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GitHub Copilot Dev Days Montréal – De l’app Copilot à VS Code ✨ MSDEVMTL participe aux GitHub Copilot Dev Days, une initiative mondiale portée par les communautés tech locales, qui se déroule du 1er septembre au 31 octobre 2026. Au programme : une soirée concrète et pratique pour découvrir comment travailler avec des agents IA, de la nouvelle app GitHub Copilot jusqu’à GitHub Copilot dans VS Code. Ouvert aux développeurs de tous les niveaux, toutes plateformes confondues. [ 🗣️ Presentations will be done in French with visual content in English, but you can ask questions in English ] Agenda 17h30 – Ouverture des portes – Réseautage et nourriture (pizza) 18h – L’app GitHub Copilot : le développement piloté par agents, Etienne Tremblay 18h45 – Atelier pratique : GitHub Copilot dans VS Code – Mona Mayhem, Jean-Olivier Pitre et Stéphane Lapointe 20h – 20h30 – Réseautage / Fin de la soirée L’atelier Mona Mayhem Dans cet atelier, vous bâtirez avec GitHub Copilot dans VS Code un jeu d’arcade rétro où les contributions GitHub s’affrontent. En chemin, vous explorerez le context engineering, le Plan Mode et l’Agent Mode, les workflows multi-agents et une approche design-first. À prévoir avant de venir 💻 Votre portable (obligatoire pour participer durant l’atelier) Un compte GitHub avec au minimum Copilot Free : https://aka.ms/get-github-copilot-devdays VS Code installé, avec l’extension GitHub Copilot, et votre compte GitHub connecté Optionnel, pour suivre la présentation : l’app GitHub Copilot (https://gh.io/dev-days/app) ⚠️ Crédits IA : l’atelier consomme des crédits IA. Il peut être complété avec Copilot Free, mais il en utilisera une bonne partie. Pensez à les ménager dans les jours précédant l’événement. Code de conduite Nous tenons à offrir un environnement accueillant et inclusif pour tous. Merci de prendre connaissance du code de conduite avant l’événement : 👉 https://github.com/github/dev-days/blob/main/EVENT_CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md 📍 Édifice Bronfman, Université McGill –

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Demo Day (formerly Startup Showcase) is McGill Ventures' flagship event of the fall semester. It brings together student founders, early users, and investors from Montreal's startup and VC community. Selected startups will each give a five-minute live demo, built to be engaging and interactive, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Later in the evening, founders will join VCs on a panel about building and funding early-stage companies. Whether you're a founder, an investor, or a student curious about startups, come see what's being built at McGill and meet the people building it. Note: A raffle ticket is included with the purchase of each event ticket, giving you a chance to win a prize at the event! Founders: applications are open! Want to put your startup in front of students, users and VCs? Apply here: https://forms.gle/bbiuTp28ZFaURGweA Speakers and partners will be announced soon!

Closing the gap between academia and the VC ecosystem. This year, with trivia. GradConnect is back! This year, Front Row Ventures and BoxOne Ventures are trading panels and roundtables for a trivia night. Grad students, founders and investors will team up over questions on startups, science and Montreal, then stay to keep the conversation going. 🎲 How it works Teams are randomized when you arrive, so you’ll be playing alongside grad students, founders and investors you haven’t met. Over 4 to 5 rounds we’ll cover startups, research and Nobel history, Montreal, and pop culture. There’s a live scoreboard all night, and the winning team takes home an FRV × BoxOne swag bag. 🕕 Schedule 6:00 PM · Arrivals and networking 6:30 PM · Trivia 7:30 PM · Winners announced 🏆 7:45 to 9:00 PM · Networking 🎤 Speakers Founders Catherine Nadeau · CEO & Co-founder, mTatt (Best of the Fest, Startupfest 2025) Sam Babity · CSO & Co-founder, mTatt (Best of the Fest, Startupfest 2025) Madison Santos · Co-founder & CSO, TissueTinker (2SLGBTQIA+ Investment Award, Startupfest 2026) Investors & ecosystem Humza Salam · Investor, Amplify Capital Antoine Jutras-Carignan · IP & Venture Strategy, Axelys Kyla MacLean · Lab-to-Startup Program, Cycle Momentum Hamza Nabiel · Analyst, Telegraph Ventures 🧠 The rounds Startup origin stories, Nobel-winning science, Montreal metro stations and the great bagel debate, plus a pop culture round to keep things fair. 👋 Who it’s for Grad students from any discipline who are curious about where their research could go beyond academia Founders, VCs, incubators, accelerators and ecosystem partners: this is your chance to engage directly with emerging talent from Quebec’s top universities and startups 🍽️ Light bites and drinks provided. 🎟️ Registration is limited, so grab your spot. About the hosts Front Row Ventures (FRV) is Canada’s leading university-focused and student-operated VC firm, with a presence on 20+ campuses across the country. FRV invests early and acros