ToIRL July 2025

Welcome to the 33rd edition of Toronto IRL - where we find the best IRL business + tech events in Toronto, and curate them, so you don’t have to go searching.

6 Events (Sorted by Date)

🙌 = I’m attending. 🙌🙌 = I’m the host. 🎤 = I’m speaking at the event
(Focusing on the events I’m personally attending this month)

🙌🙌 July 10 - I’m hosting a small happy hour for digital nomads in King West this Thursday.

July 10 - Hosted by Victor Li & Wendy Huang

July 16 - Hosted by Nia Pryce

🙌 July 22 - Hosted by Derek Jouppi

🙌🙌 August 18 - Hosted by TechTO - I’ll be emceeing once again. Early bird tickets live. Confluence is a sponsor

🎤 September 6 - Hosted by Tobi Oluwole - Ok the secret is out - that final question mark is me haha. Focused on solopreneurs and those wanting to make a jump from corporate, the network here will be really good.

Non Tech Events I’ll Be Going To
Weird Al Yankovic at Budweiser Stage $60 Link - coming with a 9 piece band
Jiaoying Summers Standup Comedy $50 Link - for fans of asian comedy
Unity Fest @ Harborfront Link - for hip hop dance fans


Ryan’s Corner - What Is He Up To?

Entrepreneurs Don’t Know How to Take Vacations

I haven’t taken a vacation for 20 months. Sounds dumb, but when you work in corporate people are always reminding you to take your time off or you lose it. Not the same as an entrepreneur.

Therefore I took the time to write an actual vacation plan.

The standard I want to set is

• 4 weeks vacation

• 2 week holiday shutdown (Christmas and New Years Eve week)

• Friday 1pm-5pm is flex hours - no meetings scheduled.

Take a look below 🙂

Feel free to share your thoughts

Toronto Event Organizers I Track For This Newsletter
RI.Events, TechTO, FuckupNights Toronto, Aceocial, Founders Poker, TodoToronto, TorontoEventHub, Startup Ecosystem Canada, Ryan Wong, Daivik Goel, Godwin Chan, Bitcoin Bay, Solana Toronto, Aniket Patel (EVP.VC), Clay.com, Kingsong

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