David Sali

Dave is OBJ's senior features writer with two decades of experience in the newspaper industry working for a variety of publications from community weeklies to major dailies. He is a four-time award-winning journalist by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP). He has received awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-sali-62882925/

Former Ottawa tech founder turned funder Mark Scott on the future of AI and more

AGI Ventures brings AI-curious Ottawans together in ‘grassroots community’ of tech builders

Launched two-and-a-half years ago, AGI Ventures is the brainchild of Hai Nghiem and Neilda Gagné, a pair of Ottawa tech entrepreneurs who wanted to build a “grassroots community” to foster innovative ways of tapping into the power of AI.

McGuinty urges businesses to ‘take risks’ as Canada builds defence-tech ecosystem

Canadian entrepreneurs must take risks if they want to cash in on billions of dollars in business opportunities as the federal government ramps up military spending, defence minister David McGuinty said Tuesday.

Mitel names veteran tech exec Ben Macdonald new sales channel chief

Mitel has hired a new executive whose mission is to grow the telecommunications company’s network of sales...

Ottawa’s Hyperion aims to scale up ‘carbon-recycling’ tech with help from MaRS, cement giant Amrize

Hyperion Global Energy Corp. has been refining a patented system that captures flue gas from cement manufacturing and converts it into calcium carbonate, a mineral compound used as an antacid and as filler in toothpaste, paint, cement and other products.

Windmill Development Group eyes growing pipeline with new CEO Reeds at the helm

Windmill Development Group has tapped longtime executive Jeremy Reeds to lead the company as it rolls out...

Ericsson to launch wireless technology test site at Area X.O, and other tech news

Ericsson Canada is partnering with the federal government to create a wireless communications testing ground in Ottawa’s...

Burgeoning Ottawa-area defence firms say ‘the sky’s the limit’ as crowds swarm to CANSEC

As crowds milled around the Airbus helicopters and Saab fighter jets at last week’s CANSEC trade show,...

Montreal’s Brasswater acquires Carling Executive Centre for $53M

Montreal-based Brasswater has acquired the Carling Executive Centre for $53 million, marking the third sale of a...

Defence leaders urge feds to speed up efforts to modernize Canada’s procurement process

Ben Seaman’s plight is probably familiar to almost any founder of a Canadian defence-tech enterprise who’s ever...
1...678...227Page 7 of 227
Get Our Email Updates

Stay up-to-date on the companies, people and issues that impact businesses in Ottawa and beyond.

Sign Up Now

OBJ360 Sponsored

Guest Blogs

Social Galleries

Video

Generative AI is a superpower for tech entrepreneurs creating new products. AI can help analyse problems, explore options and define solutions at a pace never before possible. Here’s the question: while AI is an inventor’s best friend, what role does it play in inventing new products from an intellectual property perspective? In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks with Kushal Shah, a registered Canadian patent agent and lawyer who recently joined Ottawa-based Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP. The discussion explores exactly how much heavy lifting an AI can do before it becomes difficult for a human to legally claim an invention. The conversation provides practical guidance on establishing a paper trail to prove a meaningful human contribution to the final product. Learn how to safely validate AI-generated suggestions and avoid the confidentiality traps of feeding unpatented ideas and proprietary data into generative AI systems in this latest episode. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:25 Introducing Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall LLP 02:09 Introducing Kushal Shah 23:50 OBJ Updates and Closing For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia. Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
Techopia Live: Can you patent AI inventions? | Episode 301

Event Calendar

View Calendar