York Region, Ontario (PRWEB) May 15, 2012
Startup Canada a one-of-a-kind entrepreneurial movement kicked off in Nova Scotia last March is coming to York Region on May 24. Startup Canada is a six-month National Tour to ignite, inspire and celebrate entrepreneurship across the country and plans to shine a spotlight on the lessons learned, challenges overcome, and successes realized by Canadian entrepreneurs.
The National Tour is happening from March to September, 2012 and aims to engage 25,000 Canadians and 250 partner organizations across the country through 30 public Town Halls and more than 100 Fringe Events. Provincial steering committees will help showcase local entrepreneurs on a national media platform and coordinate additional awareness campaigns. The movement is also being fuelled online through Startup Canada?s interactive website, live web-streamed broadcasts of the tour, and active social media networks.
ventureLAB, York Region’s non-profit Regional Innovation Centre, is one of the host venues.
ventureLAB?s innovative new BUILD program is one way that ventureLAB helps entrepreneurs in Ontario with mentoring, partnering and connecting advice in York Region?s business ecosystem. The BUILD program benefits advanced health tech, digital media, ICT, green energy, clean tech and advanced materials & manufacturing innovators.
On May 24, from 8:00 am ? 9:30 am, ventureLAB will facilitate a by-invitation-only Startup Canada Town Hall event called Entrepreneurship Empowers Everyone. Media is welcome.
Jeremy Laurin, ventureLAB?s President & CEO is thrilled. ? Through this highly collaborative and creative process, the communities from coast-to-coast, including ventureLAB will work together to identify the top challenges facing Canadian entrepreneurs; develop innovative solutions to overcome those challenges; share, build and prioritize ideas, approaches and recommendations for future growth; and ultimately, arrive at a collective vision and strategy that leads to real change and action?.
The ?Entrepreneurship Empowers Everyone? Town Hall event will be held at the Markham Convergence Centre (MCC) in Markham on May 24.
This Town Hall event will be co-facilitated by business journalist and Startup Canada Advisor, Rick Spence. Rick Spence is one of Canada’s foremost experts on entrepreneurship, innovation and opportunity. He is the former editor and publisher of PROFIT, The Magazine for Canadian Entrepreneurs, writes a weekly column for the Post’s Entrepreneur section. Addresses will be made by the Mayor of Markham, His Worship Frank Scarpitti, and Robert Hache, Vice-President, Research & Innovation from York University and others to be named.
About Startup Canada
In addition to being championed by patrons such as Brett Wilson (Host of RiskyBusinessTV, former Dragon & serial entrepreneur), Heather Reisman (Founder, Indigo Books & Music), and Dani Reiss (Founder, Canada Goose), Startup Canada has also received support from a number of ambassadors and sponsors. Other sponsors include Microsoft, Artik, Kick Ass Media, PubliAir, the Association of University Research Parks Canada, the Canadian Association of Business Incubation, the Evidence Network, Francis Moran & Associates, FreshBooks, MSBi Valorisation, NextMTL, the Ottawa Technology Transfer Network, Podio, Backbone Magazine, Hootsuite, ITWorld Canada, Paper.li, Sprouter, and Tech Vibes.
About ventureLAB
ventureLAB is York Region’s non-profit innovation and business acceleration centre for advanced health tech, digital media, ICT, green energy, clean tech and advanced materials & manufacturing entrepreneurs. ventureLAB is the GTA’s most northerly centre in the Ontario Network of Excellence [ONE], Ontario?s client-focused, province-wide innovation network in 2011. ventureLAB works locally in York Region to facilitate mentoring, partnering and connecting advice for innovative small to medium sized and start-up entrepreneurs to help turn their great ideas into globally competitive products and services.
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