Schedule
Tuesday, June 11th • The Globe and Mail Centre
| Cocktail Reception | 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM |
| Opening Remarks with Inovia Partner Dennis Kavelman | 5:35 PM to 5:45 PM |
| Fireside Chat with Karamdeep Nijjar and Sebastian Mallaby | 5:45 PM to 6:30 PM |
Wednesday, June 12th • STORYS Building
| Opening Remarks with Prem Kalevar | 2:15 PM to 2:25 PM | |
| Fundraising & Firm/Brand-Building with Jeff Clavier (Uncork Capital) and Chris Arsenault | 2:25 PM to 3:00 PM | |
| Community Building as an Emerging VC Fund Strategy with Marianne Dubois, Alex Norman (N49P), Shelley Kuipers (The51), SC Moatti (Mighty Capital), and Paul Irving (GTMfund) | 3:05 PM to 3:40 PM | |
| Short Break | 3:40 PM to 4:00 PM | |
| Building a VC Firm in Today’s Market with Rich Osborn (CTC), Antoine Nivard (Blank), Mike McCauley (Garage Capital), and Kai Bond (Courtside Ventures) | 4:00 PM to 4:40 PM | |
| Investing in Emerging Managers – What LPs Are Looking For with Jon Wolkin (Deloitte Ventures), Jon Terbell (Fourbridge), Brendan Cosgrove (Catalyze Community), and Thomas Terrats (Vessel) | 4:45 PM to 5:20 PM | |
| Closing Remarks with Karamdeep Nijjar | 5:20 PM to 5:30 PM | |
| Networking Cocktail | 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM |
Meet our Fireside Chat Speaker
Sebastian Mallaby, Journalist & Public Speaker
Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and an accomplished journalist and speaker. He writes for various publications and is the author of five books, including “The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future.” His expertise covers central banks, financial markets, and global economic trends. Notable works include “The Man Who Knew,” awarded the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year, and “More Money Than God,” a New York Times bestseller and Loeb Prize winner. Formerly with the Washington Post and the Economist, Mallaby is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Oxford graduate.
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