EVENT OVERVIEW

We look forward to seeing you at FITC Toronto, a professional celebration of the best the world has to offer for design, digital development, media, and innovation in creative technologies – three very full days that unite and transform the industry.

Turning Your Side Hustle Into Your Main Squeeze

Chris Do, The Futur

Join Chris Do, CEO, and founder of The Futur, in a conversation with Justin Cone, Director of Communications Strategy at BUCK, as they discuss what it takes to make it as a creative professional today.

Chris will draw on his experience as an Emmy-winning Creative Director and highly sought-after thought leader to demystify the creative industry and answer “taboo” questions about access, education, compensation, negotiation tactics, and more. Justin, also a versatile, seasoned, and adept creative, is just the perfect complement to Chris for this deep-dive into the business of creativity.

Buckle in folks, you won’t want to miss this one.

Everydays – Live

Beeple, beeple-crap

As part of his ‘Everydays’ series, beeple creates art every day, a project he started more than 5000 days ago.

Join us for a very special session at FITC Toronto 2022 with beeple, where he will create art for his ‘Everydays’ series live with the assistance of the FITC Toronto 2022 audience!

The NFT associated with ‘Everydays: the First 5000 Days’, a collage of images from his ‘Everydays’ series, sold for $69,400,000 on March 12, 2021, making it second on the list of most expensive non-fungible tokens ever sold, and making beeple the third most profitable living artist in the world. It was also the first purely non-fungible token to be sold by Christie’s.

While he’s creating that day’s art during his session, beeple will be fielding questions, chatting about the NFT space, and sharing a rare glimpse into his creative process.

Deep Dive with Doctor Turned Podcaster Ali Abdaal

Ali Abdaal, Youtuber

Medical dropout? Productivity maven? Affable entrepreneur? Whatever you call him, he’s the sensational Ali Abdaal.

Ali has turned a part-time hobby into a thriving business: two popular podcasts (“Not Overthinking” and “Deep Dive”), more than 400 videos on YouTube with over 2.5M subscribers, SkillShare classes on how to study, a weekly newsletter, and cohort courses on how to do all this yourself.

Join creativity expert Jason Theodor in conversation with Ali! In this talk, they will explore his successes and failures in running an influencer business, his productivity routine, the trials and tribulations of writing a book, and the risks of oversharing.

Space in the Mind of a Machine

Refik Anadol, Refik Anadol Studio

Overview
If machines can “learn” or “process” individual and collective memories, can they also dream or hallucinate about them?

Since 2016, Refik Anadol Studio has been conducting interdisciplinary research on the relation between the human mind, architecture, and aesthetics to speculate responses to this question. In taking the data that flows around us as his primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as his collaborator, Anadol has been reflecting on new forms of narrating collective memory in physical and virtual spaces, including the blockchain. In this talk, he’ll share his studio’s site-specific parametric data sculptures, live audio/visual performances, immersive installations, and NFTs, which collectively offer a dramatic rethinking of our environments.

Objective
To increase understanding about how art, architecture, scientific research, and technology can complement each other in contemporary art.

Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
Anadol’s lecture is designed to invite the audience to an interdisciplinary journey about
1. The merging between art and science
2. Post-digital architecture
3. The most innovative technologies available to digital artists
4. NFTs
5. His collaborative art practice at Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles

Target Audience
Anyone who is interested in the topics mentioned above. (No prior knowledge of Data Science, Machine Learning, or Art History needed.)

The Future of Business is Personal Branding

Dot Lung, Mother of Social Dragons

Overview
Ever since the pandemic hit, we are spending even more of our professional and personal lives online. Your online presence and Personal Brand have never been more important than they are now. If you don’t have an online presence or have a minimal presence, that says something about your personal brand too. To cultivate leads, generate new revenue, or even to START a business, Personal Branding IS the future of business.

Objective
Learn practical tips on what to post on social media to build your personal brand.

Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
1. Impact of personal brands on corporate brands
2. Why do you need to start building your personal brand today
3. The only 4 types of social media content you’ll ever need to create
4. What people like and dislike on social media
5. Your content strategy for 2022

Target Audience
Creators, freelancers and entrepreneurs