VEF Momentum

Event Update and Twitter Challenge

Na'im Merchant — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:21:25 +0000

We’re excited to say that tomorrow’s event at Nuba is sold-out! There will be 140 entrepreneurs, professionals, business leaders and students out so we anticipate an exciting mix of people that will make this event an excellent networking and learning opportunity. Here are some reminders on the event tomorrow and a quick note about our Twitter Challenge that we think you’ll find interesting:

Event Details

The event starts tomorrow (Thursday) at 6:00PM at Nuba Restaurant. Our speaker for the evening, Jon Bixby CEO and Co-Founder of Strangeloop Networks, will be speaking early on in the evening and Nuba will be serving up some excellent appetizers around that time so we encourage you to arrive early. It is important to note that we do not have additional capacity for guests who have not registered online and can not accept payments at the door to register them.

Nuba Restaurant is located at 207 West Hastings Street on the corner of Cambie Street and West Hastings (Link to Nuba Restaurant on Google Maps). We encourage you to enter on the Hastings side of the street to pick up your name tag.

Twitter Challenge

As a number of our guests will be Twittering at the event, we thought we would step things up a little and make it interesting with a gift card to the Apple Store. We will be using the hashtag #MomentumLeadership for the evening. We encourage everyone to take photos during the event of the venue, the speaker, of connections you make and friends you meet, whatever you like. Using the hashtag #MomentumLeadership (and make sure you call out @VEFMomentum in some of your tweets!) we want you to upload those pictures to Twitter using your favourite Twitter photo app (TwitPic, yFrog, etc.).

The next morning we’ll tally up who has the most photo tweets of the event on Twitter (using the #MomentumLeadership hashtag to track them down) and awarding the top 3 Twitterers with free tickets to the next event, with a $25 gift card to the Apple Store going to the first-place finisher. This will be announced on our Twitter stream the next day so please follow us on Twitter (@VEFMomentum) to find out if you won!

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

VEF “Tech Legend” Chat with Greg Peet

Na'im Merchant — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:33:26 +0000

The “Technology Legends” theme of the monthly VEF Fireside Chats has been extremely successful since it launched several months ago. People seem to really enjoy the discussion-centered format and gain a lot of valuable knowledge from the wildly successful entrepreneurs that share their honest wisdom on stage. The result has been a number of sell-out crowds. With the last “Technology Legend” event approaching this Tuesday, I thought I would include some information on it while tickets are still available. Here are the details:

Fireside Chat with Greg Peet
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC)
19 May 2009, Tuesday starts at 05:30 PM

In the final instalment of our “Technology Legends” theme, the VEF is pleased to present a fireside chat with local legend Greg Peet. Greg is an accomplished business leader, entrepreneur, angel investor and corporate director. Until 2004, he was VP and General Manager of the McKesson Medical Imaging Group, a role he assumed following McKesson’s (NYSE:MKE) acquisition of A.L.I. Technologies in 2002 for over $500 million. As CEO, Greg spent a decade directing the growth of A.L.I., from an R&D organization into a market leader in the digital medical imaging segment with over 400 employees. Greg was recognized as the Ernst & Young’s Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002, and B.C. Technology Industry Association’s “Person of the Year” for 2007. Prior to ALI, Greg was CEO of Enterprise Technologies and Norsat. He began his career in the financial services industry. Greg currently serves on a number of company boards, and is Co-Chair of the B.C. Premier’s Technology Council.

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If you have an important message to share with the technology community, consider applying for a 100-second lighting pitch by completing an application at our registration site.

Stimulus Event Debrief

Tyson Miller — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:16:42 +0000

Thank you to everyone who came out last night. We had a packed house at SoCial for an evening of networking and presentation from the knowledgeable Mr. Rizwan Kheraj of NRC-IRAP. A quick thank you to all of those who helped make this event possible and we look forward to continue working with Riz as Momentum rolls out our 2009 program.

From the networking side, our group is extremely interested in reviewing each event in order to continuously improve what we are doing here. We had some great feedback last night. On the other side of the coin, a few people mentioned that they didn’t really get a good look at Riz’s very informative presentation. As I promised to some of you, I have posted it below. For next event we will make sure you all can see the screen (I promise).

Riz Kheraj – Stimulus

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TeamPages on Fortune Hunters!

Na'im Merchant — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:37:21 +0000

The other day I received an e-mail from Justine Lewkowicz from Fortune Hunters, a new series on CBC Newsworld. According to Justine, Fortune Hunters will look at “emerging trends in the marketplace and features Canadian entrepreneurs cashing in on them”.

This weekend, the episode will focus on social networking trends in Canada. It turns out Mike Tan a local young web entrepreneur (co-Founder of TeamPages) and a good friend of VEF Momentum, will be featured along with the rest of his team on the episode. You’ll see Mike and his team try to take TeamPages to the next level in this trying economy. Read more about the exciting episode here.

Make sure you tune in to CBC Newsworld on Saturday February 14th at 3:30PM and 8:30PM PST or Sunday February 15th at 10:30AM and 1:30PM. You can also catch the episode on the Fortune Hunters web-site. I’ll be watching!