Inventures 2025
2025-05-21 - 2025-05-23 | BMO Centre, 1912 Flores LaDue Parade SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2G 2W1, Canada
Inventures 2025. Are you in?
Inventures brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and thought leaders from around the globe to engage in a transformative three-day experience in Calgary.
Get ready to reimagine what’s possible. Alberta Innovates’ signature annual event is back with a fresh look, bold new approach, visionary partners, and a new venue to elevate Alberta’s innovation ecosystem.
Inventures 2025 is a global innovation experience that assembles the world’s brightest minds, angel investors, venture capitalists and industry leaders. Launched in 2018, Inventures is the place to discover new technologies, talent, capital, customers, and markets.
Experience firsthand the fusion of technology and humanity that will shape the future.
We believe in the power of collaboration to spark revolutionary ideas — big ideas that have the power to change the world. At Inventures 2025 you’ll experience:

Expert insights

Global collaboration

Industry connections

Business transactions

Tangible impact

Investor opportunities

Join the movement. Don’t miss your chance to connect, learn, and innovate with pioneering industry leaders at Inventures 2025.
Register here!

IEEE Smart World Congress – Industry Day
2025-08-19 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Edmonton) | Calgary Telus Convention Centre, 136 8 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 0K6
Real-World Tech Innovations. Global Thought Leaders. Local Impact.
Alberta Innovates is proud to support the upcoming IEEE Smart World Congress Emerging Technology Industry Day—a dynamic one-day event dedicated to showcasing how emerging technologies are transforming industries and accelerating innovation.
Taking place on August 19 in downtown Calgary, Industry Day will bring together a powerful mix of global experts, Canadian tech leaders, and local innovation champions. This is a must-attend event for startups, researchers, and organizations looking to stay at the forefront of AI, quantum computing, IoT, cybersecurity, and more.
What to expect:

30+ featured speakers from across Canada’s tech and innovation sectors
Cutting-edge insights from AWS, Dell, Google, and other leading organizations
Local perspectives and ecosystem support from partners including Platform Calgary
Interactive discussions on technologies shaping smart cities, healthcare, energy, and beyond
In-person and virtual networking opportunities with researchers, startups, and industry pros

Whether you’re scaling a startup, advancing applied research, or driving digital transformation, IEEE Industry Day offers the ideas, people, and partnerships to help you move forward.
Let’s showcase Alberta’s innovation ecosystem on the world stage.

Resource Futures Forum 2025
2025-09-18 09:00 - 16:00 | The Bond, 364 9 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P3E4, Canada
Navigating Canada’s Trade Future Together
Presented by the Alberta Chamber of Resources in collaboration with Dentons
Canada’s place in the global marketplace is shifting. New trade negotiations, evolving sustainability expectations, and infrastructure challenges are reshaping how our resource industries connect to the world.
The 2025 Resource Futures Forum will bring together leaders from industry, government, Indigenous communities, and law to explore how Canada can remain competitive amid these new global trade realities.
This one-day event, hosted in Calgary’s vibrant downtown, is a unique opportunity to connect with decision-makers, examine the trade-offs shaping policy, and chart the pathways to ensure Canada’s resources reach new and growing markets.

Life Sciences Week
2025-09-22 08:00 - 2025-09-26 17:00 | Alberta
Connecting minds, shaping futures
Celebrating and advancing Alberta’s life sciences.
Recognized by Alberta Health and held annually on the last week of September, Life Sciences Week is a free, community-led event that connects industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, innovators, and students to ignite collaboration and spotlight cutting-edge breakthroughs.
Life Sciences Week is back for its third year, running September 22–26. With more than 50 community-led events across Edmonton and Calgary — from pitch competitions to lab tours and networking forums — the week has become a focal point and celebration for Alberta’s health and life sciences community.

PTAC Energy Table Speaker Series – Alberta Innovates
2025-10-21 07:45 - 09:30 | Calgary Petroleum Club, 319 Fifth Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2P 0L5, Canada
Devonian Room, Calgary Petroleum Club | Breakfast Included!
PTAC Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada is excited to announce the launch of a new event this fall 2025: the PTAC Energy Table Speaker Series. Their inaugural session, with special guest Alberta Innovates, will occur on October 21 from 7:45 AM to 9:30 AM at the Calgary Petroleum Club.
This event will feature a candid fireside chat with Mike Mahon, CEO of Alberta Innovates, and Bryan Helfenbaum, VP of Clean Energy, with PTAC’s President and CEO, Lauren Savoie, as the moderator. Registration is now open for this engaging conversation.
By attending, you will gain exclusive insights from Mike and Bryan about Alberta Innovates, including our new business and operational plan and structure.
The conversation aims to unpack Alberta Innovates’ new strategic direction– and what it means for our sector.
Why be there: real insights, direct Q&A, and a room full of decision-makers.
Don’t miss out, register today.
