Welcome to Canadian Tech at Scale 2025! We welcome aspiring to experienced engineering or data leaders from Canada and abroad to learn from each other's successes and failures from scaling their companies. Check-out the 2022 videos to watch the AMA and panel discussions here.  

Given the monumental changes in tech that are being driven by AI, this year's conference will focus on product development, scaling engineering through an AI lens, and other tech trends we've seen emerge in the past year and that are highly relevant to engineering and data leaders.

Our goal is for each attendee to leave the conference with relevant knowledge, tangible examples and new relationships that will help them navigate and succeed through this sea of change and opportunity. Speakers will include startup to large tech engineering & AI leaders that are defining the next generation of platforms & products. 

We will be in person at Shopify HQ Toronto (near King & Spadina) on Thursday, October 16th. With so much happening in Canadian tech, you’ll be sure to meet many new (and old) faces from Canadian and global tech leaders. The lu.ma Event Platform is being used for registration, conference updates, and schedule details.

​​Given tickets are complimentary this year, we expect that demand will increase, so we encourage you to register early to secure your spot. We would appreciate only registering if you plan to attend and are an engineering, ML or security leader.

Apply now for an invite to the 2025 edition.

Attended a previous event? Check your inbox for an invite, or email us at info@canadiantechatscale.com

​When:
- Registration (incl. breakfast): 9am-9:45am ET
- Event: 9:45am - 4:30pm ET
- Networking cocktail: 4:30pm-6:30pm ET
​Where: Shopify HQ Toronto, 620 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1M7
​Tickets: Complimentary thanks to Shopify.
Content: The event will be a combination of AMAs, panels and interactive roundtable group discussions. 

Agenda 
9:45am - Event Kickoff
10:00am - Panel Discussion - How Shopify uses AI internally
11:00am - Fireside chat with Diederik van Liere, CTO at WealthSimple and Kris Hansen, CTO at Sagard
11:45am - Lunch & Networking
12:45am - Lightning Talk from Ryan Fox, CTO at Super.com on enabling & supporting non-engineers to build with AI
1:00pm - Lightning Talk from Andrew Ling, VP Eng at Groq on Optimizing Cost, Latency and Throughput of LLM Applications
1:15pm - Panel Discussion - Engineering leadership in 2025: Fine-tuning the model
2:00pm - Roundtables group discussion (see topics below)
3:40m - Closing Talk with Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira, MTS at OpenAI and Kory Jeffrey, Principal & VP Technology at Inovia Capital
4:30pm - Mixer/Networking

Roundtables topics
Optimizing Cost, Latency and Throughput of LLM Applications

Enabling and supporting non-engineers to build with AI

Improving Developer Productivity with AI: From code completion to agentic engineering

Leadership Development - How to most effectively grow the next generation

Recruiting in the age of AI: new roles/levels, new tools & process changes

Developer Intelligence - Measuring Developer Productivity: Tools & Techniques

How to best work with product

​This year's event is co-organized by Bruce Dorland (Managing Director, gdR), Djoume Salvetti (Co-Founder, fata.dev & fata school), Ania Halliop (Sr Director of Engineering, GitHub), and Mercy Orangi (Software Engineer, Criteo). 

We are happy to continue our partnership with the Inovia Capital team for the 2024 edition! We're excited to have Steve Woods, Kory Jeffrey, Isabelle Audette, Shyam Sheth and Alessandra Delli Colli on board, bringing fresh ideas and influential leaders to the event.

We hope you enjoy the event!