Chrysalix is one of North America’s leading Venture Capital firms providing early stage financing, hands on assistance, & strategic connections to innovative companies creating solutions for the new energy economy. Chrysalix Energy Management has 24 startups in their portfolio and it has raised $123 million in their most recent fund.

This event will be a unique opportunity for the next generation of Vancouver tech entrepreneurs to connect with key players in the Cleantech industry as they answer the following questions (and more):

• What are the future trends in the technology area?
• What qualities do they look for in financing young entrepreneurs
• Is VC funding appropriate for young cleantech entrepreneurs?

As the event from Chrysalix will be:

• Dr. Wal Van Lierop, President & CEO
• Richard MacKeller, Managing Director
• Brian Wawro, Senior Vice President, Investments
• Michael Brown, Chairman

To maintain a close networking atmosphere, we have capped attendance at this event at 80, compared to our usual 200 spots. As a result, tickets for this event are extremely limited, and we encourage all interested individuals to get their tickets while they’re available as we have sold out every VEF Momentum event to-date.

Necessities:

• Date: Friday July 16th
• Time: 5:30pm
• Location: Marmalade Restaurant
• Address: 3-1010 Beach Avenue
• Tickets: $45 Register now at http://www.vef.org/?page_id=27

Included in the ticket price will be full dinner and drinks at Marmalade Restaurant on the Seawall.

Register now! We look forward to seeing you there!

*** JUST IN: The Racing Green Endurance team and its electric supercar will be stopping by the event that evening.  The electric car is on a 26 000km trip down the Pan-American Highway, crossing 14 countries.  Don’t miss this special showcase for your chance to see this supercar in real life. For more information about the electric car and its trip: http://www.racinggreenendurance.com/

***Additionally, the Brammo electric motorcycle (http://www.brammo.com) will be on display at the event.

If you haven’t done so yet, make sure you’re following us on Twitter (@VEFMomentum) or Facebook (search: VEF Momentum).

This event will feature an exciting speaker, Jason Smith, who is the President of Product Innovation at Vision Critical. Jason will share the Vision Critical story and discuss successful strategies on how to go to market with a new product. Jason is a recipient of the Ernst and Young’s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year award, the BDC Young Entrepreneur of the Year national award, and he was named one of Business in Vancouver’s top 40 under 40.

Our last event hosted 230 people and as usual it was sold out. Please make sure to register early to reserve your spot!  Registration is available at http://www.vef.org/?page_id=27

Click here to register now.

Like every Momentum Connect event, you can expect:

• A great way to kick off the weekend! There’s no better way to start a night on the town with a few drinks, catching up with old acquaintances and making some new friends on a Friday after work.
• Excellent company and a comfortable environment to meet a diverse crowd of established entrepreneurs, up and comers, investors, mentors and professionals.
• Delectable refreshments from a creative appetizer menu. Arrive early to sample the best!
  
• Trendy and comfortable atmosphere.

You can expect to meet:

• Young technology entrepreneurs from across the city.
• Student entrepreneurs from universities and colleges across the Lower Mainland.
• Early-stage, first-time entrepreneurs talking about their start-ups.
• Venture capitalists and angel investors.
• Established entrepreneurs with wisdom to share.
• Service providers from the accounting, legal and finance fields as potential mentors.

Register now! We look forward to seeing you there!

If you haven’t done so yet, make sure you’re following us on Twitter (@VEFMomentum) or Facebook (search: VEF Momentum).

As part of our Momentum Connect series, this event will feature a speaker and Q&A session, as well as ample networking time to help aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs connect with the people, resources and answers they need to succeed – all in an inviting, fun and casual environment.

Our speaker for the evening will be Mark Williams, Co-Founder of Elastic Path Software, a local technology company that has experienced substantial growth and success, creating an e-commerce platform used by everyone from Sony Ericsson to the Vancouver Olympic Committee.

Mark will share some great war stories on co-founding a start-up company and what young entrepreneurs can do to emulate building a successful technology business in Vancouver.

Click here to register now.

Like every Momentum Connect event, you can expect:

• A great way to kick off the weekend! There’s no better way to start a night on the town with a few drinks, catching up with old acquaintances and making some new friends on a Friday after work.
• Excellent company and a comfortable environment to meet a diverse crowd of established entrepreneurs, up and comers, investors, mentors and professionals.
• Delectable refreshments from a creative appetizer menu. Arrive early to sample the best!
  
• Trendy and comfortable atmosphere.

You can expect to meet:

• Young technology entrepreneurs from across the city.
• Student entrepreneurs from universities and colleges across the Lower Mainland.
• Early-stage, first-time entrepreneurs talking about their start-ups.
• Venture capitalists and angel investors.
• Established entrepreneurs with wisdom to share.
• Service providers from the accounting, legal and finance fields as potential mentors.

Register now! We look forward to seeing you there!

Please be sure to follow us on Twitter, find us on Facebook (search VEF Momentum) or connect with us on LinkedIn (search VEF Momentum).

Using his own finances, Jason co-founded SuperRewards with two fellow entrepreneurs with the premise of monetizing virtual currencies. Almost immediately the service took off generating millions in revenues. It was acquired by AdKnowledge shortly thereafter for amount rumored in the tens of millions.

Jason shares his lessons and experiences on bootstrapping a start-up company with a killer business model and what young entrepreneurs can do to replicate SuperRewards meteoric rise to the top.

He also addresses the controversy surrounding his business that has been recently surfaced by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.

VEF Momentum was founded under the Vancouver Enterprise Forum with the purpose of connecting, inspiring and mentoring aspiring and emerging technology entrepreneurs

As part of our “Momentum Connect” series, this event will feature a speaker and Q&A session, as well as ample networking time to help aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs connect with the people, resources and answers they need to success – all in an inviting, fun and casual environment.

Our speaker for the evening will be Jason Bailey founder and CEO of KITN Media and SuperRewards. Using his own finances, Jason co-founded SuperRewards with two fellow entrepreneurs with the premise of monetizing virtual currencies. Almost immediately the service took off generating millions in revenues. It was acquired by AdKnowledge shortly thereafter for amount rumored in the tens of millions.

Jason will share his lessons and experiences on bootstrapping a start-up company with a killer business model and what young entrepreneurs can do to replicate SuperRewards meteoric rise to the top.

Click here to register now.

More great things you can expect:

• Excellent company and a comfortable environment to meet a diverse crowd of established entrepreneurs, up and comers, investors, mentors and professionals.
• Delectable refreshments from Nuba’s creative appetizer menu. Arrive early to sample the best!
  
• Trendy and comfortable atmosphere to network with new acquaintances and catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while!

You can expect to meet:

• Young technology entrepreneurs from across the city.
• Student entrepreneurs from universities and colleges across the Lower Mainland.
• Early-stage, first-time entrepreneurs talking about their start-ups.
• Venture capitalists and angel investors.
• Established entrepreneurs with wisdom to share.
• Service providers from the accounting, legal and finance fields as potential mentors.

A group of dedicated people at BCIC have been spending the better part of the summer putting together this world class event, so it is really exciting to see it come together in a few short weeks. As a past Chairperson of the Enterprize Conference and Competition, I can definitely appreciate the time, effort and care that goes into making one of these events a success. I have seen personally the transformative effect a large, multifaceted conference can have on an eager and enthusiastic entrepreneur. For that reason, I wanted to share my thoughts on why all serious up and coming technology entrepreneurs should be registered (and ready) for this event:

• Leonard Brody, an internationally recognized and outspoken local entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author will be the keynote speaker. You can learn some unforgettable lessons for your start-up from his career as an entrepreneur and pick up some pointers regarding his perspectives as a venture capitalist. It’s very rare you get a chance to see both sides of the equation.
• Access to innovations happening at academic institutions in BC. The exposure to new technologies and innovations at their early stages are sure to spark some exciting new ideas of your own while providing a valuable learning opportunity.
• Expert panel sessions can help you break down complex practices, issues and ideas in the entrepreneurial world.
• Networking, networking, networking. The BCIC will be hosting structured networking sessions at this event to ensure you have a better chance of connecting and learning from the people you want to talk to. You can expect to leave the event with more valuable new contacts than a typical networking event due to the sheer number of attendees at this event.

Events like Connect ‘09 are annual for a reason. They’re large so you can meet a large number of important contacts yet diverse in their offerings so you’re assured to walk away with something valuable. You can visit www.bcic.ca for more information.

Since VEF Momentum was founded, the BC Innovation Council has been integral in the success of our events and the program as a whole, so we’re proud to be supporting this excellent cause and hope you can too by registering at www.bcic.ca/connect

We’ve got three ideas you can use to make your goal public:

• Post your goal as a comment on this blog post
• Post your goal on the VEF or VEF Momentum LinkedIn Group pages. A discussion thread has been made for this topic so you can post your goal under the thread “Make Your Goal Public”.
• Or for maximum impact, use Twitter! Keeping your goal succinct is probably a good idea anyway. Use the hashtag #MyGoal on Twitter.

We’ll accumulate the best and most interesting goals in put them together in a seperate post.

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!

Details on the Event:

When: Thursday, June 25th 2009 starts at 6:00PM

Where: Nuba Restaurant (207 W Hastings)

What:

John Bixby, CEO and Co-Founder of Strangeloop Networks will share valuable lessons on leadership, focusing on the big picture and achieving measurable results. He will share his insights in integrating these lessons to position your start-up for success in these challenging economic times. Expect to mingle with the Vancouver’s up-and-coming entrepreneurs, angel investors, professionals, and established entrepreneurs in a fun and exciting environment while enjoying delectable appetizers from Nuba’s exquisite menu.

Register (Regular Price $10):

To register for the event, click here and select “Register” or for more information select “More Details”. Feel free to contact us or comment below if you have any trouble registering.

Currently, early-bird registration requires a special “discount code” where early-bird registrants can attend the event for free. Please follow us on Twitter,or search “VEF Momentum” on LinkedIn or Facebook to access the discount code before early-bird registration closes.

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.

Click here for express registration.

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