ToIRL Sept 2024

Welcome to the twenty-third 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
(Focusing on the events I’m personally attending this month)

🙌 September 3 (TODAY) - Hosted by Godwin Chan, a great way to get together with folks downtown. Near Spadina station.

🙌 September 3 (TODAY) - Hosted by Jai Mansukhani (Founder & part of Next36) and at the Voiceflow office - a great way toget together.

🙌🙌 September 4 (TOMORROW) - After hosting over 15 dinners, I’ve decide to put together my own mastermind for entrepreneurs >$500K or solopreneurs/startup execs doing$200K+. The second criteria is having a “helper” personality. Third criteria is that there is no one else in the group who overlaps with your current business model. Please apply if you meet this criteria! Just a few spots left.

September 10 - Founder Poker - apply and Derek emails you RSVP link.

🙌 September 11 - Come cowork for free! Hosted by Victor Li & Zainab Bokhari.

September 12 - Michael Liu is hosting a cottage retreat for VCs!

September 17 -TechTO always puts on a good show with high profile speakers.

🙌 September 18 - FuckUp Nights is always a hit for those who want an entertaining night out, without too much of a business focus. Enjoy some vulnerable stories while hanging out at the Blue Moon Brewery.

🙌 September 19 - Partnership Professional? Come on out, you’ll catch me and Will Taylor there.

🙌 September 24 - Always a hit, with over 50 people. Name says it all. See you there.

🙌 September 24 - Toronto’s Immigrant Entrepreneur community! Excited to go to my first

🙌 September 24 - This one is actually downtown, not

🙌 September 25 - I went to this last month and it was awesome. Very casual, in the park.

🙌 September 27 - A new event series, I’m going to check out!

🙌🙌 October 2 - A new event concept I’m working on. If you like boardgames, and intimate networking, this one is for you!

Events I Attended Last Month
Too many!

❤️ Most Entertaining LinkedIn Posts Of The Month 💩
CEO Seduced My Wife - 2000 likes

CEO Calls Out Direct Competitor And Gives A Powerpoint About Why They Are Better - 323 likes

🙌🙌 Olympic Shooter Meme Turned B2B Sales - 81 likes

Orri Publicly Rejects Forbes 30 Under 30 - 697 likes

Ryan’s Corner - What Is He Up To?
Professionally - Pivoting from event services to cold email services (10x more demand and more scalable)

Personally - I’m going to hip hop classes at the Underground every week on Monday 515pm so if you like to dance, give me a shout! Beginners welcome.

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

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