Students belong in the room.

UVEC is UVic's entrepreneurship club. We put students in the same room as Victoria's founders, operators and builders, at hackathons, founder panels and a weekly tech night downtown. Any UVic student can come, from any faculty.

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Who we build with

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  • University of Victoria
  • VIATEC
  • North House
  • League of Innovators
  • Tenfold
  • Peter B. Gustavson School of Business
  • Cursor
  • Alacrity Canada
  • LampPost
  • Frontier
  • VIBE
  • University of Victoria Students' Society
  • Prompt Victoria AI Conference
  • Victoria Data Society
  • Isla Lune
  • Tech Wednesdays
  • Moto Reloaded
  • Innovation Centre at the University of Victoria
  • MLAIP
  • Infusion Play
  • UVic Renewable Energy Club
  • UVic Engineering and Computer Science Students' Society
  • Enactus Canada
  • Front Row Ventures
  • The University of British Columbia

Event sponsors include the Gustavson School of Business, the UVic Innovation Centre, MLAIP, Infusion Play and Cursor.

What we do

Everyone says you have to leave the island to build something. We're proving that wrong.

Build days and hackathons

A day, the right tools and a room full of people shipping something. Codechella, the renewable energy hackathon and Reloaded Labs all ran this way.

Founders on stage

Panels and talks with people building companies in Victoria right now, followed by open questions from the room.

Tech Wednesdays

A weekly, no-laptop tech night downtown. UVEC is a founding partner, alongside Enactus.

Campus to downtown

We bring UVic students to the city's startup events, and bring Victoria and Vancouver founders to campus.

Events

Straight from our Luma calendar. Pick an event to register, or subscribe to the calendar so new events show up in yours.

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Recent events

A few of the events we've hosted and joined. More photos are on our Instagram.

A builder demoing his project on a large screen at Codechella Builders at laptops during Codechella

Sat 22 Aug 2026. Community partner.

Cursor Codechella

Cursor brought its Codechella AI hackathon to Victoria, and we were the local partner. It was a free one-day build sprint with cash prize tracks.

Four young founders on stage at Frontier The UVEC standee at Frontier

Tue 22 Sept 2026. Host.

The Next Generation of Business

Our Victoria Tech Week panel at Frontier. Four founders under 25 talked about where AI saves them time and money today. It sold out with a waitlist.

UVEC members at the club's booth A crowd at the UVic Startup Showcase

Thu 24 Sept 2026. Booth.

UVic Startup Showcase

About 20 student and research startups showed their work at the Innovation Centre. We ran a booth for students who want to build.

Two students presenting their design at the hackathon The winning team holding their certificates

Sat 26 Sept 2026. Co-host.

UVEC × UREC Design Hackathon

With the UVic Renewable Energy Club and Solve Energy. Teams designed a solar, battery and generator setup to keep a Victoria home running through a three-day winter outage.