East Coast Startup Week will be held once again this year in Fredericton spanning the week of the Breakthru Dinner.

Breakthru, the biennial competition organized by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, will hold its awards dinner March 19 at Fredericton Convention Centre. The highlight of the dinner – of the week, in fact –  will be the announcement of the three Breakthru winners, who will share $750,000 in development capital and in-kind services.

But the dinner is only one of eight major events, featuring more than 25 speakers, taking place in Fredericton between March 16 and 21.

Pond-Deshpande Centre Executive Director Karina LeBlanc, one of the organizers of East Coast Startup Week, said the events are now finalized though the speakers won’t be confirmed till mid-February.

The week begins Monday March 16 with a TedX Talk. A Social Impact Development Dialogue will begin on Monday and continue on to Tuesday.

On Wednesday, there will be a Speaker Series and a Startup Sleigh Ride.

In addition to the Breakthru Dinner, the events on Thursday, March 19, include Mentor Minutes and a FullSail Conference organized by the Financial and Consumer Services Commission of New Brunswick.

Two events will begin on Friday and continue through the weekend.

On Friday and Saturday, student ambassadors of the Pond-Deshpande Centre will host its second annual Youth Entrepreneurship Summit, YES Atlantic. The organizers are expecting a “few hundred millennials” at the conference, which will promote entrepreneurship among people under the age of 25.

And finally, a startup weekend will begin on Friday night and continue until Sunday evening.