The Vancouver Startup Week Hackathon is one of the most popular hackathons in Canada. More than 200 innovators, developers, and other talented individuals will work for an action-packed 48 hours. Participants will be put into teams to compete for a variety of prizes by building a new product and presenting it to a panel of expert judges as well as an audience of hundreds.
In keeping with the tradition of past years, the Vancouver Startup Week Hackathon will not feature a specific theme, but rather will be open to participants to develop the best, smartest, and the most impactful product they can over the course of 48 action-packed hours.
Capacity: 100
Members of Stripe’s Canada Team will be available for one-on-one consulting sessions to share best practices on leveraging the most flexible online payments platform for your growing business. During these sessions, you can pick our brains about how to optimize for conversions, setup payments for marketplace-type business models, navigate the international payments space, or how to most effectively handle recurring billing. We’re here to chat about anything related to your business and/or Stripe!
If you have any further questions you can contact Ross Rich: r@stripe.com
Capacity: 6
Amui provides start-ups with on-demand access to HR knowledge. At some point, you will have questions that impact you and your people. Our interactive session introduces a useful checklist to minimize your risk and help you make better decisions. Improv Q&A to follow.
Capacity: 80
Join Erin Brandt, lawyer with Kent Employment Law, and Heidi Eaves, Principal at Project House Business Solutions, for an overview and discussion of the following key topics (90 minutes, includes Q&A):
The legal distinction between an employee and an independent contractor
Best practices for employment contracts
Hiring basics
Key policies to protect your employees and your business
Keeping your team happy and motivated
WorkSafeBC – Health + Safety and Insurance
Dismissing employees
WHY ATTEND: Many startups take an ad-hoc approach to HR issues. Come learn how to get yourself out of trouble -- or better yet, avoid getting into trouble in the first place!
Capacity: 20
After a full day of sessions, join Techstars Managing Directors and The TELUS Pitch team for happy hour and pitches.
The TELUS Pitch is Canada’s largest small business contest that brings together the best minds in Canadian small business. The contest helps accelerate success through the adoption of technology. During Vancouver Startup Week, we’re inviting Vancouver business owners the chance to enter the contest by sharing how winning the grand prize of $100,000 will help them achieve their business goals and take their small business to the next level.
During this happy hour, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to enter TELUS Pitch by delivering their best “elevator” pitch to a life-sized travelling elevator. Get your elevator pitch ready!
Capacity: 75
Fasken Martineau invites you to join us for breakfast and an in-depth discussion on the vital points to consider before establishing an option plan for your company. We’ll provide you with the answers to questions such as:
· What does it actually mean when you promise to “pay someone with equity”?
· What are the different alternatives for equity or equity-based compensation (eg. traditional options, Share Appreciating Rights, “phantom” stock)
· What are the tax and legal implications of compensating employees/consultants with stock options?
You had an idea, you launched your business, you are growing... like crazy. But getting talented individuals to join your team, and help you grow your business… turns out it’s harder than it seems. You and hundreds of organizations are competing for talent in Vancouver. And this problem isn’t going away.
So how do you give your company a competitive advantage? One of your first steps is to design a compensation package that doesn’t break the bank, works in stock option agreements and other perks fluidly, AND stays true to your company’s values.
Join us for a vivid panel discussion led by career and startup strategist, Crystal Henrickson of Talent Collective, who will be joined by three professionals that can finally answer your questions around compensation, equity agreements, benefits and more. If you are committed to attracting the best talent, you should not miss this session.
Capacity: 80
Join us September 27th for a lunch and learn at BrainStation's new 20,000 sq ft campus!
From product management and user experience design, to everything data, we'll be diving into the full digital product lifecycle, upcoming market trends and the most in-demand jobs in Vancouver.
This session is ideal for those looking to launch their own business, level up specific digital skills and for anyone interested in a career in tech.
WHY ATTEND: Over the next 5 years, there will be over 40,000 tech jobs in BC that will need to be filled. Find your place in tech!
The world is changing fast and this is called the 4th Industrial Revolution: robots make cars, computers make movies, cameras are drones, Airbnb is the largest hotel chain, owning no real estate, Uber the largest taxi company in the world, owning no cars.
This presentation will expose the future of making mindset and technologies: the new Digital Capture Technologies, Mobility and Connectivity, Cloud Computing, Virtual and Augmented Realities, Biomimetics, AI and Machine Learning.
While this digital revolution will encompass all industries, the panel will focus on its early applications as well as the huge economic implications in the areas of Entertainment, Education, Medical, Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC).
Why Attend?This changes everything for the kind of people who watch movies (Avatar, Gravity, Netflix), drive a car (Tesla), or live in a house (Solar City, Airbnb).
Capacity: 70
Stripe will host a panel of executives from Vancouver-based companies who will discuss how to build global companies. Additionally, Avi Bryant of Stripe’s Data Engineering team will give a tech talk on how Stripe uses Probabilistic Programming to build internal models. It'll give a broad introduction to the underlying technology and how it’s applied at Stripe. The session will include audience Q&A.
Capacity: 130
*Don’t forget to register for the evening networking reception: Startup Resources Reception
Exclusively for Founders & Investors ONLY
Pros & Cons of Common Equity vs Preferred Equity vs SAFE vs Convertible Debt
Meet the Startup Participants
Driven by Women Connection Corner Participants
Startup Open House Website / Startup Open House Vancouver Event / Check out what happened in 2016 here
What is Startup Open House?
Vancouver’s tech space is booming, and Startup Open House is here to show you just how much. Since our first event in 2013, we’ve grown almost as fast as the startup ecosystem itself. We can barely keep up with the multitude of cool startups popping up from the West End to Mt Pleasant.
Startup Open House gives Vancouverites the chance to walk into the inspiring, quirky, and fun workplaces of their city’s most innovative startups. Companies open their doors and provide free access to job seekers, investors, and curious neighbours to discover the startup world. By learning about these companies and their products from inside their workplaces, participants get a feel for the startup’s culture, vibe, and values. #SOH2017
Check out all the Startups and their locations here:
https://www.startupopenhouse.com/path-builder/?city=vancouver
Contact email:info@startupopenhouse.com
Discover how brands, retailers, marketers and interactive agencies are using VR/AR/MR to create unique and memorable brand experiences. Virtual and augmented reality take brand immersion and customer engagement to a whole new level and will disrupt the way we connect.
We're seeing plenty of companies like Apple, Google, GE, NASA, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Audi, BMW, Verizon... are banking on it and don't want to get left behind.
The VR/AR Association Vancouver is proud to partner with Hootsuite on this event to discuss, demo and learn about how the technology will be at the forefront and prevalent in the near future.
Capacity: 50
Feeling overwhelmed by too many options and opinions on how to grow your online presence? Join Outstrend workshop and discover what's the most effective strategy for your business.
Where do you begin building a digital marketing presence that reflects your brand and delivers the right message to the right audience? What's the most effective use of your resources to grow your business?
Whether you have just started your business journey or you are looking to improve your current digital marketing processes we have a practical hands-on workshop for you. During the workshop, you're going to learn about Outstrend methodology and create a digital marketing roadmap to grow your business.
Capacity: 12
Ever wonder what it really takes to build a great culture? Are you curious about what key culture elements to focus on when you’re just starting a new company? Do you want to learn a simple yet impactful approach to creating your ideal culture?
In this 90 minute interactive session, we’ll get up close and personal with four Founders that have made culture their #1 priority within their organizations.
Moderated by Lorie Corcuera, Co-Founder, and CEO and Jennifer Curleigh, Culture Collaborator of SPARK Creations & Company, we will hear the culture journeys from:
Some questions that the panel will discuss:
Format: Panel 60 Minutes (Includes Q&A) + 30 Minutes Culture Workshop (One Founder Per 10 Participants)
Capacity: 80
