LinkedIn Local Toronto – "Content Experts who Rock the Creator Economy"
Wed 18 Oct 2023 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM EDT
OneEleven, M5V 2Y1
Description
About this Event
For creators and influencers, the creator economy means they can support themselves and grow their followings. For brands, you can partner with trusted creators—tapping into their highly engaged audiences and setting record sales numbers. Learning more about the creator economy (and its future) sets you up for lasting success.
You don't want to miss this event!
The 24th Toronto LinkedIn Local Meetup is doing just that as we invite you to our next event.
Date: Oct 18, 2023
Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: One Eleven (111) - 325 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2Y1, 4th floor
During this LinkedIn Local event, you will gain insights from workplace experts, senior business leaders and executive-level professionals from across the world who will share their insights on planning, reflecting and innovating to drive your business and career impact further, and more. We will arm you with ideas you can bring back to your own organization.
We will also have an Open Mic session for you to share your story, ask a question, and offer a tip.
This event is ideal for you if you’re:
🟢 An ambitious team member within your organization and are interested in taking the next steps to advance your career or business
🟣 Looking to build a valuable like minded network consisting of leaders from renowned organizations
🔵 A passionate advocate for better workplaces and are looking to access experts in the field to learn key insights from
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
EMILY LYONS: CEO of Femme Fatale Media Group, Founder Lyons Elite Matchmaking | Serial Entrepreneur, Investor, Podcast Host
ROBB GILBEAR: Founder @ Growth Habit | Author of Die Before They Do | Alcohol Free for 9+ Years | Ex-DJ + Music Producer
CASIE STEWART: Social & Marketing | Social Media Director | Podcast Host & Producer Cast of Creators | Lifestyle Blogger
BOBBY UMAR: CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand and the Thought Leadership Branding Club | 5x TEDx Speaker, Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker, Author of Best-Seller 'How to Network Anytime, Anywhere, with Anyone'
SWISH GOSWAMI: CEO & Co-Founder, Surf | Co-Founder of the #LinkedInLocal movement
YOU: At our Open Mic session - pitch your business, share an idea, ask a question, and share your story . You have 30 seconds.
Much of the evening is for networking, so make sure you get out there and talk with one another and build connections.
AGENDA
6:30pm: Registration and Networking - get warmed up again in-person!
7:00pm: Welcome by Bobby Umar (Host)
7:10pm: PANEL EVENT on "Content Experts Who Rock the Creator Economy": Emily Lyons, Robb Gilbear, Casie Stewart, Bobby Umar, Swish Goswami
8:10pm: OPEN MIC session - this is a chance for YOU to shine. Share a tip, introduce yourself, ask a question, tell us something you're grateful for. You have 30 seconds. First come, first serve!
8:30pm: Closing thoughts by Swish Goswami (Co-Host))
8:35pm: Group photo, then networking
9:00pm: Event ends, networking and exits
9:00pm+: After party? (TBC)
HASHTAGS: #LinkedInLocal #LinkedInLocalTO
ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS & HOSTS
Toronto LinkedIn Local Meetups were first hosted and organized in 2017 by Swish Goswami, Bobby Umar and DYPB. To date we have run 23 events for over 3,000 people. Topics have included Women Breaking Barriers, Diversity in the Senior Ranks, Transitioning Your Career or Business, Resilience, Gratitude/Reflection/Planning, Side Hustles, Burnout/Life-Balance, and many more.
Bobby Umar is an Inc. Magazine named Top 100 Leadership Speaker, a 5x TEDx speaker and one of the top influencers in the world, with over 650,000 followers. He has been named the 2nd best business coach to follow on Twitter and the 4th best leadership influencer according to Kred. Bobby is an international author of three books, including an Amazon #1 best-seller, and was named one of the Top 7 Networking gurus to follow. He currently is the CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand and the Founder of the Thought Leadership Branding Club.
Swish Goswami is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data.
Swish has given four TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. For his entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements, Swish was inducted into Plan Canada's Top 20 under 20 and Bay Street Bull’s 30 under 30, recognized as LinkedIn’s Top Voice and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.
DYPB is the only organization in the world that is dedicated to using our personal branding expertise to change the world. We achieve this through our signature training programs, high-profile events, helpful online resources and in-depth consulting. DYPB develops your employees’ individual strengths and values to serve your organizational mission and vision. The result? Leaders have more clarity and purpose. Teams are more collaborative and motivated. Organizations have greater retention, loyalty, productivity and growth. To learn more about DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand: https://www.dypb.ca/
This event is not sponsored, endorsed, or operated by LinkedIn. TY to our event space sponsor OneEleven.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Emily Lyons
Emily is the founder and CEO of North Americas top event staffing agency. With Emily at the helm, what started as a small agency has
exploded like firecrackers across the entertainment scene in Canada and The United States.
A long list of accolades has already made its home with Femme Fatale Media Group, including five consecutive Annual
Toronto Nightclub Awards and three Top Choice Awards. What’s more, Emily’s hustling has won over big names like Warner Bros., MAXIM, UFC,
Justin Bieber, Drake, Lamborghini, and so on. Named “Canada’s Top Agency” by Forbes.com
Robb Gilbear
Founder @ Growth Habit | Author of Die Before They Do | Alcohol Free for 9+ Years | Ex-DJ + Music Producer
Robb's
journey hasn't been your typical one. He started his first business as a
teenager, has done cubicle time in big multinationals, toured from
coast to coast as a DJ, and spent half a decade as a People &
Culture leader in award-winning tech companies before launching Growth
Habit.
Through it all, he's been driven by the desire to
understand what makes businesses thrive regardless of the market
conditions and what truly makes people more confident, creative, joyful,
and impactful.
He's the author of the best-selling book "Die Before They Do" and since 2019, has helped over 250 entrepreneurs in 13 countries grow their businesses and their impact.
Casie Stewart
Casie Stewart is an award-winning content creator and expert in digital media. Documenting her life since 2005 via her blog ‘This is My Life,’ she’s been at the forefront of brand storytelling through influencer marketing. Her blog covers travel, tech, and lifestyle, all with a bright, sunshiney attitude. Over the past 15 years, Casie has traveled around the world sharing stories on her blog and social channels while building a trusted following online and off. The primary audience for Casie Stewart online is Toronto based females in their early 30’s.
Casie started her social media career at MuchMusic & MTV Canada and has run social campaigns for many top tier brands. Her social entrepreneurship and dedication to social media won her 2016 Voice Pioneer at the Canadian Screen Awards by The Canadian Academy of Cinema & Television. She’s been awarded Best Travel Blog, Best Lifestyle Blog, and Top 100 Blogs in Canada among many accolades from mainstream media. In 2018, Casie was presented with an Alumni of Distinction Award from Conestoga College and nominated for the Ontario Premier’s Awards in Creative Art & Design.
Represented by the National Speakers Bureau of Canada, Casie has previously spoken at TEDx, SXSW, NXNE, CMW, YouTube Canada, and the United Nations Association of Canada. Casie works with Funday Agency as Social & Culture Manager and as a freelance digital & creative strategist with 1188 Films & Occupied VR.
Casie is a partner in Hvr, a new browser that’s social. Download Hvr for iOS or Android, and experience the web in a social way with your friends & followers. Hvr turns every site into a social space and as a website owner, is a great way to build community at the place you own! Learn more at hvr.world.
Bobby Umar
Bobby Umar is one of the most prolific heart-based leaders in North America. Inc. Magazine named him one of the Top 100 Leadership Speakers, named alongside such noteworthy giants as Richard Branson, Brene Brown, John Maxwell and Robin Sharma. Bobby is a 5x TEDx speaker and one of the top influencers in the world, with over 650,000 followers. He has been named the 2nd best business coach to follow on Twitter and the 4th best leadership influencer according to Kred. Bobby is an international author of two books, including an Amazon #1 best-seller, and is a Huffington Post contributor. He hosted a weekly tweetchat called “The Power of Connection” that reached over 65 million impressions weekly. To date, his social media influence has garnered over a billion impressions. Bobby was also named a “2015 Speaker to Watch” and one of the Top 7 Networking gurus to follow.
A social media influencer, who champions authentic connection and heart-based leadership, Bobby has appeared on dozens of podcasts, TV & radio shows. With a background in brand marketing (Kraft & Unilever), engineering (Bombardier) and the performing arts (Second City), Bobby has led Raeallan for almost a decade and is now a recognized thought leader in Networking, Social Media and Personal Branding. He founded DYPB via the Discover Your Personal Brand conference, the largest event in North America dedicated solely to personal branding, featuring 60 experts and over 300 delegates. DYPB now runs personal branding programs, events, courses and consulting to help leaders and organizations achieve greater alignment, focus and impact in the workplace. 300,000+ people from across the world have experienced Bobby’s high-energy keynotes, interactive teambuilding activities, and engaging workshops.
Bobby is also a fiercely proud and committed dad and is passionate about diversity, gender equality, entrepreneurship and youth. He has worked with thousands of professionals to become thought leaders in 2 ways – help professionals ramp up their careers or businesses with focus, clarity and mindset and help ‘lost leaders’ transition to find their authentic path of passion and purpose.
FOLLOW ON: LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube
Swish Goswami
Swish Goswami is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data. Swish has given three TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. Through his angel fund AGEX, Swish is an investor/advisor in popular social companies like FaZe Clan, Wombo, and Upstream. Swish has close to 140,000 followers on LinkedIn and he enjoys speaking around the world on topics like mental health, personal branding and entrepreneurship. For his achievements, Swish was recognized as LinkedIn’s Top Voice and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.
THANK YOU to our partners and sponsors
Sponsors: DYPB, Surf, OneEleven
Surf is a Toronto based tech company putting the power of personal data back into people’s hands. Surf’s browser extension lets users earn from the data they already share everyday. Surf recently crossed the 125,000 user mark. Surf has made two acquisitions, raised over $5M to date (from several NBA players and venture firms) and has customers like Sony Music, Netflix, NBA, Electronic Arts, and a plethora of small to medium sized businesses.
Partners: Raeallan, Thought Leadership Branding Club, Isempower
ABOUT DYPB (Host & Sponsor)
is the only organization in the world that is dedicated to using our personal branding expertise to change the world. We achieve this through our signature training programs, high-profile events, helpful online resources and in-depth consulting. DYPB develops your employees’ individual strengths and values to serve your organizational mission and vision.
The result?
Leaders have more clarity and purpose. Teams are more collaborative and motivated. Organizations have greater retention, loyalty, productivity and growth.
To learn more about DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand: https://www.dypb.ca/
Terms and conditions
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Refund Policy: Due to limited availability, DYPB cannot offer refunds once any paid tickets are purchased. If you cannot make the event due to unforeseen circumstances, you may transfer your ticket(s). If you have a free ticket, you can refund it to make space for someone else. Thank you.
Location
OneEleven, M5V 2Y1