The can’t-miss tech events for October 2022

by MaRS Discovery District
September 29, 2022

Can AI make art? What’s hot in biomedical research? And does schnitzel fuel great business ideas? Find answers to all this and more at events happening in the coming month.

Here are the tech events you need to know about for October.

Muse about AI and art

Platforms like DALL-E2 can whip up an image of teddy bears doing grocery shopping or sketch an astronaut riding a horse. This on-demand creativity is challenging ideas of what art is and who (or what) makes it. At Can AI Make Art? A Fireside Chat on Image Generation Breakthroughs, MaRS technical advisors Martin Bufi and Oshoma Momoh will explore the technology and its implications for business, art and humanity. October 3, online

Mix startups and schnitzel

The Communitech Founderhaus is an open house for founders to get together surrounded by the festive spirit of Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, Canada’s largest Bavarian festival. Enjoy biers, brats and the music of Grammy-award-winning polka artist Walter Ostanekwhile. October 13, Communitech Hub

Explore Indigenous innovation

This year’s Indigenous Entrepreneurship Forum will look at how technologies can be effectively incorporated into small business and the ways Indigenous founders are overcoming the challenges they face. The webinar is intended for Indigenous entrepreneurs and businesspeople looking to better engage with Indigenous communities. October 26, online

Discover the future of biotech research

The 2022 Canada Gairdner Award laureates are coming to Toronto for the 2022 Gairdner Science Week Lectures. The scientists, who include COVID vaccine pioneers Katalin Karikó and Pieter Cullis, will share their insights on biomedical research alongside five upcoming Canadian scientists, who will discuss current research on topics from cancer treatment to healthcare delivery. October 27, MaRS Centre Auditorium

Plus, here are some more events you might want to check out:

Big Data & AI Toronto, October 6–7, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
University of Toronto SRI Seminar Series: Barbara Grosz, “Fostering responsible computing research,” October 12, online
TechTO Talent, October 12, online
Canada’s Conference for People & Culture in Tech, October 18, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
BFUTR Global Tech Summit, October 19, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
SQL Saturday Toronto, October 22, Microsoft Canada
Culture and Technology Book Club, October 27, Toronto Public Library
16th Canadian Conference on Building Science and Technology, October 27, Paramount EventSpace
DecodingTECH.Zone: The Metaverse and 5G Conference in Canada, October 28, Pearson Convention Centre

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MaRS Discovery District
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MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it’s reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellín, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. These global cities are now striving to create what we have in Toronto: a dense innovation district that co-locates universities, startups, corporates and investors. In this increasingly competitive landscape, scale matters more than ever – the best talent is attracted to the brightest innovation hotspots.