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Startup Weekend New Brunswick (Social Impact Edition)
Friday, February 23 - 25, 2018
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Startup Weekend New Brunswick (Social Impact Edition)
Friday, February 23 - 25, 2018
Friday, February 23 - 25, 2018
Event starts at 5:30 pm
The Ville Cooperative
241 Canada Street
Fredericton,
New Brunswick
E3A 4A1
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Startup Weekend New Brunswick (Social Impact Edition)
Startup Weekend NB – 2018
Startup Weekend NB believes entrepreneurship is the single greatest force advancing society and human welfare. We also believe empowering others is the best way to identify leaders, build communities, and inspire change. We welcome change makers, designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and experts from all domains to do amazing things.Here’s how Startup Weekend works:
- Anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers.
- Teams form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and embark on a 2.5-day frenzy of business model creation, solution design and development, and market validation.
- Finished solutions are presented in front of local entrepreneurial leaders.
In order to help foster ideas of how you can effect real change in your community, we have the City of Fredericton as a partner, they will be presenting a list of challenges that they are working on as part of their “Digital Fredericton” initiative. Check out these challenges and the City’s strategy to continue being a Digital City Leader at www.DigitalFredericton.com.
Also, the Fredericton Open Data initiative provides a public platform for exploring and downloading the City’s open data, discovering and building apps, and engaging to solve important local issues. You can analyze and combine Open Datasets using maps, as well as develop new web and mobile applications. Innovation leaders from the City will be on hand to talk about the challenges and help foster your ideas that could result in opportunities that build smarter, healthier, more progressive places to live. Successful startups have come from Startup Weekend NB – HotSpot Parking is one of the examples that can result from your inspiration.
If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur and contribute to a more sustainable world, or you’re already an entrepreneur and are looking for your next opportunity, be part of Startup Weekend New Brunswick (Social Impact Edition) held in Fredericton - February 23-25 at The Ville Cooperative.
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Speakers
David Alston
Chief EIR for GovNB
Bethany Deshpande
CEO
Event Judges
Heather Boyd-Kinnie
Heather has a background in the legal, business, education and non-profit sectors. She has had a 30-year career that has spanned the fields of law, professional development, sales & marketing, facilitation, communication, and project and office management. She is skilled in organization, strategic planning, facilitation, consensus and team building, management of research grants and funding, financial and human resources management.
Larry Shaw
CEO Ignite Fredericton
An energetic leader, who instills motivation, challenges the norm, creates enthusiasm, and builds a team environment eager to win and accept accountability. Demonstrated ability to lead rapid growth, build excellence in client relationships, and deliver on strategic business objectives. Vertical experience in Life Sciences, Hospitality, Real Estate, Technology, Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services. Functional expertise in business process outsourcing, information technologies, e-learning, contact centers, and professional services.
Krista Ross
CEO of Fredericton Chamber of Commerce
Coaches and Mentors
Bethany Deshpande
CEO
Joanna Nickerson
Social Innovation Manager at Pond Deshpande Centre
Keelen Gagnon
COO
David Alston
Chief EIR for GovNB
Norm Couturier
Founder of 10Speak Innovation
He has built software companies from scratch (to 100+ employees), been through a few company acquisitions, mergers and sales. He has pitched VC’s, secured investors, and have been fortunate to be part of $30M+ of acquisitions.
His passion is creating innovative solutions that solve problems companies face every day, and problems they don't even realize they have.
Norm is highly motivated and driven by the goals and outcomes that he believes in. He also value the long-lasting relationships he builds with people in pursuit of those goals.
Shawn Smith
Founder and CEO od Don't dis-my-ability consultation services
Bharath Sudarsan
Lead Product Developer of SomaDetect
Nicholas Clermont
COO
Sandi Mackinnon
Executive Director for Social Innovation Fredericton
Aimee Foreman
Chief Operating Officer at Alleira Living
Yaniv Yael
Software Developer
Jeff MacFarlene
Executive Director at The Ville Cooperative
He's a busy man, but at the end of the day Jeff will tell you that the main driver of this is family, friends, and his faithful companion Fel, a Bernese mountain dog and number one advocate of The Ville.
Jake Arsenault
CEO of The Black Arcs
With a background in mechanical engineering, and a PhD in gamma-ray imaging, Jake understands the challenges that come along with deep research. He also knows the challenges of the transition from research & development to commercialization. Jake led Inversa Systems to develop the world’s first CAT scan system deployable in the field for the civil infrastructure and oil & gas markets, bringing cross-sectional inspection images to these industries.
In short, Jake understands both the art and science of a disruptive startup: from concept, private and public funding, research, development, commercialization, strategy, marketing, design and sales. He is also passionate about helping the New Brunswick startup ecosystem thrive, serving as the Entrepreneur In Residence with the Technology Management and Entrepreneurship Program at UNB.
Phil Curley
CEO of Hotspot Inc.
He is very passionate about business being a mechanism of change in our community and by providing value to our customers we can improve the overall quality of life.
His 24 hour job is working at HotSpot to service our 30,000 Atlantic Canadian users but in his spare time he sits on the SEED Board for Ignite Fredericton, helping emerging entrepreneurs.
He is passionate about bringing positive change to the world and believes that we need to act as leaders in our communities to provide a path forward.
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