Friday, September 25, 2026
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
COAST Ocean Innovation Hub, 517 Herald St, Victoria, BC V8W 1S5 (open in Google Maps)
Free Event
116 of 120 Registered, as of Sep 25 14:35
Organizer(s): Tiny
Host: Karen Kler
Featuring: Andrew Wilkinson on LinkedIn
Andrew Wilkinson in conversation, hosted by Karen Kler, Director of Operations at Tiny. Wilkinson taught himself web design in Victoria in 2006, founded the design agency MetaLab, whose client list has included Slack, Google, Uber and Coinbase, and went on to co-found Tiny, the holding company that acquired MetaLab in 2017. He is Tiny's Executive Chair. The session sits on the closing day of Victoria Tech Week 2026, at the COAST Ocean Innovation Hub on Herald Street.
Anu's Take
In 2006 Wilkinson was pulling espresso in this city for six dollars an hour and teaching himself web design between shifts. He is now Executive Chair of the holding company that owns the agency he built out of that. The listing is one line and the venue turned up late, which is either confidence or a to-do, and the arc is worth the hour regardless.
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Published Sunday, August 2, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn
He taught himself and built it from here, which is a route I know: mine started with a BBS in 1994.