As artificial intelligence reshapes jobs and the skills employers value, many Canadians are struggling to see where they fit in the changing labour market. A national survey commissioned by PathPilot found that 64 per cent of Canadians believe young people will have the skills to compete for Ottawa’s promised AI-related opportunities. Yet only 44 per […]
Interviews
How Borderless AI’s CTO Uses AI to Generate Millions With a Tiny Team
Borderless AI is generating millions in revenue with an engineering team far smaller than what would traditionally be required to build and operate a global employment platform. CTO Derrick Isaacson says AI is a big reason why. As Chief Technology Officer at Borderless AI, Isaacson leads the technology and engineering organization behind a platform spanning […]
Shift CEO Neil Henderson on Building a Human-First Browser for the AI Era
As browsers race to embed artificial intelligence into nearly every corner of the online experience, Canadian-born Shift is taking a more measured approach. Founded in 2016 as an alternative to the tab-heavy traditional browser, Shift was built to help users organize work, personal accounts and other areas of their digital lives into separate spaces. Now, […]
Behind the Payroll: Borderless AI’s Umesh Maini on Real-Time Payments and Crypto-Native Payroll
As companies become more comfortable hiring beyond their home markets, the challenge is shifting from finding global talent to building the financial infrastructure needed to support it. For Employer of Record platforms, that means ensuring workers are paid quickly, reliably, and compliantly—regardless of borders, currencies, or local banking systems. Umesh Maini, Chief Product Leader at […]
Forget the Resume: Stan Hires People Based on What They Can Build
For many technology companies, hiring still begins with a familiar stack of signals: education, previous employers, years of experience, and a carefully polished resume. Vitalii Dodonov believes those signals often obscure the thing that matters most—what someone can actually build. As a self-taught coder and co-founder of creator platform Stan, Dodonov has helped shape a […]
Microsoft Canada’s Deidre Lipton on Why AI Success Starts With Work Redesign
The AI conversation inside Canadian workplaces is changing. For the past two years, much of the focus has been on whether employees are ready to use artificial intelligence at work. Increasingly, that may no longer be the real question. According to Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, many Canadian workers are already experimenting with AI tools […]
Toronto Tech Week: Building Connections That Turn Into Careers
Toronto’s tech ecosystem has no shortage of talent, capital, or ambition. What it has historically lacked, however, is a single, unifying moment where those elements come together in a way that is open, accessible, and community-driven. That gap is exactly what Mell Truong and Julia Baird Konefal set out to address with Toronto Tech Week. […]
Tech Companies Are Shifting to Global Talent Pools To Fill Role Requirements
The current state of hiring is at a crossroads. Layoffs across Canada and the United States are hitting a wide range of industries amid geopolitical turmoil and economic uncertainty. However, you’d be surprised how many companies are still hiring – they are just looking somewhere else to do it. Major companies, like Netflix, Google, Thales, […]
Sandvik on Attracting the Next Generation of Mining Talent
Canada’s mining sector is at a pivotal moment. As an aging workforce approaches retirement and fewer young people see mining as a modern, technology-driven career, the industry faces a growing talent gap—one that could shape its future competitiveness, sustainability, and capacity for innovation. At the same time, mining is undergoing a profound transformation, driven […]
How AI is Transforming Tech Sales: Punchcard Co-Founder Sam Jenkins on the Future of Business Development
As artificial intelligence reshapes every corner of the tech industry, one of the most impacted areas is sales and business development. Punchcard Systems, one of Canada’s fastest-growing digital innovation consultancies, has been at the forefront of this shift. With over 150 client partnerships across sectors like oil and gas, financial services, and manufacturing, the company […]