Good afternoon! Welcome to your Wednesday events briefing. As usual, there is no shortage of opportunities to keep busy or places to get deals done. However, there are three key upcoming events we think you should put on your radar. Check them out below. See you soon.

Next week: Tech Photo Studio | Get your team new high-quality headshots | July 20

• Vancouver Tech Journal has teamed up with Tantalus Creative to shoot new headshots for founders and their teams at an insanely reasonable rate. Photoshoots can cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars. But for this event, you can get new, high-quality photos — for your website, media, or speaking engagements — for just $65. Space is super limited. Check out example photos and register now.

• In partnership with SEGEV LLP, CBRE's High Technology Facilities Group, and University Canada West.

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From The Home Key: Ask the Experts: Web3 & NFTs | July 27

• Still not sure how to get into NFTs? Still unclear on what Web3 is or what it's for? Heard about GameFi, but wondering what it is?

• Join the Home Key, Webcouv3r, Frontier Collective, and d3crypto, as well as early adopters and local innovators, to learn about how these technologies will affect how you live, work, and play.

• Regardless of your industry — whether you're in tech, banking, real estate, government, art, education, or another — it's time to learn about the next generation of the web and how it's going to change your world.

• Special guest experts include Greg McMullen, special counsel at SEGEV LLP; Carmilla Sumantry, artist and co-founder of Dizzie Studio; Sandra Wong, founder and CEO at Lucky Lady Games; Diego Rios, founder at Vvery; and more.

Register now

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Traction Conference | August 10-11

• Traction is a global community of more than 100,000 entrepreneurs and innovators. It brings leaders behind the fastest-growing companies to share business advice via webinars, podcasts, meetups, retreats, and conferences.

• For its 2022 conference, Traction has secured an amazing line-up of speakers from some of the world’s top companies, including Twitter, Eventbrite, MailChimp, Calendly, Atlassian, Twilio, Intercom, Zapier, Zendesk, Shopify, TalkDesk, and many more.

• Use code VANTECH50 for 50% off.

Register today

Check out more upcoming tech events at events.vantechjournal.com.