Ottawa, April's Tech Thursday Calendar is Live!
We're kicking off the month with two exciting conversations: From Scaling Innovation to The future of Canadian FinTech.
April is here, and we have two events lined-up for you Ottawa.
Find your Thursday below! 👇
🚀 April 9th
Topic - Scaling Innovation: From Pilot to Production
The hardest part of innovation isn’t the idea. It’s what comes after it works.
This Tech Thursday we’ll dive into what happens after innovation shows early success and how organizations move from pilots and initial projects into scalable, sustained impact.
We’ll explore:
What changes when something that works needs to be integrated more broadly
The organizational challenges that come with scaling (process, people, adoption)
What tends to break down between pilot and production
What it takes to turn one-off success into something repeatable
Speakers:
Khaled Abdelwahab – Sales Director, North America at Nokia
Sienna Hermary – Co-founder & CEO at Urban Camel & Business Development Specialist - Cybersecurity at Invest Ottawa
Russell Smiley – Director, Strategic Innovation Partnerships at Syntronic
Moderated by: Dan Premachuk, Program Admin of Technology Innovation Management Program at Carleton University
🏦 April 23rd
Topic - The Future of Money: Transformative Technologies in the Financial Sector
The rules, the rails, and the players in Canada’s financial sector are all changing at once. New policy, new infrastructure, and new technology are converging, changing how money moves, who can access it, and who gets to build the services around it.
We’ll dig into the real state of Canadian Fintech: what’s progressed, what’s still in the way, and what it means for the people building and investing in this space.
Speakers:
Adriana Vega - Executive Director at Fintechs Canada
Moderated by: Dr Paul Newton - Creative Producer & Strategist at Up Next Global
More speakers TBA soon!
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A big thank you to all of our sponsors for making these events a possibility including Boast, Skip, Neo Financial, Motiv, and Crestview Strategy.