University of Toronto Entrepreneurship Week

See you in 2024!

U of T’s annual celebration of all things entrepreneurship returned for its 7th year

From March 6-9, 2023, the University of Toronto’s entrepreneurial community hosted 15+ events showcasing, celebrating, and rewarding innovation and startup activity at U of T. All were welcome at this week of public events – students, mentors, alumni, business leaders, investors and anyone else who wanted to be inspired and learn why U of T is THE place to innovate.

Watch: Driving Innovation with Raquel Urtasun

This Desjardins Speaker Series presentation was recorded at True Blue Impact Day as part of U of T Entrepreneurship Week 2023. Raquel Urtasun discusses Waabi’s AI-first approach to self-driving technology and shares insights from her entrepreneurial journey.

2023 U of T
Entrepreneurship
Week

Delivering 15+ events over four days, each with a different theme, all focussed on innovation and entrepreneurship at
U of T.

Programming Highlights

The 7th annual U of T Entrepreneurship Week will culminate with True Blue Impact Day on March 9th, showcasing U of T’s most innovative startups. The lineup includes True Blue Expo, Desjardins Startup Prize Pitch Competition and Desjardins Speaker Series with Raquel Urtasun, all hosted in-person on March 9 at MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto. Register here.

Back by popular demand, join ICUBE on March 8 for Pitch with a Twist – celebrating International Women’s Day and tune in for Fireside at FemSTEM on March 7 for a conversation with an esteemed guest speaker from the health innovation space.

format & Location

Please check the schedule below to determine if a specific session is hosted in-person, virtual or hybrid. A number of events will be hosted at ONRamp on the U of T St. George campus – home to co-working and collaboration space for U of T startups.

Registration

Entrepreneurship Week is a community-driven event, with many events hosted by U of T accelerators across the tri-campus. In most cases, individual registration is required for each event.

event partners

This year’s programming is delivered by U of T Entrepreneurship, The Hub, The BRIDGE, Health Innovation Hub, Toronto Entrepreneurship Music Exchange, UTEST, The Hatchery, ICUBE and U of T Libraries.

Please note: there is no general registration for UTE Week as a whole, attendees are required to register separately for each event.

Schedule of events

Explore the schedule below and register for each event you wish to attend.

TRUE BLUE
IMPACT DAY

March 9 at MaRs Discovery District

11:00 am - 5:00 pm
True Blue Expo

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Desjardins Startup Prize Pitch Competition

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Desjardins Speaker Series


Connect with our global innovation community

With over 600 venture-backed companies launched in the past decade, U of T is ranked as one of the leading universities for founders, top five university-managed incubators globally and #1 in Canada for research-based startups.

# 1

in Canada for research-based startups

top 5

in University-managed incubators globally

600 +

companies created

9000 +

jobs created

Startup Spotlight

Explore U of T’s innovative startups with their world-class strengths ranging from advanced materials and manufacturing to regenerative medicine and AI.

This is the place to expand the internet into space 

U of T startup Kepler Communications’ tiny internet satellites are helping scientists share field data. The more field data that scientists analyze from around the world, the better we’ll be...

This is the place to make plastic 100% compostable 

University of Toronto startup EcoPackers turns plant waste into compostable plastic that could revolutionize the single-use packaging industry. In 2016, EcoPackers co-founder Nuha Siddiqui (BCom 2018) read a World Wildlife...

This is the place to target genetic diseases 

University of Toronto startup Deep Genomics is using artificial intelligence to find better drugs for genetic disorders and to get them into the clinic faster. Ever since scientists fully sequenced...

news February 6, 2023

U of T among top five university business incubators in the world: UBI Global 

The University of Toronto has been recognized as one of the world's top five university business incubators by UBI Global in its latest world benchmark study. In its 2021-2022 study, UBI Global...

news January 27, 2023

Quantum computing startup Xanadu receives $40 million in federal funding: Globe and Mail 

From left to right: Xanadu CEO and former U of T post-doctoral researcher Christian Weedbrook, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne (photo by Alex...

news January 25, 2023

Raquel Urtasun’s self-driving startup Waabi brings on Volvo as strategic investor: Reports 

(Photo courtesy of Waabi) University of Toronto researcher Raquel Urtasun’s self-driving startup Waabi has added the venture capital arm of Swedish carmaker Volvo to its list of high-profile investors. Volvo Group Venture Capital AB...

news December 20, 2022

U of T drug discovery startup BenchSci ‘changing the tech world’: The Globe and Mail 

BenchSci’s co-founders (left to right), Elvis Wianda, Tom Leung and Liran Belenzon (Amara Studios/BenchSci) BenchSci, a University of Toronto startup that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the process of drug...