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MTL IRL - Mar 17th, 2025

A curated newsletter showcasing the top tech & startup events in Montreal

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simon wang
March 18, 2025

What’s up MTL IRL. In case you haven’t heard, Montreal is in town with AI Week. Excited to share with you what our beautiful city is cooking up for Issue #1 of MTL IRL.
These events a curated and found scraped from multiple sources, so you don’t have to go searching.

18 events, sorted by date

Events Coming Up 🎉

Location: Montreal
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
What: (BoxOne Ventures) — Founders and friends playing poker over pizza and drinks. $5 buy-in, purely for fun

Mar 18th, 2025 - Product Therapy Montréal

Location: Montreal
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
What: ​Product Therapy is a community-driven meetup where product managers have the opportunity to engage in candid discussions about the challenges they face in their daily work. To promote equal participation and quality of exchanges, membership is limited to acting PMs with 3+ years of experience. ​​​Like always, there will be no presentations, just meaningful conversations

Location: Montreal
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
What: ​​Join L-SPARK + BDO as we kick off the first Happy Hour in our 2025 series. We're bringing together founders, investors, and ecosystem partners to celebrate and network.​We'll hear from one of L-SPARK's alumni companies on their scaling journey - and there will be plenty of time for networking with the ecosystem. ​

Location: Montreal
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
What: ​​​Take a break from the screens and hit the courts with the Solana community in Montreal! ​Join us for 1.5 hours of free pickleball, where we’ll cover everything—courts, paddles, and good vibes. Whether you’re a pro or a first-timer, come play, connect, and unwind with fellow builders before the Superteam Canada Mixer happening next door.

Mar 20th, 2025 - Solana on Tap 🍻 Montreal Mixer

Location: Montreal
Time: 6:45-10:00pm
What: ​​​Join Superteam Canada for the Solana Montreal Mixer at 4 Origines Brewery! Connect with Montreal's Solana community over drinks and pizza as we delve into the innovations of Solana. Whether you're a builder, investor, or degen, this is the perfect opportunity to network with others driving the ecosystem forward.

Mar 22nd, 2025 - Bagel Hacks

Location: Montreal
Time: Mar 22 9:00-Mar 23 3:00pm
What: ​​​Bagels Hacks is a hackathon built by founders to help grow the MTL tech community. No themes, no limits. The challenge? Find a real-world problem from Reddit or X and build a solution around it. It’s that simple.

Location: Montreal
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
What: ​​​We are going to try something different as part of Montreal's AI Week. This evening we will explore how businesses and professionals can leverage AI and AI agents to enhance human agency, cognition, and work to empower rather than replace people.

Location: Montreal
Time: 1:30-4:30pm
What: ​​​Join us for a hands-on workshop designed to spark innovation and transform ideas into impactful projects! Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a problem solver, or simply curious about using AI and tech for social and environmental change, this session will guide you through structured ideation.

Location: Montreal
Time: 6:00-10:00pm
What: ​​​Bridging the Gap Between Academia & Entrepreneurship. Join us for an exclusive networking event to connect students, researchers, and entrepreneurs with key players in the startup ecosystem! This evening will foster insightful discussions and meaningful connections aimed at accelerating the venture creation process.

Location: Google Montreal
Time: 5:00-8:00pm
What: ​​​Code avec Moi - IA est un programme de Technovation Montréal, visant à présenter les principes de base de l'intelligence artificielle au travers d’ateliers de formation donnés par des expert.e.s de l’industrie destinés aux filles âgées entre 14 et 25 ans.

Mar 26th, 2025 - AI Salon Montreal (#2)

Location: Innovobot
Time: 5:30-9:30pm
What: ​​​(Waitlist). Joignez-vous à nous pour la seconde édition d'AI Salon, un meetup réunissant fondateurs, investisseurs et autres acteurs bâtissant et déployant activement des solutions appliquées en Intelligence Artificielle (IA).

Location: HEC Montreal
Time: 5:30-9:30pm
What: ​​​Conférence portant sur la santé mentale des entrepreneur(e)s et le Guide sur la santé et le bien-être des entrepreneur(e)s par Luis Cisneros. Partage portant sur la thématique de Nicholas Routhier, Président - Technologies CubicSpace Inc. Présentation de MAIN et du service parachute. ​Période de réseautage guidé animée par Nomie, entreprise alumni de La base. ​Cocktail

Location: EY Montreal
Time: 5:00-9:00pm
What: ​​​McGill Ventures proudly presents Scarlet Pitch 2025, a Shark Tank-style competition that brings together the brightest entrepreneurs and top venture capitalists in an electrifying showcase of innovation.

Location: Montreal
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
What: ($10) ​​​We’re thrilled to kick off the first PropTech Collective Montreal event—a casual 5 à 7 bringing together PropTech experts, entrepreneurs, and real estate professionals passionate about innovation and the latest trends shaping real estate technology.

Location: Novisto Montreal
Time: 6:00-9:00pm
What: ($42.46) ​​​Join us for an evening of insight, conversation, and connection at Beyond the Buzz: The Overlooked Realities of AI, a women in tech event exploring the overlooked realities of AI

Location: Montreal
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
What: Join Workleap and The People People Group for an engaging evening of connection, learning, and community! We’re bringing together TPPG members for meaningful conversations, networking, and a fireside chat on The Future of Work: Adapting to the New Employee Experience.

Location: Laval
Time: 7:00-Late
What: Envie de briser la solitude entrepreneuriale et de rencontrer d'autres jeunes entrepreneurs motivés de 18 à 35 ans ?Rejoins-nous pour une soirée remplie de conversations inspirantes dans un cadre chaleureux! On t'attend au pizza 900 au centropolis à Laval.

Location: Montreal
Time: 10:00-6:00pm
What: The Ocean AI Ideathon aims to foster innovative solutions for the blue economy by leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This event is designed to bring together diverse talents to address critical challenges and explore opportunities within the ocean technology sector.

Mar 28th, 2025 - 555 V6

Location: Montreal
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
What: montreal’s unfinished canvas. hosting creative nights for people to share their existential cries. coming soon.

Simon’s Corner

Really quickly want to thank Ryan Ing for giving me the idea to do this newsletter, and allowing me to copy his template toirl, which comes itselft from sfirl. Ironically, I’ve been in Toronto the last few days, and am filled with so many ideas from visiting new stadium, and meeting all the wonderful people here.

Between communities like 555, upcoming events like bagelhacks, and montreal ai week, I am just so excited.

Of course, need to thank Chris, Vilakshan, Antonio, Ilias, Simran, and a ton others for inspiring me on the daily and contributing to mtl startup scene <3.

Love,
Simon