Resources
Find government funded organizations & programs in Alberta which support entrepreneurs and companies:
http://albertain.com/
https://www.connectica.ca/i3/
A great list of resources compiled by our friends at StartupCalgary: https://www.startupcalgary.ca/resources
Join the conversations online on these Slack Channels:
Rainforest Alberta: https://rainforestalberta.slack.com
Alberta Startups: https://albertastartups.slack.com
Edmonton: All the Coworking spaces
http://coworkedmonton.com/
Calgary: Coworking Offices & Makerspaces
- Assembly Coworking Space
- The Bridge
- Collective 12|12
- Dream Suites
- The Commons
- The Edison YYC
- EFFECTIV
- emergeHUB
- Global Business Centre
- HustleCo
- OxWorx
- The Inc
- The Nucleus at the Odd Fellows Building
- ReSourceYYC
- Regus Space
- The Sandbox at CSpace
- STRATUS
- Work Nicer (Stephen Avenue & Roxbury)
- Protospace (Makerspace)
- Fuse33 (Makerspace & Coworking Space)
- ARCHEloft (Wearables Lab)
- Communo (Marketing Collective)
- 2080 Business Lab
Calgary: Incubators & Accelerators
- The Accelerator
- ATB Financial's ATBX
- Chamber of Commerce Ignite
- Creative Destruction Lab, Rockies (CDL, in partnership with University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business)
- District Ventures (focused on packaged goods)
- Kinetica Energy Ventures (In partnership with Innovate Calgary)
- Kinetica Innovation Centre at SAIT (KICS)
- IBM & District Ventures
- TELUS Technology Accelerator (In partnership with Innovate Calgary)
- Tundra Accelerator Center for Entrepreneurs (ACE) (Energy-focused)
- RBC Social Enterprise Accelerator (In partnership with Innovate Calgary)
- Rocketspace (launching in 2018)
- Zone Startups (In partnership with GE)
Meetups/Organizations
- Alberta EdTech Meetup (education technology)
- Android Developers Calgary
- Calgary Agile Methods User Group
- Calgary AWS User Group (Amazon Web Services)
- Calgary Business Professionals Meetup Group (networking)
- Calgary Microsoft User Group
- Calgary NodeJS
- Calgary Product Managers
- Calgary Software Product Managers
- Calgary UX (user experience) **
- Calgary WordPress Meetup Group
- Chic Geek (empowering women in tech; men welcome at events)
- Creative Mornings Calgary (creative)
- EFFECTIV | Innovation Centre Events
- HackerNest Calgary Tech Socials
- InfoDev on Tap (documentation)
- Lighthouse Labs Calgary
- NetSquared Calgary (tech for social change)
- New Tech Meetup (tech and startups)
- Oracle Developers YYC
- Pixels and Pints (social events, designers + developers) **
- Product Hunt YYC
- PyYYC (Python)
- Social Media Breakfast YYC
- Startup Calgary
- YYC JS (JavaScript)
- YYC Ruby
Annual Events
- AccelerateAB (startups) – April
- Banff Venture Forum (Sept)
- Beakerhead (science and engineering + art and entertainment) – September
- CAMP Festival (annual conference: creative technology, art and design) – September
- Geeky Summit (Nov)
- Global Game Jam (game development hackathon) – January
- Innovation Rodeo (July)
- iTech Conference (IT) – October
- PROPEL Energy Tech Forum (Feb)
- Techstock (technology of gaming) – September
- VCAA Annual Conference & Ski Day (Feb)
- WordCamp YYC (WordPress) – May