Insights, best practices and emerging ideas on the digital market. From everything the Web has to offer; marketers, media, entrepreneurs and anyone else who wants to navigate the www. world will be at the 6th annual mesh conference.

Keynote speakers, attendees, panels and workshops at this year's mesh conference will speak to four featured themes:

• Society Keynote: Ron Deibert, the Citizen Lab will tackle global social issues such as state control of the internet, efforts in the Arab world to shut down the internet and efforts taken to circumvent that as well as Wikileaks and internet freedom.
• Marketing Keynote: Gabe Zichermann, The Psychology of Online Behaviour, explores the opportunities and challenges in motivating, inspiring and encouraging online users, including the use of gamification.
• Business Keynote: Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation, will explain how companies can become more social and less hierarchical in order to take advantage of the web and how this can motivate younger, web-savvy employees intrinsically instead of extrinsically.
• Media Keynote: Jeff Jarvis looks at: how the media is changing, the rise of WikiLeaks as a press entity, crowdsourcing, transparency, where the future of journalism is headed, and the challenges ahead for traditional media entities.

Other mesh speakers include:

• Micah Sifry, TechPresident
• Wilf Dinnick, CEO of OpenFile
• Evan Smith, CEO of Texas Tribune
• Anthony De Rosa, Neighborhoodr
• Dan Debow, Rypple
• Laura Croucher, KPMG
• Kevin Restivo, IDC Canada
• David Armano, Edelman
• Lara Barlow, Canada Country Manager, Travel Zoo

In addition, mesh will feature interactive workshops focusing on topics including:

• How to use social media for reporting, journalism and more - lead by Bert Herman, founder of Storify and former foreign correspondent.
• Not-for-profits leading social media - led by Sarah Falconer, WWF; Karen Snider, Red Cross; and Misty Meeks, Argyle Communications.
• How to effectively leverage LinkedIn - led by Leona Hobbs, Social Media Group (SMG)
• How to create and build a great corporate blog - led by Eli Singer, Entrinsic Partners

Early-bird tickets are $539 until April 20. Then, they will be available at the full price of $639. There are also 50 student tickets for $99 each. All prices are in CAD and do not include 13% HST. mesh will be held at the Allstream Centre in Toronto on May 24 and 25.

Registration for the event is at www.meshconference.com