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Open Coffee Club is a casual gathering of people involved/interested in founding, operating or funding startups. The vibe is more hangout than event and provides people with a regular time and location to talk shop, discuss news, ask questions and and meet others in the startup community they may only see occasionally at more formal events. Location: Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2J4 Once You Arrive: You can locate us by looking for the table with the small LED display: "Vancouver Founders Open Coffee Club." Google Maps link to Nelson the Seagull Contact Steve at sdancho@hotmail.com to get a link to join our WhatsApp discussion board. Thanks to our sponsors! Voyer Startup Lawyers - voyerlaw.com See you there!

🚀Join Monday Girl and Mastercard for an intimate fireside chat in celebration of Small Business Month, exploring what it takes to turn a bold dream into a category-defining brand. Tara Bosch built SmartSweets from her kitchen table to a $360M exit in just four years. She rewrote the rules for what candy could be, then walked away to do it again. Enter Snackish: a modern, women-led snack brand hitting Target and Whole Foods shelves from day one. Tara's not just building a brand - she's rewriting the playbook for better-for-you food. Tara will sit down with Istiana Bestari, Co-Founder of Monday Girl, for a candid conversation on chasing big dreams, building from scratch, and what it really takes to scale a brand from idea to acquisition and beyond. We're getting into: The real story behind a $360M exit in four years — and what nobody tells you about what comes next Why Tara walked away from a win to build Snackish from scratch, and what she's doing differently this time The shift every growing founder has to make: from creator of the thing to operator of the business Live Q&A with Tara - bring your questions! Whether you're building something from scratch, scaling what Whether you're building from scratch, scaling what works, or figuring out your next chapter, come ready to connect and leave inspired. Grab your seat! ✨ Schedule: 6:00 PM — 👋 Guest arrival 6:30 PM — 🎤 Opening remarks from Julianna Coleman, Director of Product Management at Mastercard 6:40 PM — 🔥Fireside chat: Tara Bosch in conversation with Istiana Bestari, talking dreams, risk, and building something real 7:20 PM — 🥂 Networking with Vancouver's most ambitious women & small business owners 8:30 PM — Event wrap-up To Attend: This is an invitation-only evening - spots are intentionally limited for curated networking. If you are no longer able to attend, please update your status to ‘Not Going’ so we can give someone on the waitlist your spot. Meet the speakers: Tara Bosch, Founder & CEO of Snackish Istia

This event is created by and for women founders. Male allies are welcome to join and support the conversation, but please note that space is prioritized for women-identifying entrepreneurs. About the Event AI is changing how customers discover businesses. More customers are starting their search inside tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. That changes how businesses need to think about online visibility. So what makes one business more likely to be found, understood and recommended by AI? Join WAKE's Lunch n' Learn on October 16 for a practical conversation about what business owners can do to improve their visibility in this new era of search. Our expert speaker will explain how AI is changing online discovery, what influences whether AI tools can find and recommend your business, and what still matters from traditional SEO. What to Expect: You'll walk away with a better understanding of: how AI tools discover, interpret and recommend businesses what you can do yourself to make your business easier for AI tools to understand how to assess where your business is visible today and where you may have gaps the role of third party mentions, reviews and other online signals what still matters from traditional SEO such as website content, keywords and backlinks The session will offer clear, actionable steps that don't require advanced technical knowledge. Expert Speaker James Rowe - James designs and builds business operations across people, process, systems, data, automation, and practical AI. He helps owners and leadership teams see how work actually moves through the business, where it slows down, where revenue leaks, and what needs to change. James brings a diverse set of experiences designing complex engineering and technology systems, designing and scaling startup operations, advising growth-stage companies, and leading practical AI workforce training. His work focuses on workflow design, role clarity, system requirements, data visibility, automat

Join us at SFU's Segal Centre at Harbour Centre on October 21st for the Vancouver Physical AI Workshop and Meetup, co-presented by Nebius and Voxel51. The evening opens with networking, food, and drinks, followed by a hands-on workshop on building physical AI applications with FiftyOne, from curating robotics and sensor datasets to evaluating vision models on real-world data. Networking continues after the workshop. A laptop is required to participate in the hands-on workshop - please bring one. Space is limited, so register early. A company, university, or government email address is required to take part in the hands-on workshop. Personal and disposable email accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and similar) cannot be used for the workshop environment. This is a blanket policy of the workshop platform to prevent fraud and abuse and to meet compliance requirements. If you need an exception, contact the hosts before the event. By submitting, you agree to Voxel51's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and agree to receive occasional emails.