A showcase of international investment opportunities in conjunction with our partners at International Deal Gateway focusing on Technology and Innovation
Cody Slater founded BW Technologies in 1986, a global manufacturer of industrial and commercial gas detection devices with a product line of more than 30 unique instruments. From the Calgary head office, he grew the company's operations to include offices throughout the world. His impact on one of the country's fastest-growing technology companies was well recognized through achievements that have garnered numerous awards including Canada's Top 40 under 40, Alberta's Most Influential Top 50 People, Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, and the Certificate of Merit for Business Excellence by Industry, Science, and Technology Canada.
Keynote
Private Company
Engineering
Yaniv Spielberg
Bragg Gaming Group
Bragg Gaming Group – Investor Presentation
Yaniv Spielberg co-founded Bragg and serves as CSO. A lawyer and tech entrepreneur, Yaniv was part of the team that completed the reverse merger that established Bragg Gaming Group in 2018. Prior to founding Bragg, Yaniv was a founding member of a private equity fund, Legacy Eight Group, that focused on acquiring and operating global online gaming companies.
Keynote
Listed Company
e-sports
Sue Ennis
Hut 8 Mining Corp
Hut 8 Mining; Digital Asset mining pioneers bridging the world of traditional and nascent high-performance computing.
Sue Ennis, Hut 8 Mining’s Vice President of Corporate Development, is a Chartered Investment Manager, emerging technology and innovation champion, and business building technologist.
Since 2016, Sue has steered under-appreciated companies in the digital asset sector into multi-billion market cap opportunities and told some of Canada’s greatest emerging tech and innovation stories.
Working with CEOs to build some of Canada’s greatest young tech companies, Sue is a seasoned capital markets advisor and storyteller who can simplify complex concepts into digestible, actionable, and investible ones. As a growing leader in the digital space, she is a sought-after industry voice who has championed technological innovation as a media spokesperson and keynote speaker across the globe.
Prior to 2016, Sue spent a decade in the financial services and fintech space, working with financial services firms, institutional asset managers and technology companies to optimize sales, strategic planning, capital markets positioning, investor relations, business development and territory expansion.
Keynote
Listed Company
Digital Assets
Darrell Heaps
Q4 Inc
Connecting the Capital Markets through the Q4 Platform
Darrell Heaps is a serial entrepreneur who has spent his career building innovative software companies. As the Founder and CEO of Q4, Darrell has led the company’s vision and unique strategy, most recently leading the Company through its $100m CAD IPO and driving Q4’s leadership position in the capital markets. Together with the global Q4 team, Darrell is transforming the way public companies, investors and investment banks discover, engage and communicate with each other resulting in more effective and efficient interactions.
Keynote
Listed Company
Financial Services, PR
Chris Goodridge
VerticalScope Inc
VerticalScope Holdings Investor Update
Chris is VerticalScope’s President & Chief Operating Officer, responsible for all operating activities of the business including revenue strategy and mergers and acquisitions. Chris first became involved with VerticalScope in 2015 as a member of its Board of Directors. He brings over 20 years of senior leadership and M&A experience to VerticalScope, having completed close to 100 acquisitions of online communities, digital properties and software platforms. Chris has held senior leadership roles in several consumer internet businesses across operations, strategy and finance functions. He started his career as an M&A lawyer and continues to be a member of the Law Society of Ontario. He has a B.Sc. from Queen’s University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Keynote
Listed Company
e-Commerce, SaaS
Pradip K. Banerjee, Ph.D.
Xybion Digital Inc
Dr. Banerjee is an entrepreneurial senior executive with 30+ years of in-depth experience in the global Life Sciences, Healthcare and Services industry in global operations, strategic management, business development, investments and new ventures creation, M&A and Buy-outs. Prior to acquiring Xybion in 2008, Pradip served as President and CEO of Science Center in Philadelphia focused on creating, incubating, managing and investing in science based new companies. He was the Partner-in-Charge of the pharmaceutical Research & Development unit of Accenture where he created the R&D consulting unit and had grown it to become $100+ million worldwide business. Dr. Banerjee holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania.
Keynote
Listed Company
Healthcare, SaaS
Dani Lipkin
TSX
The boom in the tech sector
Dani Lipkin carries the role of Director, Global Business Development for Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV). In this capacity, he is responsible for working with private companies and their shareholders as they explore and consider the option of raising equity capital in Canada.
Prior to this role, Dani was the Head of Business Development for Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Investment Funds on TSX. He had also worked with the listings group for TSX, where he helped assist companies in going public.
Dani holds a Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies in Finance from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the University of Toronto.
Keynote
Industry Body
Stock Exchange
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Blackline Safety
Cody Slater
Connecting the Industrial Workforce
With Blackline Safety, you can feel confident you’re tied to a global connected safety leader, with a proven track record driving revenue growth through our disruptive Hardware-enabled Software-as-a-Service (HeSaaS) business model and helping people get their jobs done to return home safely at the end of the day.
Keynote
Private Company
Engineering
Bragg Gaming Group
Yaniv Spielberg
Bragg Gaming Group – Investor Presentation
Bragg Gaming Group (NASDAQ: BRAG, TSX: BRAG) is a growing global gaming technology and content group and owner of leading B2B companies in the iGaming industry. Since its inception in 2018, Bragg has grown to include operations across Europe, North America and Latin America and is expanding into an international force within the global online gaming market.
Through its wholly-owned subsidiary ORYX Gaming, Bragg delivers proprietary, exclusive and aggregated casino content via its in-house remote games server (RGS) and ORYX Hub distribution platform. ORYX offers a full turnkey iGaming solution, including its Player Account Management (PAM) platform, as well as managed operational and marketing services.
Nevada-based Wild Streak Gaming is Bragg's wholly owned premium US gaming content studio. Wild Streak has a popular portfolio of casino games that are offered across land-based, online and social casino operators in global markets including the U.S. and U.K.
In May 2021, Bragg announced its planned acquisition of Nevada-based Spin Games, B2B gaming technology and content provider currently servicing the U.S. market. Spin holds licenses in key iGaming-regulated U.S. states and supplies Tier 1 operators in the region. Find out more.
Keynote
Listed Company
e-sports
Hut 8 Mining Corp
Sue Ennis
Hut 8 Mining; Digital Asset mining pioneers bridging the world of traditional and nascent high-performance computing.
Hut 8 is one of North America’s largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of business building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain, web 3.0 and bridging the nascent and traditional high-performance computing worlds. Hut has been supporting open and decentralized systems since 2018. With two digital asset mining sites located in energy rich Alberta and a third site in North Bay, Ontario Canada, Hut 8 has one of the highest installed capacity rates in the industry and holds more self-mined Bitcoin than any crypto miner or publicly traded company globally. The company recently purchased the cloud and colocation data center business from TeraGo Inc, establishing Hut 8 as a leading high-performance computing platform, providing unique positioning for the Company within the digital asset ecosystem.The Data Center Business spans from Toronto to Vancouver with over 36,000 square feet of geo-diverse data center space powered by renewable energy sources. With this acquisition, Hut 8 is bridging traditional and nascent forms of high-performance compute, taking an unconventional approach to revolutionizing conventional assets, creating the first hybrid data center model that serves both the traditional high performance compute (web 2.0) and nascent digital asset computing sectors and web 3.0. Hut 8 has established a Tier 0 to Tier 4 computing platform and allocated digital asset mining and open-source distributed ledger technology to conventionally underutilized areas in a conventional high performance compute data center. The platform consists of approximately 400 commercial customers, across a variety of industry verticals including gaming, visual effects and government agencies, and a platform for the development of applications and services to underserved markets and customers in the growing digital asset, blockchain, gaming and web 3.0 industries. We envision a future of robust infrastructure offering to provide economies of scale, and economies of scope in the high-performance computing and the growing application development in web 3.0 and the digital asset ecosystem. Hut 8’s team of business building technologists are believers in decentralized systems, stewards of powerful industry-leading solutions, and drivers of innovation in digital asset mining and high-performance computing, with a focus on ESG alignment. Through innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 is helping to define the digital asset revolution to create value and positive impacts for its shareholders and generations to come.
Keynote
Listed Company
Digital Assets
Q4 Inc
Darrell Heaps
Connecting the Capital Markets through the Q4 Platform
Q4 Inc. (TSX: QFOR) is a leading capital markets communications platform that is transforming the way publicly traded companies, investors and investment banks make decisions to efficiently discover, communicate and engage with each other. The Q4 end-to-end technology platform facilitates interactions across the capital markets through its IR website products, virtual events solutions, capital markets CRM, shareholder and market analytics tools. The firm is a trusted partner to more than 2,600 public companies globally including many of the most respected brands in the world. Q4 is based in Toronto, with offices in New York and London. Learn more at q4inc.com.
Keynote
Listed Company
Financial Services, PR
VerticalScope Inc
Chris Goodridge
VerticalScope Holdings Investor Update
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, VerticalScope is a technology company that has built and operates a cloud-based digital platform for online enthusiast communities in high-consumer spending categories. VerticalScope’s mission is to enable people with common interests to connect, explore their passions and share knowledge about the things they love. Through targeted acquisitions and development, VerticalScope has built a portfolio of over 1,200 online communities and over 100 million monthly active users. VerticalScope is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: FORA).
Keynote
Listed Company
e-Commerce, SaaS
Xybion Digital Inc
Pradip K. Banerjee, Ph.D.
Xybion Digital Inc. (TSXV:XYBN) is a leading SaaS company dedicated to providing life sciences and health systems companies with innovative software solutions to accelerate the transformation of today’s inventions into tomorrow’s approved medicines, devices, and diagnostic tests designed to save lives and keep employees safe. Our intelligent cloud platform and software solutions help companies accelerate digital transformation of processes, speed up innovation, optimize operations, reduce compliance risks, and achieve significant cost savings. Xybion is serving over 160 customers in 29 countries including all top 20 global biopharmaceutical companies. Xybion’s global scale and expertise brings employees around the world to help companies in life sciences, health systems, research institutions, and governments. We put over 40 years of expertise in action every day to help companies digitally transform their regulated business operations. Our unique solutions focus on employee health and safety, integrated preclinical lab management, early-stage drug discovery, digital lab solutions, regulatory compliance, GRC, quality management, predictive compliance, content management, and systems validation.
