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WHIR Toronto Event Rocked Four Years in a Row

Last Thursday we held the fourth annual WHIR Toronto Network Event, and, as always in our hometown, we did not fail to please. Toronto tends to draw one of our larger crowds as it did again this year with about 140 happy and engaged attendees.

We did something a little different from our prior event formats this time and had a guest speaker kick things off. Philbert Shih, Structure Research’s Founder and Managing Director, presented a market overview and synopsis, looking at the hosting and cloud sector, and discussed its current growth trajectory.  He, of course, touched upon the Canadian market toward the end which provided valuable insight to local attendees. For more information about Structure Research, you can visit their website.

WHIR Networking Event Toronto 2012

WHIR Networking Event Toronto 2012 @The Hoxton

We’d like to thank our title sponsors very much for supporting the whole of 2012 North American Networking Events: Parallels; e-onlinedata, and; Black Lotus. We’d also like to thank frequent WHIR Events sponsor Afilias, and two local sponsors, new data center company, Cologix, and Peer 1 Hosting.

Our sponsors also gave away some pretty awesome prizes to these lucky winners:

Hemanth Nimmala of Ryerson University won a $250 Amazon Gift Card courtesy of PEER1 Hosting
Landyn Dow of Cologix won a Kindle courtesy of e-onlinedata
Don Ruiz of Base Kit won a $150 gift card to 360 Restaurant in the CN Tower courtesy of Afilias
Alan Paes of Netlogistix won a SOUL by Ludacris High Definition on ear ear phones courtesy of Parallels
Quentin Strossel of Asigra Networks won a Wenger Watch courtesy of Black Lotus

We are now taking a brief departure from our North American networking events, as we are in Europe this week and next, hitting the popular cities of Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London.  We resume to the other side of the pond on June 21 in Washington, DC.

If you haven’t made it out to any of our events yet this year, or would like see if we’ll be coming to a city near you, be sure to visit www.WHIREvents.com to see our updated schedule.

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WHIR Events Europe, Ready for Take Off

Next week kicks off the first ever set of WHIR Networking Events in Europe. And we’re pretty darn excited.

First stop is Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the land of tulips, next Tuesday May 22. Then we head to Berlin, Germany for Thursday May 24′s event. The following week finds us in Paris, France on Tuesday May 29, making our way north to London, UK, on Thursday May 31.

It’s immensley exciting to see this European tour come to fruition, after being in the works for for a long time, since the North American networking events have been so successful into their fourth year.

The web hosting industry has no doubt exploded in Europe over the last five or so years, so we feel it’s time we bring WHIR Events to your backyard if you are from that region. We hope this is just the beginning of more regular WHIR happenings on the other side of the pond.

For more details and to RSVP to these events, visit www.WHIREvents.com

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