Pecha Kucha Night 5 Recap
On October 2ND 2009 Next Gen hosted PKN 5. The night contained mind blowing ideas from 11 presentations by 14 presenters. Each individual was able to deliver brilliant ideas on ways to make Edmonton a resourceful city that supported all local entrepreneurs, environmentally friendly endeavors and technologically savvy innovations which would make Edmonton a competitive place to live, play and work.
As always PKN5 featured a cash bar, delicious old school candy, amazing prizes, exemplary volunteers and music which set the atmosphere for a night of fun and excitement.
A huge THANK YOU to the following people and organizations for making Pecha Kucha Night 5 an event to remember!
Our sponsors:
The U of A Alumni Association
The City of Edmonton
Bottom line Productions and Stephanie Ender - Public Relations
Thank You!
Christine Causing - Next Gen Office/Coordinator Next Gen
Chloe Chalmers - Coordinator, Students and Young Alumni
Jaime Calayo - Designing the posters and tickets
Larry Kwok - Creating the PKN master presentation.
Jaime Calayo - Design
DJ Aaron Levin - Music
Myer Horowitz Theatre (8900 114 Street, Students' Union Building, University Of Alberta Main Campus) - Venue & Equipment
Our Next Gen Committee and Volunteers, especially those who have helped organized PKN 5:
Brian Murray (co-chair), Ryan Stark, (co-chair), Nate Box, Jaime Calayo, Spencer Croteau, Xanthe Couture, Stephanie Enders, Michel Feist, Lawrence Kwok, Matthew Li, Hessen Zoeller, Morgen Zoeller.
The PKN 5 presenters were:
-David Cournoyer and Diane Bégin, ChangeCamp Edmonton
-Isha Datar, Researcher
-Dawn Doell, Green Communities Guide Project Coordinator
-Tad Hargrave, Co-Founder of e-sage.ca and Marketing Consultant for Hippies
-Michael Janz, Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues
-Shafraaz Kaba and Josh Kjenner, Architects, Manasc Isaac
-Jeffrey Klassen, Designer
-Christian Nelson, P.Eng, Co-chair, dEdmonton, Canada's Halloween Festival
-Aaron Pedersen, Photographer, 3TEN photo
-Nadine Riopel, Campaign Manager, United Way of the Alberta Capital Region
-Yuri Wuensch, Senior Advisor, Corporate Communications, and Michael Malone, Corporate Communications Coordinator, Edmonton Airports
Last but not least, THANK YOU to the public for coming out and supporting the event!
