2026 WSEDS Conference

Canada is building companies worth buying from, backing, and joining. On November 2, they open the floor. Most people see Canadian innovation as a headline. A raise. An exit. A list. Co-hosted with the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus Ecosystem team, more than 35 startups on one floor, with accelerators, founder programs and investors that back them. Startups from U of T, AI ventures from the Vector Institute, and from the TechTO community, all in one room. Come to buy. Come to back. Come to join. 🤝 B2B buyers: find the tools built here before your competitors do 💰 Investors: meet founders who are raising now, booth by booth At 7 pm, Together Toronto takes the stage with the people who built some of Canada's biggest company stories. Startup Showcase & Ecosystem Tours Ecosystem tours start every 45 minutes from 4:15PM. See where Toronto's next startups start: UTE: U of T's entrepreneurship network across all three campuses ONRamp: UTE's co-working space for founders Centre for Entrepreneurship: funding and mentorship for students, faculty and alumni UTEST: U of T's incubator for deep tech and research startups Black Founders Network: access, funding and community for Black founders at every stage Vector Institute: one of Canada's top AI research institutes Innovations & Partnerships Office: formalizing partnerships with U of T researchers and technologies See who else is exhibiting here! Speakers Sam Pillar, Co-founder & CEO, Jobber Started Jobber in Edmonton in 2011 and grew it past 100,000 home and commercial service businesses. If you sell software to small businesses, this is the playbook. Andrew Lockhead, Co-founder & CEO, Stay22 Built Stay22 in Montreal into a platform that moved over $1B in travel bookings in 2025, then raised $122M from Summit Partners. A Canadian company winning the creator economy. Noah Buchman, Co-founder, President & CRO, Propel Holdings Took Propel from a 2011 startup to the TSX, with lending brands across Canada, the US and the UK.

On October 22, Anthopic and Theorem published LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale. This represents the first large-scale effort to use AI to apply formal verification to production software at the assembly code level. Giles Edkins, software engineer at Epoch AI, will talk about what this result mean, and what it implies about software that we rely on today. Doors open at 6:00 PM and the talk starts at 6:45 PM. Come early to grab a seat and say hi! Because of building security, someone from our team has to let each guest in, and once the talk begins we often can’t be at the door. If you’re running late, text 416-998-7465 and we’ll do our best to come down, but we can’t promise entry after 6:45 PM.

This is a meetup for AI game devs who are actively using AI tools and agentic workflows to build video games. It will be a cross between a meetup and a demo event (food and drink will be provided). The event can provide a stage to present your game, share your experiences building agents for game dev/design, or share the role(s) agents play in what you're building. If you're looking to advance the game development and design abilities of agents beyond what's currently on the market, this will be a place to learn a new tool, connect with others who have similar skills, and possibly create new opportunities. You should come if you're... Terminally online on Reddit, GitHub, and Discord, learning what the newest discovered AI game-dev workflow is this week. Making games (or at least prototypes) with agents doing real work in the loop. Terms like MCP, agent harness, skills, subagents, worktrees, context windows, compaction, tool calls, evals, and Opus 5.5 sound like normal conversation. This event is not for those... Not building or coding game projects with creative AI tools. Interested in business networking. Give us a quick description of your game or project and a list of what tools you're using when you register! Who's hosting this? We’re Robert, Maeesha, and Peter, the co-founders of Chatforce. We’ve been working with AI agent technology since early 2024, and we’ve hosted events like this before. You can find those on the Futurework calendar. We’re hosting this meetup because we’d love to meet other people building games with AI, compare what’s working, and have the kinds of conversations that are better in person. We're excited to meet you!