Networking and learning are two pillars of entrepreneurship, so here is a list of events happening in Toronto in September 2018.
Get your business cards ready, and go learn something new or meet your next big client!
Startup Crash Course – From Idea to Scale in One Evening
Sept. 19 @ 6.30pm – Ted Rogers School of Management
Are you ready to learn all you need to go from idea to scale in one evening? From validating your idea, to business structures, partnership agreements, intellectual property, to startup funding lifecycle and funding options.
Meet Max Mullen: Co-founder of Instacart
Sept. 19 @ 6pm – Startwel
As the Co-Founder of Instacart, Max Mullen works across multiple roles in product and culture. Launched in 2012, Instacart has fundamentally changed the grocery industry by connecting customers with shoppers who hand-pick and deliver fresh groceries and everyday essentials to their doorsteps in as little as one hour.
DMZ Women Founders Pitch Competition
Sept. 20 @ 5pm – DMZ Sandbox
The DMZ wants you to see how far the top eight finalists from the DMZ Women Founders Accelerator Program have come.
Elevate Festival
Sept. 21-27 – Throughout Toronto
Elevate is a city-wide tech and innovation festival centered in North America’s fastest growing tech ecosystem.
Leading in the Future of Work
Sept. 21 @ 8.30am – MaRS Discovery District
New technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain are making disruption the new normal in the workplace. These technologies can reshape markets and upend workflows – and they’re not coming in the future, they’re being deployed now.
FintechTO Meetup
Sept. 24 @ 6pm – RBC WaterPark Place Auditorium
FintechTO is a community for innovators in the financial technology sector. Each bi-monthly event will feature candid conversations, laid-back networking and a healthy dose of beer, wine and other beverages.
HackerNest Toronto September Tech Social
Sept. 24 @ 7pm – Info-Tech Research Group
Remember summer? That went by quite quickly. Well, no other choice but to fall (see what we did there?) into the next Tech Social on Mon, Sept 24 – and see all our tech friends! Join up, don’t wait.
The 12th Small Business Summit
Sept. 24 @ 3pm – Pivotal Labs
The Toronto Region Board of Trade is bringing together the region’s rising entrepreneurs and established business leaders for an exchange of best practices and idea sharing on how to fulfill basic needs and even consider going global.
Intellectual Property and Products
Sept. 25 @ 6pm – Toronto Board of Trade
From case studies and statistics, to current stories of value, rights, strategies, and pitfalls from the technology domain: a beginning framework for understanding Intellectual Property issues will be shared.
Toronto Cryptocurrency Conference
Sept. 26 @ 6.30pm – Ted Rogers School of Management
Everyone is talking and investing in Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies. What is your Cryptocurrency strategy? As Cryptocurrencies become more and more of an investment vehicle, knowing how to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies is crucial