DELEGATE HANDBOOK 2016 jan 29th - 31st 2016 QUEEN’S
STARTUP
SUMMIT
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p.3..........COCHAIRS WELCOME p.4..........ABOUT QSS p.5..........FEATURED PROGRAMS p.6..........WEEKEND ITiNeRARY p.7..........CAMPUS MAP p.8..........SPEAKERS p.10.......JUDGES p.13.......MENTORS p.16.......PAST SUCCESS p.20.......EXECUTIVE TEAM
Letter From the Co-Chairs THANK YOU
for your interest in the annual Queen’s Startup Summit. Since 2013, by being an outlet for networking and learning, the Queen’s Startup Summit has been uniting the brightest minds from across Canada to spark and develop their passion for innovation and entrepreneurship. This is an unparalleled opportunity for young entrepreneurs to refine their ideas, work with students and mentors, transform those ideas into reality, and receive invaluable insight from industry professionals on the judging panel. It is a fast-paced competition lasting three days, in which teams of delegates proceed to develop their ideas into ventures by incorporating aspects of design, technology and science. We encourage a cross-functional synergy between passionate young minds, and provide them mentorship and support from industry professionals. Thus, the ventures developed at the Summit are exceptional in their caliber of sophistication, innovation and dedication.
our goal to foster the growth of the next generation’s innovators and entrepreneurs. It is this support that enables the Summit to realize its full potential as a platform for the convergence of talent and ideas. The Summit is a unique opportunity for youth to participate in and experience firsthand that creativity and action involved in entrepreneurship. It is the exceptional effort and collaborative spirits that distinguish our remarkable delegates. We encourage you to learn more about the Summit, and would be honored to extend to you this opportunity to interact with some of today’s brightest student innovators and tomorrow’s leaders. We invite you the to look over the delegates package, and contact our team with any questions you may have. Thank you for your interest in the Queen’s Startup Summit, we look forward to building a relationship with you!
The Summit is organized by a group of passionate undergraduate students at Queen’s University, along with the generous support of sponsors who share
JENNIFER NGUYEN AND EDSON LAI Queen’s Startup Summit Co-Chairs
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ABOUT QSS FOUNDED IN 2013, the Queen’s
Startup Summit is a rapidly growing initiative invested in preparing our generation for the changes in tomorrow’s business landscape. Our mission is to institutionalize a culture recognizing talent and passion that inspires and enables entrepreneurship. The summit attracts budding young minds from various fields of discipline, provides the resources required to excel, and ensures a vigorously competitive environment. In partnership with the Queen’s School of Business, the Queen’s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Queen’s Innovation Connector, we are impassioned to attract the very best young entrepreneurs Canada has to offer. By bringing together aspiring designers, developers, and startup enthusiasts, the summit encourages collaboration in an environment that fosters creativity and synergy. As it approaches its most ambitious year yet, the summit relies on the generous support of our sponsors in order to achieve our goals. We invite you to participate in a weekend of fastpaced excitement and recognition of young entrepreneurs at the fourth-annual Startup Summit, the foremost Canadian undergraduate innovation competition.
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FEATURED ENTREPENEURSHIP PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED IN 2012 by the Fac-
ulty of Engineering and Applied Science and Queen’s School of Business, the Queen’s Innovation Connector builds on our existing strengths in cultivating ideas and fueling discoveries that can make a difference in the world. The mission of QIC is to encourage, enable and support the innovation activities of students, professors, entrepreneurs and Canadian companies through joint courses, workshops, internship opportunities, seminar series, conferences and business plan competitions. Led by Queen’s award-winning faculty together with some of the world’s best innovators, policy makers, and legal and business strategists, QIC challenges students across all faculties to combine their knowledge and skills to bring innovative ideas, inventions and products to market and launch social initiatives for the benefit of our University, our community and our world.
Queen’s Summer Innovation Initiative (QSII) 16 week paid summer entrepreneurial internship program for new ventures, with mentorship, startup space and potential seed capital involved!
QyourVenture
Grow existing ventures with mentorship, startup space, and more!
YOUR CONNECTION TO INNOVATION ON CAMPUS, IN COMMUNITY & BEYOND: www.QueensInnovation.ca
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ITiNERARY friday Day 1
TIME 1:00-4:30pm
ACTIVITY
WHAT TO WEAR/bring
INCOMING BUS FOR EXTERNALS DELEGATES @ ACC TO HOLIDAY INN
CASUAL
5:30pm
REGISTRATION & NETWORKING @ GOODES HALL
BUSINESS CASUAL
6:30pm
OPENING CEREMONIES + PITCHES + TEAM FORMATION @ GOODES COMMONS
9:00/10:00pm
SATURDAY day 2
8:00am
BREAK OUT DEVELOPMENT TIME @ BEAMISH-MUNRO HALL
BREAKFAST @ BEAMISH-MUNRO HALL BREAK OUT DEVELOPMENT TIME
12:00pm
CASUAL WEAR LAPTOPS NOTEBOOKS
LUNCH @ BEAMISH-MUNRO HALL BREAK OUT DEVELOPMENT TIME
6:00pm
DINNER @ BEAMISH-MUNRO HALL BREAK OUT DEVELOPMENT TIME
sunday
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BREAK OUT DEVELOPMENT TIME
day 3
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BREAKFAST @ BEAMISH-MUNRO HALL
10:15-2:00AM
BUSINESS FORMAL LAPTOPS NOTEBOOKS USB
LUNCH @ BEAMISH-MUNRO HALL FINAL PRESENTATION DUE FINAL PITCHES @ SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD HALL BANQUET @ THE HARBOUR RESTARAUNT AFTER SOCIAL @ BLU MARTINI
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MEET THE SPEAKERS
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MUKUND CHOPRA CEO of MD Homecall
AN ALUMNUS OF QUEEN’S COMMERCE,
Mukund’s career in entrepreneurship spans industries, investments, and cities around the globe: from working in telecommunications, mining and metals, strategy consulting and investment banking. As City CEO of Groupon, Mukund held full responsibility for multiple central US markets. He served as the Director of Revenue for Granify – a VC-backed startup with investors including Peter Thiel. As Principal of Chopra Ventures, a VC fund, Mukund focuses on accelerating growthphased businesses, pushing startups to the next level. Chopra Venture’s recent successes include facilitating the exit of its first holding, Spaces, to Slack.
JASON FIELD Founder & CEO of Brainstation
JASON BEGAN HIS CAREER working in financial
and marketing industries. While working for lululemon, he experienced the influence of e-commerce had on the physical retail space and became determined to enhance his digital skill set and overall understanding of tech. However the intimate learning environment that he looked for did not exist. Addressing this, Jason founded Brainstation, a school that empowers working professionals, entrepreneurs and aspiring freelancers with the skills needed to solve meaningful problems with technology and the confidence needed to shape their future.
PETER GALLANT
Pathogen Detection Systems Inc. CEO, Queen’s Professor
DR. PETER GALLANT is a serial entrepreneur with
extensive experience in the global water technology sector and the 2002 Young Entrepreneur of the Year awarded by the City of Kingston. As the founding President and CEO of Kingston, Ontario-based Pathogen Detection Systems Inc. (PDS), he led the development of a novel automated microbial detection system. In 2009, PDS was acquired by Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies, a division of the world’s largest environmental services company – and became ENDETEC – the global water quality sensor platform for Veolia Water.
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MEET THE JUDGES
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CODE CUBITT
Managing DIrector at Mistral Venture Partners CODE IS A FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR of Mistral Venture Partners - an early stage venture
capital firm with offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Palo Alto, California. Code has more than 25 years experience as a company founder, operating executive and investor. As a Venture Capital and private investor, Code has invested in more than 50 technology companies across North America.
SHAHRAM YOUSEFI
CEO of Canarmony Corp. and Queen’s Electrical Engineering SHAHRAM YOUSEFI IS PASSIONATE for technology,
innovation, teaching, learning, sustainability, harmony, and helping others. These passions are particularly fulfilled by teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering, advising and supervising students, developing new ideas and technologies, developing curriculum, and organizing related workshops and conferences. He is also the CEO of Canarmony Corp., a small Kingston-based Canadian Company with a focus on developing and enhancing harmony at home and in the office for all one step at a time. The company creates applications that simplify work and enhance quality of life everywhere.
ALBERT BEHR Founder of Behr & Associates Inc.
A PROUD CANADIAN, ALBERT BEHR, in his 30
years of professional experience, has led both the financing and operational execution of some of North America’s and Asia’s most famous technology companies. Albert’s current work involves funding and driving some of the most promising IT, Cleantech, Life Sciences, and Material Science firms in North America through his widely recognized Business Acceleration firm, Behr & Associates Inc. Additionally, as Co-Founder of Cleantech North, Albert helps drive national agenda items for the Canadian Cleantech market. Albert also writes a regular feature article for Profit Magazine, as well as being a Professor and Guest Lecturer for several MBA and Engineering Schools in Canada.
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NILES LAWERENCE CEO of Vuru
NILES LAWRENCE IS THE CEO & PRESIDENT OF VURU.CO, a VC backed startup based in Silicon Valley. He attended Queen’s University where he majored in Biochemistry and has studied Value Investing at Stanford University. As a result he takes a scientific and analytical approach to dealing with complex societal issues. He applies his years of experience in project management, business development, and UI/UX design towards making investing simple for the millennial generation. Niles gives back to the startup ecosystem by advising and mentoring early stage startup founders for Startup Weekend, Draper University and on ABC’s Startup U.
STEVE KAMINSKI President of Colonnade Management
STEVE IS A PARTNER at colonnade investments and
holds several executive positions within CI’s portfolio of companies, including Executive Chairman for real estate developer Colonnade Development. He also is President at real estate property manager Colonnade Management and CDI Realty Inc., Vice President at farmland investore Bonnefield Financial, Executive Chairman at contracting company SiteCast Construction, and the Co-Founder and CEO of retailer terra20.
ALEX SHEE Analyst at Real Ventures
ALEX IS PASSIONATE ABOUT HELPING ENTREPRENEURS build their businesses and helping drive the start-up
ecosystem in Canada. In a former life he worked as a Corporate lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright Canada focused on Start-Ups and M&A. In fact, he is a qualified lawyer in Quebec and holds two law degrees in both Common and Civil law from McGill University. Moreover, he also completed certificates in business and law at Stanford University, the University of Oxford, China University of Political Science and Law and National University of Singapore. He was awarded the Scarlet Key Award and has been involved in leadership roles in numerous organisations. On his downtime, he loves to backpack and sail.
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MEET THE MENTORS
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HERE to help. AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN: FINANCE MARKETING PROGRAMMING/ software engineering DESIGN BUSINESS STRATEGY Healthcare
JACOB ANDREOU Product Designer at Snapchat DESIGN
CHRIS LABELLE
Co-Founder of Mosaic Manufacturing BUSINESS STRATEGY
ROGER BOWES
CEO of ESG Solutions BUSINESS STRATEGY
CATHY TIE
Founder & CEO of Ranomics MARKETING
ALI OGSTON
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2015 1st place Delegate Next 36 Candidate, Yelp DESIGN
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GORDIE BEST
Co-Founder of BoxIt BUSINESS STRATEGY
ZACK MUQTADIR
Co-Founder of AtomTonic Innovation HEALTHCARE
mentors SEAN MCGILLIS
Founder & CEO of Insider Sense FINANCE & STRATEGY
FABIAN RASO
BEN DENNERLY
Founder of Hangry BUSINESS STRATEGY
SATCOM Software Intern at Honeywell Aerospace PROGRAMMING
SEPEHR TAGHAVI
Associate Consultant at Bain & Company MARKETING
KHALID KARIM
Amazon SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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past SUCcESSES ESTABLISHED
IN 2013 2nD
LAST CALL is a mobile
app service that brings a new way to find the best meal deals within your area. By partnering up with local resturants, eateries or cafés, users can sign up to get notifications for exclusive food deals that would otherwise get discarded. This unique gamifiation of hunger also aims to create a socially responsible way to how the resturants can sustainablly deal with excess food and promote themselves.
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AMAZE is a web service
that makes it easy for event planners to find quality and trustworthy entertainers through a curated list of performers– from mothers looking for a clown for their child’s birthday to event planners looking for a circus act for large corporate event.
CITYWOOD
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is a urban woodshop service that creates a makerspace environment to provide hands on learning, creating within the busy urban lifestyle. Members can either take classes, workshops or have a monthly subscription of the services, equipment and space.
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STARTUP
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SPONSORSHIP GOLD
SILVER
bronze partners
past sponsors
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NOTES
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Edson Lai Co-Chair
Austin Lubitz Industry Liason Coordinator
Ryan van Huuksloot IT Director
Jennifer Nguyen Co-Chair
Frank Shi Delegates Coordinator
Sarah Muma IT Coordinator
Liam Liu Sponsorship Director
Vivian Lee Delegates Coordinator
Usman Baig Finance Coordinator
Alice Guo Sponsorship Coordinator
Gilad Streiner Marketing & Relations Director
Abhit Sahota Sponsorship Coordinator
Michael Francesco Corbisiero Marketing & PR Coordinator
Eric Chen First Year Representative (Sponsorship)
Anthony Scheeren Logistics Coordinator
Rui Jie Wang Marketing & Publications Coordinator
Nate Salzman Events Coordinator Andrew Liu Industry Liason Coordinator
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Anna Krzemien Marketing & Social Media Coordinator
Daylan Sit First Year Representative (Operations)
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