Market Opens

Galith Levy, Chief Climate Solutions Prize officer and Jeff Hart, Executive Chair, Climate Solutions Prize and his team joined Sylvain Martel, Managing Director, TSXV Listings, TSX Venture Exchange to celebrate the Climate Solutions Festival and open the market. The Climate Solutions Prize is a pioneering initiative aimed to exponentially accelerate innovation in the field of climate technologies and to showcase innovations. This unprecedented competition encourages researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors to find innovative technological solutions to our planet's major environmental challenges by offering them incentives and funding to bring promising climate solutions to market. The Festival also aims to establish a platform for international collaboration and networking between various countries to advance these developments and share best practices. This year's Festival will bring together over 1,000 participants from across the ecosystem and will feature over 50 international speakers. The Festival will conclude with the awarding of nearly $1 million in prizes to catalyze impactful climate action.

Chryssa Tsouraki, CEO at IN-VR joined Guillaume Legare, Head South America, Toronto Stock Exchange to celebrate the Brazil Lithium Summit and open the market. The Brazil Lithium Summit is a groundbreaking pioneer event taking place in Belo Horizonte on June 11th-13th 2024. Officially endorsed by Invest Minas, it stands as the exclusive platform in Brazil where the focus is on the burgeoning Lithium Valley. Gathering key industry players and international companies eyeing Brazil's lithium reserves, it'll be the sole platform offering direct engagement with the region's decision-makers. There are currently 34 TSX and TSXV companies mining in Brazil. There are 95 Brazilian properties on TSX and TSXV, and 28 of them are critical minerals properties.

Andrew Kiguel, CEO at Tokens.com Corp. (Realbotix Corp. - Pending shareholder approval) and his team, joined Michael Kousaie, Vice President, Strategy and Product Innovation, Toronto Stock Exchange to open the market and celebrate the company’s listing on TSX Venture Exchange. Tokens.com Corp. (Realbotix Corp. - Pending shareholder approval) is a leader in the integration of companionship AI and realistic humanoid robots to improve the human experience through connection, learning and play. Our proprietary AI is developed specifically for human companionship. Our customizable robots have human-like appearance and movements. We are uniquely positioned, with limited competition, in the creation of AI enabled robots.

Representatives from United for Literacy joined Mark Jarrett, Vice President of Enterprise Operations, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to close the market. Formerly Frontier College, United for Literacy is a national registered charity dedicated to improving the lives of children, youth, and adults through literacy. Since 1899, the charity’s All Welcome! approach and innovative services have been transforming every place into a learning place. In the past year, nearly 34,000 children, youth, and adults in over 191 urban, rural, and remote places across Canada (including 97 Indigenous communities) gained access to free, inclusive literacy and numeracy programs, in person and online, supported by 1,689 trained volunteer tutors.