Looking ahead

💡SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT

Today we are highlighting the big names coming to Toronto to join us on stage at our upcoming November events. Let’s meet a few of them:

Get ready to hear from a true industry disruptor, Emily Hosie, Founder and CEO of REBEL.

Emily's journey offers an essential masterclass for the tech community on how to build a venture-backed business where purpose and profit coexist. Her company is a Certified B-Corporation that has scaled rapidly by proving to over 2,500 major brands and retailers that circular economy tech can create new revenue streams while diverting over 12 million pounds of waste from landfills annually.

What you’ll get from the conversation:

• Key learnings on how to use vision and deep retail expertise to build innovative platforms that fundamentally transform legacy supply chains

• New ways to unlock massive, overlooked market opportunities

Get ready to learn the ultimate playbook for founders from Michael Kravshik, Co-founder and Board Member of LumiQ.

Michael's journey is a masterclass in strategic pivots, unconventional funding, and building a highly sustainable tech company. He and his co-founder successfully pivoted LumiQ from a struggling career management platform to a leading "edutainment" podcast app that makes professional education enjoyable for thousands of accountants, a key lesson for the tech community on achieving true product-market fit.

What you’ll get from the conversation:

• PE vs Venture Capital funding (and what it means for every Founder)

• Finding Product Market Fit

• The art of the pivot

Get ready to learn how to future-proof your sales strategy from Mark Walker, CEO of Nue.io. Drawing on over 20 years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS companies, Mark is pioneering the Revenue Lifecycle Management category, helping giants like OpenAI adopt flexible pricing and omnichannel growth.

His core takeaway for the tech and sales community is that "The old way of selling is already dead"; in the age of AI, where buyers research through tools like ChatGPT before ever talking to a rep, sales teams must abandon pitching and instead become insight providers, reframing the buyer's problem to stay relevant.

What you’ll get from the conversation:

• Why every sales team and leader needs to be thinking differently

• The tools to help you win

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🗓️ UPCOMING EVENTS

• FAST APPROACHING: TechTO is in Montreal from October 20-24 - Featuring a Venture Showcase, Funding Stage, 2 Market Overviews and lots of chances to network with the Montreal tech community - SAVE YOUR SPOT

• Together Toronto: Monday, November 3 at 6:00pm — EARLY BIRDS REGISTER HERE
  Speakers Confirmed! Hear from: Joe Noss (Publicus), Joella Almeida (MedEssist), Michael Kravshik (LumiQ), and Emily Hosie (REBEL)
  

• Sales Toronto: Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00pm — REGISTER HERE
  

• Health Toronto: Wednesday, November 19 at 6:00pm (Speaker Announcements coming soon!) — REGISTER HERE
  
  
  

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📘 QUICK READS

Here’s our top picks for interesting reads this week:

• Toronto is not the next Silicon Valley — but that’s a good thing

• The two-pager this Founder used to raise over $3m

• The tech finance fusion. How to master AI

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