Gronk!
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Councillor seeks big ideas at new speakers' event
Coun. Michael Janz is piloting a speakers' series that aims to fulfill a need once met by Pecha Kucha Night.
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TAS
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Councillor seeks big ideas at new speakers' event
Coun. Michael Janz is piloting a speakers' series that aims to fulfill a need once met by Pecha Kucha Night.
Big ideas for Edmonton?
How about a gondola connecting our two main districts? Oh, wait.
Gronk!
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Game Con Canada has chosen the Edmonton Expo Centre as its venue from 2024 to 2026. A city report suggests the event could see up to 34,000 attendees who are passionate about video games and esports. The report, to be examined at the Feb. 7 executive committee meeting, outlines several ways Edmonton could advance the Alberta Esports Strategy, and attract major gaming events and investments, with one being to create a city-wide esports working group. Stakeholders said a more formalized structure to support esports is needed.
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On the agenda: Wîhkwêntôwin, esports, airport link
Council is back to meeting but will do so virtually. This shift follows a week when the city cancelled all public meetings in the wake of the Jan. 23 attack on city hall. The building will be closed to the public indefinitely.
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IanO
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That's exciting, but a bit of a shame it's not at the Edmonton Convention Centre to really drive more activity on streets and secondary spending.
Certainly some will stay Downtown and come back to eat, but during the day this could drive much more activity in the core of the core.
Certainly some will stay Downtown and come back to eat, but during the day this could drive much more activity in the core of the core.
Gronk!
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I've been asking the same thing about the Edmonton Expo for years. The Edmonton Convention Centre is too small.
Greenspace
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Ya it probably has to do with size cause I know the folks at Explore Edmonton are pushing for these thing to be downtown if they can be.
CaptainBL
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Its a shame that we dont have a federal and provincial government investing millions in expanding our downtown convention center like Calgary is receiving for their BMO convention center. What about Sohi and his federal connections we were supposed to benefit from?
northlands
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Hey, you aren't satisfied by the year and a half long (and counting) reno to ECC's Jasper Ave entrance?
Gronk!
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Edmonton gamers want more say in Esports strategy - Edmonton | Globalnews.ca
The City of Edmonton is working to bring more Esports events to the region but local gamers say they haven’t been consulted on how to do that.
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Gronk!
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YEG imagineer
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https://gaming.ctribefestival.com/ Another event featuring gaming in Edmonton.
Kosy123
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It's entirely downtown as well! Almost concurrent with the Winter Cycling Congress!
Gronk!
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Edmonton to host annual Games Con event at Expo Centre until 2026
Canada's only internationally recognized video game convention is calling Edmonton home for the next three years
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Avenuer
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This is awesome - wild actually how it's the largest video game conference in the country and not even Vancouver (home of EA), Montreal (home of Ubisoft) or Toronto or hosting it.Edmonton to host annual Games Con event at Expo Centre until 2026
Canada's only internationally recognized video game convention is calling Edmonton home for the next three years