Meet B.C.'s top ventures before anyone else

👋 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

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 to provide a space for you to connect, share ideas, or just work in companionable silence. Register now!

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.

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

🗓️ Wednesday, September 18 | 🎟️ Register

• ​​From forest fires to rising sea levels, B.C is on the front lines of climate change. It’s the most pressing issue of the present, and it can be overwhelming to think of where to begin.

• ​Thankfully, we have local leaders in climatetech helping us not only adapt to a changing climate, but mitigate it, too.

• Join us for our VTJ Talks event this month for exclusive insights on what it takes to combat a warming world.

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OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

Startup TNT BC Investment Summit Info Session

🗓️ Tuesday, September 3 | 🎟️ Register

• Startup TNT rallies communities to collaborate and invest in their top startups, providing them the roots to grow and reach the world from home.

• Through their eight-week Investment Summit process, they work with new and experienced investors to vet, educate, and invest in the top startups in their local community.

• If you're a founder raising capital right now, join a virtual information session on September 3 to learn more about the process.

An Evening with B.C.’s Most Prominent Investors, and This Year’s Most Promising Startups

🗓️ Wednesday, September 4 | 🎟️ Register

Presented by National Bank of Canada, co-hosted with VANTEC Angel Network.

• Gain early access to the top 26 ventures in this year’s New Ventures BC competition.

• You’ll receive:

  • 8-page company overviews

  • Detailed pitch decks

  • 60 sec elevator pitch videos

  • A company highlights brochure.

• Place yourself you ahead of the curve, with the unique advantage of identifying these ventures before other investors, and before the companies’ fundraising rounds close.

• Be the first to hear which of the 26 companies have made the top 10 of the competition, and enjoy an evening of networking with these founders and other prominent BC investors. 

• Access the next wave of groundbreaking startups in B.C., following in the footsteps of successes like AbCellera, Aspect Biosystems, Certn, Jane, and Moment Energy.

Flats Fest

🗓️ Saturday, September 7 | 🎟️ Register

• Explore the Innovation Zone at Flats Fest and discover cutting-edge projects and immersive VR experiences from the South Flats.

• Check out the latest technology and games from a diverse range of organizations, including local businesses, educational groups, non-profits, and industry leaders. Whether you're a tech enthusiast or just curious, there's something for everyone to explore!

Vancouver Tech Week

🗓️ September 12-18 | 🎟️ Register

• Vancouver Tech Week is a week of events that celebrate builders and hackers within Vancouver’s tech industry, built by the community, for the community.

• The week serves as a platform for many of Vancouver’s tech builders and hackers to come together and celebrate and grow Vancouver as a leading tech hub, driving energy within Vancouver’s tech industry and to elevate those who are building software.

Hardware Unconference

🗓️ Saturday, September 21 | 🎟️ Register

• ​This unconference is focused on bringing hardware products into reality, like wearables, industrial sensors, machinery, and more. From industrial design to firmware, project management, or legal, if it's key to shipping hardware, it's a good fit here!

• 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.

Immersion Week

🗓️ September 24-25 | 🎟️ Register

• 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 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.

Frontier Summit

🗓️ October 22-24 | 🎟️ Request to attend

• The summit will bring together visionary leaders and founders, creators, disrupters, pioneering investors, compassionate philanthropists, groundbreaking and innovative thinkers and doers, and social-impact leaders.

• Each moment is crafted to foster genuine connections and life-changing conversations, blending inspiring speakers, wellness experts, culinary delights, and adventures in nature.

🤝 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:

• Workday is looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer

• Dropbox is looking for an Infrastructure Software Engineer

• SAP is looking for a Managing Partner

• Shopify is looking for a Director, Global Systems Integrator Partnerships

• Johnson & Johnson is looking for a Director, Cybersecurity Metrics & Reporting Services

Growing your team? Post a job with us »

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