Culture and Digital Technology with Guillaume Déziel

As extraordinary as our culture is, we must have a solid digital strategy if we want to ensure its longevity within the very rich global cultural offering. This is what Guillaume Déziel advocates: the former manager of the band Misteur Valaire, he shook up the Quebec music industry a few years ago with his innovative models for consuming and producing music. Now a strategist in digital culture and blockchain-based business models, Guillaume is trying to bring Quebec and Canadian culture into the 21st century.

Matinées numériques Montréal is a series of monthly morning conversations exploring the intersections between digital technology and society. The talks are free and open to all. Coffee and pastries are provided. ☕🥐 Matinées numériques Montréal is hosted by Élodie Gagnon and organized by Espaces temps.

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About Guillaume Déziel

Over the past 20 years, Guillaume Déziel first worked in the media (TVA, Radio-Canada), recording and live-performance industries, before shifting toward the interactive world, where he contributed to the rise of pioneering digital platforms in Quebec, such as Eworldmusic and Postedecoute.ca. Guillaume then held the position of Director of Business Development, Acquisition and Distribution of French-language content for Bell Mobility. In 2016, he began a self-taught study of blockchain technology and its various disruptive applications. To make the subject more accessible, he gives a monthly introductory talk on blockchain entitled “Blockchain for Dummies.”

On many occasions, he has been invited to various discussion forums, workshops and consultation roundtables, both at events organized by SODEC and by CALQ. At the request of the former Quebec Minister of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women, Ms. Christine St-Pierre, he presented to her office avenues for reflection and ideas for promising projects to properly begin a digital shift in culture. Moreover, Guillaume Déziel believes that it is possible both to guarantee free access to digital works and to ensure their fair monetization. For him, culture is not a commodity; it is a people’s greatest wealth, insofar as it is discoverable and remains accessible.

About Élodie Gagnon

Élodie Gagnon often speaks into a microphone to introduce new ideas and the people who embody them: emerging culture on Bande à part, the leaders of the new generations on Génératrice (Radio-Canada) and the talent of women creators with the association Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des médias numériques (FCTMN) as well as at the NFB. She enjoys helping launch “firsts” such as the cultural makethon Museomix in Quebec museums, the social-innovation platform PISTE for the L’Itinéraire group, or new stages at C2 Montréal (Le Garage, L’Aquarium). She handles chaos, chance and instinct well.