February 2nd Community Town Hall presented by ICICS/HATCH

entrepreneurship@UBC’s Community Town Hall series brings us together to share announcements, gain insights from industry leaders and network across our ecosystem.

Join us February 2nd for our Community Town Hall presented by ICICS/HATCH for a candid conversation on startup founder mental health.

Details

Being a founder is an incredible, unpredictable journey accompanied by many highs and lows. Within the position of "entrepreneur", there is a lot of focus on moving forward, "hustling", solving big problems and finding their solutions, often glamorizing the many challenges and obstacles founders face. Entrepreneurialism is not an absolute or linear journey, rather it is filled with ups and downs creating a messy landscape that can be stressful, confusing and isolating.

How can we attempt to balance the (many) personal and professional challenges that accompany venture building, and what are ways we can navigate startup founder mental health as a community?

This February, we are specifically dedicating our Community Town Hall to this topic, speaking with founders across our ecosystem on how they navigate mental health and wellbeing as an entrepreneur whilst building a company. This event is intended to start a conversation and consider new perspectives around balancing life as an entrepreneur.

During this event, you will:

• Join a candid conversation on the intersection of mental health and entrepreneurialism featuring Guy Davis, CEO & Founder of HealthQb, Pallavi Panigrahi, CEO & Founder of WeCause and and Jayesh Parmar, Former CEO & Co-Founder of Picatic (acquired by Eventbrite) moderated by Andrea Lloyd, Associate Director, Engagement, entrepreneurship@UBC.

• Hear from the entrepreneurship@UBC community on what they are doing to navigate their lives as founders and how they find balance.

• Find out what's coming down the pipeline for ventures and share your recent news/accomplishments with the community. Are you hiring?

• Connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and innovators.

Featured Speakers

Guy Davis: Guy Davis’ career has been anything but linear. His first “career” was in competitive sports, competing and coaching in volleyball at the university level. With degrees in biological sciences, law and business, Guy has been a personal trainer, corporate lawyer and business strategist, and has worked in multiple industries and on projects in numerous countries. After a series of preventable deaths and illnesses in his family in 2016-2017, Guy cofounded HealthQb with the vision of harnessing wearable technology to quantify psychophysiological health & wellbeing as a means of improving treatment of chronic pain and preventing chronic illness.

Andrea Lloyd: Andrea Lloyd is entrepreneurship@UBC's Associate Director, Engagement. As a member of the e@UBC team since 2015, Andrea brings her wide knowledge of the UBC community to support e@UBC collaborations and partnerships across campus. She manages the e@UBC Mentor Network and the internship program, which bring e@UBC entrepreneurs expert guidance and additional capacity to help accelerate their ventures. Prior to joining e@UBC, she led the genomics.entrepreneurship@UBC program, a program aimed to assist genomics researchers in translating their innovative discoveries out of the lab through knowledge mobilization and commercialization strategies. Andrea also has over 10 years experience as an instructor and course designer with the Faculty of Management at Royal Roads University, where she specialized in global management, sustainability and business, and creative problem solving.

Pallavi Panigrahi: Pallavi, WeCause’s co-founder, had the idea to engage the youth in social impact because of her passion to help people come together and empower them to work towards one purpose.Her degree in Psychology at UBC fuelled her passion for human understanding which in addition to her amazing team, helped her create WeCause: an online platform that connects changemakers to causes in need, allowing them to collaborate to make the world a better place. Her creativity and passion has allowed for WeCause to truly thrive.

Jayesh Parmar: Former CEO/Co-Founder Picatic [Exit/Eventbrite:2018] / Investor.

More coming soon

Featured Companies

HealthQb: HealthQb is rapidly bringing to market a chronic pain solution that quantifies the holistic dimension of health & wellbeing. In 2019, the WHO recognized that chronic pain is a distinct disease, and one that has biological, psychological and social factors. This recognition ranks chronic pain as the most prevalent disease worldwide, and is more common than cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes combined. HealthQb combines wearable-generated biometrics with end user inputted BioPsychoSocial data to deliver a wellbeing assessment that supports allied health practitioners and their chronic pain clients identify the root causes of chronic pain and objectively monitor treatment outcome.

WeCause: WeCause is an on demand, online platform that matches volunteers/donors to causes in need. Allowing them to receive immediate help to sustain and scale their community projects.

Picatic: Picatic was an online ticketing company. Picatic's crowd-funding platform for event ticket sales allowed promoters to create event pages to generate funding before events are booked. Picatic is known for creating ticketing and registration solutions specifically within the events industry. The company was acquired by eventbrite in 2018.

Format

This event will begin with the latest updates and information coming from the entrepreneurship@UBC ecosystem, followed by a candid conversation on mental health and entrepreneurialism.

• Welcome
• Announcements
• Panel on Mental health and entrepreneurialism with Guy Davis, HealthQb, Pallavi Panigrahi, WeCause and Jayesh Parmar, Former CEO/Co-Founder of Picatic, moderated by Andrea Lloyd, Associate Director, engagement, entrepreneurship@UBC
• Open Mic (Share YOUR latest news!)

Who should attend

This event is for entrepreneurship@UBC’s community of ventures from Phases 1-4/HATCH, Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiRs), Mentors, and the UBC community at large.

Anyone interested in the topic, our upcoming programming and venture ecosystem is encouraged to attend.

Session information

Zoom information will be available via the online event page 1 day prior to the event. Attendees will also be sent the Zoom link and password to their registered email.

About entrepreneurship@UBC

entrepreneurship@UBC propels UBC innovations out into the world through venture creation, providing UBC students, researchers, faculty members, alumni and staff with the resources, networks, and funding they need to succeed.

As one of the world’s top 40 research universities with 80,000 students, faculty and staff and over $650M annual research funding, UBC has long been a catalyst for innovation. Part of the Innovation UBC network, entrepreneurship@UBC supports UBC ventures and entrepreneurs to generate social and economic impacts in B.C. and around the world. To date, entrepreneurship@UBC has worked with over 484 ventures who have raised more than $1.38 billion in funding, generated more than $104 million in revenue and hired more than 919 employees, stimulating the economic and social landscape of B.C. while building anchor companies that have a global impact.

Visit our website entrepreneurship.ubc.ca to learn more

About the HATCH Accelerator

The HATCH Accelerator is made possible in partnership with the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS).