclist. I'm currently managing a small non-profit and I'm working towards building social enterprise models.
  • Bhami Ilyas
    Bhami Ilyas
    RWDI
    Bhami has over 5 years of consulting experience in engineering and technology with one of Canada's Best 50 managed companies. His consulting projects includes world's tallest building- Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Masdar City (Carbon neutral- zero waste) - Abu Dhabi and One Word Trade Center in NY. Social projects with high impact metrics is his love and interest. And in between he takes out to Cycling and Hiking.

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  • Toronto's developer community for all of Toronto's developers. #DevTO, a place for all, regardless of age, experience or sex to gather and collaborate on the problems we face while developing applications. You may not be a developer, but even if you have written a bit of HTML you should come out.
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  • We are a mentorship driven start-up accelerator designed to provide training, support and resources to under-represented minorities in digital technology.
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