{"id":8483,"date":"2025-02-18T11:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=8483"},"modified":"2025-03-03T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T19:16:38","slug":"l-spark-showcase-the-velocity-effect","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/event\/l-spark-showcase-the-velocity-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"L-SPARK Showcase: The Velocity Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>\u200b\u200bJoin us April 3rd at Brookstreet Hotel for an evening of innovation and inspiration as we honour the achievements of our SaaS Accelerators Cohort 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s theme, The Velocity Effect, highlights the power of speed and precision in driving startup growth. These seven companies have reached remarkable milestones, demonstrating how agility and focus fuel success in today\u2019s competitive ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witness the culmination of 6-months of intensive growth presented by 7 incredible founders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Shane Maley, COO of Apprendo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Stephane Vaillancourt, CEO &amp; Founder of CyberSSS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Amanda Douglas-Young, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of eClarity by KnowledgeNow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Marc Allard, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of Glowtify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Philippe Richard Bertrand, President &amp; CEO of illuxi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Dennis Chow, Founder of Lodestone<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u27a1\ufe0f Allan Malcomson, President &amp; Co-Founder of Meerby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[75],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-8483","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-community-events"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2025-04-03T18:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2025-04-03T21:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"$20","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"natasha@l-spark.com","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/8483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8485,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/8483\/revisions\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}