What The Tech?

Today I’m thrilled to be joined by Dallas Price, a true standout in the North American tech and startup ecosystem.  Dallas has spent his entire professional career working with and building over 100 startups from ideation to growth phase, including taking on the co-founder role at Leo Prestte where his team develops brand strategy, content, & identity systems for startups globally.  Currently,...

Today’s podcast is a very, very special episode of What The Tech, as I’m positively stoked to feature Boast’s very own Co-Founder and community builder extraordinaire Lloyed Lobo onto the show! Along with being one of the original brains behind Boast, Lloyed is also the founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. The community-led bus...

Hello and welcome to a special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI, where we’re handing over the mic to our French-speaking colleagues for an episode dedicated to founders in Quebec! This week, we’re featuring a conversation between Hedi Berrais-Sanchez and Joshua Martin, where they answer the most commonly asked questions about Credit for the Development of E-Business, or CDAE, a unique...

Today, I’m thrilled to chat with our friend and partner Ekin Ober, co-founder and CEO of myconverso.  Ekin and her team have created an AI-powered assistant for enhancing workplace productivity. With their solution, professionals can enhance their communication skills through lifelike simulations, personalized training, and actionable insights, leveraging myconverso’s cutting-edge generative AI te...

Today I’m thrilled to speak with Maria Konikov, Director of Operations for the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute—also known as YEDI—which is a mission-oriented charitable organization providing top-tier business education and mentorship to innovative entrepreneurs from any sector or industry.  Serving Toronto, York Region and internationally based ventures, YEDI offers an array of progra...

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI! Today, Boast AI’s own Blake Nelson and Asad Ali take the mic for an enlightening #InnovatorsLive session where they dive deep into Boast’s new Enhanced AI Classifier and how it is disrupting the R&D claim experience ensuring faster, accurate, and defensible claims. Say goodbye to tedious processes and hello to seamless pro...

Today I’m thrilled to be joined by Janelle Gorman of York IE, which is a strategic growth and investment firm reshaping the way tech companies are built, scaled and monetized. Janelle is the CFO at York IE, where she is tasked with financial reporting and analysis, compliance and financial operations to support and drive growth. While based in New Hampshire (with roots in the Boston area, where I’...

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI! Today, Boast AI’s own Dana Lee and Asad Ali take the mic for an enlightening #InnovatorsLive session on streamlining your R&D strategy and effortlessly maximizing tax credit claims. 🚀 The big takeaway? If you measure and track your R&D it will unlock a bunch of downstream benefits—and tax credits is just one of them....

Today, I’m thrilled to speak with another Boast partner and an exciting innovator in Atlantic Canada, Matt Cooper of Volta, a Halifax, Nova Scotia-based startup community. At Volta, Matt leads an amazing team of professionals dedicated to helping founders and their teams drastically improve the odds of building a high growth startup in Atlantic Canada. One important thing to note about Volta is th...

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI! Today, Boast AI’s own Curtis Griffith and Joshua Martin address the most commonly asked questions about R&D tax credits.  From determining eligibility to mastering documentation techniques, they'll guide you through all the crucial aspects that matter to your business.  This conversation was originally featured as par...

Today we have Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Jane Software Trevor Johnston on the show to discuss his role in creating the Jane App, an incredibly easy-to-use and secure online clinic management software that lets users book, chart, schedule, and invoice from anywhere, anytime. On top of all that, it requires no training, and works in all clinics. I’ll leave it to Trevor to get into the technical nitty...

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI! Today, Boast Ai’s own VP of Product John Can Karayel and VP of Engineering Suresh Joshi discuss How AI will Transform R&D, exploring how AI transcends the boundaries of solving individual business problems and will become a catalyst for making ROI-driven R&D decisions. This conversation features our Senior Product Mark...

Today, we’ve got a full house on the show, as I’m joined by Boast AI’s own Technical Solutions Manager, Aliya Amershi , who is going to co-host for an interview with one of Boast’s most exciting clients, Natureblocks! Founder and CEO James Davidson as well as CFO Harrison White join us to talk about developing the first blockchain-based carbon offset development platform, and how they’re helping e...

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI! The Boast AI team was on the floor for this year’s Collision Conference in Toronto from June 26-29, where we caught up with existing partners, future collaborators, and familiar faces from across the tech ecosystem. It was a jam packed event filled with highlights. To recap their favorite moments from the event, Carlos Coelho...

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of What The Tech from Boast AI! Today, we’re unpacking some of the findings from a pair of recent court rulings in the United States that emphasize just how much time and money can be wasted when businesses don’t exercise savvy (and scrutiny) when applying for R&D tax credits.  This conversation features Boast AI’s own Director of Customer Delivery Ashle...

Today I’m thrilled to have a pair of guests on the show to talk about the larger Canadian startup ecosystem and, specifically, FounderFuel.   FounderFuel is a four month accelerator program that partners founders with insightful mentors, intensive networking and expert coaching, culminating in Canada’s biggest Demo Day, taking place this year on July 11th.  At the heart of FounderFuel is the exper...

Today, we’re unpacking some of the findings from Boast AI’s 2023 R&D Trends & Insights Report, which surveyed more than 250 business leaders from across North America to gauge how they’re fueling their product roadmap, the most prevalent tools being used to track R&D and the biggest obstacles for innovation leaders.  This conversation was originally featured as part of Boast AI’s weekl...

Today I’m thrilled to be joined by Patrick Proulx, Co-Founder and CTO of Knak. Knak is a solution built by Marketers, for Marketers; it’s the first no-code campaign creation platform built for enterprise marketing teams that speeds time-to-market while empowering marketers to be creative. I’ll leave it to Patrick to get into the nitty gritty of what makes Knak such a disruptor in the space, and ho...

Hello and welcome to What The Tech from Boast AI , where we talk with some of the brilliant minds behind new and exciting SR&ED initiatives to learn what it takes to tackle “technological uncertainty” and, eventually, change the world. I’m thrilled this week to be chatting with Mehrsa Raeiszadeh, Co-founder and COO of Mintlist, which is an online marketplace connecting 1000s of car dealers so...