How Wattpad CEO Allen Lau Used Diversity and AI to Redefine Which Stories Get Told
In 2011, 24-year old Anna Todd began typing One Direction fanfiction on an iPhone in a supermarket checkout line. Without proofreading, she posted it a chapter at a time on Wattpad, a Toronto-based story sharing platform. Three years later, her finished novel, After, received a six figure book deal from Simon and Schuster. By 2019, […]
Stathletes Co-founder Meghan Chayka is Changing the Game
Meghan Chayka has long been a champion of harnessing the power of data. While movies like Moneyball may have glamourized the application of analytics in sports, Chayka was already ahead of the game when she co-founded Stathletes in 2010 with her business partner Neil Lane. The entrepreneur shares how she built her company, the power […]
How BlueDot Founder Dr. Kamran Khan Used Artificial Intelligence to Detect COVID-19
At the end of 2019 (a mere matter of months ago, as of this writing), life was dramatically different. As the world collectively celebrated the start of a new decade with optimism and hope, no one could have predicted what would come next: a procession of one calamity after another left in the wake of […]
Swiss Chalet announces Canadians can use Google Assistant to re-order their favourite meals
“Hey Google, order Swiss Chalet.” Written By Jordana Colomby Say goodbye to tap payments and credit card swipes, because Swiss Chalet Rotisserie & Grill just blasted the food service industry even further into the future. That’s right, the Google Assistant app can now reorder your favourite meal on your behalf from one of Swiss Chalet’s 200+ […]
