May just got very exciting!
Two of Canada’s leading fintech companies, two incredible panels.
Find your Thursday below 👇
🏦 May 21st
Topic - Building Fintech in Canada w/ Wealthsimple
Co-hosted by: Wealthsimple
Building in Fintech, and doing it at scale, leaves you with a lot of lessons.
Hear directly from Wealthsimple’s engineering and product leaders about the decisions behind some of Canada’s most-used financial tools: what they launched, what they learned, and what they’d do differently.
Featuring:
Channing Allen, Senior Engineering Manager at Wealthsimple & Co-Founder at Plenty
Jocelyn Jeffrey, Director of Engineering at Wealthsimple
Sam Newman-Bremang, Sr. Director of Product at Wealthsimple
Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday
💰 May 28th
Topic - Nic Beique: The Builder CEO
Co-hosted by: Helcim
What does it really mean to be a builder? Helcim’s Founder and CEO, Nic Beique, shares what he’s been working on firsthand, from early ideas to real code.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Nic explores “0 to 1” opportunities: the experiments, the trade-offs, and the ideas that don’t sit on a traditional roadmap.
Featuring:
Nic Beique, Founder & CEO at Helcim
Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday
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