Saturday June 20th 2009 |  8:30 am – 5:30 pm

555 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC (BCIT Downtown Campus)

$15 earlybird | $20 in advance | $25 at the door [1]

Vancouver ChangeCamp is a local event for people passionate about social impact.   It's a participatory web-enabled face-to-face event that brings together citizens, technologists, designers, academics, social entrepreneurs, policy wonks, political players, change-makers and government employees to answer these questions:

• How can we help government become more open and responsive?
• How do we as citizens organize to get better outcomes ourselves?

The event is a partly structured unconference. One track of the conference will introduce the kinds of projects that harness new ideas and tools for social change. Other tracks at the conference will be participant-driven, with the agenda created collaboratively at the start of the event, allowing participants to share their experiences and expertise.

Take a look at sessions, who will be participating, and check out the June 10th screening of documentary UsNow.

Who?:

Changemakers! Including but not limited to:

• People making change at the ground level – community workers, non-profits/foundations, activists, advocates
• Decision-makers and government leaders
• Experienced technologists
  

What do you get for your money?

• Access to all sessions
• Free access to a webinar on unconferences and social media
• Unparalleled access to a large group of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in helping Vancouver prosper

What are the event goals?

1. Bring our diverse community closer together
2. Learn from and share experiences with decision makers
3. Bring together a fresh mix of creative people and experienced technologists
4. Facilitate access to information through new technology

Space is limited - sign up now to reserve your seat!

Event details

• When: Saturday, June 20th, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
• Where: BCIT Downtown Campus (Directions)
• Scattered Lunches: Saturday, June 20th at 12:30-2:00 pm: various reserved locations
• Webinar: Thursday, June 18th at 9:00am to get a leg up on the unconference.
• Size: 150+

Unconference

Bring your session ideas on June 20th, and you'll likely be able to claim one of our 14 unconference slots, left open until the day of the conference to allow participants more control over the content and direction of the event.

In addition, we're likely to talk about...

• Citizen participation
• Government planning and decision making
• Collaborative problem solving, consensus building and decision making
• Online polling and opinion harvesting
• Online dialogue, deliberation and debate
• Crowdsourcing of the policy making process
• Online petitions
• Modern activism
• Virtual townhall meetings
• Tech tools (commercial vs. open source)

Group discount fees

-Group ticket rate is $15 per person, with a minimum group size of 6 people
-This offer cannot be combined with any other offer
-Email elijahv@gmail.com to express your interest. Please include the names and email information (where possible) of the individuals in the group you would like to bring.

Win free entry by blogging about ChangeCamp!
Blog about ChangeCamp before June 15th, send us the URL (at vanchangecamp@gmail.com) and be entered into a draw for a free entry to the conference!

Low income free entry
If the $20 fee presents a real barrier to you, don't let it! Simply email our Event Coordinator Eli Van Der Giessen at elijahv@gmail.com to register for free.

Afterparty ChangeCamp will be followed by a dance party and fundraiser for SaveOurNet.ca. Tickets are $10, and ChangeCamp attendees get a free drink ticket. Buy tickets at: http://internetdanceparty.eventbrite.com/"

ChangeCamp is an interactive digital event, bring your:

• Laptop (free wireless)
• Digital Camera
• Video Camera

…as well as your energy and creativity!