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Innovative work spaces: connecting, creating and collaborating @ the HUB – Professional Practice Talks

March 20, 2014 at 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM

Location:Multimedia Room – Discovery Centre (4th floor) MacOdrum Library
Cost:Free
Audience:Anyone
Contact Email:Informed2learn@carleton.ca
Contact Phone:613-520-2600 ext 1931

Innovative work spaces: connecting, creating and collaborating @ the HUB – Bettina Vollmerhausen (SMAKK) & Jesse Cressman-Dickson (the HUB)

HUB Ottawa is a coworking community optimized for people, projects & organizations bettering the world. Come learn about co-working as an alternative or supplement to the home and corporate office where you can connect, collaborate and gain new skills to do good better. HUB members Bettina Vollmerhausen, Entrepreneur and Founder of SMAKK.ca and Rob Reid, Producer of the local House of Paint festival will tell their HUB stories and Jesse Cressman-Dickinson, Community Catalyst at HUB Ottawa will be there to answer any questions students have about coworking.

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Bettina Vollmerhausen, co-founder of SMAKK
SMAKK is the website that makes gift card giving to local businesses easy and convenient. SMAKK’s vision is that gift giving, from near and far, is personal, meaningful, socially responsible and helps local communities flourish, one SMAKK at a time. Make your next gift a special one via SMAKK.ca.

Jesse Cressman-Dickinson
Jesse is the Community Catalyst at HUB Ottawa and a Co-Founder of JustChange Ottawa. She is driven by bringing people together to do great things! She is passionate about community and partnership development.

Rob Reid
Rob Reid is Festival Producer at House of PainT, Ottawa’s multi-disciplinary urban arts and hip hop jam. In 2010 he founded World Famous Music, a music company presenting 20+ concerts and tours each year through Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal.

Rob is a graduate of Carleton’s Political Science program and previously worked at Ottawa Jazz Festival, Bluesfest, the Canada Dance Festival at the National Arts Centre, and the Governor General’s Summer Concert Series. A SOCAN member, he toured as a performing musician and recording artist from 2004-2007.

Find out more about the HUB

To find our more about innovative office spaces, check out the documentary OfficeLand (CBC DocZone).