Our Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor
TELUS Business
TELUS Business is a world-leading technology company of 16 million customer connections spanning from wireless and entertainment to data and security. We leverage our leading LPWA, 4G and 5G networks and solutions to empower remarkable human outcomes within our IoT, Smart City, Big Data, Health and Agriculture solutions–while protecting data with our industry-leading privacy safeguards. We give where we live as community investment is a top priority, especially as we work with health authorities and governing bodies to help remedy pandemic challenges with our award-winning Data for Good programs.
Platinum Sponsor
Avnet
Avnet helps companies reach further no matter where they are in the technology product lifecycle – from mapping out an idea on a napkin to moving to mass production.
For more than a century, we’ve adapted to wave after wave of technological change by expanding our capabilities. Avnet helps customers guide today’s ideas into tomorrow’s technology. As a global technology solutions company, our ecosystem enables us to help professional engineers, entrepreneurs and startups take their tech projects from idea to design and from prototype to production. With this end-to-end approach, we help reduce time, cost and complexities of bringing products to market.
Avnet’s culture was founded on new ideas and emerging technology. With more than 15,300 employees globally, we support business for our customers in 140 countries across North America, Europe and Asia. That’s why customers around the world turn to Avnet – for our know-how, integrity, experience and global reach. Our engineers are on the front lines of innovation, supported by sales, supply-chain, design-chain and service teams with deep expertise – making Avnet the go-to guide for innovators who set the pace for technological change.
Gold Sponsors
BDC
At BDC, we know business owners. We’ve been working with them for more than 75 years. We know their challenges and we understand their needs. And we want them to grow and succeed.
We support small and medium-sized businesses in all industries and at every stage of growth with money and advice. We are the Business Development Bank of Canada. We are BDC.
SAIT
In 1916, our doors opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with 11 students and a mandate to train veterans returning from the First World War. Over the years, we’ve matched community needs — as a hospital during the Spanish Flu pandemic and as a Royal Canadian Air Force Wireless Training School during the Second World War.
Fast forward to today and SAIT’s action-based learning, solution-focused research and industry partnerships are helping to shape the next generation of inventors, entrepreneurs and pioneers.
The Logic
The Logic is Canada’s leading business and tech newsroom, covering the innovation economy from crypto to automotive tech. An indispensable part of any daily-news routine, The Logic’s original journalism and daily newsletter provide in-depth reporting to help you make informed business decisions.
While newsrooms are shrinking across the country, our award-winning national newsroom continues to grow, with bureaus in Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax—and further expansion on the way.
Subscribers also get exclusive access to monthly insider events, company-sentiment analysis, community surveys, Slack channels and job postings.
Silver Sponsors
Health Cities
Health Cities is a Canadian, not-for-profit corporation that works with clinicians, innovators, philanthropic organizations, and companies to develop new models of care to increase accessibility, drive better health outcomes and economic growth in the health sector. Our focus is on transforming innovations from multiple sectors, using technology platforms like IoT, into solutions that have both commercial application and global relevance, adopting them for local impact and scaling them for export to global markets. By leveraging our region’s strengths, we can enhance the user experience (patients) and increase their ability to manage their own wellness.
Rinsa
RINSA operates with a client service model focused on the client, outcomes and collaboration. The main clients of RINSA are entrepreneurs with start-ups/small businesses with a focus on technology and innovation. RINSA collectively assists start-ups and small businesses to successfully navigate the commercialization system through programs, services, and resources. As a part of the Alberta Innovation Network, RINSA can leverage opportunities to collaborate with other regional innovation networks throughout the province as well.
Bronze Sponsors
Calgary Foundation
The Foundation facilitates collaborative philanthropy by making powerful connections between donors and community organizations for the long-term benefit of Calgary and area. In 2020-21, Calgary Foundation saw $88.7 million in new contributions, 64 new funds established, had an asset base of $1.2 billion and granted $66.9 million to 1,105 charitable organizations.
It is the strategic partnerships with our generous fundholders and effective nonprofits that enable us to do great work and build a vibrant community. The strength and value of a community foundation is reflected in a strong and sustainable charitable sector.
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is the voice of Canada’s upstream oil and natural gas industry. CAPP enables the responsible growth of the industry and advocates for economic competitiveness and safe, environmentally, and socially responsible performance.
Borden Ladner Gervais
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is the voice of Canada’s upstream oil and natural gas industry. CAPP enables the responsible growth of the industry and advocates for economic competitiveness and safe, environmentally, and socially responsible performance.
Copoint
Copoint operates at the intersection of innovation and finance, science and tax, and government and industry. They collaborate with technology companies of all sizes and sectors, including IoT, software, and hardware clients to get them the highest return on their R&D investment through the SR&ED program. Many claimants in Alberta recoup approximately 50% of their R&D spend.
Become a Sponsor
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