McGill X-1 Accelerator | 189 followers on LinkedIn. Hosted by the McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship, the McGill X-1 Accelerator is an intensive 10-week summer program designed to accelerate later stage McGill startups towards investment readiness and launch. The McGill X-1 Accelerator 2017 program will take place from June 5 to August 11, 2017. Demo Days will take place in Montreal, Boston, and San Francisco in Fall 2017.