Get excited, Ottawa. We’re back.

AccelerateOTT brings together the city’s innovators, creators and inventors. Work in tech? Starting a business? Just want to dip your toes in the proverbial entrepreneurial waters? You’ll be surrounded by founders, mentors and venture capitalists (some from as far as Silicon Valley) providing strategic and sage advice.

For the last four years Invest Ottawa, in partnership with C100, has ignited the Accelerate series in Ottawa, providing a conference that truly fuels the entrepreneurial fire. The day is packed with world-class speakers, power networking breaks and an epic after party!

Who is going to be there?

Students, entrepreneurs, makers, techstars, startups, mentors, founders, funders, wildcards and pretty much anyone with an interest in what is takes to build a business.

Why should I go?

You get to exchange high fives with industry leaders that have helped drive the success of incredible brands like Netflix, Etsy, Kijiji, Shopify, TED TALKS, and many more! You’ll also get to rub elbows with Ottawa startup elite. It’s a chance to devour and learn best practices, tricks of the trade and how to scale a business.

Ottawa is on fire! We’re home to hundreds of startups with nearly 69,000 people working in some of the world’s best technology companies. And we have a pretty solid lineup of speakers that want to share their experiences. We want to bring all these people together to celebrate and exchange ideas, free of limitations. We know; it’s sorta cheesy but we truly believe it.

And did we mention we have the food and drinks covered, because we totally do.