MOMENTUM EVENTS
- ANNUAL INNOVATION CONFERENCE - EVENTS AT CARLETON - EVENTS IN OTTAWA
Deeptech, Defence, Biotech, Life Sciences, Quantum, AI, Agritech, Food and more!
OMNITECH 2026
May 1 2026 - 2nd Floor Richcraft Hall
Welcome to the annual OMNITECH Conference.
What is OMNITECH? - We support Innovative Research and Startup Ventures across "DeepTech" Sectors - DeepTech includes ventures that require extensive R&D, traditionally in the sciences and engineering such as: HealthTech, MedTech, Food, AgriTech, Marine, Quantum, Nanoscience, Cutting-edge Tech, Greentech, Cleantech, and more!
Join us and network with industry leaders, innovative startups , and industry experts and learn about our professional development assistance for startups, regardless of funding stage and company size.
NEXT OMNITech: keynote and panels on: product development, funding and investments, global market access and expansion, networking.
Join us and network with industry leaders, innovative startups , and industry experts and learn about our professional development assistance for startups, regardless of funding stage and company size.
NEXT OMNITech: keynote and panels on: product development, funding and investments, global market access and expansion, networking.
Upcoming DeepTech Events
OBIO Investment Summit - Feb 3-5th
Location
Arcadian Court & Loft, 401 Bay Street,
Simpson Tower, 8th Floor - Toronto
The OBIO Investment Summit is Canada’s premier health science investment event, connecting top life science and health tech founders directly with a powerful network of over 195 global VCs and corporate investors. This is a pivotal, high-caliber forum for entrepreneurs actively raising Seed through Series B funding, featuring company presentations, reverse pitches from pharma BD, and dedicated partnering meetings. Founders should attend to secure critical capital and strategic partnerships, leveraging a proven platform where presenting companies have raised over $1.7B. This event is essential for serious founders in the Deeptech health sector looking to accelerate growth and investment timelines.
Momentum AIR Webinar - Successful Corporate Records - Feb 6
Location
Online - Webinar
This essential workshop demystifies the legal and financial backbone every startup needs, focusing on corporate records, cap tables, equity, and early financing instruments like SAFEs. Tailored for first-time founders, student entrepreneurs, and academic innovators, it translates complex structures into a clear strategic framework for growth and investor readiness. Founders should attend to gain actionable, expert-led knowledge that transforms overwhelming paperwork into a solid foundation, ensuring their venture is properly structured, aligned, and protected from day one—a critical step for any deeptech team transitioning from idea to investment-ready company.
Biocompatibility and Preparing for Regulatory - Feb 11th
Location
Online - Webinar
A major update of the main biocompatibility standard, ISO 10993-1: 2025, is published. The US voted against it. Currently it is not recognized in the US and it is uncertain as to what is going to happen and when. How do you handle this if you are marketing both in the US and outside of the US? What parts of the new standard did the FDA disagree with? Perhaps as importantly when preparing a submission, what did they agree with? Perhaps having a chance to ask questions of someone who was in the room when these discussions were going on might be useful?
Montfort Hospital - Frontlines & Founders - Feb 12th
Location
Excentricité - La Cité Collégiale,
801 Aviation Parkway Ottawa
The Frontlines & Founders Reverse Pitch, hosted by L'Institut du Savoir Montfort, uniquely flips the script by inviting researchers and clinicians to present pressing healthcare challenges directly to innovators and founders. This collaborative forum connects deeptech entrepreneurs with the authentic, ground-level needs of the healthcare system, fostering partnerships with industry leaders and potential investors. Founders should attend to discover validated problem statements, identify direct paths for solution deployment, and build crucial relationships with clinical and academic partners. It’s an ideal event for mission-driven founders seeking to align their technology with real-world impact and secure early-stage collaboration.
Guidance for Quantitative Confocal Microscopy - Feb 26
Location
Online - Webinar
Or in person: 3040 Nicol Building
Carleton University
James is a Staff Scientist at University Health Network where he developed and manages Canada’s largest optical microscopy facility – the Advanced Optical Microscopy Facility (AOMF). With over 40 instruments at 4 sites, he and his team at the AOMF help nearly 600 users per year with every manner of optical microscopy, from basic fluorescence and brightfield acquisition to advanced techniques such as Super-resolution, FRAP, FRET, and 3D analysis. James is particularly passionate about teaching and training users. He has been running week-long optical microscopy courses in the AOMF for 14 years, has co-authored several book chapters and review articles, presented at numerous conferences and webinars, and has helped as an organizer and instructor for the Montreal Light Microscopy Course (MLMC).
TechTuesday PitchFest - Mar 3
Location
Brookstreet Hotel
525 Legget Drive, Kanata
In celebration of International Women’s Month 2026, TechTuesday, in partnership with Capital Angel Network, L-SPARK and SheBoot, is proud to present a high-energy PitchFest spotlighting four exceptional women-led startups. Selected through a competitive national application process that drew numerous applicants from across Canada, these founders have earned their place on the TechTuesday stage. Each will pitch her game-changing solution to a distinguished panel of judges, and to our engaged TechTuesday audience. Bringing deep industry experience and thoughtful perspectives, the judges will engage with each founder as they compete for $10,000 in prize money. With real capital and real momentum on the line, one company will walk away with the top prize, and a powerful boost into their next stage of growth.
Momentum AIR - "From Discovery to Delivery" Panel - Mar 12th
Location
Armada Lounge 23 York St,
Ottawa, ON K1N 5S7
Co-hosted with Tech Thursdays, this panel delves into the critical journey of diagnostics from lab bench to market. Featuring a rare-disease PhD researcher, a cardiac clinician-developer from the Heart Institute, and founders of commercial diagnostic companies, it provides a complete ecosystem view of the translation pathway. This event is essential for Deeptech founders in health and life sciences to understand the practical challenges, regulatory considerations, and partnership opportunities at each stage of commercialization. Attend to gain invaluable, real-world insights from across the spectrum—academia, clinical research, and industry—that will help you navigate and accelerate your own product's path from discovery to delivery.
HealthTech Innovation Conference - Apr 21-22
Location
Tannery Event Centre - 151 Charles Street West Kitchener, ON N2G 1H6
This is not a typical conference but a collaborative "unconference" where decision-makers, funders, clinicians, and innovators actively co-create solutions to Canada's most pressing healthcare procurement and funding challenges. Moving beyond discussion to action, this hands-on working session in Kitchener focuses on turning pilots into scalable solutions and transforming procurement into an innovation enabler. Founders should attend to directly engage with the ecosystem that can deploy and fund their technology, breaking through systemic bottlenecks. It’s a critical event for health-tech founders ready to move past theory and work alongside key players to design actionable, impactful pathways to market.
OMNITECH - May 1st
Location
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr - Richcraft Hall, Ottawa ON
OMNITECH is a keystone event for founders across the full spectrum of deeptech—from HealthTech and Quantum to CleanTech—providing critical resources for ventures built on intensive R&D. Featuring keynotes and expert panels on product development, funding, and global market access, it connects innovators with industry leaders, investors, and a supportive peer network. This event is vital for both nascent and scaling founders to access professional development and strategic partnerships, offering a comprehensive roadmap to navigate the unique challenges of bringing complex scientific innovations to a global market. Attend to align your deep technology venture with the expertise and capital necessary for accelerated growth.