Over the past week BioLinc and a few of its entrepreneurs made their way over to the annual CONNECT conference. CONNECT is Canada’s largest educational technology conference. The conference aims at connecting new and emerging technology and incorporating it into classrooms across Canada. One of the biggest spectacles offered at the conference is a row of booths dedicated to start-up companies, appropriately named Start-up Alley. Every year a few BioLinc entrepreneurs are show cased in Star-up Alley. This year we had three companies represent start-ups around BioLinc. XpertVR, DGapps, and HoloEducate all did a great job throughout the week in representing start up companies around Brock. I am sure the conference was a success on their part as well. Our entrepreneurs made many new connections and gained experience. Whether the entrepreneurs were leading presentations, meeting new people or pitching their ideas to those who were interested, Start-up Alley was always one of the busiest parts of the CONNECT conference and I am sure it helped to move their business forward.
BioLinc itself had a booth set up outside of Start-up Alley. There were a few people I met who were genuinely interested in some of the innovation that was going on at BioLinc. I had the pleasure of walking a few of these people down to meet with our entrepreneurs in Start-up Alley. The amount of interest shown in our entrepreneurs was very promising. I’d like to give a special congratulation to HoloEducate who gathered a lot of attention. They were named the CONNECT conference’s most promising start-up company. It was a great way to end the week, with one of our companies getting rewarded for the hard work they put in.
