NeurIPS, and Technoel are coming up in Montreal, are you ready? And 30+ tech & startup events this week in AI, blockchain, fintech and more!
TL;DR; Exciting two weeks ahead with quality events, meetups, the Montreal AI Week and Christmas Celebrations. And if you’re looking for your startup community agenda, scroll down for the 30+ events coming up this week. Plus, with career fairs and demodays, whether you’re hiring,looking for a job, or looking to invest, don’t miss out!
As every year, Technoel is our final-ish gathering to celebrate our community, its players and supporters! We definitely advise you to grab a ticket alongside a ticket for our friends’ Techstars AI Demoday. But whether you have a ticket for NeurIPS or not, next week is a fully-packed week with dozens of AI meetups, workshops, parties etc coming up, so get ready and “free” your agenda, the world is heading to Montreal, and we don’t want you to miss out on the opportunities to amazing people coming from all around the world! So check out our newsletter coming up later this week and ask your friends to be ready too!
In the meantime, this week is another very interesting week with about 30 events and meetups (maybe more, let us know if we forgot any!); in fintech, blockchain, startups demos with our siblings of QueerTech MTL, our friends of Centech are organizing their demoday in a unique setting on the 29th and 30th between 9am and 12pm — the event is private, reach to their team if you want in. And of course, our friends of Lighthouse Labs bootcamp are having their demoday, MTLGreen is organizing their Datathon for social good, Space Summit is this week, National Bank & IVADO are organizing their exciting cybersecurity and quantique cocktail, and more!!
So scroll down and check them out!! And please if you go to tech and startup events regularly, please reach out to us, we wanna chat! :)
Bonne semaine les amis!
Fintech Career Fair | Tue. Nov. 27, 5 PM — 9 PM | Maison Notman House
Join us for the 2nd Montreal Fintech Career Fair!
With over 20 fintech startups and financial institutions looking to recruit and fill positions, the Fintech Career Fair will be the perfect opportunity to meet the fintech ecosystem!
Some of the startup’s and companies looking to recruit include Flinks, Ophelia Financial Technologies, Mylo, SourceBot, Nudge, MLG Blockchain Capital, Hardbacon, Mobeewave and QuantumSense.
It’s open to students and young professionals from all backgrounds. Bring your CV’s!
Intersections VOL.9: Blockchain, from promises to applications | Tue. Nov 27th, 5 PM — 9 PM | Centre for Canadian Architecture
Find out about the potential and challenges related to the development of blockchain in order to help businesses, citizens, decision-makers, and creators to better understand the transformations promised by this new technology. Cocktail and bouchées included.
You can expect: two conferences with Guillaume Déziel , a strategist in digital culture, business models and blockchain, followed by Audrey Raby and Philippe Chevry , co-founders of Nash. Digital Spring will then bring together a panel of five experts, led by Catherine Mathys , Director — Strategic Intelligence, Canada Media Fund.
A discounted rate of 15% is offered to MTL NewTech community using the code RABAIS_VOL9.
Montreal AI Ethics Institute: Future of Work — Deep Dive| Tue. Nov 27th, 5:45 PM — 8:15PM | Stradigi AI
NOTE: This is a special session to capture community feedback on this topic — it will be shared at the upcoming G7 AI Summit happening in Montreal on Dec 6th.
The Montreal AI Ethics Institute and Stradigi AI are joining forces to discuss the future of work and the skills that will be necessary for the modern economy.
This session will take a critical, deep-dive into what this means and will explore this through the following reading material with an objective to produce a short article summarizing the views from our discussions.
Queer Tech Montreal Demo Night | Wed. Nov 28th, 5:30 PM — 8:30 PM | Terminal
During this fun-filled evening, a handful of LGBTQ entrepreneur founders will do a 5-minute demo of their startup, followed by a 5 min Q&A from the audience.
As is customary, you will have the chance to network, talk about tech, and share experiences with drinks and pizza at this trendy downtown office!
Lighthouse Labs Demo Day | Thur. Nov. 29, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM | Wework L’avenue
Hooray! Lighthouse Labs Demo Day is back!!!
Their new full stack web grads are about to start their careers as professional web developers; but first, they want to show YOU what they’ve learned to build in just 10 weeks with Lighthouse Labs. Also enjoy the pizza, drinks, and the chance to rub shoulders with an incredible network of developers and entrepreneurs.
Register for Lighthouse Labs Demo Day!
Techstars Demoday + Startup Drinks Montreal + MTLNewTech + MTLinTech at Technoel | Wed, Dec 5th, 4:30 PM — 7:30 PM — 3:00 AM
🍸 🍷 As every year, to celebrate this festive season, Startup Drinks and MTL NewTech are merging with Technoel! And they will also skip their demonight to come all together to our friend’s of Techstars AI Demonight between 4:30@7:30! 💝 🎅 🎄
🎁 100% of the ticket proceeds from this event go to the not-for-profit MontrealFounders which manages the blog MTLinTECH. We are really grateful for their work & mission of both of these organizations is to support and promote the Montreal startup & technology ecosystem locally and abroad.
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Weekly Agenda, November 26th to December 2nd
Monday, November 26th
Datathon: Sustainable City, Wed, Nov 21, 6:30 PM — Sat, Dec 1, 9:30 PM
École IVADO-RALI en Analyse du Langage Naturel, Mon, Nov 26, 9 AM — Thu, Nov 29, 5 PM
MtlGreen Weekly Open Contributors Sync-up, 5:58 PM — 8:27 PM
HackerNest Montreal November Tech Social, 7:00 PM — 10:00 PM
Tuesday, November 27th
Canadian Space Summit 2018, Tue, Nov 27, 8:00 AM — Thu, Nov 29, 5:00 PM
Morning Coffee & Code (OSMO Café), 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Panel | Agile, Lean Six Sigma ou Design Thinking ? (Lévis), 12:00 PM — 1:00 PM
Fintech Career Fair — Find Jobs & Meet the Ecosystem!, 5:00 PM — 9:00 PM
Intersections VOL.9 : Blockchain, des promesses aux applications, 5:00 PM — 9:00 PM
Montreal AI Etchics Institute : Pré-G7 Summit Future of Work & Ethics workshop, 5:45 PM — 8:00 PM
MCocktail Cybersécurité et Cryptographie quantique BNC-IVADO, 5:00 PM — 7:00 PM
Foulab open doors, 8:00 PM — 10:00 PM
Wednesday, November 28th
Queer Tech Demo Night | Soirée de Démonstration, 5:30 PM — 8:30 PM
Apéro Réseau Pro — Les métiers du numérique, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Soirée de jeu chez Ubisoft World / Game night at Ubisoft World, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Fintech et conformité : l’expérience de trois startups, 6:30 PM — 8:30 PM
Learn the Fundamentals of Computer Programming, 6:30 PM — 8:30 PM
Thursday, November 29th
1st. Centech MTL Demo Day, Nov 29–30, 2018
Pôle santé HEC Montréal | Les proches aidants d’aînés : analyse des impacts dans les organisations québécoises, 12:00 PM — 1:30 PM
Helios Makerspace Free Access, 4:00 PM — 9:00 PM
Réconcilier UX et Design, 6:00 PM — 9:00 PM
Lighthouse Labs Montreal: Demo Day, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Your Code Isn’t Enough: Key Insights on Building Successful Startups, 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
Friday, November 30th
École en Science des données et Santé, Fri, Nov 30, 8:30 AM — Sat, Dec 1, 3:30 PM
Blockchain-Enabled Food Supply Chain, 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM
Saturday, December 1st
Datathon Teamworking, 8:00 AM — 12:50 PM
Data Viz — Special edition, 11:00 AM — 1:00 PM
Datathon Demos!, 1:00 PM — 2:50 PM
Sunday, December 2nd
Intel® AI DevCamp and DevJam at NIPS, 2:00 PM — 9:00 PM
WiML 2018 Pre-Workshop Dinner, 6:00 PM — 10:00 PM
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