On May 12, 2015, the Canadian Association of Business Incubation (CABI) would like to invite you to attend LINK Atlantic, a joint
collaboration of Atlantic Canada’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. In partnership with entrepreneurs3.0 and host sponsor Innovacorp, LINK
Atlantic promises to be a powerful experience with results. This event will include business incubation/accelerator professionals, postsecondary institutions supporting entrepreneurship and leaders in economic development from all parts of Atlantic Canada.
LINK Atlantic will maximize collaboration and partnerships within Atlantic Canada’s entrepreneurial and investment community, while
hearing about the forecasts and trends for SME’s that will have an impact on entrepreneurial growth. How do we become innovative
leaders in Atlantic Canada? What challenges are we facing? How can we become more collbrative in Atlantic Canada?
This event will include candid discussions amongst attendees, in addition to the following:
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Panelists will highlight the entrepreneurial ecosystem taking place in their province
Build and enhance relationships with others working with entrepreneurs in Atlantic Canada
Develop strategies for exchange of information and services with others in Atlantic Canada
Gain valuable market metrics
Meet the Maker Entrepreneurial Awards – with cash prizes for the following categories: technology, product/service, female
entrepreneur
Host 2016 LINK Atlantic in your community
Join us as we kick-off the first of the LINK series in Halifax. Register Here. Deadline to register by May 5th. Seating is limited.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Innovacorp Enterprise Centre
1344 Summer Street, Halifax
Cost: $179 per person
Accommodations: Westin Halifax (special CABI rates)
LINK Atlantic
- moving collaboration and innovation forward in Atlantic Canada May 12, 2015 - Halifax
Agenda
8:00 am
Registration, Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome remarks and LINK Atlantic update
Innovacorp
CABI
9:00 am
Stephen Duff, President
Gail Gillian-Bain, President
Panel discussion on the entrepreneurial map in Atlantic Canada
Introductions
Moderator
Panelists
Kathleen Rayworth, entrepreneurs3.0
Peter Mugridge, CABI
PEI
NF
NB
NS
Brad Mix, Launch Pad
Michelle Simms, Genesis Centre
Sally Ng, Planet Hatch
Shelley Hessian, Innovacorp
9:45 am
Roundtable discussion introductions and instructions
10:00 am
Round Table - Question 1
How do you attract and recruit entrepreneurs? What support do you have in place to help the entrepreneur
with talent?
10:20 am
Round Table - Question 2
How do you foster and maintain a culture of entrepreneurship?
10:45 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am
Speaker
Patrick Keefe, Executive Director - Build Ventures
buildventures.ca
Launched in 2013, Build Ventures a privately managed Atlantic Canadian venture capital fund, based in
Halifax, Nova Scotia and is focused on early stage technology companies across the Atlantic region. The
fund's Limited Partners include Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, BDC Venture, and
other private investors including the fund managers and Technology Venture Corp.
LINK Atlantic
- moving collaboration and innovation forward in Atlantic Canada May 12, 2015 - Halifax
11:15 am
Speaker
Brian Lowe, Co-founder and Director – First Angel Network Association
firstangelnetwork.ca
Brian E. Lowe is Co-Founder and a Director of the First Angel Network Association, Atlantic Canada’s
largest association for private investors and is a shareholder and director of several operating companies
throughout Atlantic Canada. As an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader with over 35 years’
experience, he has been involved in a number of start-up companies throughout his career. Created by
angel investors for angel investors, FAN provides entrepreneurs and investors with a confidential,
disciplined, high-quality private equity investment experience. FAN also delivers education and networking
opportunities in the areas of investment readiness, angel investing and commercialization.
11:30 am
Round Table - Question 3
What are the challenges in having access to capital and promote investment?
12:15 pm
Debrief on morning session and Table Summaries
12:30 pm
Lunch with Keynote Speaker
Speaker
Robert Orr, Managing Partner – Cuna del Mar
cunadelmar.com
Robert Orr is a business leader with over 30 years at the senior management level in the marine biotech,
nutritional ingredient, food retailing, food wholesaling and retail advertising industries. His breadth of
experience ranges from the creation and management of several start-up companies to responsibility for
large multi-national corporate division operations with annual revenues in excess of $1 billion.
2:00 pm
Seasoned Entrepreneurs – Reaching the world from Atlantic Canada
Speaker
Tanya Shaw, Executive Chair – About Me-Ality (Unique Solutions Design Ltd.)
www.me-ality.com
With offices in Santa Clara, Philadelphia and Halifax, Me-Ality has patented and IP protected body
measurement software and scanner technology that has been used to create the world’s largest database of
body measurements. The database provides an unparalleled opportunity to analyze segmented data
allowing Me-Ality’s business partners to target uniquely Personalized Product and Service
Recommendations. Partners can analyze macro consumer trends, behaviours and demographics in a way
that was previously inconceivable. Unique has the only body scanning technology that does not
require customers to remove their clothing to be accurately measured. Me-Ality’s initial market strategy
focuses on solutions that address the apparel industries’ multi-billion dollar clothing returns. Unique offers
the only integrated Omni-Channel fit solution. Me-Ality’s technologies have application in several industries
including health, fitness, insurance, ergonomics and gaming.
LINK Atlantic
- moving collaboration and innovation forward in Atlantic Canada May 12, 2015 - Halifax
2:25 pm
Speaker
Thomas Rankin, CEO – Dash Hudson
dashhudson.com
Dash Hudson makes Instagram shoppable. They provide customers with a beautiful mobile shopping
experience that takes them from inspiration on Instagram, to the point of purchase, seamlessly. Dash
Hudson feature products from over 3,000 leading brands, all of which can be purchased through a single
mobile cart. For creators, we provide the tools to create and monetize their content, while helping them
answering the, "where did you get that?" question so commonly posed by their followers. For agencies and
brands, we connect products to compelling content, which is shared to large and engaged audiences on
Instagram. Their platform offers the first true Instagram ROI, and enables measurement of reach,
engagement, new followers, and conversion to purchase.
2:45 pm
Round Table - Question 4
How can we support entrepreneurs to get to those international markets?
3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:30 pm
Round Table – Question 5
How do we become more of a community through collaboration in our region?
4:00 pm
Debrief / Table Summaries / Where do we go from here?
4:30 pm
Networking Reception
5:30 pm
Entrepreneurial Awards
6:00 pm
Closing