How Toronto Tech Week turned Canada’s largest grassroots tech occasion

Co-directors Julia Konefal and Mell Truong clarify how TTW went from experiment to 600 occasions in simply two years.

Final yr, with Collision transferring to Vancouver beneath a brand new title, a bunch of Toronto tech leaders received collectively and stated, ‘Why not us?’

“You may begin your day paddleboarding on Lake Ontario, then you would go to a exercise class, then you would go to a session on what VCs need to hear.”
Julia Konefal
Toronto Tech Week

And thus Toronto Tech Week was born, a city-wide get-together in the midst of June that someway welcomed 15,000 attendees to over 300 occasions—making it Canada’s largest grassroots tech occasion.

Toronto Tech Week is again, and with practically 600 occasions (150 greater than once we recorded this episode!) welcoming folks from all over the world set to start Monday, this yr’s Toronto Tech Week guarantees to be a lot larger and bolder.

However which Toronto Tech Week occasions must you attend? How do you discover your tribe amongst the thronging lots? Most significantly, must you put on comfortable sneakers?

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To reply these questions, now we have Toronto Tech Week 2026 co-directors Julia Konefal and Mell Truong, who additionally communicate to the imaginative and prescient for the decentralized occasion platform and the way it has grown and altered in its second yr.

So, are you going to Toronto Tech Week?

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This information is your final shortcut to navigating all 500 occasions, from panels, mixers, and competitions, going down throughout town from Might twenty fifth to twenty ninth.

Don’t miss out, go to The BetaKit Information: Toronto Tech Week now.

Recorded and edited by Toronto Podcasts. BetaKit is a Toronto Tech Week media companion. Function picture courtesy Toronto Tech Week.

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