The First Tech Thursday Sessions of 2026 are Finally Here! 👇
Hot Takes and Scaling Service Kick Off Tech Thursday 2026 in Calgary!
They’re here!
We are so excited to kick off 2026 with a couple great events, and we hope you’ll join us to start the new year strong.
As a reminder, these events will be hosted at OFFSITE YYC NOT The Pioneer. You can get directions to OFFSITE on the event pages.
We’ll see you there! 👇
🔥 January 22nd
Topic - Hot Takes for 2026 Canadian Tech
Our first event of 2026 will be filled with unfiltered takes and predictions for the tech industry this year. We'll chat about AI, humanoid robots, workplace culture, and other hot topics.
Speakers:
Kelly Schmitt, CEO at Headversity
Mark Le Dain, Chief Revenue Officer at Fuelled
Graeme Harrison, CEO and Managing Director at Augur VC
Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday
🧩 January 29th
Topic - From Service to Scale: Turning Real Problems into Productized Solutions
Co-Hosts - The DMZ and TDIP
We're thrilled to be co-hosting this panel with our good friends, the DMZ and TDIP, who're flying in from Toronto for this event! They've brought together three incredible founders that have gone through their program. The conversation will be around taking a service, and bringing it to scale through productized solutions.
Speakers:
Kelsey Hahn, CEO and Co-Founder at Monark
Addy Graves, CEO and Co-Founder at Cashew
Lourdes Juan, CEO and Co-Founder at Knead
Moderated by: Justine Clark, Strategic Partnerships Lead at DMZ
🎙️ Tech Thursday’s First Podcast Partnership!
Tech Thursday is proud to announce a partnership with “Your Business is on the Line”, a business-comedy podcast hosted by Shubh Sidhu with super special guest co-host Philippe Burns.
Take a sneak peek below!
You can find the podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Podcasts and check out the first three episodes below!
A big thank you to all of our sponsors for making these events a possibility including Boast, Skip, Neo Financial, Alberta Innovates, Motiv, Crestview Strategy, and OFFSITE YYC.
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I hear this podcast is amazing
Love finding you hear, Philippe!
Do you cover Winnipeg as well?
Happy New Year!