🏙️ Midweek Memo: Your invite to join

On Monday, we launched our new VTJ Community Slack. In less than a day, 400 of you joined — which means we need to provide a new link for you to connect.

Want to be part of our new online community? Don’t miss out. Join us now, before the link expires!

🎟️ Vancouver Tech Events

🤖 #vtjtalks: AI Hype vs Utility: Where Are We Now? | August 16

• Next month, we’re asking, “Is the AI hype-cycle distracting companies?”

• Speakers include:

  • Handol Kim, CEO of Variational AI

  • Chris Hobbs, co-founder and president, TTT Studios

  • More to be announced.

• Are you a paid member? Get the code for 50% off via [email protected] or keep an eye on your member emails.

📅 July Women Founder Meetup | Tomorrow, July 20

• Join the entrepreneurship@UBC community for an ecosystem meetup of women and non-binary founders, executives, leaders, and mentors who are part of entrepreneurship@UBC and its wider ecosystem.

🌇 Members-only event: Gastown Social | July 26

• ​​​Connect with VTJ members — including founders, investors, and colleagues from the industry — for the first in a series of socials, courtesy of supportive hiring platform Toast, ecosystem builders Frontier Collective, and legal experts Segev LLP.

• ​Expect food, drinks, high-quality networking, and more.

• Want to join but not already a member? Become one today.

💵 Journey to eight-figure revenue: Lessons from local founders | August 2

• Connect and catch up with fellow executives and dive deep into the issues that matter for your company's growth and resilience.

• Speakers from Boast, VanHack, Makeship and more.

More must-attend events from our partners

• FoodTech Next 2023 Info Session | August 2

• entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week (EIW) | September 26-28

• SAAS North | November 15-16 | Use code VTJ25 to receive 25% off

🎁 Featured VTJ Membership Perk

This week: BrainStation

BrainStation is the global leader in workforce transformation and digital skills training, offering corporate training, bootcamps, certificate courses, workshops, and events both online and at state-of-the-art campuses.

• Vancouver Tech Journal members receive a $500 discount on all BrainStation certificate courses and a $2,500 discount on all BrainStation bootcamps.

Contact [email protected] to redeem your perks or learn more about VTJ membership.

👩🏻‍💼 Vancouver Tech Moves

Major personnel changes, including promotions, hires, and departures:

• Vincent Clerc left Terramera and joined Sanctuary AI as the VP of hardware and manufacturing.

• The Better Business Bureau elected four new directors to its board

• SFU’s Beedie School of Business gained six new faculty members.

💼 Vancouver Tech Jobs

Be like Montra and reach qualified local talent with our Vancouver Tech Jobs board.

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

• Montra Interactive is hiring a Backend Developer

• Expeto Wireless is hiring a Senior Technical Support Engineer

• SunTracker Technology is hiring a Software Engineer

• The BC Public Service is hiring for multiple roles

• UrbanLogiq is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Product Implementation

• The Coaches Site is hiring a PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap developer

• Ari is hiring a Lead Engineer

Check out who else is hiring on our Vancouver Tech Job Board »

Growing your team? Post a job with us »

Five more opportunities for you:

• Apply to the PacifiCan Business Scale-up and Productivity program

• Apply to the Canadian Food Innovation Network’s FoodTech Next program

• Apply for the BC Nimbus Synergies Health Impact Investor Challenge

• Join Regenerative Capital Group as a CEO-in-residence

• Apply to Creative BC’s Passport to Markets Fund