REMINDER/Media Advisory - $100,000 TELUS Pitch Grand Prize Winner to be announced Live at Summit
July 31 2019 - 8:00AM
TELUS Pitch – Canada’s largest small business competition –
concludes on July 30 with a Live Summit finale event in downtown
Toronto. Hosted by entrepreneur and bestselling author, Amber Mac,
and featuring lead judge, Arlene Dickinson, the evening will be
action-packed with the final
five competitors
delivering their final ‘elevator pitch’ live on stage. The winner
will be determined immediately following by the TELUS Pitch panel
of judges and announced live.
The grand prize winner will receive
$100,000 cash, the largest payout from a Canadian
small business competition, as well as $10,000 donated on behalf of
the winner to TELUS Friendly Future Foundation. Four other
promising teams of entrepreneurs will take home $10,000 each in
cash prizes.
Additional awards will be handed out at the Live
Summit including a Community Impact Award, Most Promising Startup
Award, and Multicultural Business of the Year Award, with
technology, software and marketing prizes for each.
TELUS Pitch launch event
details:
What: |
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Q&A with Arlene Dickinson, hosted by Amber
Mac |
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Live finalist pitches |
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Grand prize winner announcement, including
four runner-ups, and additional award prizes |
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Media interviews and photo opportunities |
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Who: |
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Arlene Dickinson – CEO, District Ventures
Capital, lead judge |
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Suzanne Trusdale – vice president, TELUS Small
Business Solutions, panel judge |
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Jennifer Safruk – vice president, Sales and
Product Management, Mobile Samsung Canada, panel judge |
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Kevin Au-Yeung – founder and president,
InnoVision Holdings Corporation, panel judge |
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Garrick Tiplady – managing director, Facebook
Canada, panel judge |
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Amber Mac – president, Konnekt Digital
Engagement, event co-host |
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Roi Ross – vice president, TELUS Small
Business Solutions, panel judge, event co-host |
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When: |
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019 |
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5:00 p.m. Welcome and networking |
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5:30 p.m. Opening remarks, Roi Ross |
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5:55 p.m. Q&A with Arlene Dickinson |
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6:30 p.m. Elevator pitch presentations and Q&A with
finalists |
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7:20 p.m Winners announced |
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7:40 p.m Closing remarks |
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7:45 p.m. Photos and interview opportunities |
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Where: |
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TELUS House Toronto |
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25 York Street, 3rd floor |
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Toronto, ON |
Notes for Media: Media are
permitted to bring their own photography / video equipment.
About TELUSTELUS (TSX: T, NYSE:
TU) is one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, with
$14.5 billion of annual revenue and 14.0 million subscriber
connections, including 9.7 million wireless subscribers, 1.9
million Internet subscribers, 1.2 million residential voice and 1.1
million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of
communications products and services, including wireless, data,
Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment, video and
home and business security. TELUS is also Canada's largest
healthcare IT provider, and TELUS International delivers business
process solutions around the globe.
In support of our philosophy to give where we
live, TELUS, our team members and retirees have contributed over
$690 million to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and
volunteered more than 1.3 million days of service to local
communities since 2000. Created in 2005 by President and CEO Darren
Entwistle, TELUS’ 13 Canadian community boards and five
International boards have led the Company’s support of grassroots
charities and have contributed $72 million in support of 7,000
local charitable projects, enriching the lives of more than 2
million children and youth, annually. TELUS was honoured to be
named the most outstanding philanthropic corporation globally for
2010 by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, becoming the
first Canadian company to receive this prestigious international
recognition.
For more information about TELUS, please visit
telus.com.
Media inquiries:Jill
YetmanTELUS PR Teamjill.yetman@telus.com416-992-2639
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