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What is TEDxTO? TEDxTO is what happens when you pack the Theatre Passe Muraille from wall to wall with a hand-selected group of Toronto's most eager social media types, ply them with free quinoa salad and chocolate truffles, and then give them a packed day full of presentations from noted local artists, performers, and professionals to watch, then discuss. Essentially, it's one part performance appreciation, and one part networking bacchanal. We've seen plenty of rooms worked in our day, but none of them so thoroughly, or so well. Even noted Twittermeister Mayor Miller made an appearance, and spent one of the event's two designated "conversation breaks" encircled by his followers.

Mathew Ingram, a technology writer for the Globe and Mail and has been on the tech beat for the last 17 years. Now he's sharing some of his knowledge as an organizer of MeshU, a web conference happening on May 20 where the brightest and shiniest tech brains will converge. Speakers include Daniel Burka, the designer behind Digg, and Leah Culver, a co-founder of Pownce. We spoke to Ingram about MeshU, how companies mess up in Web 2.0, and the future of the web.