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Attendees at Saas Monster stage during day two of Collision 2023 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada

A candid founder panel on choosing where to build: Why some startups are doubling down on Canada, why others leave, and how location shapes growth. Hosted by Vancouver's Startup Hub, North House!

North House: Why build in Canada now? [Hosted by League of Innovators]

Creators have more tools and power than ever, yet long-term success is hard earned. Michael Tchao and Eric Wittman explore what’s missing from the creative ecosystem. Grounded in real creator experience and practical insight, they unpack the challenges behind creative work and discuss how platforms can become true champions of creators.


Rethinking platforms for the creator era

Join other first time founders at Web Summit 👋! Meet, share insights, and expand your network. Join us!

☝️ First time founders meetup

As businesses transition to the agentic enterprise, trust is becoming the most critical form of engineering. Join this session to explore how embedding ethical guardrails directly into the technology stack turns governance from a compliance checklist into a driver of performance.

The trust dividend: Why ethics is a competitive advantage

Over the past year, the dominant AI conversation centered on the advancements of large language models. But a parallel shift is unfolding in generative visual models with its own distinct set of challenges. Text is rich in semantics but capped there. Pixels carry far more raw information, but extracting useful signals at scale is far less straightforward. 
In this fireside, Tim Dockhorn will unpack what it actually takes to train and deploy frontier multimodal systems in 2026. He’ll discuss how Blackwell-class hardware is reshaping model architecture and scaling decisions; why image generation remains far from a solved problem; and how visual pre-training is evolving into a foundation for more advanced capabilities, from video understanding to robotics and world models.

What it actually takes to train frontier models

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North House: Why build in Canada now? [Hosted by Lea...

Rethinking platforms for the creator era

☝️ First time founders meetup

The trust dividend: Why ethics is a competitive adva...

What it actually takes to train frontier models

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