Join a full week of Vancouver tech events

Plus, an opportunity for investment into your company.

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Emily Edwards
August 21, 2024

👋 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

🗓️ 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!

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ 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.

  • Get your super early bird tickets now!

Don’t forget: Members get 50% off VTJ events

Hey members: check the members-only Slack channel for your 50% off discount code.

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Distributed engineering teams in LatAm

DevEngine connects North American innovation with Latin American tech talent to create top-notch software and data engineering teams, or to source individual contributors.

The company's standout trait lies in their concierge-style approach when building relationships with the partners. This guarantees highest success and retention rate in the industry along with up to 35-40% cost savings of engineering budget for their clients. DevEngine's network of engineers is spread across Latin America, with their HQ in Vancouver, known for its vibrant tech community and entrepreneurial spirit. This combination not only enables them to forge enduring client relationships but also strategically supports client's innovative ideas without straining their finances. Let's chat.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ 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.

  • Speakers include:

Cultivate the future of agriculture

Foresight's agriNEXT program is on a mission to reduce the agrifood sector's greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030.

Join Foresight's agriNEXT fall cohort to accelerate your impact through expert training from industry leaders, as well as meaningful connections with end-users, investors, and strategic partners. The deadline to apply is August 30.

🗓️ 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. 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.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ 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.

Don't miss out on an Okanagan summer

Sun-drenched days are here and there's still plenty of time to experience an Okanagan summer. Make the most of the season by paddleboarding or kayaking on Okanagan Lake, biking along rail trails and urban surroundings, or hiking the surrounding hillsides and forests, where you can encounter the brilliance of nature just steps from the city. 

Continue the adventure exploring the region's local flavors by visiting farms and orchards, dining at farm-to-table restaurants, and savouring craft sips at wineries, breweries, cideries, and distilleries. 

🤝 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:

Growing your team? Post a job with us »

Curious to learn how Canadian tech companies are updating their benefits offerings? TAP Network has just released a 2024 Report on Employee Benefits Trends in Canada’s Tech Sector.

👋 YOUR COMMUNITY

🗣 VTJ Community Slack – Connect with the community using our dedicated Slack! This is your chance to network and chat with your friendly neighbourhood tech professionals from anywhere. Reply to this email to join.

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