Tech Thursday Live!

"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 bank. In 2020, he and his team made the call to pivot, build their own independent payments stack, and take on Stripe, Square, and Moneris head-on. Three years later, in the middle of the Series B fundraise, the compa...

Over $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 this panel, Wealthsimple announced a suite of new banking products. By the time we sat down, it was already public. So instead of talking about what they shipped, we got inside the room where it got built. Three product and...

"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 said that on stage in Ottawa last week. He runs the Canadian Startup Capital Association, has invested in over 40 startups, and spent five years scaling Startup TNT into one of the most active early-stage capital programs i...

"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 first data centre site, Foundation, is being built in downtown Calgary right now. Their plan is to build many more, across North America, all powering the AI native economy. This is the inaugural episode of Te...

Energy 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. So why is almost nobody talking about how much AI adoption is actually happening inside them, or how much further it could go? Three founders building AI for Canadian heavy industry sit down to walk through what's ac...

Is 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 that it's distorting how companies actually get built. Featuring Derrick Hunter (Bluesky Equities, Alberta Enterprise Corporation), Graeme Harrison (Augur VC), Michelle Scarborough (formerly BDC Capital), and Cam Link...

Most 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), space tech co-founder Kurtis Broda (Wyvern), and medical device founder Danny Zahynacz (RAD Medical Technologies) to cut through the myths around intellectual property and give founders practical, honest advice. They cove...

This 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 Capital. Longbow is an investor in VoltaGrid, a company that just signed a 2.3GW deal with Oracle. Benjamin Sutton, Product Marketing Manager at CoolIT. CoolIT was acquired last week for $4.75B, the city’s largest tech deal...

Adam 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 Ventures, and co-founder of SecondShop, a company that provides the strategic operating layer for retailers like Costco and HomeDepot. In 24 months, the company has sold over $100M worth of retail goods, through it's in...

On 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 head to head on AI in the Workforce, how cybersecurity is changing, and new requires for data sovereignty around the globe.

Get ready to dive deep into the world of insurance innovation with the latest InsurTech trends and solutions! We were thrilled to co-host this event with Flora Fertility to explore what the future of insurance actually look like. We break down the biggest innovations in InsurTech and what they mean for the industry moving forward. The panel featured: Christy Lane , Co-Founder & President at Fl...

On January 29th, Tech Thursday partnered with the DMZ and TDIP to bring together some of the most exciting early stage Tech companies in Calgary. The conversation focused on taking a service, and bringing it to scale through productized solutions. Our speakers were: Amanda Julian , Chief Science Officer & Co-founder at Monark Addy Graves , CEO and Co-Founder at Cashew Lourdes Juan , CEO and Co...

 Welcome to Tech Thursday Live. A live recording from the first Tech Thursday event in Calgary in 2026. The topic of this conversation was 'Hot Takes for 2026'. This is a panel featuring: Kelly Schmidt, the CEO at Headversity Mark Le dain, CRO at Fueled Graeme Harrison, the CEO at Augur VC We talked about everything from whether or not there's gonna be Robot Olympics, if there's an...