Best Ottawa Business Awards

The 2026 Newsmaker of the Year: Eliot Pence of Dominion Dynamics

When Dominion Dynamics raised the largest Series-A funding round in Canadian history for a defence technology company...

The 2026 CEO of the Year: Mike Matta of Solink

Sixteen years ago, Mike Matta was a young engineer who took a classmate’s suggestion to check out a new company that had just been launched by Terry Matthews.

Nominations open for 2026 Best Ottawa Business Awards

The Best Ottawa Business Awards (BOBs) are once again accepting nominations for one of the city’s most prestigious business awards programs.

Local business leaders and companies recognized at 2025 Best Ottawa Business Awards

The Best Ottawa Business Awards (BOBs) were held Friday at the Westin Hotel, bringing together a who’s who of the local business community.

Entrepreneur and advocate Tracey Clark receives 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award

Ottawa serial entrepreneur Tracey Clark, one of the founders and the former CEO of Bridgehead Coffee, is...

From Claridge Homes to the CHEO Foundation, Neil Malhotra named CFO of the Year

The chief financial officer of Claridge Homes, Neil Malhotra, has been selected as the CFO of the...

Hats off to 2025 Newsmaker of the Year Liam Mooney and partner Emma Cochrane

In January, Liam Mooney was watching TV with his fiancée and business partner Emma Cochrane when Ontario...

Colonnade BridgePort’s Hugh Gorman named Ottawa’s 2025 CEO of the Year

As the CEO of Colonnade BridgePort since 2008, Hugh Gorman has guided the firm to the pinnacle...

Nominations now open for 2025 Best Ottawa Business Awards

It’s that time of year: the Best Ottawa Business Awards (BOBs) are once again accepting nominations for...

ICYMI: BOBs 2024 awards gala now available on YouTube

If you missed the 2024 Best Ottawa Business Awards, don’t fret. Rogers has just posted the BOBs awards...
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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

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