Project-based Mini-Hackathon!

Come enjoy Calgary’s monthly Grok Bot Meetup. Bring a laptop and a positive, collaborative energy. 📍 Location: ZayZoon HQ, 19th floor of TELUS Sky (685 Centre St S, Calgary) Agenda (America/Edmonton): 5:30 to 6:00 — arrivals and networking (light dinner provided) 6:00 to 6:45 — Grok Bot intro + bot templates and use cases 6:45 to 8:00 — build: bots that run a real workflow end to end with no human in the loop 8:00 to 8:30 — demos + community vote. Prizes: Grok Bot stickers and/or credits Founders, operators, builders, and knowledge workers welcome. No tech background required.

Join us at House 831 on October 29th for a round of office hours with the team at Metiquity Ventures. Bryan Slauko and Mattye Robson are setting up on the floor for 1:1 sessions with founders. Bring the deck, the messy metrics, the question you've been sitting on, or just come find out what a pre-seed fund actually looks for before you start raising. Metiquity is an Alberta pre-seed fund built around a gap most founders here know well: you need revenue to raise capital, and capital to make revenue. They lead rounds into pre-revenue and early-revenue tech companies across Alberta and the Prairies, and Fund I is building toward a portfolio of 20 to 30 companies. Bryan is a Co-Founder and Founding Director at Metiquity, where he runs the day-to-day of Fund I. He's spent more than two decades across investment analysis, entrepreneurship, and board-level work, holds a CFA charter, and chairs the boards of two local nonprofits. Mattye is an Investment Analyst at Metiquity Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in ambitious Canadian technology companies. As part of Metiquity’s growing team, she supports founder and market diligence, investment analysis, portfolio initiatives, and the firm’s continued institutional growth. Mattye is passionate about working alongside entrepreneurs and contributing to Canada’s technology ecosystem. Prior to Metiquity, Mattye worked in the Private Equity and HR industries. Sessions are 20 minutes and booked in advance. Doors open at 1:00PM. Limited spots. Approval required. Time slots will be sent out beforehand. Thank you Alberta Enterprise Corporation for sponsoring our Office Hours Series.

Celebrate Latin American Heritage Month with SOMOS LIT Calgary & ATB Financial 🌎 Join Somos Latinx in Tech Calgary and ‘HoLa’, ATB's Hispanic and Latin American Network for an evening celebrating Latin American Heritage Month and the vibrant contributions of the Latin American community in Calgary and across Canada. This special community gathering will bring together Latinx professionals, tech and business leaders, allies, and community members for an evening of connection, learning, and celebration. Expect an engaging conversation around career growth and navigating your professional journey in a changing world, along with opportunities to meet new people, exchange experiences, and build meaningful connections within the Calgary community. Whether you're looking to expand your network, learn from others, connect with the Latinx community, or simply celebrate our shared heritage, we'd love to have you join us. More details about the speakers and agenda will be announced soon. Stay tuned! Come celebrate where we come from, connect with where we are, and look ahead to where we're going. 💛 All welcome! We invite allies to join us at Somos Latinx in Tech events to celebrate, support, and uplift the Latinx tech community alongside us. About Somos Latinx in Tech Somos Latinx in Tech is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting Latinx professionals to thrive in tech. We host events and programs throughout Canada, encouraging learning, networking, mentorship, and sponsorship, helping them grow their careers and shape the future of tech. www.somoslatinxintech.com

Happy Halloween! Come hang out with us at Platform Calgary to hone your coding and problem solving skills! Let's get retro and write some code by hand. We're going to team up and practice our ensembling and TDD skills to solve a spooky problem. This is taking place at The Software Developer's Collective monthly hackathon, so if you want to join them after, bring your laptop. Costumes are welcome :) \-\-\- This event is meant to be a safe and inclusive environment for everyone to hang and chat about tech. We require all participants to treat others with respect and refrain from any form of harassment. People who fail to treat others accordingly will be asked to leave our events. Please contact an organizer if you have any concerns.

How to register for this event: Before you can register, Luma asks you to join the Calgary Innovation Week calendar once. It's free, and after that every every register button works. Open the Calgary Innovation Week calendar on Luma. Find "Calgary Innovation Week Attendee · Free" and click Join. Enter your email, then type in the code Luma sends you. Go back to any event and click Register. Done. _________________________ Everything you should know before raising your next round, straight from an investor's perspective. How much should you raise? What should your valuation be? How do you find the right investors, get meetings, and actually close your round? Join Spring and Alberta Ecotrust during Calgary Innovation Week for a candid conversation about fundraising, led by Keith Ippel and Shantanu Mehta from Spring's investment team. We'll cover: Structuring your round: How much to raise, how to think about valuation, and what investors expect at different stages Finding investors: Building your target list, getting warm introductions, and approaching investors who are actually a fit Pitching investors: What makes a compelling pitch, what investors look for, and how to prepare for the questions that follow Behind the scenes: How VCs evaluate opportunities, what happens after your first meeting, and the common mistakes that can derail a raise About Spring Spring is an early-stage VC fund (see here) and accelerator backing ambitious founders in climate, health, and technology. We invest $250K–$400K in early-stage companies and help founders navigate the journey from investment readiness to closing their rounds. Our track record speaks for itself: companies supported through our Scale Ready platform have raised over $225M, including $25M+ in the last 12 months. Through our angel investor network, we've facilitated nearly 30 investments, including the first external pre-seed investment in Moment Energy, which went on to raise a US $40M Series B. Who should attend? Early