Welcome to the 49th edition of Toronto IRL - where we find the best IRL business + tech events in Toronto, and curate them, so you don’t have to go searching.
11 Events (Sorted by Date)
🙌 = I’m attending. 🙌🙌 = I’m the host. 🎤 = I’m speaking at the event
(Focusing on the events I’m personally attending this month)
November 2 - Hosted by TechTO - 35+ startups under one roof, plus founder stories from Jobber, Stay22 & Propel Holdings
November 3 - Hosted by Toronto Event Hub - A casual night of team trivia, pizza, and meeting new people
November 10 - Hosted by Derek Jouppi - Poker, dinner, and founder conversations
November 10 - Hosted by TechTO - For edtech founders, investors, educators and parents exploring AI's impact on learning
November 12 - Hosted by Nicole Plant / Relay - For women in GTM - Learn from leaders at Novisto and Perpetua
November 18 - Hosted by Alejandro Pereda - casual coffee meetup for founders building B2B companies
November 19 - Hosted by Wendy Huang - Founders, developers and builders connecting over bubble tea
November 24 - Hosted by Ryan Wong - Private dinner for fractional C-suite leaders, consultants + founders looking for meaningful referral partnerships
November 24 - Hosted by Marsha Druker - Founders sharing their biggest failures, followed by Q&A and drinks
November 26 - Legal tech x hosted by Clio
🙌 April 17, 2027 - yes the Jin Yang from Silicon Valley, he's a great stand up comic, seen him before. He released a second day, so has tickets going for as low as $85
Ryan’s Corner - What Is He Up To?
Playing a lot of economic board games - Food Chain Magnate, Acquire, Chinatown. Food Chain Magnate is basically a restaurant simulator, you hire staff, make food, market it, and sell it at a profit then have to pay your employees. It plays like multiplayer chess. Acquire is basically hotel M&A simulation - you buy shares in companies, and if they merge you get a payout. It’s actually been around for 50 years, the ruleset is simpler than Catan but it has incredible depth, and it’s actually played in the World Series of Board Games (annual Vegas boardgame tournament each year). Anyways, kind got me inspired to perhaps host a business boardgames meetup where I gather a bunch of people to play boardgames, but most are economic themed. The reason I like this theme is because they heavily interactive - you have to talk to each other to play. Not a big fan of those silent, solitaire type games.
Toronto Event Organizers I Track For This Newsletter
RI.Events, TechTO, FuckupNights Toronto, Founders Poker, TodoToronto, TorontoEventHub, Startup Ecosystem Canada, Ryan Wong, Daivik Goel, Godwin Chan, Aniket Patel (EVP.VC), Clay.com, Kingsong, Toronto Events, Toronto Tech Fest, Forum Ventures, Toronto Tech Basketball Run, AI Tinkeres Toronto, Toronto Tech Week, Women In GTM, Open Sesame, Thenuk De Silva, Maple Leaf Venture Club, TMU Ted Rogers Alumni
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