What The Tech?

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Arjun Puri, CEO and Co-Founder of Symbiotic AI, to discuss democratizing precision heart health, why SR&ED tax credits should be a badge of honor, and how personal tragedy sparked a mission to reduce variability in life-or-death medical decisions. 

Today, Symbiotic AI is building Revaz AI—an AI-enabled clinical decision support solution specifically focused on c...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Dion Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Possibility Neurotechnologies, to discuss brain-computer interfaces, the power of getting comfortable being uncomfortable, and how Canadian non-dilutive funding programs are enabling groundbreaking neurotechnology innovation. 

Dion's journey is unconventional. She started with lemonade stands, redesigned secondhand clothes to s...

n our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble Science, to discuss a truly revolutionary innovation: Accessing the "dark side of the moon" of human health, the small intestine. 

Sabina's journey started with free computers and straight lines. She became a mechanical engineer in the mid-90s because of a push for women to enter engineering, and because she could "...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Melvin Newman, CEO and Co-Founder of Patabid, to discuss how AI is transforming construction estimating and why innovation in this space matters more than most people realize. 

Melvin's journey is unconventional. He's a mechanical engineer who taught himself neural network development by buying textbooks on natural language processing in 2015, built an AI ...

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Dr. Ty McKinney, founder of 8 Bit Cortex, to discuss a topic that's often overlooked in the innovation economy: How burnout silently drains revenue, productivity, and innovation capacity from growing companies. 

Ty brings a unique lens grounded in neuroscience and a deep understanding of what he calls the "burnout tax,” which is the hidden costs organizati...

In our latest episode of What the Tech, we sat down with Anuj Rastogi, Managing Director at Backstretch, to discuss how AI is fundamentally reshaping product development, intellectual property creation, and staffing strategies across Canada's innovation ecosystem. 

After two decades in the digital agency world, Anuj made a complete pivot into talent acquisition and executive search. He's become a familiar face across Canad...

In the latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Mike Weider, Co-Founder and CEO of Frugal AI, the world's first AI-native application cost engineering platform. Frugal empowers developers to reduce application costs by automatically fixing inefficient code patterns that run up cloud spend—bridging the friction between finance and engineering teams while helping deliver more agile products. 

We first connecte...

In the latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Chris Ellefson, President and CTO of Ollon, a boutique agency specializing in custom software application development. Ollon works with teams to meet tight deadlines, strengthen their capacity, and rescue abandoned code, seamlessly integrating within organizations to fill skill gaps and extend in-house capabilities. 

We've been fans of Chris and his team since ...

In the latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Sophie Jiang, CEO and Co-Founder of MoVA Realities, a company on a mission to solve what Sophie calls "the hardest problem in business": turning audiences into champions who carry your story forward. We first connected with Sophie at SaaS North in Ottawa, where she took part in a pitch competition sponsored by Boast and TechTO, and absolutely wowed the cr...

In the latest episode of What the Tech from Boast we sat down with Mikayla Stewart, Co-Founder and CTO of Athena Collective, a platform and community designed to ensure that every female entrepreneur has the resources and tools they need to succeed—regardless of background or bank balance. 

Mikayla brings a unique background to this mission: she's served as a fractional COO for 12+ stealth-stage startups, turning chaotic early-...

In the latest episode of What the Tech, we sat down with Jonathan Kvarfordt, VP of GTM Strategy at Momentum.io and founder of the GTM AI Academy. With over 15 years in revenue excellence and GTM acceleration, Jonathan has developed an AI GTM data orchestration platform that's fundamentally changing how businesses capture, structure, and activate conversational data. 

For customers like Zscaler, DemandBase, Ramp, and 1Password, ...

On the latest episode of What The Tech, we welcome Bloks co-founder and CEO Marc Gingras. We first connected with Marc as part of our activation with the TechTO team at SaaS North in Ottawa back in early November, where Marc took the stage to explain the game-changing innovation behind the Bloks platform.  

At Bloks, Marc’s team is helping Venture Capital and Private Equity partners rethink their work by eliminating the tedious busy...

On the latest episode of What The Tech, we welcome a few members of the Boast team onto the show for a discussion focused specifically on driving (and funding) innovation in Quebec. 

If you’re a Quebecois business leader or techie, you may have heard that the province’s banner e-business tax credit—known colloquially as CDAE—is being revamped starting next year as the province expands the vision and support for fostering innovative ...

In the latest episode of What the Tech, we sat down with Amit Bhargava, co-founder and CEO of EnviroApps Inc., a Calgary-based company making the transportation of dangerous goods safer by developing the first proven electronic hazmat shipping paper solution in Canada. Over the past five years, Amit and his team have been on a mission to replace what they call "CRAPI" paper processes—Cumbersome, Ridiculous, Archaic, Painf...

In the latest episode of What the Tech from Boast we sat down with Bernie Florido, founder and CEO of Cocoflo Innovations, a Vancouver-based company creating technology that simplifies how governments and communities connect. CocoFlow integrates business licensing, parks and recreation, and payment processing modules into software solutions that empower municipalities to serve their citizens better because—as Bernie and his team be...

Innovation in Sustainable Materials: A Conversation with Daniel Shum of CTK Bio

Welcome to What The Tech #podcast  by Boast, where  ⁨@pauldavenport3⁩ talks with Daniel Shum, CTO of CTK Bio, about their groundbreaking work in sustainable materials made from upcycled plant waste. They discuss CTK Bio's efforts to shift manufacturing to North America to reduce carbon footprint and costs, the innovative R&D projects ...

In the latest episode of What the Tech, we sat down with Raymond Fitzpatrick, CEO and founder of Profitual, a New Brunswick-based company on a mission to democratize financial intelligence for SMEs. Ray is an experienced finance leader and former VC who saw a critical gap in the market: Startup founders determined to disrupt their industries often lack the financial expertise needed to navigate growth and make confident decisions a...

In the latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Tony Kim, a corporate investor focused on AI infrastructure, deep tech, and enterprise SaaS. Tony works at a Fortune 100 company's corporate development and venture arm, where he's engaged in everything from M&A to venture capital and LP investing.

What makes this conversation particularly timely is the perspective Tony brings: He's operating at t...

On this episode of What The Tech we welcome Aaron Konyer, Chief Technology Officer at Modular Solutions. Founded in 2015, Modular Solutions (formerly Nude Solutions) is a SaaS company on a mission to remove pain and friction from the insurance industry through software that allows Insurance Carriers, Managing General Agencies, Mutuals and Brokers to transform and modernize their business

In his role as CTO, Aaron leads the design an...