
Rainforest LWOL #1 - September 2018
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Description
Rainforest Alberta - Lunch without Lunch YEG is an informal get-together for Edmonton entrepreneurs, small business owners, academia, investors, and service providers. Anyone looking to encourage collisions between people and create connections that will help drive the success of entrepreneurs in Alberta's innovation system is welcome to attend.
All are welcome to join - come prepared to share with the group on how you can provide support others in the nature of the Rainforest Social Contract. Do you want to learn more about the Social Contract or signup and commit to building a culture that supports entrepreneurs? Click here!
Agenda:
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11:45 Check In (bring your lunch!)
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12:00 Welcome
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12:10 Entrepreneur Profile - Cory Janssen, President of Galt Capital and Co-Founder of AltaML
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12:25 Who's in the Room
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12:35 Networking
Cost: Free
About Cory Janssen
Cory is President of Galt Capital, a private investment firm, and co-founder of AltaML, a developer of machine learning software. He is the former co-founder of Investopedia.com, a financial education site that provided content and tools to help educate individual investors. From its founding in 1999, Investopedia became one of the most popular financial sites on the Web, attracting over 3.5 million visitors per month at the time of its sale to Forbes Media in 2007. During that time Investopedia made the Alberta Venture Fastest Growing Companies list a number of times, coming in at #2 in both 2005 and 2006, and #5 in 2007. The business model for Investopedia was then replicated through Janalta Interactive Inc., a holding company for digital media properties, that currently publishes over a dozen websites.
Cory is past-President of the Edmonton chapter for Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and active in the Edmonton entrepreneurial community as a member of the A100 as well as the Venture Mentoring Service (VMS) program at the University of Alberta. He also sits on the boards of Brace Tool, a private oilfield tools company, the Canadian Brewhouse, a private restaurant chain, and Edmonton Global, a new economic development corporation owned by the municipalities in the Edmonton region.