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Black holes, rocket launches and what Waterloo Region's biggest thinkers can teach us about ambition

Founders & Physicists brought Waterloo Region’s founders and researchers together to explore AI, black holes, space and the ambition behind big ideas.

Community and tech take centre stage at Techtoberfest 2025

Monday, October 20, 2025

Pretzels, polka and pitches! Prost to Techtoberfest 2025, where Waterloo Region’s tech community mixed…

A man in a suit and glasses standing in front of a digital screen.

How evolutionQ is Preparing the World for the Quantum Era

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

evolutionQ is tackling one of the biggest challenges in technology today, to ensure that as quantum computers…

ConeLabs moves from pilot to official vendor partner with the City of Kitchener

Friday, October 10, 2025

Less than a year after pitching at Communitech’s Fast Track Cities showcase, ConeLabs has become an official…

Canadian study explores how AI supports breast cancer patients

Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Brock University researchers, funded by the Canadian Cancer Society, are studying how AskEllyn, an AI…

Tom Olajide, founder of MissionSync, sits smiling at a conference table with his laptop open. Behind him, a large screen displays the MissionSync website with the words “Turn strategic plans into real results.”

How MissionSync helps teams close the gap between plans and results

Friday, October 03, 2025

MissionSync helps teams turn strategy into action, closing the gap between plans and results so businesses…

Skygauge Robotics drone flying over industrial site during inspection.

How intellectual property support helped Skygauge Robotics take flight

Thursday, October 02, 2025

Skygauge Robotics grew from a garage prototype to a global drone company with early IP support that secured…

Communitech CTO Kevin Tuer reflects on nearly 18 years of building Waterloo Region tech

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Communitech CTO Kevin Tuer looks back on nearly 18 years of helping build Waterloo Region’s tech ecosystem…

Emily Petroff, Director of External Relations at Perimeter Institute, Brigette Oakes, VP of Engineering at Firefly Aerospace, and David Louapre, AI Scientist at Hugging Face, at the Communitech Breakfast panel on how a physics mindset fuels bold innovation.

What a physics mindset can teach tech leaders about bold innovation

Friday, September 26, 2025

Communitech and Perimeter Institute explore how curiosity and a physics mindset help tech leaders solve…

AI is power hungry and climate tech could be the answer

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Waterloo Region startup CoeusAI is using AI to help energy companies choose optimal sites for renewable…

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