Mettā Worldwide: The Bridge Between Waterloo and Hong Kong

Join us for a panel discussion about comparing the startup communities of Waterloo, Canada and Hong Kong.

Objective:

• What is Waterloo and how is the startup landscape structured?
• What makes up Hong Kong's current startup community and how is it progressing?
• How do the startup communities of Waterloo and Hong Kong
• How can we create a way for entrepreneurs to help grow the communities overseas from them?

• Waterloo region has the 2nd highest concentration of startups per capita worldwide — 2nd to Silicon Valley
• 40% of Waterloo funding rounds had at least one international investor, the most in Canada

• James B. Lindsay: Founder of Yumr & Mettā's EIR, UWaterloo Mathematics student & member of Communitech
• Cédric Jeannot, PhD: Founder & CEO of APrivacy, PhD in Applied Security
• Andrea Harding: International Program Manager of Communitech, startup accelerator based in Waterloo region
• Michael Chan: Co-founder of Coherant Capital, UWaterloo Alumni

• 7:00pm-7:30pm: Networking
• 7:30pm-8:30pm: Opening remarks by RBC and Panel Discussion
• 8:30pm-9:00pm: Q&A followed by networking