2024 is here! And Tech Thursday is back!
Plus... Canada Life makes an Acquisition, your money earns 4%, and Skip has new leadership.
Tech Thursday’s January Lineup is Here 👩🏫
New Year, New Tech Thursdays!
We’re back with a fantastic lineup of events in January:
January 18th: ‘To Catch a Fraudster: How Fintechs and Police Stop Bad Actors’ featuring: Stephen Oyewole, Financial Crimes Director at Neo Financial, and Detective Sergeant Blair Savinkoff, Winnipeg Police Service, Financial Crimes Unit / Cyber Investigations Team.
January 25th: ‘Startups for Dummies: Understanding Equity, Funding, and Every Little Thing’, co-hosted by North Forge. Featuring: Joelle Foster, President & CEO at North Forge Technology Exchange, Chris Schmidt, Founder & CEO at Parallel, Noah Palansky, Co-Founder & CEO at TAIV, and Brett Zahari, Co-Founder at Bronuts.
You can RSVP to the event here.
We want to thank our incredible sponsors for making these events possible: Neo Financial, SkipTheDishes, Manitoba Tech Accelerator, Norima Consulting, Go Oil, Snowflake, Amiron Ventures, and AWS.
🤝 Acquisitions & Partnerships
Canada Life has acquired Value Partners and IPC, which brings Canada Life’s assets under management to $89b across 6k advisors.
Canadian Agri-Food Automation & Intelligence Network has selected Winnipeg’s TheoryMesh to develop an online communications and data sharing and integration platform that will link members of a Canada-wide system of integrated smart farm networks.
New Media Manitoba is partnering with On Screen Manitoba to jointly deliver the New Level CoLab. This multi-session workshop is launching in early 2024 and is aimed at giving film/tv professionals the opportunity to learn and create in the the emerging field of Virtual Production at their brand new facility, StudioLab xR.
🚀 Product Launches
Neo Financial has launched their High-Interest Savings account with a stable 4% interest rate with no minimum deposits and no commitments. That’s 2x the highest base interest rate offered by the Big 5 banks.
SkipTheDishes has launched an iMessage extension to make gifting accessible directly through iMessage. You can now also order Lego through Skip’s rapid grocery delivery service, Skip Express Lane.
North Forge has announce a new learning opportunity open exclusively to women entrepreneurs: a two-day, in-person financial literacy workshop led by the fantastic team at The Finance Cafe. There is no cost to attend.
InputsPro is a mobile app and website built specifically for prairies farmers to provide them with essential crop data.
Geco Engineering’s predictive weed maps use artificial intelligence to allow farmers to apply herbicides more strategically.
📰 In the News
Paul Burns has joined SkipTheDishes as their new Chief Executive Officer. Prior to SkipTheDishes, Paul was previously the Managing Director of Twitter in Canada.
Jacqueline Keena, EMILI Managing Director, has joined Premier Kinew’s Business and Jobs Council to share agtech expertise.
Marshall Ring has stepped down as CEO of Manitoba Technology Accelerator. Both Marshall and MTA’s Board mutually agreed that it was the right time for new leadership.
👯 Other Events
January 31: The Intersection of Tech and Entrepreneurship
February 6: Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship: What you need to know
February 28: Intellectual Property Summit
👩🏫 Who’s Hiring
Neo Financial, Product Manager - Career Pivot & District Sales Manager
SkipTheDishes, Bilingual French/English Operations Specialist & MarTech Specialist
Karve IT, Intermediate Software Developer