After two years of online events, Collision was finally back for an in-person conference. This year, over 35,000 people and companies from all over the world attended the largest tech conference in Toronto. Lots of topics were discussed, from blockchain, supply chain and cryptocurrencies to AI, the future of food, winning Formula 1 races, innovations in newsrooms, the power of social media, and more. With nearly 250 global partners in 2022, including Snap, Google Cloud, TikTok, AWS, RBC, Siemens, KPMG, CAE, Intera, Crypto.com, and Collision’s women in tech program, tickets to Collision 2022 were fully sold out.
Among the most prominent speakers, there were Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou, Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o, Manbooker prize-winning author Margaret Atwood, some of the world’s leading investors, including GGV’s Hans Tung, Renegade’s Renata Quintini, Andreessen Horowitz’s Jeff Jordan, Lux’s Deena Shakir and Sequoia’s Andrew Reed, Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt, Hootsuite CEO Tom Keiser, Calaxy co-founder and CEO – and Dallas Mavericks star – Spencer Dinwiddie, Axios executive director Aja Whitaker-Moore and USA Today editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood, Black Futures Lab principal and Black Lives Matter co-creator Alicia Garza, Current founder and CEO Stuart Sopp and Fanatics Collectibles co-founder and chief vision officer Josh Luber, and many more. Over 900 speakers took the stage, 1,500 startups, 1,200 journalists, 850 investors and 100 unicorn companies attended Collision.
This year, MedTech startup Dot Mind Unlocked, based in Ottawa, Ontario, overcame 55 other emerging companies to win startups’ pitching competition PITCH, powered by CAE, at Collision 2022. The Dot headset, paired with a proprietary mobile app, reads brainwaves and uses AI technology to personalize courses of therapy for individual users. The platform can be used by healthcare providers and individuals to more easily and effectively manage and implement mental health treatment. Dot was one of 1,557 startups, representing dozens of industries and hundreds of countries, that joined Collision over the course of the three-day tech
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A lot of startups made announcements during the conference. EV Semi-Fleet unveiled the first EV load board for thousands of electric semi-truck ownersGoTo, Loans announced launching new identity and enhanced payment options: Wippy and Wippy Pay, ETHA unveiled its radical interactive news and social media platform, Kiwi TCMS unveiled its open-source test management system, mpro.AI announced the closing of a fully-subscribed CA$2.25M seed round, HeHealth announced the world’s first AI-enabled mobile app for free STD screenings, Froged debuted its product success platform and two major product updates as they scale across North America, and more.
Collision 2022 was an absolute success. You can pre-register for Collision 2023 now and get 50% off your ticket!
