Your February events line-up is here

Welcome to the Midweek Memo: a weekly digest of the city’s top tech events, personnel moves, job openings, and industry opportunities.

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Startup TNT Happy Hour | February 1

• Connect with local entrepreneurs and investors at Startup TNT’s happy hour events.

• Meet a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals and find resources, mentors, or potential business partners within your community.

YYC Hacks 2024 | February 2-4

• The goal of this hackathon is to promote software development as a tool to make Calgary more accessible to newcomers and visitors, by creating engaging and innovative approaches to both immigration and tourism.

• Participants of all coding abilities will learn, network, and be a part of a community that can change how newcomers and visitors connect with our beautiful city.

• Problem statement: How can we use technology to make Calgary more accessible to visitors and newcomers?

Bolstering Your Ransomware Defense Strategy | February 1

• Cybersecurity attacks are on track to rise in 2024, and an effective ransomware defense strategy is vital to keeping your company safe.

• For a conversation on how to build an effective strategy, join:

  • Jeff Malenfant, VP of digital payments and vendor relations, Alpaca

  • D'Arcy Moynaugh, partner in cybersecurity at Deloitte Canada

From the Ashes: What Remains of Blockchain and Crypto | February 8

• At this week’s Tech Thursday gathering, join a conversation on blockchain and crypto. How will this tech exist within an increasingly tight regulatory environment?

Startup TNT Top 20 Pitch Nights: Agri-tech, Cleantech and Life Sciences | February 8

• Join the live pitch sessions on Zoom, and then swing over to the after-party location in your city!

Plug & Play – Education Session | February 15

• Discover more about selling to corporates from a panel of experts from Plug & Play.

• Join the live session on Zoom or register and watch the replay on YouTube.

Thriving Minds: Tank on 'E'—Leading When You’re Low | February 15

• Join an engaging in-person event at Platform Calgary on as part of the Thriving Minds: Empowering Innovators series.

• Collectively Tangled and Peer Guidance, in partnership with Platform Calgary, Innovate Calgary, and Rainforest Alberta, bring you the fifth session in a six-session series exploring common challenges experienced by entrepreneurs and individuals working in the startup and innovation space.

DigiMarCon Canada 2024 | April 18-19

• Join peers in person or online for two days jam-packed with digital marketing best practices, latest trends, practical solutions, strategy, and networking.

• Plus, check out the next generation of technology and innovation: internet, mobile, adtech, martech, and SaaS technology.

Inventures 2024 | May 29-31

• Take part in three days with the brightest minds, angel investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders from across the globe that are solving the most critical issues of our time.

• Inventure's 2024 content tracks are:

  • Growing up: Food tech, farm to fork

  • Earth tech: Building everything better

  • Tech triathlon: Quantum + AI + IoT

  • Entrepreneurship: Accelerating scale-up

  • Blurring boundaries: Tech at work

  • Live long, live well: Unveiling health data

💼 Calgary tech jobs

• Garmin is hiring a Software Engineer

• Stantec is hiring a Senior Acoustics Engineer/Consultant

• The Digital Research Alliance of Canada is hiring a Director, Communications and Engagement

• GitLab is hiring a Senior Director, Public Policy

• Mino Games is hiring a Community Manager

One more opportunity for you

• Elevate eCommerce North Accelerator