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AI adoption is moving from individual experimentation to organizational capability.

Most organizations have started using AI in some form.

The bigger challenge is figuring out how to embed it across teams, workflows, and decision making in a way that actually improves how the organization operates.

How do you help teams adopt AI with confidence?
How do you redesign workflows around new capabilities?

At the next Tech Talent Tuesdays, we're bringing together two Calgary technology leaders approaching this challenge from different perspectives: the technology enabling AI-powered operations and the leadership required to make adoption successful.

What we'll explore:
🔹 Designing workflows where people and AI work together
🔹 Building a culture that supports responsible AI adoption
🔹 Lessons from organizations implementing AI in the real world

You'll hear from:
🔹 Clark Lai, CEO, Motiv.
Clark will introduce Opal, Motiv's newly launched enterprise agentic operations platform. He'll demonstrate how organizations can coordinate human teams and AI agents within shared workflows to improve ex*****on, scale operations, and maintain enterprise governance.

🔹 Steven Pilz, CEO, Alethea Medical
Steven has led technology transformation across multiple industries and now leads Alethea, a healthcare technology company focused on improving access to specialist care. He'll share what it takes to create an environment where AI adoption succeeds, including leadership, change management, and the organizational practices that help teams embrace AI with confidence.

Whether you're a founder, executive, manager, or professional thinking about how AI will reshape your organization, you'll leave with practical ideas for moving from experimentation toward meaningful organizational capability.
📍 Platform Calgary
🕓 Tuesday, August 18 | 4:30–7:00 p.m.
🎟 Register today: https://hubs.ly/Q04sPcFn0

Tech Talent Tuesdays is presented in partnership with Platform Calgary, Calgary Economic Development, and Careers In Technology and Innovation (CITI), with support through Alberta's Labour Market Partnership program.

From Small Business to Scalable Startup: Sarah Elder’s Platform Pre-Accelerator Reflection

What does it practically take to realize your start-up’s full potential?

In this short clip, Platform Calgary's pre-Accelerator Cohort 1 founder Sarah Elder breaks down her biggest takeaways from the program. Like many early-stage entrepreneurs, Sarah initially approached her idea as a small local initiative. But through continuous validation, feedback, and hands-on work, the program pushed her to see a bigger opportunity, shifting her strategy toward building a truly scalable, fundable start-up.

Find the video here - https://hubs.ly/Q04sFxyh0

What Sarah learned in 8 weeks:

- Unlocking Founder Confidence: How early validation helped her believe in the true opportunity of scaling of her offer.
- The Strategic Shift: building an ex*****on-focused, high-growth model.
- Unexpected Pivots: Why diving back into product development provided the breakthrough insights her business needed.
- Real Work, Real Momentum: Leaving the program with actionable output to build on, long after graduation.

Ready to scale your start-up?

Platform Calgary’s Pre-Accelerator offers the dedicated focus, peer accountability, and tactical coaching that early-stage founders need to shift from juggling to scaling.

Learn more and apply for the fall cohort - https://hubs.ly/Q04sFtVX0

This week, Tech Talent Tuesdays hosted Process to Action: Mastering AI, featuring Hamid Baghi Co-Founder and CTO at Aimsio, and Matthew Mann, Lead Machine Learning Engineer at AbaData.

The session focused on a challenge many organizations are beginning to face: AI can dramatically increase how much work gets produced, but that does not automatically mean better outcomes. Matthew shared how iterative AI workflows can evaluate results, learn from evidence, and continuously improve.
Hamid showed how agentic coding increased his team’s development output so quickly that code review became the new bottleneck, forcing Aimsio to rethink how work is verified.

A few reflections from the evening:
🤖 AI should not just generate work. It should help evaluate it.
📈 Faster output only creates value when verification can scale with it. Otherwise, the bottleneck simply moves downstream.
🧠 Organizational judgment is an asset. Past decisions, feedback, standards, and institutional knowledge can help AI understand what good looks like in a specific business.
🎯 The goal is not to remove people from the process. It is to focus their attention where judgment matters most.

The biggest takeaway was that successful AI implementation is less about using the newest tools and more about designing better systems around them.
A huge thank you to Hamid and Matthew for sharing practical examples, and to everyone who joined us and contributed thoughtful questions.

Next up: Building an AI-Enabled Organization On August 18, Clark Lai, CEO of Motiv, and Steven Pilz , CEO of Alethea, will explore how organizations can make AI adoption successful.

Register at: https://hubs.ly/Q04s84mb0
📍 Platform Calgary Innovation Centre
🗓️ Tuesday, August 18 | 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Tech Talent Tuesdays is presented in partnership with Platform Calgary, Calgary Economic Development, and Careers In Technology and Innovation. This series is generously supported through Alberta’s Labour Market Partnership program.

Community Connect: End-of-Summer Founder BBQ

In partnership with CENGN, join us for this special BBQ edition of Community Connect, where the real value lies in the shared knowledge of our ecosystem.

By attending, you’ll gain unique insights as local founders pull back the curtain on their latest projects, sharing the wins and lessons that are shaping Calgary’s tech scene. It’s an invaluable opportunity to learn directly from those in the trenches, exchange high-impact ideas with peers, and discover how you can contribute to and grow within our thriving community.

Community Connect is a space where builders, founders, start-up coaches, and community partners come together to share insights, celebrate wins, and support each other’s goals.

Step away from your desk, grab a plate, and join the conversations.

👉 Reserve yours today and let's kick off the fall season together! - https://hubs.ly/Q04s2T9-0

How did Platform Pre-Accelerator help Doc247 founder Sham Pathak?

Founders naturally juggle a million priorities at once. Through hands-on workshops in the Platform Pre-Accelerator, Sham used frameworks to pinpoint his exact next growth milestones—from validating his customer profiles to building a clear, step-by-step ex*****on plan to accelerate sales and operations.

💡 What Sham gained from the Platform Pre-Accelerator:

- Strategic Prioritization: Identifying exact high-impact focus areas—whether it’s ICP alignment, sales strategy, or fundraising readiness.
- Streamlined Ex*****on: Moving from parallel task-juggling to executing a structured, step-by-step roadmap.
- Measurable Momentum: Turning founder drive and vision into tangible, completed outcomes for Doc247.
Find here - https://hubs.ly/Q04s10-d0

Ready to channel your vision into structured growth?

The Platform Pre-Accelerator helps ambitious founders bring structure to their ambition, sharpen their strategy, and execute with clarity.

👉 Learn more and apply for the next cohort: https://hubs.ly/Q04s18gq0

What happens when you mix Calgary’s booming tech ecosystem with Stampede season?
Unmatched energy, boots, hats, and incredible connections. 🤠

Over 1,000 founders, investors, builders, and ecosystem leaders traded their usual pitch decks for cowboy boots and came together for the ultimate Tech Stampede networking event. From high-powered conversations to the vibrant community spirit, this year’s gathering proved once again why Calgary is one of the most exciting tech hubs in North America.

Check out the full recap above to catch the best moments, key takeaways, and the incredible energy that made this event unforgettable.

Click here to view - https://hubs.ly/Q04r-b2X0

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Only 20 days remain until applications close for the Fall Platform Pre-Accelerator!
Does your start-up fit this profile?

The Ideal Founder Profile for this cohort:

✅ Building a Calgary-based tech company with proprietary software or hardware, solving a real problem, with revenue coming from that technology itself
✅ Product live in market, past the idea or prototype stage
✅ Actively selling, with real evidence behind it — revenue, pilots, signed LOIs, or contracts
✅ Able to commit to all 13 in-person workshops, coaching twice a week, and two pitch practice sessions, during business hours
✅ Ready to act on direct feedback and run weekly growth experiments alongside the cohort!
If this is you, applications close August 23.

Apply now → https://hubs.ly/Q04rVLDP0