Vision to Reality 2013

Inspiring a community

V2R Conference 2013

An interview with Stewart Butterfield

V2R Conference 2013

"If I knew then what I know now..."

Celebrating its 10^th year, the 2013 Vision to Reality Conference took place in Toronto on April 18. This year’s conference brought together close to 500 entrepreneurs, co-founders and industry influencers to hear from the country’s most successful entrepreneurs.

We thank this year's sponsors for their support. With their help we held our largest conference to date. Also, thank you to our speakers for sharing their stories and inspiring us with their insights. We leave you with their final words of advice in this video titled “If I knew then what I know now...”, along with an interview with this year's keynote speaker, Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and Tiny Speck.

The 11^th Vision to Reality Conference will take place in April 2014 in Toronto.

2013 Speakers

• Allen Lau, Co-founder, Wattpad
• Ben Yoskovitz, VP Product, GoInstant/ Founder, YearOne Labs
• Brice Scheschuk, Co-founder, CFO, Head of HR, Procurement and Director at Globalive Communications/WIND Mobile
• Daniel Klass, Managing Partner, Klass Capital
• Duleepa “Dups” Wijayawardhana, CEO and Co-founder, Empire Avenue
• George Babu, Director, OMERS Ventures
• Jason Tham, CEO and Co-founder, Nulogy
• Jevon MacDonald, Co-founder, GoInstant, StartupNorth
• Mike McDerment, CEO and Co-founder, Freshbooks
• Paul Jackson, Founder, Method Integration
• Roger Chabra, Partner, Rho Ventures
• Steve Woods, Co-founder, Eloqua
• Stewart Butterfield, Co-founder, Flickr

Vision to reality 2012

Video: Connecting vision to reality conference

Missed last year’s event? Check out our videos and presentations below:

2012 Survey Results (1.70 MB) Download the full PDF.

Technology M&A Update (375 KB) Download the full PDF.

M&A Breakout — Mark MacLeod (856 KB) Download the full PDF.