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CategoryWill braindrain be the continued fate of Montreal’s Machine Learning community?
Montreal’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning community arguably started out as leaders in their trade, but community exper..
Kam Lal makes a hit in Nashville with Notetracks
Kam Lal hasn’t yet gone to a Predators NHL hockey game yet, but the startup founder in town for Nashville’s Project Music Accelerator says..
Inspiring Founders: Salima Visram and the Soular Backpack
Growing up in a small village in Kenya, Silima Visram saw everyday the effects of poverty. She was fortunate enough to receive a good educ..
Yackathon 2.0’s ‘smart city’ weekend will be a busy one
Yelp’s Montreal office is putting the final organizing touches on its upcoming Yackathon 2.0, set to take place April 1-3 at La Gare cowor..
How Hykso rubbed Y Combinator the right way
They were the very last team of 6,000 to have the chance to wow Y Combinator brass, and they pulled it off.
After completing the second..
Algolux’s band of PhD researchers take on big challenges in image processing
The latest safety-savvy vehicles may have as many as eight to ten embedded computer vision cameras in them, mostly to assist with autonomo..
Monthly product meetups flourishing in Montreal
Product aficionados have an abundance of choice these days in Montreal when it comes to monthly events. That’s because two meetup groups -..
Lightspeed unveils its ecommerce weapon
Lightspeed, Montreal’s point of sale (POS) system for retailers and restaurateurs, is launching its ecommerce tool for North American busi..
15th CRC Robotics Comp brings lessons beyond the classroom
For 15 consecutive years, hundreds of high school and CEGEP students have flocked to the Montreal-based CRC Robotics Competition, tasked w..
Letter to my younger self as a woman in technology
Last month, I was privileged to have been invited to participate on an entrepreneurship panel at the Annual Women in Computing Conference,..
#Hackthehouse initiative to turn Notman House ‘smart’
An ambitious new initiative put on by Montreal’s Notman House will seek to run four related IoT and smart home hackathons over a period of..
Could an abandoned train station in Westmount become a new tech hub?
A 109-year old abandoned train station that hasn’t been in use in over two decades could become a new tech hub and coworking space in West..
Clearing the fog: A 1-on-1 chat with Montreal startup investor John Stokes
In December 2012, I wrote a piece about Real Ventures investor John Stokes, calling him “the Gordon Ramsay of Canadian Startups.”
For a..
Following up with the Founder Institute’s 2nd cohort
Seven months after graduating arguably the toughest entrepreneurship training in Canada, several Montreal startups are making big strides…
Shopify unveils new Montreal office with huge Open House event
Media, techies and others flocked to Shopify‘s luxurious Montreal office Thursday evening for a celebration of sorts. A fireside chat with..