This year’s event will be a little different. We will be offering prizes to attendees. I don’t think we have ever offered our attendees anything, except clothes pins. We have always been generous with our clothes pins. This year we will be offering four lucky people the chance to each win one of four prizes: [...]
After months of behind the scenes planning we can finally make some announcements about this year’s Interesting Vancouver. First off, we are very fortunate to have the Museum of Vancouver as our event and venue partner this year. Therefore, we will be moving the event from the Rowing Club in Stanley Park to MOV in [...]
Amanda Fenton has found her place in this world connecting people with ideas and hosting conversations that matter. She’s a facilitator and host who believes that the wisdom we need to change our world is right here in the room. Something powerful happens when a conversation container is created and a diverse group of people who [...]
Twenty radiation sessions. Eight surgeries. Six rods, 15 screws and a whole bunch of other things holding his back together. You know what’s priceless? Your life. Steve Ewan found that out after going head-to-head with cancer, two operations to rebuild his back, another six to whisk away infection and a six months in hospital. Born [...]
Before his short career in international drug trafficking terminated with a 10 month stint in an American federal prison, Chris Neary was a convincing figure in the advertising world in the UK and Canada. Chris cut his teeth in London at Omnicom owned AGENCY.COM where he trained as a Creative Director on brands like Intel, FOX [...]
Dave Shea is a beer aficionado and beer correspondent for foodists.ca. He’s the kind of guy who knows what’s pouring at the local pubs before the servers do, and will happily max out his duty exemptions to bring back boxes of stuff we can’t find in Canada. He can tell you how to fill a suitcase [...]
Aviator, Motion Picture Costume Designer, Theatre Producer, Mother - Glenne subscribes to making every day interesting. Aviation in the last century allowed a freedom for the travellor, unheard of today. With the mindset of the group of aviators for whom simply flying in an aircraft was not enough, Glenne joined the adventurers who had to build [...]
Todd Sieling was born, raised in and fled Ontario for Vancouver where he now lives. In the software industry for some 15 years, he’s spent the past 8 as an experience designer for digital technologies, working independently under Corvus Consulting and in a new partnership, Denim & Steel Interactive. More recently he launched Menuito, web [...]
Johnathon Vaughn Strebly brings a diverse range of experience and knowledge from the disciplines of photography, design and education. As head of the Electronic Media Design, Digital Media, and Communication Arts Programs at Langara College, Johnathon is deeply involved in the rich visual media available today. As principal and creative director of his own studio, [...]
Stephen Abbott is a brand strategist—a type of corporate storyteller. Working with organizations all over the world, from start-ups to international charities, he helps bridge their business strategy with the creative opportunity, bringing the story of the brand to life throughout the organization. Stephen is also a dad. And if you ask him, he’ll say [...]