# Startup & founder events in Vancouver

Curated by [foundercal.com](https://foundercal.com/). Only events worth a founder's time: conferences, demo days, founder dinners, meetups and workshops. Generic networking filler is filtered out. Updated daily.

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26 upcoming events as of 31 August 2026.

## Open Coffee Club

- Date: Tuesday 1 September 2026, 08:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: 315 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC
- Organizer: [Vancouver Founders](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vancouver-founders)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/open-coffee-club-316259038
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8296?p=md

Open Coffee Club is a casual gathering of people involved/interested in founding, operating or funding startups. The vibe is more hangout than event and provides people with a regular time and location to talk shop, discuss news, ask questions and and meet others in the startup community they may…

## VanJS September 2026, Shipaton Edition, powered by Expo 🚀

- Date: Thursday 3 September 2026, 17:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: Northeastern University - Vancouver, 410 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC
- Organizer: [VanJS: Vancouver JavaScript Developers](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vanjs-vancouver-javascript-developers)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vanjs-september-2026-shipaton-edition-powered-by-expo-316147389
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9299?p=md

RSVP is in Luma: https://luma.com/05csqk9n VanJS September 2026, Shipaton Edition, powered by Expo 🚀 This month we're teaming up with Expo for a night focused on mobile, and kicking off Shipaton with the community. Speakers Caio Alcantara, "Frontend is Not the Bottleneck: Lessons from Scaling a…

## Vancouver VibeStation

- Date: Friday 4 September 2026, 09:30 (America/Vancouver)
- Repeats: 4 upcoming dates (every week)
- Type: Meetup
- Organizer: [Superteam Canada](https://foundercal.com/organizers/superteam-canada)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vancouver-vibestation-e4eQzrJyExsxkHe
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9574?p=md

Join Superteam Canada every Friday at our co-working space for builders, leaders and creatives. Here's what you can expect at our VibeStation: • Desk-space, couches, private rooms, or public tables are available however you like to work. • Drinks, snacks, and lunch served. • Network and connect…

## Vancouver AI Influencer Income for Founders

- Date: Friday 4 September 2026, 18:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Workshop
- Venue: 6R9Q+47 Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
- Organizer: [Profit and Progress Partners](https://foundercal.com/organizers/profit-and-progress-partners)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vancouver-ai-influencer-income-for-founders-316322981
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9631?p=md

Build a Faceless AI Content Brand Build a content brand that AI creates and posts for you, no camera required. Your seat is only secured once you register below. CLAIM YOUR SPOT • A monetisation path from day one • A content system that runs on autopilot • AI-generated posts for any niche Built for…

## Founders Running Club :: Vancouver

- Date: Saturday 5 September 2026, 09:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: The Grind by VEGAIN, 1006 Beach Ave #110, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2N9, Canada
- Organizer: [Founders Running Club](https://foundercal.com/organizers/founders-running-club)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/founders-running-club-vancouver-i7Fss6SQj3YvMMy
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2136?p=md

Weekly runs for founders, builders, and entrepreneurs in Vancouver. Easy conversational pace along the English Bay seawall, if you can talk, you're on pace. Afterwards we head into The Grind for coffee and more conversation. No agenda. Just good people moving and talking.

## VANTEC September 2026 Pitch Event

- Date: Wednesday 9 September 2026, 15:30 (America/Vancouver)
- Repeats: 3 upcoming dates (every month)
- Type: Pitch
- Venue: BCIT Tech Collider, Downtown Campus, 555 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3H6
- Organizer: [VANTEC Angel Network](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vantec-angel-network)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vantec-september-2026-pitch-event-2026-09-09
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9217?p=md

VANTEC is the angel network that has been funding BC startups for two decades, and it runs one of these almost every month. Five or six pre-seed and seed companies get five minutes each in front of the members, followed by Q&A, then shorter intros and last calls from other founders in the room.…

## FORGE (Founders of Rising Games Enterprises)

- Date: Saturday 12 September 2026, 12:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: FUNK. Coffee Bar, 1025 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver, BC V7X 1M5, Canada
- Organizer: Personal
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/forge-founders-of-rising-games-enterprises-yZK5PU8IiNHBo7E
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7365?p=md

FORGE is the reimagined Creative Campfire, a one-day event hosted by Diversity in Games (DIG) with the goal of raising the profile of underrepresented groups and emerging studios in the game dev community. Join us for a day of compelling panel discussions, structured networking opportunities, and a…

## 2026 Demo Day

- Date: Monday 14 September 2026, 15:30 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Demo Day
- Venue: 745 Thurlow St 25th floor, Vancouver, BC V6E 0C5, Canada
- Organizer: [New Ventures BC](https://foundercal.com/organizers/new-ventures-bc)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/2026-demo-day-5Vi020dMjcq0nQq
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7795?p=md

Meet BC’s top emerging tech startups at the 2026 NVBC Demo Day, presented by RBCx.Why attend? • See pitches that usually happen behind closed doors. Watch select Top 25 companies from the 2026 New Ventures BC Competition pitch their startups live, outside of the judging room, for one exclusive…

## Full Indie Summit 2026

- Date: Sunday 20 September 2026, 09:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: The Westin Bayshore, 1601 Bayshore Dr, Vancouver, BC V6G 2V4
- Organizer: [Full Indie](https://foundercal.com/organizers/full-indie)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/full-indie-summit-2026-2026-09-20
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9219?p=md

Vancouver runs one of the densest game development clusters on earth, and this is the day the independent half of it gets in one room. Three tracks, 20+ speakers and hundreds of attendees from Greater Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest, with talks on the craft and the business: design, art,…

## 2026 New Ventures BC Competition Awards Ceremony

- Date: Monday 21 September 2026, 16:30 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: VIFF Centre, 1181 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3M7, Canada
- Organizer: [New Ventures BC](https://foundercal.com/organizers/new-ventures-bc)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/2026-new-ventures-bc-competition-awards-ceremony-EYTnD0y9rHwtzYn
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7784?p=md

The 26th Annual NVBC Awards Ceremony is a hybrid event. Join us in-person at VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St, Vancouver, BC V6B 3M7) or online via livestream (link coming soon!) Join us in celebrating BC's best startups and see who's taking home over $250,000 in cash and prizes at the 26th Annual New…

## Women Founders Meetup at UBC Robson Square

- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026, 16:30 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Meetup
- Price: Free
- Venue: UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7
- Organizer: [Innovation UBC](https://foundercal.com/organizers/innovation-ubc)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/women-founders-meetup-at-ubc-robson-square-2026-09-23
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9210?p=md

Innovation UBC runs the HATCH venture builder and the university's spin-out portfolio, and once a month it opens its founder community up to the wider city. The room is women and non-binary founders, operators and mentors from inside and outside the UBC portfolio, and the format is deliberately…

## Founders Dinner: West Vancouver Edition

- Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026, 18:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Dinner
- Venue: How to Join Us, Apply online - https://www.graemebarlow.com/foundersdinners, Vancouver, BC
- Organizer: [FounderLink](https://foundercal.com/organizers/founderlink)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/founders-dinner-west-vancouver-edition-315117172
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/6546?p=md

Founders Dinner in West Vancouver, Wednesday, September 23rd Connect with Founders Who Get It Join us for real conversations and real growth. This evening is designed to bring together a curated group of founders to share real stories, connect meaningfully, and discuss what’s happening in our…

## Angel Forum at Speed: 63rd Edition

- Date: Thursday 24 September 2026, 12:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Pitch
- Venue: Harper Grey LLP, 3200-650 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 4P7
- Organizer: [Angel Forum](https://foundercal.com/organizers/angel-forum)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/angel-forum-at-speed-63rd-edition-2026-09-24
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9209?p=md

Angel Forum has been putting BC founders in front of accredited angels for 25 years, and at Speed is the condensed version: six presenting companies, lunch and a boardroom of investors, over in an afternoon. Every presenter is screened and coached before they take the floor, so the pitches are…

## BC Technology Impact Awards 2026

- Date: Thursday 29 October 2026, 17:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, 39 Smithe St, Vancouver, BC V6B 0R3
- Organizer: [BC Tech Association](https://foundercal.com/organizers/bc-tech-association)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/bc-technology-impact-awards-2026-2026-10-29
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9220?p=md

The night British Columbia's tech industry turns up in one ballroom. BC Tech hands out Company of the Year awards across four revenue tiers plus the Gamechanger awards and Hall of Fame inductions, which means the finalists' founders, their investors and most of the province's scaleup CEOs are all…

## Life Sciences Investment Week 2026

- Date: 2 November 2026 – 5 November 2026
- Type: Conference
- Organizer: [Life Sciences BC](https://foundercal.com/organizers/life-sciences-bc)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/life-sciences-investment-week-2026-2026-11-02
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9211?p=md

Over 100 life sciences investors fly into Vancouver for this week, and Life Sciences BC builds the whole thing around getting them in front of founders. The core is the two-day Invest in BC conference presented by Lumira Ventures, wrapped in curated side events: an investor welcome reception, a…

## Global Summit AI Vancouver 2026

- Date: 2 November 2026 – 3 November 2026
- Type: Conference
- Price: CA$329
- Venue: The Nest, UBC, 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
- Organizer: [Global Summit AI Vancouver](https://foundercal.com/organizers/global-summit-ai-vancouver)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/global-summit-ai-vancouver-2026-2026-11-02
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9215?p=md

Two days of AI content at UBC with a main stage for business and adoption and a second stage that goes into engineering practice and research. The confirmed lineup includes AMD's chief software officer, the former CTO of Microsoft Copilot Studio, a DeepMind research scientist and UBC's CIFAR AI…

## Foresight 50 2026

- Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026, 09:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Conference
- Price: CA$350
- Organizer: [Foresight Canada](https://foundercal.com/organizers/foresight-canada)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/foresight-50-2026-2026-11-04
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9208?p=md

Foresight Canada names the fifty most investable cleantech ventures in the country and then puts them in a room in Vancouver with the people who fund them. Expect founders, investors, corporate buyers and policy people for a full day built around deal flow rather than panels. If you are raising for…

## Converge 2026

- Date: Wednesday 25 November 2026, 09:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Conference
- Organizer: [NorthX Climate Tech](https://foundercal.com/organizers/northx-climate-tech)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/converge-2026-2026-11-25
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9213?p=md

NorthX is the fund behind a lot of BC's climate hard tech, and Converge is its one day a year in public. Around 300 founders, investors, researchers and policymakers gather to look at what the sector has actually built and what capital it needs next. The programme leans on founders who have been…

## Angel Forum: 64th Edition

- Date: Thursday 10 December 2026, 09:00 (America/Vancouver)
- Type: Pitch
- Organizer: [Angel Forum](https://foundercal.com/organizers/angel-forum)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/angel-forum-64th-edition-2026-12-10
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9214?p=md

The full-day version of Vancouver's oldest angel event: six to eight vetted companies present to a room of accredited investors, funds and accelerators, with lunch and long networking breaks built in around it. Presenting companies get founder coaching first and land on Angel Forum's member deal…

## nwHacks 2027

- Date: 16 January 2027 – 17 January 2027
- Type: Hackathon
- Price: Free
- Venue: UBC Life Sciences Institute, 2350 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3
- Organizer: [nwPlus](https://foundercal.com/organizers/nwplus)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/nwhacks-2027-2027-01-16
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9216?p=md

Western Canada's largest hackathon, run by the student-led nwPlus club at UBC, now in its twelfth year. Roughly a thousand builders spend 24 hours shipping something from nothing, with mentors on the floor and sponsor hardware to play with. For a founder this is the cheapest way to see who in…

## Web Summit Vancouver 2027

- Date: 25 May 2027 – 28 May 2027
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre, 1055 Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3
- Organizer: [Web Summit](https://foundercal.com/organizers/web-summit)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/web-summit-vancouver-2027-2027-05-25
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2994?p=md

Web Summit's North American flagship and the biggest tech conference on the continent's west coast: the 2026 edition drew 20,235 attendees, 1,197 startups and a record 768 investors from 100+ countries. It is the reason founders fly into Vancouver: the STARTUP program puts early-stage teams in…