Welcome to the 48th 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.
12 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)
October 1 - Hosted by Rodrigo Curbelo - Friend hosting a social deduction game for 12 players - cool group!
October 1 - Hosted by Simon Stern
October 2 - Hosted by Wendy Huang - basketball with Toronto tech founders, investors & corporate professionals
October 5 - Hosted by TechTO - For founders, builders, operators & investors, with a YC application session beforehand
October 13 - Hosted by Derek Jouppi
October 13 - Hosted by AI Tinkerers - Live AI demos + networking, hosted by Shopify
October 17 - Hosted by TechTO - 12-hour build day with 200+ builders, mentors, demos & cash prizes
October 21 - Hosted by Marsha Druker - Founders sharing their biggest failures, followed by Q&A and drinks
October 21 - Hosted by Alejandro Pereda - casual coffee meetup for founders building B2B companies.
October 26 - Hosted by Wendy Huang - Live startup pitches + tech demos with founders, engineers & investors
🙌 October 1 - Ray Lau at the Comedy Bar
🙌 November 5-6 - Conference run by Andrew Yeung, went last year, loved it, mostly bootstrapped founders and super ambitious people
Ryan’s Corner - What Is He Up To?
Very focused, just building. You know, its interesting to open up your calendar and having just a few meetings a week, writing a task list, and only focusing on what drives the business forward. A few years ago I would be having coffee chats for the purpose of coffee chats, going to events to broaden my horizons, and reading all types of newsletters and podcasts for inspiration. But I guess at certain stages you are in exploration mode and other times you are just in focus mode. Right now its just paid ads, call center, legal industry.
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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