New this year, North by Northeast has added an interactive conference to their lineup of events and I’m happy to be attending and participating on two panels.

The first panel is Architects of Community featuring Alan Cross, Amber Mac and Erica Ehm. Here’s a description of the panel:

Media leaders from a diverse cross-section of online communities share ideas about building communities through social media. Learn how to grow an online community with a small team, a smaller budget, and very little time. Discover some of the unspoken rules of social media. Find out how trusted micro-communities of curators – both human and machine – have triggered the re-emergence of edited lists to help people sort through the infinite amount of content on the Internet.

The next panel I’ll be on is Thank you for being a friend: Tips, traits and tactics of successful women in tech and social media. My fellow panelists are Lucia Mancuso, April Dunford, Amrita Chandra and will be moderated by Meghan Warby. This panel is all about:

This ain’t no weepy-eyed kumbaya gab-fest. Join Toronto’s top practitioners in marketing, start-up counsel, entrepreneurship, website development, social media strategies, e-advocacy and digital communications, who just happen to be female, in a frank discussion about the workplace and gender. You’ll leave with new insights, strategies and ideas about communication, mentorship, and office politics.

Tickets to the first NXNEi event are sold out, but if you’ve got a ticket, please say hi at the event. See you there!