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👋 Welcome back to VTJ’s Midweek Memo: your weekly digest of the city’s top tech events, personnel moves, job openings, and industry opportunities.

VTJ EVENTS

#VTJTalks: Non-Dilutive Capital - Secure a Strong Balance Sheet in Uncertain Times

🗓️ Wednesday, August 14 | 🎟️ Register

• As global uncertainty impacts the public and private markets, entrepreneurs are being forced to navigate a new, new normal. Many questions remain about the impact of changing global economic trends on companies and what CEOs can do to position their businesses for success.

• ​Non-dilutive capital is one way leaders can choose to shore up their balance sheets, as it enables founders to retain control of their business and focus on long-term growth over fast ROI.

• Join this event to learn about the different types of non-dilutive capital and hear first-hand experiences of local companies that leverage this type of financing to scale their business.

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Vancouver Tech Morning Coffee

🗓️ Tuesday, September 10 | 🎟️ Register

• ​​​Join Vancouver Tech Journal at WeWork on Burrard Street for our next morning coffee meet up. Check out a new office, discover a new career, find your next co-founder, or learn something new.

Co-working at WeWork

🗓️ Tuesday, September 10 | 🎟️ Register

• Do you work from home but miss the camaraderie of the watercooler? Join your local tech community for a free co-working day at WeWork on Burrard Street.​

• Near the beginning of every month, Vancouver Tech Journal takes over a large office at WeWork provide a space for you to connect, share ideas, or just work in companionable silence. Join us!

#VTJTalks: How B.C. Climatetech Could Save the World

🗓️ Wednesday, September 25 | 🎟️ Register

• ​​#vtjtalks monthly events bring together entrepreneurs, executives, talent, investors, and tech community members to network and learn.

• Discover which green ventures are putting B.C. on the map, how the space is achieving so much funding, and which local companies you need to know right now.

• Get your super early bird tickets now!

MORE UPCOMING EVENTS

WTF: How VCs and Startups Can Navigate Global Uncertainty

🗓️ Tuesday, August 20 | 🎟️ Register

• In a year marked by geopolitical, economic, and social volatility, the landscape of private investing and capital allocation is undergoing significant transformation.

• This event brings together industry leaders, seasoned investors, and innovative startup founders to explore the multifaceted impacts of global uncertainty on private capital markets.

• Who’s speaking:

  • Byron Thom, partner of the Industrial Innovation Venture Fund, BDC Capital

  • Amy Rae, partner, Vanedge Capital

  • Justine Gauthier, general counsel and head of AI governance and legal affairs, Mila

  • TBA!

  • Moderator: William Johnson, B.C. lead, Startup TNT

ECOMsquare Flash Talks September

🗓️ Wednesday, September 18 | 🎟️ Register

• Try something new with ECOMsquare’s Flash Talks — an opportunity to hear and connect with ecommerce leaders in Vancouver.

• Expect some mingling and networking over drinks and light snacks.

• Hear from two to three industry experts and thought leaders, each armed with game-changing strategies, trends, and secrets for ecommerce success.

• Dive deeper into the topic with the speakers during the Q&A session.

• Share your projects, challenges, events, or campaigns for feedback, advice, connections, and more.

Hardware Unconference

🗓️ Saturday, September 21 | 🎟️ Register

• ​Also called "open space", an unconference is a participant-driven conference.

• Attendees propose topics and offer to lead and facilitate tasks, discussions, panels, hands-on workshops, and more.

• ​This unconference is focused on bringing hardware products into reality, like wearables, industrial sensors, machinery, and more.

• Share your hard-won lessons, your weird new way of doing something, and your dives down rabbit holes to learn from the best in Vancouver's hardware development community. From industrial design to firmware, project management, or legal, if it's key to shipping hardware, it's a good fit here!

Immersion Week

🗓️ September 24-25 | 🎟️ Register

• Discover breakthrough innovations creating social and economic prosperity here at home and across the globe.

• This year’s event aims to explore the dynamic role of universities in fostering innovation and driving societal progress. Last year, entrepreneurship@UBC welcomed over 500 participants who joined for 25 compelling and actionable sessions.

• Attendees will:

  • Learn about some of the cutting-edge research happening at the University of British Columbia.

  • Connect with early stage innovators translating their research into impact through entrepreneurial pathways, including social entrepreneurship.

  • Gain actionable insights from industry leaders and funders on how to start and grow your impact globally.

🤝 VANCOUVER TECH JOBS

Whether you're looking for a dream role or a dream employee, Vancouver Tech Jobs has you covered, with open jobs including:

• Autodesk is hiring a Senior Business Strategy Manager, Media & Entertainment

• 1Password is hiring a Staff Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

• RBC is hiring a Staff Cyber Threat Hunter (GCS)

• Electronic Arts is hiring a Performance Marketing Director - The Sims Mobile

• Accenture is hiring a Security Solution Architect

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