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The CanCon Podcast is weekly podcast covering both Canadian tech news and global tech news from a Canadian perspective.
"There's a lot in this document… Do we feel the urgency and the threats are covered here?" After months of waiting, the Defence Industrial S...
"With AI, it should bring down the barriers to how you quickly adopt new software without having to become masters of the software." When St...
"We have a collective action problem. Somebody has to take the first step and say, 'Hey, we're going to deploy a lot of capital here in Cana...
"Speed is of the essence. This is a super dynamic marketplace. Canada is losing entrepreneurs, we're losing the next generation of founders,...
"BDC is powerful in the sense that it can make or break a fund… And a lot of people are trying to close funds right now." In 2022, the feder...
"If we don't get our AI ducks in a row at some point and we miss that boat to shore up our industries right now, it's not really going to ma...
"It's important for the success of Y Combinator to see people investing at a very, very early stage. And if it means, to keep them happy so...
"You have just seen control of one of the most popular social media platforms in one of the most influential countries in the world switch f...
"How do I create the 'wow' moment for my end user? And slowness never creates the wow moment." PolarGrid founder and CEO Rade Kovacevic beli...
"The workweek will continue until morale improves." Jared Lindzon and Joe O'Connor's new book, Do More in Four: Why It's Time for a Shorter...
"Maybe we will see the robots that we want in our lives in 2026. But be prepared: they will definitely be controlled by people in India with...
"2025 is the year that we committed to the bit, and all pretences went away." Special guest star Rob Kenedi (Decelerator) joins for The Beta...
"Can you imagine a quarter—25 percent—of Canada isn't sure if they'll be employed next year? That is a wild statistic." Kevin Kliman, presid...
"It seems irrational, and irrational behaviour is where drama lives, it's where comedy lives. It's where all the fun is." A communications t...
"It used to be that Silicon Valley was the kind of Mecca of the entrepreneur. What's happening is everyone has got the tools that used to be...
"The technology is there, and everyone loves cool technology, but it doesn't need to be a party trick. It needs to be something that's drivi...
"In the beginning, we were like, 'this must be a scam' because with the way things move in Waterloo and Toronto, it seemed way too fast." A...
"Too many American subs dominate this market. Eighty percent of what we buy is from American companies. We wanna reverse that. We wanna make...
It's a power-packed post-Budget panel podcast featuring a plethora of Canadian policy wonks! Vass Bednar (Canadian SHIELD Institute), Benjam...
"We were sleepwalking our way into this new economy, and we've had a bit of a wake-up call." Ian Rae, CEO of Aptum and a member of Minister...
"If you're a founder in Canada, you have a playbook, which is: try to get outside of the country as soon as possible. Try to sell outside of...
"It's one thing to say 'let's do this in a sovereign way.' It is a whole other to actually do it." Gander Social is attempting to do somethi...
"Don't talk to your customers because your customers will keep you in the place that you used to be." AI adoption is now an industry-wide ma...
"That's the literal term several CISOs have used with me unprompted: 'ticking time bomb.' There's no world in which this doesn't explode the...
"It actually allows us an opportunity to build sovereign capability and leapfrog to get our armed forces where they need to be by taking adv...
"There's a really good chance that a young person's parents—or even their friends—don't even know that this individual is building a relatio...
"We're going to find in the next year or two that the amount of leakage actually goes up quite a bit because I think the focus on AI is just...
" That's also quite daunting as an investor to be able to put money into something that is perfect for now, but will it last three to five y...
"A win for AXL is that, ten years from now, instead of nine of the top ten biggest and most successful companies in the world being on the W...
"How is this thing—running in a data centre with Nvidia GPUs—understanding what I'm saying with such nuance and such depth?" Former DarwinAI...
" This isn't just about doing something cool because space is the next frontier. This is a key domain for economics, for national security,...
"History never stops. It's a living reality." In celebration of Startupfest's 15th anniversary, founder Phil Telio joins to discuss the orig...
"The talent here is incredible, right? When we started faculty, I walk in the class and there's Jimmy Ba. Every time you guys train a neural...
"The current government is really plugged into what's needed." One step closer to quantum data centres with the launch of his company's adva...
" It's kind of that 'Valley or bust' mentality which breaks the ecosystem and really hurts Canada." Harley Finkelstein (Shopify), Mike Katch...
" The company fascinates me… because they have such interesting concepts internally. One of them being 'treat the company as a future advers...
"I want to put ambition in people's hands. You say it doesn't exist—you're going to hold it, you're going to flip through it, you're going t...
" Subversiveness is a way of changing the system. And I think what we're seeing right now is that all systems are changing." Entrepreneur an...
" That's what we wanna change, right? For future companies, more Canadian investors on the cap table so that we can see those benefits come...
"Be a customer of Canadian startups. This is the thing that every company needs. Nobody died from having too many customers." The CEO of the...
" Companies have spent a lot of time and money creating really great user experience for humans. And now there's kind of this race to create...
" I think every ecosystem is different, but we can learn a lot from Silicon Valley, and we can merge what we have here." Faire co-founder an...
"Bad actors are weaponizing AI faster than governments and enterprises are using AI to combat it." New data shows that more than half of all...
"I feel like doing this is one of the greatest gifts of my life. Working with these people energizes me." Joe Canavan, principal at Canavan...
"I think for any entrepreneur that's navigated the last five years, I don't know if there was a worse time to be building a company." Clutch...
" Toronto Tech Week belongs to everyone. Toronto Tech Week is by definition a platform, and it succeeds or fails by the virtue of all the ho...
" At the end of the day, I really wanted a Pebble. It didn't exist. No one was building anything remotely like it. So I, without really know...
" It's worth it. Because this deserves to live. We've gotten it far enough that this deserves to actually come to fruition. I don't think th...
" By the time these companies are ready for B and C [rounds], their cap tables are super clean, too. So it doesn't really make sense that we...
"Apple won't use user data to develop and train AI. And Apple lives in a world where AI is going to be table stakes in any software or hardw...