The best place to network for your next job

Plus, don't miss a founders' mixer, and a Vancouver community day like no other.

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Emily Edwards
September 04, 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 18 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​Presenting partner: B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy

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

  • Among those are a number of trailblazing women who use their expertise, creativity, and passion to develop solutions that will shape the future of our planet. Join us at this month’s #VTJTalks to meet them and hear about their innovation:

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

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

Not a member yet? Sign up today.

Vancouver's tech office experts

Connect with The High Technology Facilities Group at CBRE – leaders in sourcing office space for B.C.’s startup and unicorn companies. The HTFG excels at helping clients find unique workspaces that drive productivity, reflect values, attract top talent, and fuel workplace culture.

This year, the team is celebrating its 30th anniversary! It’s been an incredible journey since the team formed in 1994 with talented individuals shaping Vancouver’s tech scene. Together, they've navigated through market changes, expanded their reach and built a reputation as creative problem-solvers. Here's to many more years of helping Vancouver's tech tenants!

Read more about their 30-year journey.

OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS

🗓️ 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!

🗓️ Tuesday, September 10 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​Join Startup TNT and Nevvco Strategies to kick off the busy fall season for a drop-in mixer designed for tech founders, investors, and local leaders to network, share insights, and reconnect.

  • ​This private event offers a relaxed atmosphere where you can catch up with industry peers, explore potential collaborations, and maybe even do some deals.

  • ​Join an evening of complimentary food and drinks, conversation, connections, and new opportunities as the team gears up for an exciting quarter ahead.

🗓️ Tuesday, September 10 | 🎟️ Register

  • COAST invites you to a meet and greet with innovators, industry leaders, and stakeholders involved in B.C.'s Blue Economy.

  • All new COAST members have received a code by email for one complimentary ticket to this Mixer. To join COAST’s new membership program and benefit from this ticket, sign up and to receive your code. Members will also receive a guest invitation code to offer a $10 discount on the public price.

SPONSORED BY COAST, AN INITIATIVE OF THE SOUTH ISLAND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP

Connect & Celebrate with COAST

COAST is kicking off its new season of mixers! Save the date for September 10 from 5 - 7 p.m. at Vancouver’s Blarney Stone pub. It's the perfect opportunity to connect and celebrate with the COAST community. Be sure to register now to reserve a spot!

🗓️ Thursday, September 12 | 🎟️ Register

  • ​Curious about where a career in tech could take you? Have you ever wondered about the different career paths in tech?

  • ​The event will kick off with networking bingo, followed by introductions of each industry professional. All attendees will have the opportunity to participate in three roundtable discussions featuring a different industry expert. Each session will last 20 minutes.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ Tuesday, September 17 | 🎟️ Register

  • Amazon Web Services started the AWS Community Day initiative that runs in many cities worldwide every year. This will be the first year it is held in Canada.

  • ​Join an afternoon of talks, workshops, demos, and networking with other community professionals both using and enhancing AWS-hosted solutions.

SPONSORED BY BANK OF CANADA

Attention payment service providers

The Retail Payment Activities Act is coming into force and PSPs must apply to register with the Bank of Canada to continue providing services in Canada.

Join experts from the Bank of Canada on September 19 to learn how to prepare, ask questions, and network with industry peers.

🗓️ Wednesday, September 18 | 🎟️ Register

  • Introducing the new series of ECOMsquare Flash Talks — an opportunity to hear and connect with e-commerce leaders in Vancouver.

  • The event provides a space to share any insights and resources that could be helpful for other fellow e-commerce founders or owners, service providers, professionals, and students interested in the field.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ 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.

🗓️ 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

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👋 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.

🤝Vancouver Tech Jobs board– Looking for work? Looking for your next hire?

🗓️Vancouver Tech Events Calendar– All the events in one place.

💪 Become a VTJ Corporate Member and get your brand in front of thousands of tech professionals, investors, decision makers, and leaders. Get in touch today.

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