Your May Lineup is Here, Calgary!
Two of Canada's most exciting fintech stories hit the Tech Thursday stage.
May just got very exciting!
Two of Canada’s leading fintech companies, two incredible panels.
Find your Thursday below 👇
🏦 May 21st
Topic - Building Fintech in Canada w/ Wealthsimple
Co-hosted by: Wealthsimple
Building in Fintech, and doing it at scale, leaves you with a lot of lessons.
Hear directly from Wealthsimple’s engineering and product leaders about the decisions behind some of Canada’s most-used financial tools: what they launched, what they learned, and what they’d do differently.
Featuring:
Channing Allen, Senior Engineering Manager at Wealthsimple & Co-Founder at Plenty
Jocelyn Jeffrey, Director of Engineering at Wealthsimple
Sam Newman-Bremang, Sr. Director of Product at Wealthsimple
Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday
💰 May 28th
Topic - Nic Beique: The Builder CEO
Co-hosted by: Helcim
What does it really mean to be a builder? Helcim’s Founder and CEO, Nic Beique, shares what he’s been working on firsthand, from early ideas to real code.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Nic explores “0 to 1” opportunities: the experiments, the trade-offs, and the ideas that don’t sit on a traditional roadmap.
Featuring:
Nic Beique, Founder & CEO at Helcim
Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday
Brought to you by:
Boast - The R&D Tax Credit Platform Built Different
✓ $625M+ secured for clients
✓ 1,700+ companies served
✓ Hundreds of hours saved
✓ 100% audit defense
Boast combines AI automation with specialized tax expertise to maximize your innovation capital. Get started at boast.ai
🫶 News from our Friends
DMZ - Applications are now open for American Express Canada's Backing Canadian Small Businesses, a grant program aimed at empowering locally significant small businesses to grow and drive community impact. 100 Canadian small businesses will be selected to each receive a $10,000 CAD grant and mentoring support from DMZ, including small group sessions and one-on-one meetings with experienced program mentors. Apply by May 19 here.
