Woah, I’m still reeling from Web Summit 2020, I will deep dive into that next month, but Forbes summed it up like this: Netflix and Amazon should take note – Web Summit was by far the best streaming entertainment of the week. We’ve already confirmed a November 2021 date for the first hybrid Web Summit […]
Building Industrial Strength Entrepreneurs in Western Canada with Founder Institute
Doing a startup is hard but there are so many support groups, community meet-ups, programs, associations, conferences and accelerators to help you. During the pandemic for numerous reasons many have decided to start their own business – for many its an extension of what they are already doing, but for others it’s a dream they […]
A Bigger And Better Vancouver Startup Week & More Events Than Ever
Another month another batch of online events – I think I attended 2 conferences in September last year, this year I have been at 5+ in the past 30 days. Some notable online events I attended: Slack Frontiers was a conference for Slack developers built on Slack. I thought it was well done and especially […]
Bridging the Startup Ecosystem Kingdoms of British Columbia
I just came back from a holiday exploring some of beautiful British Columbia and of course just because of the nature of my work: building communities and ecosystems — I had to get a couple of causal intros to some startup people to say “Hi” to while driving around the amazing Okanagan and beyond. I […]
10 Years of Startup Conferences & the Subtle Art of Connecting People
This past August 7th marks the 10th anniversary of the first startup conference in Hong Kong – we did it on a Saturday so it was adeptly named “Startup Saturday.” We got the venue Cyberport to sponsor the venue for 300 people, Microsoft sponsored the lunch, Rackspace did some lucky draws for that first iPad […]
Collision Reverb: Why More Conferences, Meet-ups and Networking Events Should Be A Live/Online Hybrid
As co-host of the RISE conference in Asia and the recent Collision from Home – the online version of Collision, normally held in Toronto – it was an incredible pivot by a team of 250+ and you can read all about the response and the final numbers here. The results are extremely promising, as to […]