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Revolution Ice Cream - Community Development & Collaboration
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Edmonton) | NAIT Campus, 11762 - 106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G2R1, Canada
Description

Starting a business can be extremely challenging. John and Jessica with share their experiences growing Revolution Ice Cream and what role community development and collaboration has played. You will leave with some tips for your success… and you might get to try some ice cream 🙂

Join us in CAT 309D for this informative session.
Date and Time

Thu, January 10, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST

Location

NAIT CAT Building CAT 309D
10304-10524 117A Avenue Northwest
Edmonton, AB T5G
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Impact Luncheon
2019-01-08 11:30 - 13:30 | Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 1N9, Canada
Join Edmonton’s business, community, non-profit, and government leaders to see what lies ahead when EEDC’s new CEO, Derek Hudson, takes the stage and shares his vision for the way forward.

Open Discussion: Making a Pitch Deck to Raise Angel Capital
2019-01-08 08:00 - 09:30 | TEC Edmonton, 4rth Floor Enterprise Square, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 4P6, Canada
Description
Open discussion: Making a pitch deck to raise angel capital
January 8, 2019. 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
Competing for capital can be a rough ride. You often get only one chance with an investor, so it is important your pitch deck hits the appropriate points.
This event is an interactive, informal group presentation given from the perspective of the angel group Valhalla Angels. It is meant to generate questions and conversations around the topic of the month and an opportunity to meet some fellow local entrepreneurs.
Grab your coffee and head to the TEC Innovation District to join Valhalla Angels Kristina and Ryan to learn more.
S​chedule:
8:15-8:25 Presentation
8:25-9:15 Angel Q+A session
About the presenters
Kristina Milke
Executive in Residence, TEC Valhalla Angels
A TEC Executive in Residence since 2014, Kristina Milke is the Deal Flow Director for the TEC Valhalla Angels. Kristina’s strong financial background includes a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Alberta and a Chartered Professional Accountant designation, in addition to having studied International Business at Sweden’s Uppsala Universitet. She is the president of K-GAR Consulting Inc., providing CFO and Business Advisory Services, as well as a founding mentor and Board of Advisors Member of the University of Alberta Venture Mentoring Services. Kristina is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta (CPA Alberta), the Women’s Executive Network (WXN), and the VA Angels. She previously served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Investopedia, and the Corporate Divisional Controller of Intuit Canada. Kristina’s favourite thing to do is travel, and looks forward to an annual trip.
Ryan Heit
Executive in Residence, TEC Valhalla Angels
Ryan Heit is an Investment Coordinator, managing the investor network for TEC Valhalla Angels. Since joining TEC in 2013, Ryan has been a member of the Business Development team, screening companies for TEC VA Angels and organizing regular investor events. Prior to TEC, Ryan was co-founder of Pacylex Pharmaceuticals and Prairie Noodle Shop. Ryan holds an MBA, Technology Commercialization Specialization as well as an MSc, Experimental Oncology. According to Ryan, one fun fact about himself is that he is not fun. Not even when he is rock climbing, running a successful noodle restaurant, or building home arcade machines out of Raspberry Pi computer parts.
Location

TEC Innovation District
Main floor, Enterprise Square
10230 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4P6
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Connect with TEC
Is your technology-based company past the startup phase and you’re not sure how to grow? That’s what we’re here for.
TEC Edmonton provides an opportunity for qualifying entrepreneurs to work with experts in a vibrant downtown workspace.
Want to know more? Connect with TEC.
The TEC Valhalla Angels are starting us off on January 8 for “Open Discussion: Making a pitch deck to raise angel capital”.
You often get only one chance with an investor, so it is important your pitch deck hits the appropriate points. This event is an interactive, informal group presentation given from the perspective of the angel group TEC Valhalla Angels.​

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Lunchalytics: Alberta AI
2018-12-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Startup Edmonton HQ, 301, 10359 - 104 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Analytics is the use of data and analysis to improve the performance of an organization. In other words, it’s the search for a free lunch. Ergo, we combine compelling speakers with a free lunch.This month we explore Alberta AI, and our speakers will be announced shortly.Food starts at 11:45, speakers start at high noon. We hope to see you there.Please note: RSVPing “Yes” indicates that you are attending in person, and we will save you a seat and order you lunch. If you are attending remotely, there is no need to RSVP.For those unable to attend in person, we will be live streaming to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCzPqHzOHnHsQGPEPaUCC5Jw/videosOur hashtag for social media is #lunchalytics.Interested in presenting, volunteering, or being a sponsor at Lunchalytics? Please get in touch with us via www.lunchalytics.com.

Machine Learning 101 with Amii
2018-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Startup Edmonton HQ, 301, 10359 - 104 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Heralded by many as the fourth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence has inspired countless news articles, novels, and films. With this deluge of information comes hopes and aspirations, fears and misconceptions – some justified and others not.How can we make sense of it all? Join Amii as we pull back the curtain on AI and lay a pragmatic foundation for what AI is, what it isn’t, and how you can begin to think about the place of AI in your business.

Open Hardware Christmas Social
2018-12-13 18:30 - 20:30 | State & Main Kitchen & Bar, 5015 111 St NW #850, Edmonton,, AB, T6H 4M6, Canada
Christmas Social at State & Main Kitchen & Bar!This year we’ll be meeting at the State & Main restaurant in the South West corner of Southgate Mall. There is an LRT station there, so it should be easy to get to even if you are coming from downtown. Come out for great conversation and social interaction around open hardware technology in Edmonton.Meet at 6:30pm at 5015 111 St NW #850, Edmonton, AB T6H 4M6.Please RSVP a couple of days ahead of the date, so that we can make a reservation.Cheers!What is Open Hardware?The Open Hardware Meetup is a place where all kinds of people can share an interest in the intersection of hardware, software, connectivity, and user experience. When combined, these elements create a new art which blends the lines of beauty and technology.Even as computing devices have become more powerful, the underlying technology is now more and more available for everyone. With a few mouse clicks, overnight shipping, and a few hours work, you can build your own versions of ground-breaking products based on simple open platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, Galileo, Edison, and more. Even better, you can create something that has not physically existed. It is the flexibility and power of computing, expressed in physical, tangible form.Who is it for?Everyone is welcome, from casual observers to nascent hobbyists to advanced techs. Presentations will range from beginner how tos, to highlighting cool projects from Edmonton and Alberta. There is almost always food before and drinks after. We’re always open to new speakers and topics as requested by our members.Examples of things we’ve done-learn to solder,-basics of arduino,-automated basketball robots from a local high school team-projected surfaces and their use in theatre set design,-magnetic computer displays for the visually impairedExamples of things we want to do-lighting, home automation, wearables, drones/navigation, 3D printing, arduino, raspberry Pi, beaglebone and other open hardware platforms.-workshops,-build days, similar to hackathon, where a group of people with varying skills create and finish projects-specialty sub-clusters where people can specialize in wearables, lighting and home automation, maker technology, and dronesWe welcome you to Open Hardware Meetup and together we’ll create wow.

Biz Link Holiday Mingle
2018-12-13 14:00 - 16:00 | RoundHouse MacEwan University, 11110 104Ave, Edmontnon, Alberta, Canada
Join us for our Holiday Mingle at Roundhouse! Celebrate connections with Business Link this holiday season! And help us make a difference to those in our YEG Community!
Join us for this casual networking event, with some winter goodies to enjoy and wish each other well before the busy-ness of the holiday season. Mix, mingle (and jingle!) with your peers and meet with our partners from various service providers dedicated to helping your business succeed.
Join us for this holiday-themed networking event. Goodies will be served. There will be a vendor marketplace.
Please bring donations, either monetary or warm socks, hats, and mittens, for Boyle Street Community Services. Help us keep someone warm this winter!
Location: A huge thank you to Roundhouse for hosting this event!
Cost: This event is free to attend. We look forward to the opportunity to connect with you before the holidays!

AWS re:Invent re:Cap 2018
2018-12-12 18:00 | Alberta
The final Edmonton AWS User Group Meetup of 2018!If you weren’t able to make it to AWS re:Invent this year in Las Vegas (Nov. 26-30) don’t you worry! We have representatives who are attending and compiling their re:Cap to share with our group! We will be highlighting the top announcements and doing a deep dive into a few of the most interesting new initiatives. Make sure you join us to hear all about it and get involved in the discussions.Schedule:6:00pm – Arrival, Mingling, Pizza Eating6:25pm – Introductions, followed by the Presentations7:30pm – Q&A and Group Discussions8:00pm – Meetup ConcludesEveryone welcome! This meetup is suitable for all levels of AWS Knowledge.

RainForest LWL#2
2018-12-12 11:30 - 13:30 | Enterprise Centre 2-520A, 10230 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 4P6, Canada
Rainforest Alberta – Lunch without Lunch YEG is an informal get-together for Edmonton entrepreneurs, small business owners, academia, investors, and service providers. Anyone looking to encourage collisions between people and create connections that will help drive the success of entrepreneurs in Alberta’s innovation system is welcome to attend.
Lunch without Lunch will typically run the 1st and 2nd Tuesday of every month at Enterprise Square.
Agenda:

11:45 Check In (bring your lunch!)
12:00 Welcome
12:10 Entrepreneur Profile – Debra Greig, CEO of TransforMana
12:25 Who’s in the Room
12:35 Networking

Cost: Free
All are welcome to join – come prepared to share with the group on how you can provide support others in the nature of the Rainforest Social Contract. Do you want to learn more about the Social Contract or signup and commit to building a culture that supports entrepreneurs? Click here!
Can’t Make it to LWOL? Join us on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Advanced Technology Centre in the Edmonton Research Park for Connector. Please ensure to register for each month and double check dates and locations as they are subject to change.

Edmonton School of AI
2018-12-11 17:00 - 20:00 | Canadian Western Bank Conference Center, 10303 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
If you are interested in Learning (ML), this meetup is for you. We meet to bend data to our will, to socialize, and to build a community of Machine Learning and Data Science Practitioners. We will also build a community of lifelong learners, to help each other in the quest of using AI technology for the common good.Note: Location moved from Startup Edmonton to Canadian Western Bank Conference Center.Agenda– Go through the short guideline as soon as possible: https://bit.ly/2rafCoR– How to build the Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards on the link below, will be discussed. BI dashboards: https://bit.ly/2SC7b13– Eco Stations code walkthrough: https://bit.ly/2Sy2Bkq– The intent of the meetup and it’s long term and short term goals will be discussedHighly recommended you come with your laptop, fully charged.Just in case, come with your laptop charger as well.Attendee’s if you have extra extension cords come with them – to compensate for laptop chargers.Have these installed in your laptop.– Install Visual Studio Code (must): https://code.visualstudio.com/– Install Live Server for Visual Studio Code (must): https://bit.ly/2qRKGK2– Install Git (optional but recommended): https://git-scm.com/Sign up for GitHub (optional but recommended): https://github.com/If you have any questions or concerns post a comment.Also come with water and a light snack, to recharge yourself hahaha! We will be using a lot of brain power ^_^. Potential sponsors who want to feed us haha, send me an email.Email: https://mikelotis.github.io/#webHighly recommended to join slack and follow twitter, for updates and resources.Edmonton School of AI ChapterFollow @yegSchoolofAI on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2DH7ynNSlack group (# school_of_ai channel): https://bit.ly/2Ft5KQLSchool of AIFollow @SchoolOfAIOffic on Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QlQuKxSlack group for School of AI: http://wizards.herokuapp.com/School of AI – website link: https://bit.ly/2QPoM54

Pitchfest Edmonton
2018-12-07 13:30 - 18:00 | Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 1N9, Canada
Like a community-based Shark Tank or Dragon’s Den, Pitchfest Edmonton is where startup company founders can pitch their businesses and specific needs to an audience of public and private investors, service providers, business leaders, and community members who ask questions and then offer ideas and proposals to the startup founders.
Each startup founder will have 5 minutes to pitch their business and specific resource needs, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A from an audience panel. Then the audience members will have 5 minutes to fill out a form to email the startup founder with ideas and offers for various ways they might be able to fulfill those specific needs, whether they be financing, marketing, legal, strategy, business development, personnel, product development, or sales. After all of the pitches are finished, the audience will be able to vote online to choose their favorite.

Alberta has installed its first 17 MW solar farm! The Largest in Western Canada!
2018-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 | MacEwan University, 10460 105 Street Northwest, '
Thu, 6 December 2018
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LOCATION
MacEwan University – CN Conference Theatre
10460 105 Street Northwest
Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2
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Alberta has installed its first 17 MW solar farm! The Largest in Western Canada!
Join us before the event for networking at Solar Drinks 5-7pm.
The Alberta Electric System Operator’s Connection Queue presently has proposals for over 4 Gigawatts of solar generating capacity!
Round 1 of the Renewable Energy Program (REP) auction in 2017 successfully delivered nearly 600 MW of wind generation at a weighted average bid price of $37/MWh – setting a new record in Canada. Large solar projects in the US, India, and Chile are coming in with very competitive pricing. What is the potential for large solar project pricing here? What are the short and long term ratepayer benefits of Alberta’s embracing of big solar? Want to watch from home?
Presenters
Annette and Stephan Dautel – Directors, Dautel Solutions

Overview of the world-wide utility-scale solar PV development
Evolution of Germany’s renewable energy and solar market.
Update on utility-scale solar PV in Germany today.

Mikhail Ivanchikov – President, Dandelion Renewables

A comparison of the levelized cost of utility-scale solar PV in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan considering the current policies and programs available.
An overview of the first and largest utility-scale solar project in Western Canada in Brooks, Alberta.

Nathaniel Papay – EPCOR Utilities

Creating Clean Water with Clean Power – EPCOR’s proposed 12MW E.L. Smith Solar Farm Project

Click here to watch live on Facebook

Edmonton Data Science Meetup
2018-12-05 17:30 - 19:30 | Startup Edmonton HQ, 301, 10359 - 104 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada
dmonton Data Science meetup is a place to learn about data science and network with fellow Data Scientists. The presentations for the upcoming meetup include:• “Exploring Text Analytics to Gain Additional Insight into Your Data” – Nick Shelton (JMP Systems Engineer at SAS)• “Autonomous atomic-scale manufacturing through machine learning” – Moe Rashidi (Postdoctoral RA at University of Alberta)Pizza will be provided before presentations and after presentations we will head to a pub for networking!The meetup is sponsored by NAIT (http://www.nait.ca/program_home_103349.htm) and AltaML (http://altaml.com/).———-Edmonton Data Science (EDS) meetups are a platform for data science enthusiasts and professionals to:• learn about big data techniques and tools• discuss best practices in big data and data science• promote big data and data science among university students and the local tech community• learn about practical applications of data science methods• learn about companies that use data science as the foundation of their business processesWe are passionate about data science and big data. We hope to create a vibrant data science community that is engaged in sharing and learning different topics in the field.In these meetups, we intend to a) share best practices and knowledge of data science-based startups and corporations with university students, b) introduce research works on big data and data science to the local tech community. We aim to connect the students to companies and make them more aware of our vibrant local tech community. We also invite professors and researchers to present their work on data mining and machine learning methods to the professional community. Each meetup will include a presentation introducing a company who is using data science techniques, and two presentations about big data, data science and machine learning techniques.

Chamber YEG Innovates
2018-12-05 11:30 - 13:30 | Sutton Place Hotel, 10235 - 101 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 3E9, Canada
How are new and innovative technologies changing the way we work, live and do business?
Hear from a panel of local innovators as they discuss the research and technological advancements that are happening in our own backyard, how their organizations are spearheading innovation in Edmonton and how Edmonton businesses can benefit from these technologies and become innovators in their own industries.
Panellists Include:

Moderator: Cheryll Watson, Vice-President, Innovate Edmonton
John Antonio, Chief Strategy Officer, IDX Labs
Jason Pincock, President and CEO, DynaLIFE Medical Labs

Zouheir Mansourati, VP, Broadband Networks, TELUS

RainForest LWOL #1
2018-12-04 11:30 - 13:30 | Enterprise Centre 2-520A, 10230 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 4P6, Canada
In 2011 Antoine co-founded Sustainival, the world’s first green carnival – a full-scale carnival midway that operates entirely on renewable energy. Antoine is also the co-founder of Sustainitech, a technology commercialization company that builds high-density commercial lettuce farms in shipping containers.
Given the inherent risks of these social enterprise startups, Antoine launched a third company in 2012 called ‘Boring Investments’. This company was built to purchase commercial properties and establish a cashflow foundation as a hedge against the potential startup risks.
After stabilizing these ventures with executive teams in place, Antoine returned his focus to commercial real estate in early 2016. Boring Investments was rebranded as Sparrow Capital with the purpose of demonstrating how commercial real estate assets can be curated strategically to enhance the cultural fabric of neighbourhoods and the economic resilience of municipal regions.
Antoine holds a diploma in mediation and conflict resolution from the Vienna ARGE academy and a diploma in Indian philosophy from the University of Wales. Antoine is a Platinum member of the Real Estate Investment Network, a board member of IDEA – Infill Development in Edmonton Association, the Planning Director for the Riverdale Community League, and Chairman of the PowPow Brotherhood. He lives in Edmonton with his wife and 4 children and is an avid mountain biking and backcountry snowboard enthusiast.

BetaCity YEG MeetUp
2018-11-28 18:30 - 20:30 | Startup Edmonton HQ, 301, 10359 - 104 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Join us for our evening BetaCityYEG meetup, working on projects and solutions that emerged out of our recent discussions. We are the city and region’s citizen-led digital engagement group. Developers, civic employees, data enthusiasts, students, professionals and general engaged Edmontonians are all welcome! Anyone is free to stay past the one-hour meeting time and collaborate if they so wish.
Presentations to be updated as we get closer to the date.
Check out our site (http://www.betacity.ca) for previous community projects and future ideas.

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