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Register today for our ‘Premium’ VEF event on May 22nd at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver. Tickets selling fast and may not be available on the day.

Shaun McConnon, former Chairman & CEO of Q1 Labs, is a three time winning CEO who has built over a billion dollars of shareholder value.  Learn how Q1 Labs successfully spun out technology from the University of New Brunswick and built a global company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Under Shaun’s leadership, Q1 Labs raised $42M in financing and grew to over 200 employees.  In 2011, while contemplating an IPO, the company accepted an acquisition offer from IBM that is regarded as one of the largest venture capital exits in Canada in a decade.

How did Q1 Labs leverage technology developed at a university to become a global leader of security intelligence solutions? 
How much of their success was about the technology,  market timing and management? 
What were the challenges to financing and building a company with Canadian roots? 
Did Q1 Labs live up to Shaun’s vision for the company? 

Come find out as Shaun tells all with Tony van Bommel, Partner of BDC Venture Capital

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.

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Register for our ‘Premium’ VEF event on May 22nd at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver.

Shaun McConnon, former Chairman & CEO of Q1 Labs, is a three time winning CEO who has built over a billion dollars of shareholder value.  Learn how Q1 Labs successfully spun out technology from the University of New Brunswick and built a global company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  Under Shaun’s leadership, Q1 Labs raised $42M in financing and grew to over 200 employees.  In 2011, while contemplating an IPO, the company accepted an acquisition offer from IBM that is regarded as one of the largest venture capital exits in Canada in a decade.

How did Q1 Labs leverage technology developed at a university to become a global leader of security intelligence solutions? 
How much of their success was about the technology,  market timing and management? 
What were the challenges to financing and building a company with Canadian roots? 
Did Q1 Labs live up to Shaun’s vision for the company? 

Come find out as Shaun tells all with Tony van Bommel, Partner of BDC Venture Capital

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.

Listed below are the Lightning Pitch presenters from our April 24th event:

Don Wadsworth – Jostle Corporation
Inderjit Bains – NPI Systems
Sean Elbe – PMC Science Fair Fun Run

A little more about the Lightning Pitch companies:

Jostle Corporation is creating and enabling the next generation of enterprise software, specifically the next generation of the corporate Intranet! and is simple, intuitive and elegant. Enterprises have long endured big, clumsy software that results in high costs, disconnected employees and poor agility. Jostle is on a quest to fix this, starting by replacing dead, cluttered and unused intranets. Our People Engagement platform engages employees, aligns teams and amplifies culture with a simplicity and elegance not achievable with traditional software.

NPI Systems has developed the NPI Board: a deployable, small form factor single board computer based on the Texas Instruments AM1808/OMAPL-138 line of SOCs. With industrial temperature operation, 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR with co-existence, dual USB Host, 10/100 Ethernet, Serial, GPIO and expansion connectors, the NPI Board can be used in applications ranging from industrial control and monitoring to custom Internet gateways. A website is in the works and will be up in a couple of days.

PMC Science Fair Fun Run – Give Young Scientists A Running Start by signing your team up for the 13th Annual Science Fair Fun Run on May 27. Corporate Team deadline is April 30. Your participation in the PMC-Sierra Science Fair Fun Run ensures the success of future Science Fairs in BC and allows our youth to gain the skills they need to succeed in a fast-paced, knowledge-based world.

Registration now open for our ‘Premium’ May 22nd event – ‘Shaun McConnon, former Chairman & CEO talks IPO’s and Exits with Tony van Bommell, partner of BDC Venture Capital’.

Express Registration

Pre-registration is now closed. Please purchase your ticket at the VEF registration desk at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver tonight. Doors open at 5pm for registration.

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Last couple of days to purchase tickets at our $45 rate. Come along on April 24th to the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver for our Machine to Machine Communications Event. Tickets may be available on the night priced $50.

Our panel will discuss:

Panelists include:

John Tolkamp, Director IT Ainsworth Engineered
Mark Richards, Manager, Mining Technology Teck Metals
Peter van der Gracht, CEO SignalSet
Jason Krause, Senior VP for Corporate Development and MarketingSierra Wireless
Neil McDonnell, CEO Wurldtech

The panel will be moderated by Dave Thomas, Senior Partner Rocket Builders and a VEF Board Member.

Lightning Pitches on the night from:

Don Wadsworth – Jostle Corporation
Inderjit Bains – NPI Systems
Sean Elbe – PMC Science Fair Fun Run
A representative from – Wavefront

Please click Continue Reading to see full bios of event speakers.