Jul 20, 2018 • 6 min read
Image: Startupfest
This year, eleven TWGers attended Startupfest in Montreal to share, learn, and participate in the Canadian startup ecosystem’s biggest conference of the year. In this blog post, two of our product managers describe their highlights.
From our famous boat party to our project manager Oksana’s win at the OMERS Venture Charity Poker event, we had a blast and got to meet incredible people looking to grow Canada’s technology presence on the world stage.
With braindates attendees shared topics they were interested in discussing and other attendees could sign up to chat. Topics ranged from the role of VCs to the impact of blockchain in both group and one-on-one settings. Here are a few we attended:
David Byttow has lead projects like Medium, Square Wallet, Square Cash and Google Wave. His talk stressed the need to take pause and be greedy with your time so that you’re able to focus better on the things that need to get done.
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Amber Venz Box built rewardStyle as a platform to allow bloggers a way to provide economic stability to their lives in an open-sourced information age. She shared personal experiences and passionately advocated for ‘finding your why.’
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‘The Power of 1’ by author Nilofer Merchant highlighted how even in the feeling of ‘otherness’ we can find power and how we can harness our values to shape the organizations and communities we are a part of.
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Kelly Hoey is the author of Build Your Dream Network and is “1 of the 10 Most well-connected people in New York City’s Startup Scene”. The Q & A session started off with some top do’s and do not’s and after she took questions from the audience.
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Amber Case is the author of ‘Calm Technology, Design for the Next Generation of Devices’ and has been featured Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30 and featured in Women in Technology. During her talk she helped bring attention to the often overlooked area of Sound Design.
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This panel was moderated by Robert Smith, Executive Director at Innovative Solutions Canada, who gave government innovation officers (Dr. Kate Kaminska, Alex Benay, and Hillary Hartley) the platform to discuss how solution providers and startups can interact with Government at all levels to help solve the problems being faced by Government today.
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