Events Calendar

Welcome to London Bridge’s 3rd Annual Founder’s Panel.

Please join London Bridge Network April 3rd for this exciting evening. This is a chance to hear from a panel of entrepreneurs and business people from relatively new start ups to established international successes. With host, Anna Foat, herself a high achieving success story, attendees will have the opportunity to hear how these 5 people have overcome obstacles and made their mark on the business landscape in London and beyond.

This is a chance to find out how to avoid common business problems, make the right choices and ask the important questions of like minded people that may have already conquered the growth and planning issues you’re having now. If you have a business now or planning to start one, come hear from the real experts that have a track record to influence your future.

The last two Founder’s Panels have brought in over 80 people to hear from and ask questions of the panel. These events are well received, and both the guests and participants had an exciting evening.

The Founder’s for Tuesday, April 3rd are:

Anna Foat, amazing moderator and business maven

Ross Rains, The Focal Point Group

Matthew Richens, Tech Share

Jeff Young, iLOOKABOUT

Kim Atkinson, OntarioSEO

David Strucke, Media Sonar

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Join our COO Rachel Berdan for a journey to learn more about becoming a B Corp and sustainable business practices. Learn about:

1. Starting with why: the importance of storytelling
2. What is a B Corp?
3. Mythbusting: Can purpose businesses make money? Does having CSR make you a B Corp?
4. Review the impact assessment and learn how to “measure what matters”

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UXTalks is a series of two-hour mini-conferences covering all that is UX. This free event is great for students, designers and developers of all experience levels, business leaders, marketing and communications professionals, product people, and anyone looking to learn more about user experience.

Civic Tech London and the City of London are currently working on a submission to Infrastructure Canada’s Smart City Challenge. They’ve been collecting public input, suggestions and ideas for the past month; through Get Involved and several public events. They’ve also benefited from thousands of engagement points with the ReThink London process.

Now it’s time to finalize London’s Smart Cities ‘Challenge Statement’. The Challenge Statement is a single sentence that defines the outcomes of London’s community wants to achieve by implementing the smart cities proposal. The Challenge Statement must be measurable, ambitious, and achievable through the proposed use of data and connected technology.

Join Civic Tech London and other community members on Saturday, April 7th, from 10am to 4pm at Innovation Works to write our challenge statement. The event is designed as a hackathon / working session and a hands-on opportunity to directly shape London’s Smart City Future.

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There is a lot of noise in the marketing world pertaining to what approaches one should be implementing in marketing their brand. Shifts in technology and what’s new always lend a hand in steering a marketer away potentially from what they need to be focusing on. Taking a media neutral stance can help companies pull back from knee jerk tactics and shine a light on what types of (integrated) marketing will help them perform.

Join Chris Gardner from Cipher Interactive to participate in an open discussion and presentation on the benefits of being media neutral, and how to think through your marketing program starting with a healthy “media” diet.

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About the Speaker:

Chris finds the balance between the artistic and the practical to help his clients succeed.

Before venturing out on his own, Chris cut his teeth as a Developer and Art Director at Cossette Communications then served as Senior Art Director at both Grey Advertising and Leo Burnett. His experience at these leading Canadian agencies gave him the opportunity to work on top tier national and international clients including, Bell, McDonald’s, General Mills and Visa. Chris has helped a variety of clients across many different verticals most recently insurance, travel retail, and the oil and gas sectors.

Chris holds a Honours B.Sc degree from The University of Western Ontario, and a post graduate certificate in interactive multi-media from Sheridan college. In a former life, he was studying to be a nutritionist. Chris lives in Sarnia Ontario with his three children.

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Six Canadian medical heroes are inducted annually to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. Their work may be a single meritorious contribution or a lifetime of superior accomplishments. Pioneers in their field, they are role models of excellence in health in Canada and the world.

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Kick-off London Tech Week 2018 with Sarah Prevette and special guests, downtown at Toboggan Brewing Company for an entertaining and frank talk-show style discussion about all things entrepreneurship and what it takes to succeed and thrive in today’s business world.

Host:

Sarah Prevette, Founder & CEO, Future Design School

Sarah Prevette teaches creativity and design thinking to some of the country’s biggest business leaders. Her organization, ​Future Design School​​, empowers executives through immersive innovation training. The schools’ proprietary programs enable professionals to develop their own skillsets as innovators and learn repeatable methods around ideation, validation and rapid-prototyping.

Prevette has an illustrious history of innovation as a serial entrepreneur, high profile investor and strategic advisor to numerous organizations. She has been named by Inc Magazine as one of the top entrepreneurs in North America and one of the “Top 20 Power Elite” by Canadian Business. Sarah continues to be an evangelist for Canadian startups and gives back to the community through her work as a board director at both Communitech and VentureLab.

Guests:

Taylor Ablitt, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Diply

Taylor Ablitt is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Diply, a leading social video and entertainment publisher. Since its launch in 2013, Diply has experienced tremendous growth, becoming the 52nd largest domain in the U.S. and a comScore top 10 lifestyle property. With 70M+ social fans and growing, Diply consistently drives 1B+ video views on Facebook and 5B+ social impressions monthly.

A member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), Ablitt was named as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40® honorees for 2017, the 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year (EY), and Top 20 Under 40 recipient (Business London). In addition to integrating charitable initiatives into his professional work, Ablitt is highly active in his local community and volunteers with the Special Olympics and coaches softball and alpine skiing. A graduate of Western University’s Richard Ivey School of Business, Ablitt resides in London, Ontario.

Mallory Brodie, Co-Founder and CEO, Bridgit

Mallorie Brodie is the co-founder and CEO of Bridgit, a construction management software company. Mallorie holds an Honours degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business, and has almost 10 years of entrepreneurial experience. She holds various entrepreneurial awards, including top prize at the 2015 Google Demo Day, and Techvibes Entrepreneur of the Year.

Jeff Evans, Founder, Tiny Titan Games

Since a young age, Evans has been an entrepreneur and gaming enthusiast. Piquing his interest passed playing them, he started developing them at the age of 14. In 2003, Evans moved to London, Ontario where he worked at DICE then subsequently Digital Extremes before venturing out on his own. In 2008, he co-founded Antic Entertainment where they ran and grew the company to a peak of 25 people, launching over 6 games. In 2014 Evans founded Tiny Titan Studios, with a vision to create retro inspired games. Now Tiny Titan is over 20 people strong and has released 7 games to date, 6 of which have been featured as Apple’s Best New Games.

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Are you looking to connect with leaders in your sector? As part of London Tech Week 2018, we are once again hosting our Munchies with Mentors program. These events give you the opportunity to meet and have open discussions with local leaders.

On April 18th, join us to meet local industry experts from the tech community.

Format:

Mentors will be seated at tables with no more than three participants each to have an open discussion over casual munchies. After twenty minutes, participants will be invited to switch tables. Participants will have the opportunity to chat with three different mentors/tables and then the event will conclude with open networking.

Mentors:

Barney Lawn – President & CEO, Core Solutions

Chris Kirby, CTO, Voices.com

David Strucke – CEO, Media Sonar

Patrick Poulin – TechAlliance EIR

Paul Turner – Senior Product Manager, CarProof

Peter Rocca – President & CEO, Start.ca

Rachel Berdan – COO, rTraction

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Celebrate London Tech Week 2018 at the Techcellence Awards Celebration & Mixer. Join us to honour the excellence of tech entrepreneurs, start-ups and established tech companies in London and Southwestern Ontario where the Techcellence Awards for Startup Innovation, Business Growth, and Community Engagement.

This event will also present the opportunity to mix and mingle over refreshments with local tech companies, entrepreneurs as well as community and business leaders, all while celebrating our region’s thriving technology sector.

Last year’s Techcellence Award winners:

Startup Innovation: Formi 3DP

Business Growth: Race Roster

Community Engagement: Arcane

Lifetime Achievement: Hank Vander Laan

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On Apr. 19th, discuss the changing face of the technology industry in London, ON. The event will feature a trio of panelists who moved to London to pursue their careers. They will discuss what brought them to London, what their experiences in the community have been, and what changes they’ve noticed from their arrival to present day. Registration at 6:30pm, Panel starts at 7pm.

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