Getting ready for startup event fatigue? Toronto is an active ecosystem (based on total activity in the Startup Genome database). But there are a lot of upcoming events, here is my inital tracking of Toronto startup events list for fall 2012. The question is which events to attend and which ones to stay heads down and work. An actual guide would breakdown the benefits of each of these events. But I’m being lazy, I’ll add some commentary around each event. Or please feel free to add events and commentary. I’ll update the post.
And for those of you thinking about attending everything, go read Mark Suster’s Be Careful not to become a Conference Ho.
September 2012
- Sept 24 – HackerNest Social
- Sept 25 – SproutUp Toronto
- Sept 26 – StartupDrinks Toronto
- Sept 27-28 – SCREENS 2012
October 2012
- Oct 5 – Ontario Augmented Reality Network Conference
- Oct 10 – AccelerateTO
- Oct 11-13 – Techtoberfest
- Oct 18-20 – Digifest Toronto
- Oct 19 – Lean Startup Machine Toronto
- Oct 19-21 – Hacking Health Toronto
- Oct 19-21 – Peel / Mississauga Startup Weekend
- Oct 23 – JoltCo Demo Day
- Oct 25 – AndroidTO
- Oct 25 – Startup Grind Toronto
- Oct 26 – TEDxToronto
- Oct 29 –
Brad Feld in Montreal– sold out - Oct 29 – HackerNest Social
- Oct 30 – Brad Feld in Toronto
November 2012
- Nov 1 – Startup Ping Pong TO
- Nov 3-4 – GamerCamp
- Nov 5 – TechCrunch Northern Meetup Toronto
- Nov 6-7 – X Summit
- Nov 7 – Mesh Marketing
- Nov 8 – Founder Fuel Demo Day #fffall2012
- Nov 9-11 – StartupWeekend Toronto
Nov 24-25 – AngelHack Toronto– moved to Dec 1-2- Nov 27 – Canadian Innovation Exchange
- Nov 28 – Extreme Startups Demo Day
December 2012
- Dec 1-2 – AngelHack Toronto
October 5 – Ontario Augmented Reality Network Conference – http://www.oarn.net/conference/ (No David, not the reality augmentation that happens on Saturday nights. Bruce Sterling keynotes.)
October 18-20 – Digifest Toronto – http://torontodigifest.ca/2012/
October 19-21 – Peel / Mississauga Startup Weekend – http://riccentre.ca/programs/ric-startup-weekend/
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Saturday reality altering? Is that falling asleep with a beer in front of a kids movie?
As much as it’s great to see FounderFuel in this list, it’s in Montreal. :) Though, that’s a great reason to come here and take in some of our amazingly active startup community.
Hello David,
There’s a last minute adjustment to AngelHack; we’ll actually be holding it on December 1st – 2nd, not November 24th – 25th as originally planned.
Pardon the inconvenience!
Best,
Shaharris
Great list!
Not sure if it counts as an event or not but InCubes is hosting Lean Startup Machine Toronto Oct 19 to 21
April
Thanks @adelemcalear:disqus Montreal is a great place. We need to cross pollinate more.
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