First Adopter Network
Discover cutting-edge solutions
Become a member and start meeting companies that can help you solve the biggest business challenges, improve your company's efficiency and boost revenue.
Uncover tech solutions
Host code that you don't want to share with the world in private.
Attend exclusive events
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Connect with our companies
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Who are first adopters?
Business leaders sourcing enterprise technologies
As a VP or director, you are responsible for identifying, qualifying and procuring new tools and technologies that improve business outcomes.
Is this you?
You have outreach overload from unsolicited software vendors
You never have enough time to qualify vendor capabilities
Staying on the pulse of "what's coming" reigns supreme in your world
You find it hard to find proof points in the market
What you get as a First Adopter:
Membership gives you access to our First Adopter Network and events, strategic introductions and insights on Canada's new wave of engineers, entrepreneurs and tech leaders.
Solve practical business challenges
Membership gives you access to our First Adopter Network and events, strategic introductions and insights on Canada's new wave of engineers, entrepreneurs and tech leaders.
Discover the latest innovations
At invitation-only presentations you can explore these solutions and learn how they've helped established companies.
Connect at a click
Make frictionless-links with world-leading tech founders and their teams and discover how they can help drive business.
OUR STORY
Why MaRS?
MaRS Discovery District is the ideal organization to facilitate these connections. We help more than 1,400 highly innovative companies develop their products, find financing, go to market and, ultimately, make a difference in people’s lives.
We also work with strategic corporations across industries, such as Scotiabank, Mitsubishi and Ontario Power Generation, and know what kind of technology they need to thrive. We’re bringing all of that expertise to FAN members — giving you affordable, easy-to-understand access to the technologies that are changing the modern enterprise.