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2026-03-02

Builder Sundays at Shopify Proved Canada Is Accelerating

Getting in a room with 70+ driven developers at Shopify proved that Canada's tech scene is accelerating at real velocity.

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2026-02-28

A 2-Hour Cursor Deep Dive Changed How I Think About Education

For the 9th instalment of Cursor Meetup in Canada's Capital, I transformed the format from surface level AI exploration into automation mechanics.

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2026-02-20

We're Starting a Hacker House in Toronto

If anyone is interested, we should definitely connect and chat more about it.

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2026-02-17

Four Cities, Thirty Days, Zero Deceleration

Toronto. Montreal. Waterloo. Now Vancouver. Scouting Canadian tech corridors at maximum velocity.

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2026-02-07

Representing Vercel at Microsoft Canada HQ

Delivered a hands-on workshop about maintaining design consistency across long running projects while shipping new features.

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2026-02-04

Mapping Builder Density in Waterloo

We drove to Waterloo to map the builder density. The technical output there exceeds every benchmark.

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2026-02-01

We Brought Clay to Ottawa

We set out to surface real GTM learnings and represent a data enrichment company that actually delivers.

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2026-01-31

The Highest Density Engineering Talent in the Capital

We built velocity in a location that had none. We deployed ambition in a market that waited for permission.

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2026-01-25

Two Hackathon Trophies from a 3-Hour Sprint

I wanted to bridge the gap between cool aesthetics and base utility. The result was a CRM/Lead Tracker on steroids.

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2026-01-23

Rekindling Hackathon Culture, One Week at a Time

Multiple hackathons, hundreds of builders. We've reignited that high intensity, collaborative spirit that powers Silicon Valley's technical culture.

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2026-01-22

Sponsorships Accelerate More Than Events

Sponsorships unlock ecosystems. The learnings from partnerships transform into mergers and acquisitions later on.

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2026-01-21

A Wild Ride at the Hacker House

Definitely check out this hackathon focusing on using various capabilities of Web Search agents and Terminal tools.

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2026-01-21

10pm to 3am at uOttaHack: Building Strategic Connections

We operated as guest attendees, jumping in to support wherever we could. Some very cracked talent in the room.

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2026-01-18

Cursor Community Momentum Is Building Fast

Our latest meetup shifted past theory into daily LLM automation, focusing on transforming email and message tone without stripping context.

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2026-01-12

Looking for 30 Cracked Developers

The goal is to collapse months of individual experimentation into a single evening.

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2026-01-11

First Hackathon Complete: Memory Transforms LLM Systems

Memory transforms LLM assisted systems. That's why we partnered with Backboard.io for our inaugural hacker house hackathon.

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2025-12-18

Founders Don't Need Another Meetup. They Need a Sales Debugger.

We locked 20+ technical founders in a room for live teardowns of cold outreach and 20-minute demos hardwired to their ICP.

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2025-12-14

Organizing a Hackathon for a $6B AI Lab

1000+ global attendees competing for prizes. ElevenLabs decided to go all out.

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2025-12-04

Six Cursor Meetups and Counting

Years of individual experimentation collapsing into a set of evenings. The edges of AI tooling get mapped fastest in a room of power users.

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2025-10-24

Two Things Every Founder Works to Solve

Where many stall is in building a reliable funnel that attracts clients and keeps every conversation aligned with client needs.

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2025-05-07

The First Vibe Hackathon in Ottawa

The first Vibe Hackathon in Ottawa has been completed. Around $2700 in credits and monetary prizes from DashQ, LangChain, Vectorize, and Perplexity.

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2025-03-18

Presenting Perplexity at AI Tinkerers Ottawa

My demo focused on the more technical use-case of Perplexity Sonar as a best coding practices and documentation assistant.

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