Tech Thursday Live!
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Tech Thursday Live! is your home for conversations that took place at in-person events hosted by Tech Thursday.
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- Banks vs AI Agents, Questrade Becomes a Bank, and Why Mortgages Are Still Broken · 57 minEpisode 5 of Tech Thursday Live!, recorded in front of a studio audience in Calgary during Calgary Innovation Week and co-hosted with Questrade. This week we’re getting into…
- SimpleHedge’s $4M Raise, AgTech’s 40% VC Drop, and Canada’s Low-Carbon Advantage · 50 minEpisode 4 of Tech Thursday Live!, recorded in front of a studio audience in Calgary. This week we’re going all in on AgTech: the price swings that can cost a farmer everything…
- Canada's Sovereign Satellite Crisis, Kanin’s $100M Raise, and the 3-Year Power Wait · 1 h 0 minEpisode 3 of Tech Thursday Live!, recorded in front of a studio audience in Calgary. This week we’re covering the physical side of AI: satellites, gas turbines, and the money it…
- Clearco's Story, Ultimarii's Fundraise, Taste in AI | Andrew Curtis, Doug Schweitzer, George Bugg · 57 minEpisode 2 of Tech Thursday Live!, recorded in front of a studio audience in Calgary. Phil and Mark cover the latest tech news, including Canada's new tax cut on business…
- How Questrade is Building a Bank · 1 h 0 minQuestrade has been building for 27 years. It's one of Canada's first online brokerages, it's now a Schedule I bank, and it has never taken outside money. Recorded live at Model…
- Ep. 1: The Alberta Data Centre Bubble? · 1 h 7 minOur first episode in the new live format, recorded in Calgary. Hosted by Philippe Burns and Mark Le Dain, CRO at Fuelled.Graham Harrison makes the case that 99% of Alberta data…
- GeologicAI: $100M Raised to Make Mining More Efficient · 38 minGeologicAI builds robots that scan drill core and tell mining companies where to dig. They spent their first eight years doing research projects for oil companies in Calgary…
- How Rob Khazzam (Float) and Jeff Adamson (Neo Financial) Are Re-Engineering Canadian Fintech · 40 minFive banks own 96% of the Canadian market. The relative cost of banking has barely moved in a century. Rob Khazzam co-founded Float and just raised a $60 million Series B. Jeff…
- Canada's AI Plan, From the Man Helping Write It: Claude Guay (MP & Ex-IBM Canada CEO) · 23 minClaude Guay went from CEO of IBM Canada to Member of Parliament, and he's now one of the people shaping how Canada regulates and adopts AI. Live from Stampede, he joins…
- The Thursday Before Stampede: What Spending Data Says About Canada's Economy · 41 minMastercard's data shows the biggest retail day of Stampede happens before it starts, and that's just the opening insight. Benjamin Jacob (SVP, Mastercard) hosts Anne Butler (Bank…
- Helcim CEO | Nic Beique on Hacker Culture · 31 min"I told the team we had six months to live." Nic Beique founded Helcim in 2008 as a 23-year-old self-taught coder. For ten years, he ran it as a reseller in the shadow of a…
- How Wealthsimple Actually Builds · 1 h 6 minOver $125 billion in assets. 4 million clients. From an investment app nobody would download to one of the most prolific product companies in Canadian tech. A few hours before…
- What's Broken in Canada's Startup Ecosystem · 1 h 9 min"The whole thing is f*cked. It's really messed up because we haven't spent the time and the attention to build the critical infrastructure across the entire thing." Jesse Wiebe…
- Inside Simply Silicon · 52 min"Our goal is to build Canada's first trillion dollar company." Graeme Harrison and Dan Chapman co-founded Augur VC, then incubated Simply Silicon out of their first fund. Their…
- How Energy and Mining Lead Canadian AI · 1 h 11 minEnergy and mining are two of the largest industries by Canadian GDP. They've been generating high-quality data for decades. The infrastructure is there. The problems are real…
- Is Canadian Tech Over-Funded? · 1 h 14 min · Episode 7Is the Canadian tech ecosystem over-watered? Four people who've operated inside the system sit down to ask whether government funding has become so pervasive in Canadian tech…
- IP Mistakes That Cost Founders · 55 min · Episode 7Most founders think about patents too late, or too early. In this live panel recorded in Calgary, Moderator Louise Lee sits down with IP lawyer and patent agent Jason Hogg (BLG)…
- The Tech Behind Data Centres: Cooling, Power, and Scale · 1 h 3 min · Episode 6This podcast is a live recording from a Tech Thursday that took place in Calgary called 'The Tech Behind Data Centres'. Our speakers were: • Thomas Farran, VP at Longbow…
- The $800B Problem Hiding in Plain Sight: The SecondShop Story · 49 min · Episode 5Adam Froese has had one of the more unusual journeys in Canadian tech. He was a former Olympic field hockey player, ex-Deloitte investment banker, Venture Capitalist at Harvest…
- CTO vs. CTO - February 19th, 2026 · 55 min · Episode 4On this Episode, we take you live to our panel CTO vs. CTO. We had Saba El-Hilo, the CTO at Certn, and Cullen Jennings, the CTO for Audio Visual and AI at Cisco. These two went…
