This event made possible with the support of Bell Canada.

IxDA Montreal welcomes Jason Hsiao of Animoto as the inaugural speaker for the local chapter's I Made This! series of events.

Date: March 11th, 2010
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Café Republique, 1200, rue Peel

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About Jason Hsiao

Jason is the Co-Founder & President of Animoto Productions (animoto.com), a web-based technology specializing in high-end automated video production. Prior to Animoto, Jason served as a television producer for MTV Networks. He's the creator and co-executive producer of Dirty Stinkin' Politics, a political series for Comedy Central developed with five-time Emmy winner Eddie Feldmann. Jason also produced Comedy Central's The Showbiz Show with David Spade. Other major credits include the 2006 VH1 Big In '06 Awards, MTV's Viva La Bam, MTV2's Stankervision, the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards with Chris Rock, the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, and Comedy Central's Crank Yankers.

Jason has never been to Montreal before, and foolishly thinks that by coming in March he'll avoid the bitter cold.

About Animoto

Animoto is a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

Most recently awarded the Best Design Crunchie for 2009, Animoto have one numerous awards (Webby, SXSW) and have been getting gushing reviews in major online and print publications since they launched almost two years ago.

Check out the full list of awards collected so far…

Why Should I Attend?

• The IX/UX crowd will appreciate the site's design and the product's output
• Geeks will appreciate their leveraging of elastic computing and storage on Amazon EC2/S3
• Social media mavens will appreciate their success in the absence of marketing spend
• Entrepreneurs will appreciate their successful freemium model for a consumer customer-base, and equally successful commercial licensing programs
• Educators will appreciate their EDU program and widespread presence in the classroom across North America
• Everyone will appreciate Jason's easy-going personality, sense of humour, and passion for his business and its customers

About I Made This!

A quarterly event, IxDA Montreal invites people to talk about something they made. We're looking to hear the whole story, from concept to launch, and more importantly to hear about the lessons learned through the process.

The speaker isn't necessarily an IX or UX designer by trade, but is nevertheless a key and constant member of the team.

With an IX/UX audience, discussion during and after the presentation will certainly focus on design, but we're encouraging presenters to tell the whole story—in fact we're looking for opportunities to have designers and others engage in dialogue that hinges on a concrete creation of a product, service, or cultural artefact.