CDL applications are now live and the deadline is August 12th. Apply Here.
By Karen Perl-Pollard, Haskayne School of Business
Creative Destruction Lab Rockies is not an accelerator. It is not an incubator. It’s something completely new in the innovation ecosystem and it’s making a big impact.
The original Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) started in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management with a goal of $50 million in equity value creation in five years. It has already exceeded $1.5 billion and has now expanded to five additional locations.
The program consists of a unique milestone-based mentoring and financing program for massively scalable science-based early stage ventures. The Haskayne School of Business joined as a new location for the CDL program in 2017, being dubbed Creative Destruction Lab Rockies.
In the first year of CDL-Rockies, 25 ventures began the nine-month journey – punctuated by two-month sprints where each venture must deliver on goals to continue. Sixteen ventures made it to the final Calgary meeting on May 10.
Going into this meeting, the ventures have raised $11 million with many of the companies still with open fundraising rounds and more potential to raise funds at the Creative Destruction Lab Super Session in Toronto on June 6 and 7 to showcase their work to business leaders and investors around North America.
ATB Financial’s incoming CEO Curtis Stange at the company’s offices in Edmonton on June 29, 2018.
JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
ATB Financial’s new chief executive has a tough act to follow.
Tuesday marks Curtis Stange’s first day of work at the helm after ATB Financial president and CEO Dave Mowat retired at the end of June.
Mowat helped drive technological innovation at the Alberta-based bank – Canada’s only bank that is also a Crown corporation – to keep up with, and sometimes outpace, Canada’s biggest Bay Street financial institutions.
The federal government has committed $500,000 towards the University of Alberta’s project to improve privacy of automated vehicle communications.
The government said the funding will support research, studies and technology to help address technical, policy and regulatory issues related to connected and automated vehicles.
DATE: Tue, July 10, 2018
TIME: 11:45 AM - 2:00 PM MST
PLACE: Enterprise Square,Faculty of Extension
Room 2-520A (2nd Floor)
10230 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, AB T5J 4P6
DESCRIPTION
Rainforest Alberta - Lunch without Lunch YEG is an informal get-together for Edmonton entrepreneurs, small business owners, academia, investors, and service providers. Anyone looking to encourage collisions between people and create connections that will help drive the success of entrepreneurs in Alberta's innovation system is welcome to attend.
Lunch without Lunch will typically run the 1st and 2nd Tuesday of every month at Enterprise Square.
Agenda:
11:45 Check In (bring your lunch!)
12:00 Welcome
12:10 Entrepreneur Profile - Teruel Carrusco
12:25 Who's in the Room
12:35 Networking
Cost: Free
All are welcome to join - come prepared to share with the group on how you can provide support others in the nature of the Rainforest Social Contract. Do you want to learn more about the Social Contract or signup and commit to building a culture that supports entrepreneurs? Click here!
Can't Make it to LWOL? Join us on the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Advanced Technology Centre in the Edmonton Research Park for Connector. Please ensure to register for each month and double check dates and locations as they are subject to change.
DATE: Thu, July 19, 2018
TIME: 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM MDT
PLACE: Advanced Technology Centre
9650 20 Avenue Northwest
Edmonton, AB T6N 1G1
DESCRIPTION
Rainforest Alberta - Connector is an informal get-together for Edmonton entrepreneurs at all stages (from ideation to exiting), small business owners, and service providers looking to encourage and promote collisions between people and create connections that will help drive the success of entrepreneurs in Alberta's innovation system.
Our Connector events run the evenings of the 3rd Thursday of each month. Join us to meet new like-minded people, celebrate successes and learn from failures, and build a community that supports and promotes entrepreneurship across the Province.
Agenda:
4:00 PM Check-In
4:20 PM Welcome & Introduction of the Rainforest
4:30 PM Entrepreneur Profile - TBA
5:00 PM Roundtable Connections
6:00 PM End
All are welcome to join - come prepared to share with the group on how you can provide support others in the nature of the Rainforest Social Contract. Do you want to learn more about the Social Contract or signup and commit to building a culture that supports entrepreneurs? Click here!
Can't Make it to a Connector event? Join us on the1st Tuesday of every month at TEC Edmonton for Lunch without Lunch. Please ensure to register for each month and double check dates and locations as they are subject to change.
How do companies like Apple, Proctor & Gamble and Eastman use design thinking to create exceptional offerings and innovate ahead of their competition? – The customer is at the centre of their business model.
By incorporating design thinking into their business core, they have been able to effectively leverage the design process. Concordia University of Edmonton can provide you with an understanding of the design thinking tools and processes, as well as provide real world experiences to practice your knowledge.
This half-day design thinking workshop has been created to offer business professionals and entrepreneurs an in-depth, hands-on comprehensive introduction to the design thinking process. Through immersive dynamic discussions, relevant readings and team exercises, you will practice your knowledge with several design challenges. You will discover new possibilities and leave with an understanding of how you can make a greater contribution to your organization’s success.
This workshop is ideal for anyone who is tasked with problem solving and looking for new approaches to develop innovative solutions. The structure of this workshop is particularly useful to teams from the same company who want to tackle an organizational design thinking challenge.
The workshop will assist you to:
Learn and apply the fundamentals of design thinking
Gain an understanding of how to approach wicked problems and plan for success
Establish a framework for building an environment that fosters creativity
Develop ways to collaborate across all areas of your organization
Start to build a practical design thinking toolkit that can be applied to your daily work
Unlock your creative potential
Create the foundation for a more customer centric team and organization.
Workshop fee includes all training material, refreshments and participant certificate of completion.
The workshop runs from 8:15 am to noon with registration starting at 8:00 am
Space is limited to 12 participants, so register soon.
THE ALBERTA COUNCIL OF TECHNOLOGIES
REGIONAL, ALL-INDUSTRY, SUMMER NETWORKING BBQ
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018
In the heart of Edmonton’s lush river valley – An event like none other! Meet someone you want to meet again – entrepreneurs and small business, technology and public policy. Creating the new Alberta!
Attendees expected: 150 representing regional research, small business, investors, and policy influencers. Student discounts apply and free admission for robots.
Exhibitors: invited members of our Alliance of 16 industry NGOs and 20,000 followers.
Lite entertainment thru sunset/full moonrise.
General Admission: $50
Students and Seniors: $30
Members receive a 20% discount
All tickets include one drink and meal ticket
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