Invest Atlantic, the conference for the Atlantic Canadian startup community, has named the companies that will appear at its PitchCamp on Sept. 24 in Halifax.

Invest Atlantic will host PitchCamp the night before the main conference as a showcase for young companies in the area, and a chance for them to get feedback on their business models and pitches. It takes place 4:30 to 6:30 pm next Tuesday at the World Trade and Convention Centre.

The companies pitching at the event are:

• Spring Loaded Technology;

• CompCamp;

• Atlantic Motor Labs Inc.;

• World United CHANGEwear;

• Pitch Perfect Software Inc.;

• Arc Instruments Inc.;

• Grey Island Energy;

• Whitecap Scientific Corporation;

• Presentation Platform;

• Hyton;

• and Eigan.

The final entrant will be the winning team from the Volta Hackathon, which took place last weekend. The judges at PitchCamp will be: Rob Barbara, Partner, Build Ventures; Michelle Simms, Manager Incubation, Genesis Group; and Nicole LeBlanc, Director Finance, New Brunswick Innovation Fund.

PitchCamp will follow a format that organizer Bob Williamson has used this past winter in his Pitch101 series, held in Charlottetown, Halifax and Sydney – that is, each company will receive 60 seconds to describe its business, then receive feedback from a group of judges.

The idea for the event came from last year’s keynote speaker, Jeff Amerine, who spoke of the Gone in 60 Seconds program offered in his home state of Arkansas.

The main Invest Atlantic conference will occur the following day, Sept. 25, and will include a video-link keynote address by Brad Feld, the author of the book Startup Communities, who will speak on the topic “Talent is Key: Startups to Corporates”.  The themes of talent and corporates will infuse the rest of the agenda.