Traduire la science du climat en actions locales équitables et viables

Product+ Montreal is back - and we're kicking off the new season at Vention HQ. Shipping Physical AI: PM Lessons from the Factory Floor Most product playbooks assume you can ship on Friday and roll back on Monday. That assumption falls apart the moment your product has a motor attached to it. This session is about what product management actually looks like when the thing you're shipping moves, lifts, and occasionally drops something. Topics covered: Roadmaps when everything is coupled to everything The gap between "works in UAT" and "works on the floor" Robot demo videos vs. reality How to plan for AI capability you can't yet describe 👀 Speakers Brendan Sterne is Chief Product Officer at Vention where he oversees the development of Vention's end-to-end plug-and-play software and hardware platform for designing, programming and operating industrial automation and robotic systems. Prior to Vention, Brendan was Chief Product Officer at Xometry and its subsidiary ThomasNet, which leveraged AI and digital technologies to radically simplify the process for quoting and buying custom manufactured parts, and finding industrial suppliers. Before working in the manufacturing sector, Brendan spent nearly a decade at Indeed.com, the world's #1 job site, with more than 250 million unique visitors per month. Audrey Muchembled is Product Manager for software and firmware programming solutions at Vention, working on the industrial controller at the heart of every Vention automated machine. With a master's in electrical engineering, she started her career in firmware development, then moved into software development and team leadership. Two years ago she made the move to Product, continuing to build what she is passionate about from a different angle. She has been at Vention for seven years, helping scale the company from 40 people to past 350. Clémentine Ruet Suquet, MSc., is Vention's Senior Product Marketing Manager for Physical AI, End-of-Line, and Conveyors, driving innovation

GenAI Montréal @ Mirego Local AI Changes Everything GenAI Montréal is back at Mirego. \\\ \#\# Evening Schedule — Sept 8 Mirego — 18:00 PM Doors Open \#\#\# 6:00 PM — Arrival & Networking Meet members from GenAI Montréal \#\#\# ️ 6:30 PM — Welcome Introduction to GenAI Montréal Spotlight on next /dev/mtl Conference Overview of the evening \#\#\# 6:45 PM — Talks Begin \\\ \#\# Speaker \#1 Jean-François René Founder, Squid-OS \#\#\# Bio Jean-François René began coding at seven on an Apple IIe and has spent the last three decades as a builder, founder, and technology leader. Over ten years as CTO at ScalePad, he helped grow the company from its early days to more than 300 people, establishing the product, platform, and engineering foundations behind its growth. A longtime open-source enthusiast, he is now returning to building from the ground up with Squid-OS, an open-source, local-first AI harness and agent runtime, while exploring how local AI is reshaping the way we interact with computers and build software. \#\#\# Talk A Journey to Local AI Abstract Running a capable AI model locally used to mean major compromises. That is changing quickly. In this talk, Jean-François René shares his hands-on journey into local AI: experimenting with open-weight models, pushing consumer hardware to its limits, navigating quantization, context windows, inference engines and tool calling—and discovering that the most interesting question isn't whether a local model can compete with the cloud. It's what becomes possible when the AI actually lives on your computer. The journey eventually led to Squid-OS, an open-source experiment in treating AI as an interface to the operating system itself. What started as an exercise in optimizing models shifted toward questioning the software we build around them: how low latency changes the interaction loop, whether we really need to consume so many tokens or hardcode so many capabilities into our harnesses, how small, smart and univers

Join the Montreal Codex community for a hands-on workshop focused on practical, real-world use. In the first half, we’ll share the Codex workflows we use. how we approach tasks, collaborate with Codex, and turn ideas into working results. In the second half, you’ll get hands-on: experiment with Codex, build something of your own, and showcase what you created with the group. Whether you’re new to Codex or already using it regularly, come ready to learn, exchange ideas, and make something. Important: Please bring your laptop fully charged, with Codex installed, signed in, and ready to use.

Une bonne innovation ne suffit pas : encore faut-il savoir la transformer en projet. À l’occasion de la rentrée du MT Lab, nous réunissons entrepreneurs, alumni, coworkers et partenaires de l’industrie pour une discussion très concrète. À travers des exemples concrets, nos panélistes croiseront leurs perspectives pour explorer comment passer d’une logique de vente à une véritable logique de partenariat, réduire les freins à l’adoption et mobiliser différents leviers de financement pour faire avancer un projet. Panélistes : Alexandre Lebel - Chargé de projets marketing, Loto-Québec David Lamoureux, M. Sc., CFA - Conseiller principal, Partenariats impact et durable - Fondaction Antoine Giroir, Gestionnaire de compte / Account manager - helloDarwin Andrée-Anne Fortin, Directrice, Développement stratégique - Régions du Centre-Nord-Ouest du Québec - La Ruche 🍷 La conférence sera suivie de notre cocktail-réseautage, pour poursuivre les échanges et rencontrer entrepreneurs, startups et acteurs de l’industrie et de l’écosystème d’innovation. Car pour faire adopter une innovation, vendre une bonne solution ne suffit pas. Il faut d’abord écouter et comprendre les besoins de l’organisation, ses contraintes, ses processus décisionnels et ses réalités budgétaires. À travers des exemples concrets, nos panélistes croiseront leurs perspectives pour explorer comment passer d’une logique de vente à une véritable logique de partenariat, réduire les freins à l’adoption et mobiliser différents leviers de financement pour faire avancer un projet. Une discussion pensée pour repartir avec des clés concrètes afin de mieux approcher les organisations, bâtir des partenariats solides et transformer une opportunité en projet réel.

Most investments, even sustainable ones, don't make sustainable impacts a priority. But that’s starting to change. Join us to hear from sustainable investment practitioners and connect over a friendly negotiation game, where you'll take on the role of a sustainable impact investor or investee. Together, we'll explore and demystify what it means to build sustainable, impactful projects. Food will be provided. No financial background needed. --- 17:15 - 17:30 - Welcoming remarks 17:30 - 18:00 - Casual chat with the Founder and Director of the Brique par Brique Community Centre Faiz Abhuani 18:00 - 18:15 - Overview of the negotiation game (see rules here) 18:15 - 19:15 - Food and the negotiation game 19:15 - 19:30 - Group reflections I understand when I attend an event I enter an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. By entering the event premises, I consent to such recording media and its release, publication, exhibition or reproduction. About Montréal Climate Week: This event is part of Montréal Climate Week, a citywide initiative that brings communities together to imagine and build more just, resilient, and sustainable futures. All Montréal Climate Week events are expected to follow the festival's Community Guidelines and contribute to a respectful, inclusive, and welcoming environment for participants of all backgrounds and identities. For more information about Montréal Climate Week and our Community Guidelines, please visit scmtl.ca.