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🍻 This week: Open Tech Industry Social | June 24
Tech Industry Drinks takes place on the last Friday night of every month.
Join the Vancouver Tech Journal team and a growing collection of Vancouver tech industry founders and leaders for casual networking. Your first drink is compliments of CBRE and its High Technology Facilities Group, the experts in tech office space for Vancouver’s start-up community. Get to know them at hightech.cbrevancouver.com and on LinkedIn.
No registration is necessary. Just show up at Yaletown Brewing Co. on Friday, June 24 at 4:30 p.m.
🙋♀️ Register now: Infinite Startup AMA: VC, Financing, Media/PR, Web3, Office Space | July 6
Every month, the Home Key invites experts from Vancouver’s innovation community to share valuable advice and insights with local entrepreneurs and builders.
Join us in person, grab a drink, and ask away. But first, meet this month's special guest advisors:
Kookai Chaimahawong, ESG Partner, UpperStage Capital
Kathleen Reid, Founder & Chief Communications Officer, Switchboard PR
Brendan Cooper, Senior Manager Global Investments & Innovation Incentives, Deloitte
Alain Rivère, VP, High Technology Facilities Group at CBRE
William Johnson, GM, Vancouver Tech Journal
More TBD
Want to get involved, message Jonathan and Clare at The Home Key on their website.
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Vancouver Entrepreneurs’ Forum presents The Future of Transporation | June 28
VEF is pleased to be presenting its first-ever Future of Transportation day featuring the following program: An interactive display of leading Transportation Technologies at Jack Poole Plaza; a cocktail reception and Networking at the Vancouver Convention Centre; and a panel discussion.
Speakers include: Heali Thirlwell, Commercial Real Estate Broker, CBRE; Sandra Phillips, Shared Mobility Architect, Ted Talk Speaker and CEO, Movmi; Jay Giraud, CEO, Damon Motors; JR Hammond, Executive Director, Canadian Air Mobility; Simon Pickup, CEO of a new (stealthy) energy company, and former CEO and Co-Founder, Hydra Energy; Adam McLeod, Sales Manager, Western Canada, Lucid Motors.
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Motivate Vancouver, North America’s first next-gen mobility investor conference | June 29
Startups, emerging innovators, venture capital investors, policymakers, and mobility leaders — the key players in the Metro Vancouver region and beyond are coming together for a new global investment gathering. Attend a day of pitches, panels and breakout sessions that showcase the next-gen mobility trailblazers and highlight Vancouver as an emerging world hub for innovation.
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F3STIVAL | Welcoming 1000+ Wom3n to Web3 | July 9
#F3STIVAL is welcoming 1000+ women to web3. This FOR women, BY women conference will be hosted in Vancouver on July 9-10, 2022.
Over a span of two days, a full cast of women speakers and educators will discuss topics like ‘wtf is crypto?’ and get hands on to answer questions like “how the f do I mint an NFT?’.
Topping off the event will be a pitch competition where one female-founded web3 company will be awarded a $25,000 investment, funded, and decided on by F3STIVAL ticket holders.
Use code VTJ for 10% off.
Traction Conference | August 10-11
Traction is a global community of more than 100,000 entrepreneurs and innovators. They bring leaders behind the fastest-growing companies to share business advice via webinars, podcasts, meetups, retreats, and conferences.
For their 2022 conference, they’ve secured an amazing line-up of speakers from some of the world’s fastest-growing companies like Atlassian, Twilio, Intercom, Zapier, Shopify, TalkDesk and many more.
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Check out more upcoming tech events at events.vantechjournal.com.