How Dominion Dynamics is building Canada’s first line of Arctic defence
CEO Eliot Pence explains his company’s plans to become Canada’s defence general contractor.
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Hosted by Douglas Soltys, The BetaKit Podcast features weekly episodes discussing Canadian tech and global tech from a Canadian perspective.
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Minister Evan Solomon on Canada’s AI strategy, sovereignty, and social media
A special Canada Day edition of The BetaKit Podcast.
Did the Anthropic model ban prove Cohere is right about sovereign AI?
Co-founder Nick Frosst on sovereign AI, Star Trek, and why he doesn’t make a point of listening to Marc Andreessen.
Physical AI and economic nationalism at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun and CCI’s Jim Balsillie came to Toronto Tech Week armed with data and predictions.
AI sovereignty & defence tech at BetaKit Most Ambitious: Town Hall
Evan Solomon, leaders from Xanadu, Dominion Dynamics, Sentinel R&D got candid at Town Hall.
How Toronto Tech Week became Canada’s largest grassroots tech event
Co-directors Julia Konefal and Mell Truong explain how TTW went from experiment to 600 events in just two years.
Harjit Sajjan reports for duty
After decades in public service, former defence minister Harjit Sajjan is now a defence-tech entrepreneur.
Evaluating Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy
The DIS adds clarity to Canada’s defence spending commitments, but not their outcomes.
How StackAdapt quietly built an adtech giant
StackAdapt CEO Vitaly Pecherskiy says AI has changed what customers need from software.
How to fix Canadian VC
Canada faces structural capital challenges requiring collective action.
How to fix Canada’s Start-up Visa
Boris Wertz and Lucy Hargreaves discuss what a 10 to 35-year wait says about Canada’s capacity to attract entrepreneurial…
Is BDC too big to change?
Canadian VCs who rely on the Crown corporation have feedback on its “steady hand” approach. Who’s listening?
An insider’s take on Canada’s AI task force report
Former ISED senior policy advisor Jaxson Khan on how public consultations might inform Canada’s AI future.
Why Y Combinator cut Canada out
John Ruffolo joins to discuss fuzzy data, “bullshit” narratives, and the real problems hampering Canadian tech.
TikTok and Grok are messes Canada can’t clean up
What’s a middle power to do in the face of algorithms controlled by global superpowers (and their supporters)?