Jodi Mabee is the newest member of the TechAlliance team, joining up as Membership Coordinator. Here she is, in her own words: Hi Everyone! My name is Jodi Mabee and I am thrilled to join the TechAlliance team as your new Membership Coordinator. Although I wasn’t born in the Forest City, I have been a…
Here at TechAlliance, we love this time a year. Like, a lot. The Christmas music starts mid-November, the tree-trimming party is in early December, and of course our annual Holiday Mixer at Aroma brings out the London community to share and celebrate together. This year we’ve even added an office initiative called The Twelve Business…
If you’ve been following along at home, last week was Global Entrepreneurship Week, and London participated actively thanks to events planned by folks from all over, coming together to share in the spirit of entrepreneurship. One such event was the 2014 WesternU: Startup Showcase. Organized by a team of current Western students, the event was…
Hi guys! It was quite an exciting week for entrepreneurship in London! Each day this week there has been events taking place at various locations across the city in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). Running this year from Nov. 17th-23rd, GEW is a worldwide celebration of entrepreneurship across 140 countries that encourages citizens to…
We at TechAlliance have been hard at work for a while with a plan… a bold, brave, delightful plan: to tell the success stories of the London and southwestern Ontario tech community. You have successes! So many successes. And yet, how often do we hear about the amazing things that so many of you are…
Today Kaleid Snow Gear, manufacturer of snowboarding safety equipment, is launching its brand new website, which was made by WARPAINT Media. Kaleid Snow Gear was founded by Jessica Hodgson in 2013. Jessica has been teaching snowboarding for six years and is dedicated to keeping the sport safe and fun. In 2013, Jessica sustained a bone bruise…
You might have heard of Take Our Kids to Work, the annual program where grade 9 students get to accompany their parents into work to see what exactly it is they spend all day doing out there in the world. But what about taking your parents to work? Well, last year on November 6th, LinkedIn…
Hi guys! My TechAlliance career is off to a flying start! Last week our StartUp Services team had the opportunity to attend Techtoberfest, a two day event in Kitchener-Waterloo’s great start up ecosystem that brought together entrepreneurs and venture capitalists during the world’s second largest Oktoberfest. The event was hosted by Communitech, Kitchener-Waterloo’s regional innovation…
One of the most difficult steps in the process of commercialization is putting the right team together, especially finding the right help for the business side of technical projects. To help address this issue, the Innovation Factory in Hamilton (part of the same Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs as TechAlliance) ran a competition last year for…
Hi everyone! My name is Blake Farquharson (not to be confused with our other awesome digital media analyst Blake Stone) and I am the new Business Analyst here at TechAlliance, focused on youth. I will be acting as the bridge between the TechAlliance StartUp Services team and the newly created Campus Linked Accelerators at Western,…