🚀 An Exciting March Ahead For Calgary Tech Thursday!
Celebrating International Women's Day, retail innovation, diving into data centres, IP mistakes, and much more headline March in Calgary!
An extremely exciting March awaits Tech Thursday Calgary!
With another strong month concluding, we are so excited to announce the March schedule for Calgary!
We’ll see you there! 👇
🎉 March 5th
Topic - International Women’s Day
We’re excited to bring back our International Women’s Day celebration, focused on recognizing the incredible women across Western Canada’s Tech and Innovation ecosystem.
As in past years, the program is shaped by women in the community. It will feature six speakers, each delivering a short, powerful talk of about 7 minutes, creating space for personal stories to be shared in their own voice.
Speakers:
Shelly Badhesha, Director, Banking at RBCx
Topic: Playing Life on Hard Mode: How to Level Up When the Systems Weren’t Built For You
Daniella Jasper-Okumagba, Founder & CEO at THE BRDGE
Topic: Built From Scratch: Entrepreneurship Without a Recipe
Pam Krause, President & CEO at Centre for Sexuality
Topic: Why sexual health education matters for girls/women
More Speakers and Topics TBA!
🛍️ March 12th
Topic - Fireside Chat with Adam Froese
Co-Hosted By: SecondShop
Technology is reshaping retail, yet returns and excess inventory remain one of its biggest inefficiencies. Billions of dollars in goods move through fragmented channels every year, creating margin loss, operational drag, and waste at scale.
We’re thrilled to co-host this conversation with SecondShop to unpack innovation in e-commerce and what it means to bring structure to one of retail’s messiest categories.
Speakers:
Adam Froese, Co-Founder at SecondShop
Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday
💾 March 19th
Topic - The Tech Behind Data Centres
Co-Hosted By: Western Canada Data Centre Alliance
Behind nearly every digital experience, from AI tools and SaaS platforms to banking, healthcare, and streaming, is physical infrastructure most people never see. We’re digging into the technology that allows modern data centres to operate reliably at scale.
From power distribution and advanced cooling systems to redundancy planning and high-speed connectivity, we’ll break down what it actually takes to keep the digital world online and why rising AI demand is pushing facilities to evolve.
We’re excited to co-host this conversation with the Western Canada Data Centre Alliance to explore how these facilities are adapting in real time and what that means for the future of infrastructure.
Speakers:
Vlad Oujegov, President & Founder at Western Canada Data Centre Alliance
Tom Farran, Vice President at Longbow Capital
Joe Gentile, Account Executive at eStruxture Data Centers
📝 March 26th
Topic - IP Mistakes That Cost Founders
Co-Hosted By: ElevateIP Alberta
Join us for a conversation on the IP decisions founders regret and how to avoid making them yourself!
We’ll dig into when patents actually make sense, when they don’t, and how to think about trademarks and ownership from day one. We’ll also talk about what happens when IP details get overlooked early, and how those loose ends can turn into big questions at the worst possible time, during fundraising, diligence, or acquisition conversations.
Speakers:
TBA!
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Episode 10: CEaaS w/Dallas Price
Episode 9: HER & Reinventing HER & Las Pegas w/Joanna Pariseau & Melissa Ninaber
Episode 8: Bumble for Families & Arranged & Dog-gevity w/Rachel Zimmer
A big thank you to all of our sponsors for making these events a possibility including Boast, Skip, Neo Financial, Alberta Innovates, Motiv, Crestview Strategy, and BLG.
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