A decentralized collection of events celebrating the region’s innovation, talent, and tech community. September 8-11, 2025.

Waterloo Tech Week

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Akatos: Building for Billions

Sohil Athare

Claire-Marie Harrower

Michael C

Sasha

Daniel Peng

Jamie Rosenblatt

Mark Seemann

Daniel Ching

Kang

Jerome

Akatos House

Brenda Li

Jerry

Jesse Rodgers

The venue is located at 25 Breithaupt Street and opposite of a building marked with "20". The Google office is visible from Central station and within walking distance.

Waterloo Tech Week Official Kickoff

Mission Sync

Leo Huang

Mayank Jain

Pravesh Mansharamani

Neha Kasoju

Ricky Tang

Tom Pischel

Julia Fedorin

Mansi Baxi

Treasure Hunt: Zircuit x Waterloo Tech Week

Darcy Liu

Nathan Menezes

0xkollem

Daisy Zhang

Lorenzo

Yuyao Gao

Pranav Marthi

ziqi Li

Ian Korovinsky

Ripple Ventures is an early-stage venture fund dedicated to working closely with founders. In addition to capital, we play a strategic and operational role in our portfolio companies across functions like go-to-market, hiring, and fundraising. Our fund invests across a few thesis areas such as enterprise and developer tools. 

Ripple Ventures

Builders Brunch by Ripple Ventures & Pear VC

Katie Ko

Jay Lee

Matt Cohen

Harris Stolzenberg

sweet treats & ideas w/ Afore Capital

Palak Agarwal

Speed-Friending with Tech+

Son Pham

Jenny Hui

Vincent Xue

Kai Goodall

Shayaan Azeem

Shaan

Ralph Kachur

Karandeep Sandhu

Param Shah

Tech Plus UW

A Product Designer's Playbook: Design Thinking & Career Building Tips

J. Romero

Noah Barbaros

Gavin Tranquilino

Miles Purvis

Justin Luu

Winston Zhao

Adam Cote

Mackenzie Wong

UW/UX Waterloo

UW Cybersecurity Club x Waterloo Tech Week CTF Info Session

Josh Wu

Anishia Gopi

Chanakya Ramdev

Rishi Umaria

Sathun

Ansh Dhingra

Building community for electronic & experimental music in KW and beyond ⋰

Waveform Collective

Waveform x WTW – Electronic Music Meetup III

Lucas Liao

Yvonne Zheng

Dante Maggiotto

Sarthak Gupta

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.

BoxOne Ventures

Future Builders: BoxOne x Velocity

Tamara Morgado

Tina Wilton

Mike Bird

Invite-only dinners, thought leaderships roundtables, founder-focused accelerator sessions, happy hours!

Iversoft

Brewed Connections: A Waterloo Tech Week Happy Hour by Iversoft

Jaimie Elphick

Mostly livestreamed, sometimes in person events by the Warp team. Learn more about what we're building, how we're using it, and who we are.

Warp

The Future of Software: Engineering in the Age of AI

Nausher Rao

Nicolas Losada Saldaña

Mihai Posea

Robert Bowness

Isaac Chang

Mus Ismail

avishalom (vish)

Shachar Weis

Jae Gwan Park

Advait Maybhate

Located in E7 1427, the first floor Ideas Clinic!

Chess Bot Tournament

The Duke Of Waterloo

Julia Chan

Kevin Thomas

Sofia Bodnar

River Yu

Room 323, the "Learning Lab". Online at https://webconference.kwlug.org/room/kwlug

KWLUG Tech Meeting - Drupal, GrapheneOS

Sarina Li

Nikhil Doal

Anshuman Routray

Bilal Osman

Kitchener-Waterloo Linux User Group

Join Soma Capital and our community of builders and founders! 

We're a fund built by founders for founders, focused on software - with +35 unicorns to date.

Soma Capital

Hang with Soma @Waterloo Tech Week

Irene!

Aryan

Nikhita Jaaswal

Fouad Farhat

Execution is the new capital

Demir Eren

Ilya Tkachov

Ayoola Gbade-Bello

Kristina McDougall

Graham Clarke

Ian Howlett

MaRS IAF

Building Fast, Scaling Smart with Google, Handshake, and MaRS IAF

Will Ma

Ashley Nandan

Entrystack Fireside Panel // Let's talk internships

Antonio Coppe

Alexandria McQueen

David Venegas

Aayan Rahman

Zeeshan Jafri

entrystack

The Wellness Stack: Ep1 - Hacking Resilience for Builders @ Waterloo Tech Week

Alejandro Domenech-Pereda

Dan Maloney

Michael Li

Lauren Valliere

Aashni Shah

Ti (Tianyu) Guo

Nafeh Shoaib

Waterloo Tech Week

Events

Akatos: Building for Billions

Waterloo Tech Week Official Kickoff

Treasure Hunt: Zircuit x Waterloo Tech Week

Builders Brunch by Ripple Ventures & Pear VC

sweet treats & ideas w/ Afore Capital

Speed-Friending with Tech+

A Product Designer's Playbook: Design Thinking & Career Building Tips

UW Cybersecurity Club x Waterloo Tech Week CTF Info Session

Waveform x WTW – Electronic Music Meetup III

Future Builders: BoxOne x Velocity

Brewed Connections: A Waterloo Tech Week Happy Hour by Iversoft

The Future of Software: Engineering in the Age of AI

Chess Bot Tournament

KWLUG Tech Meeting - Drupal, GrapheneOS

Hang with Soma @Waterloo Tech Week

Treasure Hunt: Zircuit x Waterloo Tech Week

Execution is the new capital

Building Fast, Scaling Smart with Google, Handshake, and MaRS IAF

Entrystack Fireside Panel // Let's talk internships

The Wellness Stack: Ep1 - Hacking Resilience for Builders @ Waterloo Tech Week