The Funding Roadshow, a joint presentation of TEC Edmonton and Fundica, arrives in Edmonton on May 30, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at TEC Edmonton, fourth floor, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton. The roadshow is an opportunity for up to 25 Canadian entrepreneurs with start up and small-to-medium companies to seek investment capital.  Those chosen will have five minutes to present their business pitch to a panel of private and public funders, followed by a 10 minute question and answer session. The day will conclude with networking at the nearby The Hat on Jasper pub. Accepted entrepreneurs will be notified of their time slots in advanace of the event.  To be eligible to present, the company must have a strong technology development component, be seeking strong revenue growth of 20% in the coming year.  The cost is $25 per entrepreneur team. Funders in attendance include  Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF), VA Angels, Enhanced Capital Recovery (SRE&a ...

For all the data folks,  the Analytics, Big Data and the Cloud II conference is happening simultanteously in Edmonton and Calgary from Monday May 13 to Wednesday May 15, in Edmonton at the Delta South, in Calgary at the Delta Bow Valley. 

Keynote speakers will present in both Edmonton and Calgary, with a live telecast to whichever city the speaker is not in.

On the program are Bilal Khan HP:Capgemini, Deloitte's Jane Griffin, Cisco's John Crawford, IBM's Jeff Betts, Tecterra's Jonathan Neufeld, CIOS Edmonton/Calgary.

Panels will come under the topics of Research, Policy and Innovation; Industry and Productivity, Marketing and Management, Community and Security, Health and Education and Integrated Resource Management

  The 2013 VenturePrize Awards will be remembered for its multitude of firsts: The first time a Student VenturePrize Award winner, Calgary’s Orpyx Medical Technologies, has gone on to win the VenturePrize Fast Growth overall business plan award. First time a female CEO, Orpyx founder and president Dr. Breanne Everett, has won the Fast Growth prize. First time a Calgary company has won VenturePrize, Alberta’s best-known awards honouring innovative, technology-driven startup companies in the province. First time that three of the four awards went to Calgary companies. Joining Orpyx in the winners’ circle was Surface Medical for the People’s Choice Award (see below) and the Screeners’ Award of Merit (SAM) went to Calgary’s StrokeLink. Way to go, Calgary! First time VenturePrize, in a most rewarding partnership with the Edmonton Journal, has had a People’s Choice Award:  The Journal developed, ran and publicized an online system for the general public to v ...

 

It’s a Catch 22 which every new entrepreneur experiences. The new company demands 200% of his or her time. But revenues, to date, are minimal. There’s no money for extra staff, no time for anything beyond tomorrow. Above all, the entrepreneur is painfully aware of his or her shortcomings. What’s a business plan anyway? How do I advertise my product? How do I interest investors? What about regulations? Take a deep breath. Pause the panic button. Help is on its way. Business Basics for Innovators (BBFI) is a two-day business education “crash-course” offered to working entrepreneurs by TEC Edmonton. Most are conveniently offered on weekends Business Basics for Innovators   is customized to each entrepreneur’s individual needs, emphasizing strengths, finding solutions to immediate issues, assisting in priorizing and focusing on opportunities. As their needs are quite different, weekend workshops are geared either to working professional business people or to ...

Are you a student graduating with a science, engineering or technology degree, looking for the right fit with an Edmonton-area  technology company? Could you be a recent Canadian immigrant, with an advanced degree, looking for work that would use your considerable skills? Having made the decision to be a full-time parent years ago, with your kids now growing up,  are you ready to dust off your science-related degree and re-enter the work force in a job with a company willing to help you catch up? Then come along on Wednesday April 24, 2013, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at  the BESTT / TEC Edmonton Career and Networking Event. Full details on the event and registration ($10 including snacks and refreshment) can be found on the website. Join us at the TEC Edmonton Centre, 4th floor, 10230 Jasper Avenue, to meet innovative entrepreneurial companies that are taking new technologies to market – and who are looking for additional employees and partners to get there. Job-seekers and anyone who is ...

Deloitte's annual Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions January breakfast is becoming a must-attend event in Edmonton, thanks to the quality of the information and the entertaining way in which forecaster Duncan Stewart shapes the presentation.   The first year Deloitte held the event, in January, 2011, a handful of people attended. Last year, about 100 came. This year, on Jan. 24, 2013, the ballroom at Sutton Place was full. TEC Edmonton was proud to be a sponsor of the event. Thanks to Deloitte's Jeremy Webster for his words of praise about our not-for-profit, start-up company incubator and accelerator.  "TEC Edmonton is a powerhouse in the city's technology commercialization world," said Jeremy. "TEC has expanded its assistance far beyond the University of Alberta. Laine Woollard (TEC Edmonton's in-house  legal counsel) has done more licensing deals than anybody else in Northern Alberta. And TEC's Executive-in-Residence prog ...

Once again, TEC Edmonton receptionist Audrey Dolinski and her crew of volunteers have done TEC Edmonton proud. To raise funds for the annual Christmas Bureau drive last month, Audrey shops for and stocks the TEC Centre snack canteen all year round.  This past Christmas, using the canteen's 2012 proceeds of $3,500 plus another $750 raised from a fund-raising drive at the TEC Centre, TEC Edmonton was able to provide about 20 families in need with a Christmas festive dinner. The groceries for six  Christmas Bureau "hampers" were purchased, sorted and then delivered  by TEC Edmonton volunteers to six large low-income families registered with the Christmas Bureau. Each family had at least eight members.  "We always put way more into the hampers than we're supposed to," says Audrey. "It's Christmas!" The rest of the funds went to the Christmas Bureau, which ensures no one in Edmonton goes without a festive meal at Christmas. The TEC Edmonton donation ...

Some interesting recent research by TEC Edmonton shows even the smallest of our startup clients, once revenue is coming in, receives almost half that revenue from international customers. It's not uprising then that TEC Edmonton platinum corporate sponsor FMC Law, one of Edmonton's biggest law firms, has announced an upcoming merger with two international law firms, SNR Denton and Salans. The new firm, to be known initially as Dentons: Salans - FMC - SNR Denton, will be the seventh biggest law firm in the world, with 2,500 lawyers and professionals in 79 cities in 52 countries. "The starting point won't change for this office," says FMC Edmonton partner Tom Sides, co-chair of the law firm's National Technology Transactions Law Group. "The lion's share of our work comes from Edmonton and Northern Alberta. "What we can now offer is seamless connections to legal work in all markets.  If a TEC Edmonton client needs a patent agent in France, we'll have one. More ...

Announcements and Events  from TR Labs, Accelerate Alberta (the conference), the AGRI Innovation Forum and Startup Canada that will be of interest to the TEC Edmonton community. TR Labs announces five technology commercialization projects for the Alberta - Jalisco (Mexico) program. November 28, 2012 - Edmonton - Five innovative technology commercialization projects have been selected for support through a partnership between the Government of Alberta and the State of Jalisco, Mexico. The Alberta - Jalisco Research, Development and Commercialization program is administered by TRLabs of Alberta. Two of the participating Alberta companies, NanoSpeed Diagnostics and Technology North, are current and past (respectively) TEC Edmonton clients.   The projects include:   *A new molecular scale and comprehensive thyroid test that can be performed in a doctor's office aims to reduce thyroid test cost by 80% - filling a real market need given thyroid function disorders affect more people worldwid ...