BIL is Saturday and Sunday, the 22nd and 23rd of March at the 560 Event Space. There is a pre-party Friday night and a bigger party Saturday night. Details about those two events will be announced shortly.
The times for the conference portion of the event are 8AM to 6PM both Saturday and Sunday. The talks start at 10AM, but setup and installation of art & exhibits begins at 8AM.
The cost of this event is whatever donation you can afford, be it $5 or $2,000. If you’re not sure if this event is for you or not, show up and check it out. If you like what you see, then help support it.
More details can be found via the links below. If you’re interested in volunteering and solving problems, check out the wiki. We can always use a few more hands (and heads).
Photos
- John Biehler — BIL session photo (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
- Ryan Plesko — 73 photos of the BIL-week Amanda Palmer ninja gig at the Vogue Theatre, March 19-20 (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0; the concert, not the conference floor)
Speakers
Alex Chuang
Managing Director, Launch Academy
Amanda Palmer
Musician
Anne Marie Fontainha
Clinical Hypnotherapist, Beyond Words Hypnotherapy
Ariel Garten
Co-founder and CEO, InteraXon
Boris Kerjner
Brittany Whitmore
Director of Communications, Procurify.com
Caroline Smalley
Chenoa Johnston
Tantra coach, yoga therapist and energy healer
Chris Heuer
Founder, Social Media Club; founder, Alynd
Clinton Mielke
Cyan Banister
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Zivity; angel investor
Dave Biggs
David Joel Hiebert
Author, Gratefully Going GREEN
Elias Arjan
Wellness expert and social entrepreneur
Eric Brooke
Technology and organizational leader
Jane Thomas
Consultant and social anthropologist
Jason Webley
Musician
Jim Harris
Author of Blindsided!; speaker on disruptive innovation
Joel Solomon
Chairman, Renewal Funds
John Biehler
John Dreyzehner
BitPay (West Coast Operations)
Jonathan Tippett
Co-founder, eatART; creator of Prosthesis, The Anti-Robot
Karen Magill
Leanne Fogarty
Elephant Welfare Promoter
Lisa Love
Founder, Tree Our World
Liz McDowell
Co-Founder and Executive Director, CRED BC
Lorraine Murphy
Founder, raincoaster media
Malcolm van Delst
Web developer and writer
Marina Adshade
Mark E. Sackett
Designer/Director/Producer; owner of 13 creative businesses
Mary Gavan
Michael Laine
LiftPort Group
Neil Gaiman
Author
Ricky Shetty
Ryan Nussbacher
Co-Founder, OOCO Design
Steve Dotto
Host, Dotto Tech
Tammy Lea Meyer
Co-chair, CCEC Credit Union; project lead, MyVoice
Tzeporah Berman
Environmental campaigner (co-founder, ForestEthics and Po...
William R. Ayling
Talks
- Alex Chuang — Alex Chuang
- Anonymous and the Tools of Revolution — Lorraine Murphy
- Ariel Garten — Ariel Garten
- BIL Conference - Ricky Shetty — Ricky Shetty
- Building 'the biggest thing... ever!' — Michael Laine
- Caroline Smalley — Caroline Smalley
- Change Your Mind – Change Your Life. — Anne Marie Fontainha
- Citizen science to unlimit our lifespans — Clinton Mielke
- Committing to Mutual Success in a Connected Society — Chris Heuer
- Cyan Banister — Cyan Banister
- Evolution of the Human Being, Exciting Spiritual Things to Come — Chenoa Johnston
- Feeding Ourselves and the World - Climate Change and Why the Global Tipping Point is NOW. — Lisa Love
- Fuelling BC's Economy: where does our wealth come from? — Liz McDowell
- Gratefully Going GREEN (a children’s book that gets to the heart of “going green”) — David Joel Hiebert
- How 3D Printing Changed My Life & How It's Already Changing Yours — John Biehler
- How Bitcoin will Benefit Humanity — John Dreyzehner
- Human Factors: Industrial Design for Start-ups — Ryan Nussbacher
- Joel Solomon — Joel Solomon
- Jonathan Tippett — Jonathan Tippett
- July Tale — Neil Gaiman ▶ video
- Learn to Kick Ass on YouTube — Steve Dotto
- Library Challenge, Kashmir — Jane Thomas
- Low Self-Esteem Reading Room — Malcolm van Delst
- MS is A Gift — Karen Magill
- My Voice Matters — Tammy Lea Meyer
- Organisations 3.0 beta — Eric Brooke
- Spontaneity: Hacking the Social Matrix — Boris Kerjner
- Storytelling - why Bother — Mary Gavan
- Sustainable relationships and how creative collaboration cannot happen without them — Mark E. Sackett
- The (Real) Economics of Sex — Marina Adshade
- The Enterprise Revolution — Brittany Whitmore
- The Last Elephants in Thailand — Leanne Fogarty
- The Most Common Myth about Meditation - All Meditation Practices Are the Same and Produce The Same Results. — William R. Ayling
- The Problem of Consciousness — Elias Arjan
- This Crazy Time: People, Pipelines and Politics — Tzeporah Berman
- Thriving in the Era of Disruptive Innovation — Jim Harris
- Transforming Community Planning Using Online Public Engagement Tools — Dave Biggs
- Ukulele — Amanda Palmer ▶ video
- Why I write horror for children — Neil Gaiman ▶ video
- Why? — Jason Webley ▶ video
Organizers
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Michael Cummings Co-organizer
- Cody Marx Bailey Co-organizer
- Brad Shende Local Connector
- Ryan Plesko Logistics