Elevate Festival 2024

Elevate returns to Toronto from October 1-3, 2024 to reunite world-class tech leaders, emerging startups, global investors, policymakers, and international media to shine a spotlight on Canadian innovation.

Elevate Festival unites iconic tech leaders, fearless creatives, and innovative minds. Every year, they welcome to the stage a powerhouse lineup of speakers who are solving society’s greatest challenges while leading us into the future.

As a proud partner of Elevate Festival , the University of Toronto will have a considerable footprint featuring talks from our thought leaders and startups.

Get 20% off your ticket to Elevate using discount code ELEVATEFESTUOTGA24, redeemable via the Elevate Festival website.

Feature Event

Defy Gravity – Discover the Next BIG Thing in University Startups

October 2 from 10:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Join us as we feature some of the most promising ventures from the University of Toronto in areas of health, climate, augmented reality/virtual reality, fashion e-commerce and artificial intelligence. If you are an investor or a corporate decision maker, get to know these companies before your competitors do. University of Toronto Entrepreneurship (UTE) represents a tri-campus network of 12 accelerators, supporting nearly 1,000 teams annually.

Featured U of T Startups

• Xatoms – using AI and quantum chemistry to provide clean drinking water.
• SilicoLabs – creating virtual experiences with AR / VR that simulate real-world scenarios to train/assess humans & AI behaviour
• Snapwrite – using AI to help brands, retailers, and pre-loved shops create product content from images to give all items a digital identity to enable resale.
• Toothpod – a dental smart-gum that supplements oral hygiene when there is no access to a toothbrush
• Mycofutures – creating environmentally-friendly leather using mycelium, the root system of fungi