Entrepreneur Week – Nov. 16-22, 2009
Another year, another Entrepreneur Week. And once again, I’m unable to attend 
but you can!
If you are in Waterloo, Canada (click for Google Maps location) or near it, you can participate in this year’s exciting “innovation festival.”
Here’s some more information (also available on their website):
“Entrepreneurs! start your engines: Entrepreneur Week, North America’s largest annual innovation festival dedicated to the entrepreneurial spirit, will be held in Waterloo November 16-22 and it promises to be another high-octane event to inspire innovation.
Entrepreneur Week is an invigorating week-long festival of events dedicated to celebrating the significant contributions of our greatest community asset – our entrepreneurs!
Waterloo Region is the best place in the world to do a tech startup. Just ask the 200 tech startups doing their thing here. And Entrepreneur Week is a festival unlike any other on the planet. Entrepreneur Week connects entrepreneurs, financiers, students, youth, mentors and the services that support them to success.
Entrepreneur Week 2009 will feature:
Startup Stories: Intimate speaking engagements profiling successful techy entrepreneur founders, including Chris Hughes, co-Founder, Facebook, Tim Bray, Father of XML and Internet Search, Razor Suleman, Founder and CEO, I Love Rewards Jim Estill, the CEO Blogger, Ali Asaria, founder of Well.ca, and more!
The Waterloo Region Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Gala: A black tie formal gala event, celebrating local and international entrepreneurs. Inductions are made into The Waterloo Way Hall of Fame.
The Leading Edge Youth Entrepreneurship Conference: This one is for the highschool students who dream of making it big with their own venture. A full day workshop and seminar to inspire young entrepreneurs.
StartupCamp Waterloo: the un-conference. An ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
Celebrating Entrepreneur Week with Andy Macaulay, President and CEO, ZiG, at the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship, Wilfrid Laurier University as part of their Innovation and Entrepreneurship Speaker Series.
The return of the Founders and Funders Dinner. Founders & Funders is a social event aimed at bringing together the people that start the next big successful company with the people that fund these companiesin their earliest stages. This ain’t a pitch fest. It is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to meet funders, and each other. By invitation only.
Strategic Partnering Day: Communitech connects budding entrepreneurs with some big guns in the Tech Industry (including RIM, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Celestica, Open Text, Sybase, Agfa HealthCare, Rogers and ON Semiconductor. Proposals to participate welcome. Now in its fifth year, Entrepreneur Week promises to be another huge success in sparking entrepreneurial innovation in the Waterloo Region. Save the date – and watch for more details coming soon.”
Peter Kao