This eight-week series introduces the tools social entrepreneurs need to become investment ready and prepare their funding applications, including for the UCeed Social Impact Fund. 

Recorded sessions:

• UCeed Social Impact Fund Informational Webinar
  • Presenters: Jordana Armstrong, Associate Director, Innovate Calgary, Gregory Mack, Senior Financial Analyst, Innovate Calgary
• Intro to Financing Tools for Social Enterprise
  • Presenters: Bradford Turner, Founder and Managing Director, The Sector Inc., Jane Bisbee, Executive Director, The Social Enterprise Fund
• Mitigating Burnout for Entrepreneurs and Changemaker
  • Presenter: Cole Nakatani, Co-founder, Hydra Labs
• Impact and Business models: Where and how These Worlds Collide
  • Presenter: Brittni Kerluke, Manager of Capacity Building, Trico Charitable Foundation
• Developing a Compelling Pitch
  • Presenter: Kevin Franco, Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR), Platform Calgary
• Getting traction? Leveraging search insights to excite investors
  • Presenter: Kathleen Davy, Senior SEO Manager, Docebo
• What Your Numbers Say: Identifying the Health of your Social Enterprise
  • Presenter: Jacinthe Koddo, Co-founder and Contract Business Manager, Tandem Innovation Group
• Organizational DNA: Legal Structures and Governance
  • Presenter: Terry Booth, Partner, RSM Canada
• Measuring What Matters
  • Presenters: Robbie Babins, CEO, Calgary Counselling Center, Bradford Turner, Founder and Managing Director, The Sector Inc., Beena Tharakan, Principal Consultant, The Sector Inc.

This seven-part series provides an introduction to social innovation and social enterprise while exploring best practices, investment readiness, venture creation, and more to help our growing community of social innovators.

Recorded sessions:

• Introduction to Social Innovation and Enterprise
  • Presenters: Jordana Armstrong, Andrea Wall, and Himani Nailwal, Innovate Calgary’s Clinical & Social Innovation team
• Best Practices for Measuring Social Impact
  • Presenters: Social Innovation Academy fellows, Logan Aitken & Tyson Bilton
• Demystifying UCalgary's Social Innovation Ecosystem
  • Presenters: Jordana Armstrong, Senior Innovation Manager, Innovate Calgary, Mackinley Darlington, Manager, Knowledge Engagement, UCalgary, Keri Damen, Executive Director, Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, Alys Jinnah, Experiential Learning Specialist, Trico Foundation Social Entrepreneurship Centre
• Investment Readiness Program - Practical Application Tips
  • Presenters: Michael S McGee, Camema Investment Management, Brooks Hanewich, Lead, Alberta Ecosystem Project
• Habits for Resilient Changemakers
  • Presenters: Cole Nakatani, Hydra Labs, Jordana Armstrong, Innovate Calgary
• Legal 101: Venture Creation
  • Presenters: Austin Sevalrud and Jared Armstrong, BLG Business Venture Clinic, Karen Keck, Legal Sneakers

A webinar series for early and late stage ventures. Explore topics from managing IP and finances, to harnessing the power of good mentorship and developing resilience. The sessions address some of the critical challenges of entrepreneurship. 

Recorded sessions:

• Digitizing Accounting Processes
  
  • Presenter: Candice McKay, President, Catalyst Financial Operations.
    
• Building Good Mentor Relationships
  
  • Presenters: Chris Doble, Venture Mentoring Service of Alberta, Pierre Wijdenes, CEO and co-founder, Neuraura, and Paul Sullivan, Navillus consulting.
• Building an Effective IP Portfolio
  
  • Presenter: Jim Wilson, Senior Manager, Intellectual Property, Innovate Calgary.
• Building Sustainable Financial Plans
  • Presenter: Adam Cragg, Executive Director- New Ventures, Innovate Calgary.

A webinar series that focuses on strategies and resources for repositioning known drugs for new disease indications. The series explores patent law and intellectual property strategies for drug repurposing, current trends and tools for drug candidate selection, building a commercialization plan, and more.  

• Intellectual Property Strategy and Case Law for Drug Re-purposing Projects
  • Presenters: Mark Roach, Canadian and US Patent Agent

• A New Life for Old Molecules: Approaches to Drug Re-purposing
  • Presenters: Dr. Joshua Sacher, Applied Scientist, Cyclica

• The Drug Repurposing Hub - Resources for Drug Repurposing
  • Presenters: Dr. Steven Corsello, Co-Founder, The Drug Repurposing Hub

A list of recorded webinars that you can view at your leisure.

• Launching Your Startup - Getting 'Investor Ready'
  • Presenters: Mike Wellwood, Managing Director, 88 Street Capital Inc. Learn about 5 key knowledge areas to prepare your company for investment.
• Regulatory steps for COVID-19 medical innovations
  • Presenters: Jim Wilson, Senior Manager - Talent Development, Innovate Calgary, Neil Campbell, Senior Legal Counsel, University of Calgary, John Simon, Innovation Advisor, FUEL Biomedical

• Mitacs - Efforts to support Canadian small businesses in the fight against COVID-19
  • Presenter: Angelo Nwigwe, Director, Business Development, Mitacs

• Intellectual Property: Cost, Value, and COVID-19 Changes
  • Presenters: Marnie Fyten, IP Advisor - Business Services Branch, Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), Jim Wilson, Senior Manager - Talent Development, Innovate Calgary

• Canadian Technology Accelerator for Health Info Webinar
  • Presenters: Iraina Miles, Trade Commissioner for Health & Life Sciences at the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco | Silicon Valley, Claire Dixon, COO, Neuraura

• Learnings from the COVID-19 Pandemic: a discussion with Alberta Innovates
  • Presenters: Tim Murphy, Vice President, Health, Alberta Innovates, and Michael Kerr, Manager, Technology Development Advisors - South, Alberta Innovates
    

• How to Create an Investment-Securing Pitch Deck 
  • Presenter: Elliot Gatt, Advisor, PhonicsVR and Startup Strategist 
    

• Life Sciences Fellowship Informational Webinar
  • Presenter: Jim Wilson, Senior Manager - Talent Development, Innovate Calgary
    

• Life Sciences Fellowship Application Webinar
  • Presenter: Jim Wilson, Senior Manager - Talent Development, Innovate Calgary
    

• Cenera: People Strategy Solutions
  • Presenters: Sheri Brake, Director, HR and Business Consulting, Cenera, and Todd Panett, Manager, HR Advisory Services, Cenera

• Navigating Clinical Trials - IMPACT
  • Presenters: Dr. Derek Exner, Medical Director, IMPACT, Michelle Nelson, Venture Navigator, IMPACT, Karen Cowan, Venture Navigator, IMPACT
• Making Healthcare Innovations: from Research to Market
  • Presenter: Karen Cowan, Venture Navigator, IMPACT
• Giving life to Life Sciences Innovation: Overview of the Alberta ecosystem
  • Presenter: Nima Najand, Associate Director of Business Development, Life Sciences Innovation
• How to make a successful application to the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
  • Presenter: Natasha Spokes, Prime Stream Manager, The Creative Destruction Lab- Rockies