{"id":5622,"date":"2016-09-19T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukgcucco0.web01.sundaramdesign.com\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:08:00","slug":"canada-oh-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/canada-oh-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada oh Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

October is rapidly approaching and with it comes GCUC Canada! There are so many great things about our Montreal Conference that we wanted to share so we went straight to the source, Executive Producer, <\/span>Ashley Proctor<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a self-proclaimed \u201ccoworking conference enthusiast\u201d Proctor has attended every American GCUC conference since 2013 and found something lacking. At the U.S. conferences she was only one of two or three attendees representing all of Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like we had a lot to share\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And through a friendship with founder Liz Elam, GCUC Canada was born. After a great first year in Toronto, the obvious next choice was Montreal and it’s sure to dazzle. You won’t want to miss out. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a whole day of traditional conference on Day One with speakers and panels. Day Two is our \u2018Unconference\u2019 so for people that are unfamiliar, that\u2019s a participatory event. That tends to be the highlight most people are excited about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Within the two conference days there are numerous panels and speakers covering a wide array of industry exclusive, can\u2019t miss topics.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the interesting panels we have is \u2018Coworking Coast to Coast\u2019 so we are actually checking in with people from all provinces. We\u2019re going to see the differences between provinces in coworking right across Canada which is pretty interesting. <\/span>Tony Bacigalupo<\/span><\/a> is doing a presentation on \u2018Authentic Coworking\u2019, to hear about that in the face of a lot of corporate or commercial coworking is really exciting for me. There\u2019s also a lot of local representation, maybe 4 or 5 Montreal based speakers, so it\u2019ll be pretty relevant to the area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then on Day Three we do tours throughout Montreal. We tour coworking spaces, accelerators, incubators, artists studios, any sort of community group that\u2019s working on a really interesting collaborative project or work space. Sometimes it\u2019s traditional offices that have been done really well in terms of design and then we also hit a few different local attractions or interesting points of reference in the city so people have a chance to explore Montreal as a city while they\u2019re exploring some of the coworking spaces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve attended a U.S. conference don\u2019t assume you\u2019re done for the year, GCUC Canada has a lot to offer that wouldn\u2019t be generally be on the GCUC USA schedule. Each GCUC takes on local flare and personality. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe main difference in terms of theme or perspective between the conference is that the Canadian conference tends to have a more European slant. We tend to be more aligned with values and topics and we are known as the \u2018community conference\u2019. We talk a lot about community building, relationships, interactions between members and spaces and collaborations. Where as, I would say the U.S. conference tends to be a bit more focused on growth and commercial real estate, we will see a lot of independent entrepreneurs and collaborations happening within coworking in Canada.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the panels and speakers there will be a big shabang – the GCUC Canada Party! <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOn the 6th we\u2019re having a party in the evening at a place called <\/span>Crew Collective<\/span><\/a> and it is a former bank and it is GORGEOUS. It has absolutely incredible architecture – huge arched ceilings and marble and it\u2019s just incredible! They have the most interesting spaces in Montreal – one is in a church, one is in a bank, they have really beautiful, old, European style buildings in Montreal. And all the spaces are completely unique, one is actually in a historical house, transformed into an incubator and event space. So the tour locations and event \u00a0locations are just exciting to be there. It\u2019s going to be a really fun week.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If you haven’t already purchased your ticket, you better get on it. GCUC Canada kicks off October 5th and goes through the 7th. We can’t wait to see you there!<\/span><\/p>\n

P.S. You can use the code GCUCmagic <\/span>here <\/span><\/a>for a special discount <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October is rapidly approaching and with it comes GCUC Canada! There are so many great things about our Montreal Conference that we wanted to share so we went straight to the source, Executive Producer, Ashley Proctor. As a self-proclaimed \u201ccoworking conference enthusiast\u201d Proctor has attended every American GCUC conference since 2013 and found something lacking. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[15,14,81,82],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gcuclegacysite.wpengine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}