A shot at glory for BC agri-food competitors

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

THIS MONTH

Agri-Food: Top 20 Pitch Night

🗓️ Thursday, Feb 8 | 🎟️ Free registration

• Join BC agri-food companies as they pitch for $150,000+ in funding in this cross-country top 20 competition.

• Startup TNT Investment Summits help raise capital for startups and make it easier for local investors who are both seasoned and new to angel investing.

Vancouver Tech Morning Coffee

🗓️ Tuesday, Feb 13 | 🎟️ Free registration

• You’re invited to join us every Tuesday between 8:00am-10:00am to connect with the Vancouver tech community in an informal atmosphere.

• ​​​Check out a new office, discover a new career, find your next co-founder, or learn something new – do it all at one of our upcoming coffee meetups.

Capturing the AI Opportunity in B.C.

🗓️ Tuesday, Feb 13 | 🎟️ Become a VTJ member to register.

• ​Join Vancouver Tech Journal in partnership with Microsoft Vancouver for the launch of ‘AI in Action’ At Microsoft, a series of conversations that highlight diverse perspectives to cultivate AI literacy, ethics, and innovation to ensure that AI benefits everyone.

• This first event focuses on the AI opportunity in B.C. and how it can contribute to a more sustainable economy and society.

• Speakers include:

  • ​​Hon. Brenda Bailey, minister of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation.

  • David Seymour, VP and GM of Microsoft Vancouver

  • Walter Pela, managing partner of KPMG Vancouver.

• This is an event for members only and spaces are limited. Want to join, and have access to future events? Become a VTJ member.

SPONSORED BY ATLAS

Atlas HXM: Hire and Pay Top Talent Without Borders

Atlas helps innovative companies to compete in the global economy by enabling them to employ whoever they want, wherever they want.

As the largest direct Employer of Record (EOR), Atlas is a technology platform supported by experts that delivers flexibility for companies to expand across borders, onboard talent, manage compliance and pay their global workforce — all without the need for a local entity or multiple third-party providers.

Atlas is your trusted strategic partner to help you expand into new countries, quickly and compliantly.

Our direct EOR service allows you to hire the best talent, from software and cybersecurity to data privacy, no matter what country they live in. Through our centralised HXM platform, you can manage onboarding, employee benefits, and payroll for your global team. Atlas is one partner and your global solution for business.

Atlas brings to the table:

• Legal entities in +160 countries. 

• Insights into regional talent pool. 

• Tax and law experts.

• Years of cultural knowledge.

The advantages of Atlas EOR service:

• Faster time to market.

• Significant cost savings.

• Reduced compliance risks.

• Access to employee benefits of a Fortune 500 company standard.

The End Of VC As Founders Know It?

🗓️ Tuesday, Feb 13 | 🎟️ Buy tickets

• ​Is it the end of VC as we know it? Are we in the depths of an economic storm that just needs to be weathered? Have we entered a new normal, where the role that VC plays in the tech sector has simply changed? Should entrepreneurs be looking elsewhere for funding to fuel their startups? It's time to answer these questions and more.

• Speakers include:

  • Mark Bakker, general partner, Coho Growth Capital

  • Caterina Papadakos, partner, Fort Capital Partners

  • Maria Pacella, managing partner, Pender Ventures

  • Brianna Blaney, co-founder and CEO, Pocketed Grant Platform

• VTJ members receive 25% off. Email [email protected] for the code.

SPONSORED BY MCAULEY PRIVATE WEALTH AT RBC

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McAuley Private Wealth at RBC DS is here to support technology entrepreneurs and executives

Please contact us to speak with one of our team members

MUST-ATTEND EVENTS FROM OUR PARTNERS

• 26th Annual Vancouver International Privacy and Security Summit | March 6-8

• INNOVATEwest | April 16-17

Check out the full events list of tech events 

🤝 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:

• The BC Public Service is hiring for multiple roles

• MyFO (My Family Office) is hiring for multiple roles

• Dapper Labs is hiring a Technical Art Director

• Course Hero is hiring a Lead Product Designer, Design System

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

Growing your team? Post a job with us »

👋 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.

🤝 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.

📱 Stay connected with VTJ on Twitter and LinkedIn.

That’s it!

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