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What an end of the day and kick off to the evening portion, the Vancity Innovation House Rooftop VIP Happy Hour event was a great way to bring everyone together for drinks and conversation. Thanks to our co-hosts Vistera and @Vancity

Congrats to Insporos for taking home $20,000 at our Vancity Innovation House startup pitch competition🏆 They’re building seed intelligence, AgTech meets AI and honestly, the room felt it. One of those pitches where you just know. Huge thank you the judges & the other finalists

Yesterday's panel by @Vancity/@FrontierBC on "The AI Question: What do we actually want from it and who gets to decide?" -- moderated by Gurpreet Jhaj, with @GaryMarcus, @MadisonMills22 (@axios), and @arunbahl (@AloeInc) -- cut right to the heart of the question of how humans will exert or hand over our agency in this technological transition. Closing remark couldn't have put a finer point on it: Gurpreet: "What is one thing you want the founders and investors in this room to do differently when it comes to AI starting today?" Arun: "You still have a lot of choice. The other machine that directs our behavior is the economy. Yet humans can exercise their decision making, and build things in line with their own values. So do that."

10 frontier tech startups. One stage. $20,000 on the line. May 12th. Vancity Innovation House. During Web Summit week. The companies pitching aren’t just building products — they’re solving problems that actually matter. thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova…

One week. Almost sold out. Vancity Innovation House. May 12th. Vancouver. 🆕 Gary Marcus just joined the lineup, one of the world’s most honest voices on AI. He joins Microsoft, Khosla, A16Z, General Fusion, TED, Slack, and many more on stage. thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova…

A look back at our SXSW Frontiers of Innovation VIP dinner in Austin

Vancity Innovation House is back. May 12th. Vancouver. One day. The most curated room of Web Summit week. $20,000 Pitch Competition for Canadian startups — applications close tomorrow at noon. thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova… See you there.

It’s back!! Vancity Innovation House. May 12th. Web Summit week. 2,700+ attendees last year called it the standout event of the week. This year we’re going bigger. Sign up: thefrontiercollective.com/vancity-innova…

Some rooms you don’t forget. This was one of them. The Frontier Summit after movie is live. Go watch it.

What an absolutely inspiring time #TED2026! ❤️

It was great to speak at SXSW this week with Kasley Killam (The Art and Science of Connection), Lambert Hogenhout (UN), and Tobias Peyerl (OpenAI). AI is accelerating fast, but the real pressure is on the human layer.

Letssss gooooo 🇨🇦 #SXSW2026 vantechjournal.com/p/bc-innovator…

We’re back at @sxsw 2026. Frontiers of Innovation Day returns to Austin, convening global leaders across AI, climate, mobility, robotics and wellness grounded in a human lens. March 14. Canada House at Central District Brewing. #SXSW2026 RSVP: lnkd.in/gbYT2Vqm

Huge congrats to AI Autonomous leaders Wayve on their $1.2B raise at an $8.6B valuation. Visited their London HQ last year and rode through Shoreditch with their AI driving the car. Watching it interpret the world in real time felt like the future. nytimes.com/2026/02/24/tec…

Our CEO @dburgar speaking at this year’s @sxsw

As the Milan Winter Olympics kick off, cheering on past Frontier Summit speaker Jenn Heil 🇨🇦 Olympic champion, Chef de Mission for Team Canada, Stanford alum, and founder of RevvEL—an AI-powered personal health assistant for women.

The old economic playbook is broken. In an IP economy, regions win by building from within. Break the flywheel and you lose companies like Slack, founded in Vancouver, sold for $27.7B & the billions that follow. Adapt fast or hollow out ⬇️@VancouverSun vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/…

General Fusion is going public! Today, we are announcing our definitive business combination agreement with Spring Valley Acquisition Corp. III (NASDAQ: SVAC). Spring Valley has a strong track record, and its leadership has a history of making smart investments that bring first-of-a-kind technologies to market. This new chapter will support our path to reach key milestones with Lawson Machine 26 and continue our more than 20-year track record of advancing fusion technology. We’re grateful to our team, partners, and long‑standing supporters who have helped make this moment possible. We’re excited for the next steps in our journey. Read the full press release here: generalfusion.com/post/general-f…

WOW!!! Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South: "We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

Third spaces are infrastructure. Without intention, ecosystems don’t compound. Here’s a post I wrote about this: linkedin.com/posts/danburga…