If you’re looking to grow your career or business, building meaningful relationships should be one of your top priorities. You need to explore new communities and events to find your tribe, especially if you’re building a startup. Often, founders develop products without considering marketing or identifying their target audience—it’s like throwing a party without invites! Instead, start working on building your audience months in advance.
You have to aim to create an army of supporters and fans, so think beyond mere networking. Networking often involves exchanging business cards or, more commonly, connecting on LinkedIn, but it goes beyond that; it’s about finding people to collaborate with. Some of your best connections will come from collaborations. What does collaboration entail? It can be as simple as exchanging blog posts, speaking at a podcast or event, or getting a quote for your next article.
In this post, we present a calendar list of startup events, conferences, and meetups. If you’re looking for more events in your city, check out the CofoundersBeta startup directory here, where you can browse by city.
1. WNORTH Conference
This is a must-attend event for women founders and professionals. WNORTH conference takes places in the beautiful mountain town of Whistler to bring the community together.
2. Aceocial
Acesocial is the go-to-event for Toronto startup founders, innovators, and tech enthusiasts. Check out some of their up coming events here.
3. AdWeek Social Media Week
NYC’s premium event for social media managers and marketers to discuss latest trends and challenges using social to grow.
4. DX3 Canada
DX3 Canada is one of the largest retail marketing and expos in the country. It has speaker series with many expos to check out.
5. Inventures Canada
This one of the top conferences that takes place in Calgary. This is where startups, innovators and investors gather to make things happen.
6. Payments Canada SUMMIT
If you’re into fintech, this one is for you. Payments Canada Summit brings the fintech community in Canada together under one roof to share ideas for the future.
7. Vancouver Startup Week
Vancouver Startup Week is one of the best tech events in Canada. It brings the Vancouver’s startup community together to learn and collaborate.
8. Startupfest
This is arguably one of the largest startup conferences in the world. Startupfest is known for its top notch content, speakers, and plenty of fun for founders.
9. Inbound by Hubspot
If you’re looking for the next conference in marketing, check out Inbound. This is the top destinations for world’s marketers to get connected.
10. SaaStr Annual
This is the annual conference for SaaS founders and professionals.
| Silicon Valley Funding Summit | Las Vegas | Jan 8 |
| Consumer Electronics Show (CES) | Las Vegas | Jan 9-12 |
| You're Next Career Fair UofT Career Fair | Toronto | Feb 2 |
| Aceosocial | Toronto | TBD |
| DeveloperWeek | San Francisco/online | Feb 21-23 |
| Affiliate World | Dubai | Feb 28-29 |
| Web Summit Qatar | Qatar | Feb 26-29 |
| FoundersBeta Top 100 Companies | Global | TBD |
| South by Southwest (SXW) | Austin | March 8 - 16 |
| Canadian Innovation Exchange | Toronto | March 26 - 27 |
| AI and Tech Conference NVIDIA | San Jose/Virtual | March 18 - 21 |
| AdWeek Social Media Week | NYC | April 9 - 11 |
| DX3 Canada | Toronto | April 9 - 10 |
| ASU+GSV Summit | San Diego | April 14 - 17 |
| Web Summit Rio | Rio | April 15-18 |
| TECHSPO | Global | TBD |
| WNORTH | Whistler | May 8-10 |
| HRPA Annual Conference | Toronto | May |
| Dublin Tech Summit | Dublin | May 29 – 30 |
| Inventures Canada | Calgary | May 29 - 31 |
| Payments Canada SUMMIT | Toronto | May 29 - 31 |
| Vancouver Startup Week | Vancouver | May 31 - June 7 |
| Social West | Calgary | June 5-7 |
| TechTalent North | Toronto | June 6 |
| Turing Fest | Edinburgh | July 9-10 |
| Collision | Toronto | June 17 - 20 |
| Employee Experience Summit | Toronto | June 18-19 |
| Startupfest | Montreal | July 10-12 |
| Blockchain Futurist Conference | Toronto | August 13 - 14 |
| Canadian Meetings + Events Expo | Toronto | August 13 - 14 |
| ALL IN AI Conference | Montreal | TBD Fall |
| Litmus Live | Boston/online | Sept |
| FinovateFall | New York | Sept 9-11 |
| Inbound by Hubspot | Boston | Sept 18 - 20 |
| TechCrunch Disrupt | San Francisco | TBD - Sept |
| SaaStr Annual 2023 | San Francisco | Sep 10 - 12 |
| Oslo Innovation Week | Oslo | Sept 23 -21 |
| HR Technology Conference | Las Vegas | Sept 24 - 27 |
| Social Camp HR | Toronto | TBD |
| Culture Summit | San Diego | October 6 - 8 |
| Expand North Star | Dubai | October 13 - 16 |
| Banff Venture Forum | Banff | October 23 - 24 |
| Scale without Borders | Toronto | TBD |
| Boston Fintech Week | Boston | TBD - around October |
| SF Tech Week | San Francisco | TBD - around october |
| LA Tech Week | LA | TBD - around october |
| NY Tech Week | NYC | TBD - around october |
| Money 20/20 | Las Vegas | Oct 27 - 30 |
| Web Summit | Lisbon | Nov 11 - 14 |
| SaaS North | Ottawa | Nov 13 - 14 |
| Slush | Helsinki | Nov 30 - Dec 1 |
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