Adam Froese has had one of the more unusual journeys in Canadian tech. He was a former Olympic field hockey player, ex-Deloitte investment banker, Venture Capitalist at Harvest Ventures, and co-founder of SecondShop, a company that provides the strategic operating layer for retailers like Costco and HomeDepot. In 24 months, the company has sold over $100M worth of retail goods, through it's integrated logistics and recommerce marketplace.

The business started with a Wayfair couch that came in the wrong colour. What followed that thread revealed an $800B gap in the global retail supply chain that nobody was seriously solving.

In this conversation we get into why the real moat isn't the marketplace, it's the truck. Why Canadian VC is broken and what the incentive misalignment actually looks like from the inside. Why government R&D grants are distorting the companies that receive them. And why Adam says he is not building this company to make money.

One of the more honest conversations we've had on the show.

On this Episode, we take you live to our panel CTO vs. CTO. We had Saba El-Hilo, the CTO at Certn, and Cullen Jennings, the CTO for Audio Visual and AI at Cisco.

These two went head to head on AI in the Workforce, how cybersecurity is changing, and new requires for data sovereignty around the globe.

Get ready to dive deep into the world of insurance innovation with the latest InsurTech trends and solutions!

We were thrilled to co-host this event with Flora Fertility to explore what the future of insurance actually look like. We break down the biggest innovations in InsurTech and what they mean for the industry moving forward.
The panel featured:

Christy Lane, Co-Founder & President at Flora Fertility

Finn Magee, CEO at Insurtech Canada

Diane Horsfield, VP Client Success at Trufla

Moderated by: Philippe Burns, Co-Founder at Tech Thursday

On January 29th, Tech Thursday partnered with the DMZ and TDIP to bring together some of the most exciting early stage Tech companies in Calgary.

The conversation focused on taking a service, and bringing it to scale through productized solutions.

Our speakers were:

Amanda Julian, Chief Science Officer & Co-founder at Monark

Addy Graves, CEO and Co-Founder at Cashew

Lourdes Juan, CEO and Co-Founder at Knead Tech

Moderated by: Justine Clark, Strategic Partnerships Lead at DMZ

 Welcome to Tech Thursday Live. A live recording from the first Tech Thursday event in Calgary in 2026. The topic of this conversation was 'Hot Takes for 2026'.

This is a panel featuring:

Kelly Schmidt, the CEO at Headversity

Mark Le dain, CRO at Fueled

Graeme Harrison, the CEO at Augur VC

We talked about everything from whether or not there's gonna be Robot Olympics, if there's an AI bubble or not, and what the future of the human is gonna be in the workforce. We had this event in front of a sold out audience in Calgary, and it was a ton of fun.

We hope you enjoyed this live recording. Every week we're gonna be releasing live recordings from our events, whether they take place in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, or Ottawa. So be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcast. Enjoy Tech Thursday Live.