The Showcase
MTL connect
The MTL connect Showcase is a flagship event that highlights innovative projects with measurable, significant, and positive impact. Through short presentations, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and project leaders share their solutions in front of an audience composed of participants, investors, decision-makers, and partners. This initiative aims to showcase desirable digital solutions, encourage collaboration, stimulate open innovation, and promote the sharing of expertise.
Present Your Impactful Innovation
The MTL connect Showcase will be held under the leadership of Sylvain Carle, co-founder and director of CI/VIC, an organization promoting impact investment practices, as well as supporting and training fund managers and entrepreneurs. An investor in innovative initiatives transforming industries, sectors, and regions, he aspires to a future where technology is sustainable, equitable, and humanized, contributing positively to society and the environment.
4 Reasons to Participate in the MTL connect Showcase:
Showcase MTL connect
En 2024, pas moins de 716 participant·e·s ont pris part aux diverses activités de la Vitrine MTL connecte.
Benefit from business recommendations by the Printemps numérique team to make quality connections.
96% of MTL connect 2024 participants were satisfied with the various networking activities offered.
Expand your professional network
44% of participants made new contacts, and 21% of participants reported having one or more potential agreements, with an average value of $153,108.
Win the Vitrine prize
A special jury will select a project that stands out during the presentations on October 30, 2025.
3 participation options:
- Research Phase Projects: Showcase your research work, highlighting the impact of your discoveries. [Between $0 and $500,000 in funding and/or sales]
- Seed Phase Projects: Present your early-stage projects, explain their vision and potential. [Between $500,000 and $2 million in funding and/or sales]
- Growth Phase Projects: Present your growing projects and the impact your achievements have or are about to generate. [Over $2 million in funding and/or sales]
Selection Criteria:
- The project must:
- Align with a vision of promoting desirable digital solutions and fostering collaboration, open innovation, and the sharing of expertise;
- Propose an innovation with measurable and significant positive impact;
- Be led by an entrepreneur or project manager within a start-up, SME, or NPO.
