What happens when you put a CEO who's built $100M in annual revenue, a founder who's raised over $100M, and a company that's grown revenue 938% into the same room with 100+ entrepreneurs, for two days?
That's Vancouver Tech Days.
Taking place July 27-28, Vancouver Tech Days is a two-half-day summit for scaling founders — fireside chats, keynotes, panels, and two networking mixers, built around the operators actually doing it in BC right now.
On stage so far:
Don Murray – Founder & CEO, Safe Software ($100M+ annual revenue)
Edward Chiang – Co-Founder & CEO, Moment Energy ($100M+ raised)
Gary Agnew – Co-Founder & CEO, Ideon Technologies (938% revenue growth in 2021-24)
James Clift – Founder, Durable ($27M raised, 3M users)
Bijan Sanii – CEO, Inetco ($1 billion in transactions monitored)
Elysa Darling – COO, DIGITAL ($324M invested in Canadian innovation)
Jason Tse – Deputy Country Manager, Web Summit Vancouver (1,200 startups, 20,000 attendees)
And we're not done — more speakers, including some of the biggest names, are still to be announced.
Space is capped, and tickets are moving — we soft-launched to VTJ Insiders last week and they've already snatched up half of them. If you're building something and want to be in that room, grab your ticket now.
See you there,
William
Now, back to your regular Midweek Memo…
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