I remember precisely what I was doing and where I was on March 13, 2020: a long weekend skiing in Baie-St-Paul with a friend. I had taken the day off on Monday the 16th, but of course, my schedule quickly filled up with meetings to manage the unmanageable: orchestrating the partial closure of the Notman
To get the tech community together, have fun and raise money to fight poverty and social exclusion with Centraide of Greater Montreal, Techaide is planning to organize different sports events in 2022. Thank you for participating in the Sports Survey! We analyzed your answers and are now unveiling the results for next year's sports events:
Who is Marie-Eve Boisvert? I joined Behaviour in 2018 as Vice President, Communications. Here, I lead the company's internal and external communications initiatives, including branding and positioning, public relations, industry relations, donations and sponsorships, and community outreach programs. How you got involved with TechAide? I have always had a desire to make a positive social
It’s amazing that life is slowly returning back to normal. You can almost feel the joy in the air with summer in Montreal fast approaching. People will finally be able to see their friends and family again. Most of us are in the fortunate situation of being able to go back to worrying about more
“It’s inspiring to see the dedication of so many of our fellow citizens” Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer at Dialogue, the leading telehealth company in Canada, Anna Chif shares with us today the highlights of her career and what motivated her to become a TechAide Leader. What is in your personal journey inspired you to
During our May TechAide Café, Éléonore Jarry-Ferron and Alexandre Cabrejo-Jones, from Brightspark, and Nectarios Economakis, Partner at The PNR and TechAide Ambassador, talked about how a VC builds a financial product like a startup. Prior to joining Brightspark, Éléonore worked in Assurance & Advisory at Ernst & Young LLP, focusing on alternative investment funds and
As a parent of two neuroatypical children, I have benefited from the support of several community organizations over the past few years. Fortunately, my career in the startup industry gives me the means and the flexibility to accompany my children as best as I can. But not everyone is so lucky. I quickly realized that
Meet Jérôme Paradis, Co-founder and CTO of Jet Rebellion, the first online platform that automates the operations of private jet brokers and operators. Jérôme is a Montreal-based entrepreneur and technology solution provider who previously co-founded the startup Buyosphere. Jérôme shares with us the highlights of his career path and what motivated him to become a
During a tasty TechAide Café hosted by Shibl Mourad from Google DeepMind, Yoshua Bengio talked about the Role of Machine Learning to Understand Consciousness. Yoshua is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning. Since 1993, Yoshua has been a professor in the Department of Computer
Today we meet Simon Lacoste-Julien, co-founder of MILA, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, associate professor at the University of Montreal and Vice President Lab Director of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Montreal. Simon shares with us the journey that led him to become one of the world's leading references in machine learning