Good day! Welcome to this week’s events briefing brought to you by Float.

🚨 Now on August 4: Monthly Tech Industry Social

• Tech Industry Drinks take place on the last Friday night of every month — BUT NOT THIS ONE. It’s now on Thursday, August 4.

• 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 Thursday, August 4 at 4:30pm.

Close the books 5x faster at month-end

Businesses like Properly, Clutch, and Coinberry are eliminating hours of manual work with Float by automating spend approvals, receipt matching, merchant rules, and GL code tagging. We said it. No more expense reports.

Get $500 cashback on your first $2500 in spend using code VANTECHJOURNAL500.

*Sponsored

TONIGHT: Ask the Experts: Web3 & NFTs | July 27

Still not sure how to get into NFTs? 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, SEGEV LLP, and d3crypto, as well as early adopters and local innovators, to learn about how these technologies will affect how you live, work, and play. Bonus: drinks and pizza provided by The Home Key!

Meet a sampling of the experts who will be there tonight:

• Carmilla Sumantry, artist and co-founder, Dizzie Studio

• Sandra Wong, founder and CEO, Lucky Lady Games

• Diego Rios, founder, vvery

• Matias Marquez, CEO, ethos NFT

• Stacie Ant, co-founder, XELEVEN

• Aaron Cunningham, co-founder, XELEVEN

• Masaki Jeffery, founder, Frentity Studios

• Greg McMullen, special counsel, SEGEV LLP

• Simon Vieira, CEO and game producer, MixMob

• Tita CupcakeDuJour, content creator, CupcakeDuJour

Join 100+ attendees:

Register now

On a related note, have you checked out Milk Road?

It’s a new crypto newsletter that we’ve been reading. We heard about it a few times from people we respect on Twitter before finally subscribing… and we have to say… it’s awesome. 

If you like the Vancouver Tech Journal, you’ll like The Milk Road.

It’s got that great mix of smart stuff and jokes. And crypto is changing so fast, it’s great to just read a super quick and simple summary of the big news each day. It was started by @shaanvp (famous twitter guy), so it got pretty popular quickly (100k+ subscribers this year). 

If you wanna keep up with crypto —> highly recommend checking it out. 

Here’s the link to subscribe (it’s free).

*Sponsored

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 lineup 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

entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week | Sept 27-29

• entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week (EIW) will bring together storytellers and movement builders from across our ecosystem in person and online, to share their insights on the strategies and tactics that helped them transform their ideas to impact.

• Hear from innovators and leaders on bringing radical ideas to scale, learn from founders, funders, industry and academic leaders on reframing the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and innovation and meet the next generation of innovators at UBC in thought-provoking panels and an Impact Showcase.

Register now

Coming up soon:

• July 28: Tally Ho! The Community-Owned Wallet - and why community is a web3 superpower

• Aug 2: Vancouver Tech Morning Coffee, 8-10am at The Birds & The Beets

• Aug 3: YVR Dao Social

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