Events
Events

  • Inventures: Small Tech Businesses: Growth & Adjusting During and Post COVID-19

    ENTREPRENEUR’S SPEAKER SERIES Small Tech Businesses: Growth & Adjusting During and Post COVID-19 March 25, 2021 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm MDT Featuring David Sax Author and Journalist Award-winning author and business journalist, David Sax, has always worked for himself and has spent the majority of his career writing about entrepreneurs of every type. His …

    Free
  • Techstars Startup Weekend – Online

    Virtual Online

    About this Event Join Platform Calgary, Startup Calgary and Startup Edmonton for a virtual, fun-filled, hands-on educational experience that will enable you to build, validate and launch your tech startup idea over the course of a weekend. Whether you're a hacker (developer), hustler (business/sales) or hipster (designer), there is something for you! On the first evening, you'll either pitch or …

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  • Space Settlement Entrepreneur – SSEC Competition

    Virtual Online

    About this Event Audience: High-school and Undergraduate-college students The SSEC is an online (virtual) competition for high-school and undergraduate-college students, interested in the future of space technology and entrepreneurship. Over the course of this 3-5 day online competition event, students will develop a space-industry start-up company that meets the needs of a newly-designed space settlement …

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  • Fireside Chat with Greg Horowitt & Jim Gibson

    Virtual Online

    Event Information Rainforest Alberta sprouted from the award-winning book, The Rainforest: The Secret to Building the Next Silicon Valley. In this book authors, Victor W. Hwang and Greg Horowitt introduce a radical theory to explain the nature of innovation ecosystems - human networks that generate extraordinary creativity and output. Join the Rainforest Alberta community and …

    Free
  • AMII AI Seminars: Two-player, Zero-sum games

    Virtual Online

    Amii researcher at the University of Alberta Dustin Morrill presents “Hindsight Rationality and Efficient Deviation Types in Extensive-Form Games”. In this talk, he suggests to field learning algorithms that ensure strong performance in hindsight relative to "deviations" (pre-defined behaviour modifications) in two-player, zero-sum games. Abstract: A successful approach to playing two-player, zero-sum games has been to …

    Free
  • COLLISION CONFERENCE 2021

    Virtual Online

    WHY COLLISION? Collision brings together “the world's best speakers”, tech’s leading companies, and top media.  Join us online this April to make meaningful connections, find valuable leads, and get access to premium content. NETWORKING Imagine if you could gather the “who’s who of international tech” in one digital space. With more than 40,000 attendees set …

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  • TNT YEG Community Awards

    Virtual Online

    The YEG Startup Community Awards are an entrepreneur-led, volunteer-run, and community-centric initiative to recognize the brilliant work that's being done in our city. The awards bring our community together and celebrate the accomplishments of our boldest risk-takers. We're all about embracing diversity, recognizing hard work, and not taking ourselves too seriously. Join us as we …

    Free
  • Legal 101: Corporate, intellectual property & employment basics for startups

    Virtual Online

    Legal 101: Corporate, intellectual property & employment basics for startups Thursday, May 27, 2021 | 2:00 PM | WEBINAR When running a business there are key partners that can help you along the way. Legal expertise is often required to ensure successful sustainability and growth for business. In this session Winta Asfaw, a Senior Associate …

    Free
  • Founder Fridays: Remote Work Revolution Author Chat

    Virtual Online

    June 4 : Fireside chat with  Tsedal Neeley, author of  Remote Work Revolution : How to Work From Anywhere Founder Fridays is a series of fireside chats with authors of books that are  typically  held on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month, the initiative is based on the success of a fireside chat with Ian …

    Free
  • Building a Winning Team for your Startup & Finding the Right Co-founders

    Virtual Online

    Summary entrepreneurship@UBC’s Community Town Hall series brings us together to share announcements, gain insights from industry leaders and network across our ecosystem. Building a winning team and finding the right co-founders is critical to the success of your startup. Attracting talent that is diverse across backgrounds and skill sets, forward thinking and adds to your …

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