Twice a year, the distance between a small company's ambition and an investor's attention collapses into a single digital room. On August 5 and 6, 2026, sixteen venture-stage companies spanning gold exploration, hydrogen energy, artificial intelligence, and clinical biotech will present their growth stories to more than 1.7 million market participants through B2i Digital's OTCQB Virtual Investor Conference — a format built on the belief that an unscripted question, honestly answered, reveals more than any polished prospectus. The event reflects a broader democratization of capital access, wher
OTCQB Virtual Conference Showcases 16 Venture-Stage Companies in Gold, AI, and Hydrogen
Nothing beats hearing a CEO answer a question they didn't script.
Mark
Why does a conference like this matter? Isn't this just a marketing event?
Mimi
It is marketing, yes, but it's also infrastructure. These are real companies with real capital needs, and most of them are too early-stage to get attention from traditional investment banks. This conference puts them in front of 1.7 million potential investors in two days.
Mark
What's the actual draw for an investor sitting at home watching presentations?
Mimi
You get to hear the CEO answer a question they didn't script. That's the whole thing. You can ask about their cash runway, their exploration permits, their technology roadmap. No prepared remarks, no filter.
Mark
And the companies presenting—are they all mining companies?
Mimi
No, that's what makes this different. You've got gold explorers, yes, but also a hydrogen energy company, an AI software firm, a clinical biotech outfit. They're all on the OTCQB, which means they're all venture-stage, but the sectors are completely different.
Mark
So an investor could theoretically watch a gold mining pitch at noon and a clinical biotech pitch at 2:30 PM?
Mimi
Exactly. And many of these companies are dual-listed on Canadian or Australian exchanges too, so they're not just OTCQB plays. They have access to other capital markets.
Mark
What happens after the conference ends?
Mimi
The presentations get posted to YouTube, so the window doesn't close. And investors can request one-on-one meetings through the platform. The real work often happens after the live event.
O Pulso
- Sixteen companies at the earliest, most vulnerable stage of their public lives must compress their entire growth thesis into thirty minutes before an audience of strangers with capital.
- The tension is structural: gold miners, hydrogen ventures, AI software firms, and clinical biotech companies share the same two-day stage, forcing investors to rapidly shift frameworks across wildly different risk profiles.
- B2i Digital's distribution engine — honed across 120 prior conferences — pushes the presentations to 1.7 million retail and institutional participants simultaneously, creating a rare moment of mass exposure for companies that typically struggle to be heard.
- Live Q&A and one-on-one meeting capabilities transform passive viewing into active due diligence, putting CEOs on the spot in ways a press release never could.
- Recordings posted to YouTube after the event extend the window of opportunity, ensuring that a company's story outlasts the two-day conference and continues working as a capital-raising asset.
Twice a year, the distance between a small company's ambition and an investor's attention collapses into a single digital room. On August 5 and 6, 2026, sixteen venture-stage companies spanning gold exploration, hydrogen energy, artificial intelligence, and clinical biotech will present their growth stories to more than 1.7 million market participants through B2i Digital's OTCQB Virtual Investor Conference — a format built on the belief that an unscripted question, honestly answered, reveals more than any polished prospectus. The event reflects a broader democratization of capital access, where early-stage companies from Canada's Northwest Territories to Vancouver's tech corridors compete for attention on equal footing, measured only by the clarity of their vision and the candor of their executives.
On August 5 and 6, 2026, sixteen publicly traded venture companies will gather under a single digital roof for the OTCQB Virtual Investor Conference, organized by B2i Digital as the market's official marketing partner. The lineup is deliberately eclectic — gold and silver explorers, critical minerals firms, a hydrogen energy company, AI software makers, a clinical-stage biotech, and a specialty construction materials producer — united not by sector but by their shared home on the OTCQB Venture Market, the trading venue for early-stage growth companies.
Each company receives thirty minutes for a live presentation followed by unscripted investor questions, with one-on-one meetings available through the platform. The audience is substantial: B2i Digital's distribution network reaches more than 1.7 million retail and institutional participants across web, video, social media, and email — the same infrastructure the firm has deployed at over 120 conferences in recent years under its "From Marketing to Meetings" philosophy.
Wednesday opens with Nord Precious Metals Mining and moves through Pecoy Copper, Tocvan Ventures, and Liberty Star Uranium & Metals. Thursday carries the heavier load, with twelve companies presenting from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern, including HyTerra, SalesCloser Technologies, Oncotelic Therapeutics, and Cematrix, among others. Many are dual-listed on Canadian and Australian exchanges, giving them capital market reach well beyond U.S. borders.
B2i Digital's chief executive David Shapiro, a former investment banker, distills the format's appeal simply: investors, bankers, and marketers rarely agree on anything except that nothing substitutes for the moment a CEO must answer a question they didn't anticipate. All presentations will be recorded and posted to YouTube, ensuring the conversations continue long after the two days close.
On Wednesday and Thursday, August 5 and 6, 2026, sixteen publicly traded companies will present to investors through a virtual conference organized around the OTCQB Venture Market. The event, hosted by B2i Digital as the official marketing partner, brings together an unusual mix of sectors under one digital roof: gold and silver exploration firms, critical minerals companies, hydrogen energy ventures, artificial intelligence software makers, clinical-stage biotech outfits, and specialty construction material producers. Each company gets thirty minutes for a live presentation followed by investor questions, with the option for one-on-one meetings arranged through the conference platform.
The conference reaches an audience of more than 1.7 million retail and institutional investors through B2i Digital's distribution network across web, video, social media, and email. This is the same visibility engine the firm has deployed at more than 120 investor conferences over the past several years, a process the company calls "From Marketing to Meetings." Unlike sector-specific conferences that focus narrowly on, say, mining or biotech alone, this event is organized entirely around the OTCQB Venture Market itself—a trading venue for early-stage growth companies. The idea is to let investors hear directly from chief executives answering unscripted questions, whether those executives are pitching gold exploration in Canada's Northwest Territories or conversational AI software from Vancouver.
The Wednesday lineup opens with Nord Precious Metals Mining, followed by presentations from Pecoy Copper, Tocvan Ventures, and Liberty Star Uranium & Metals. Thursday's schedule is heavier, with twelve companies presenting between 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM Eastern Time. The roster includes Sparc Technologies, MDJM Ltd., Connecting Excellence Group, HyTerra (a hydrogen company), Bold Ventures, Green Bridge Metals, Thunder Gold, SalesCloser Technologies, Star Gold, Valor Gold, Oncotelic Therapeutics (the clinical biotech entry), LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners, Avanti Gold, and Cematrix. Many of these companies are dual-listed on major Canadian and Australian exchanges—the TSX Venture Exchange, the Canadian Securities Exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange, and the AQSE in London—giving them access to capital markets beyond the United States.
David Shapiro, the chief executive of B2i Digital and a former investment banker at Maxim Group, frames the appeal of this format plainly: an investor, an investment banker, and a marketer rarely agree on anything, he says, except that nothing replaces the moment when a CEO must answer a question they did not prepare for. The OTCQB Venture Market is where growth stories get written early, and for two days investors can question the authors directly. Presentations will be recorded and made available on both B2i Digital's and OTC Markets' YouTube channels, allowing those who cannot attend live to review the material on demand.
Virtual Investor Conferences, the property of OTC Markets Group Inc., runs this conference series throughout the year, featuring public companies from exchanges worldwide including the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the Toronto Stock Exchange, and others. The format has become a standard mechanism for venture-stage companies to access capital markets participants without the cost and logistics of a physical event. For investors, the appeal is direct access to management teams and the ability to conduct due diligence in real time. For the companies presenting, it is a chance to tell their story to a broad audience in a single, concentrated window.
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The OTCQB Venture Market is where growth stories get written early, and for two days investors can question the authors directly.— David Shapiro, CEO of B2i Digital
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