How Toronto Tech Week became Canada’s largest grassroots tech event

Last year, with Collision moving to Vancouve r under a new name, a bunch of Toronto tech leaders got together and said, ‘Why not us?’ “You could start your day paddleboarding on Lake Ontario, then you could go to a workout class, then you could go to a session on what VCs want to hear.” Julia Konefal Toronto Tech Week And thus Toronto Tech Week was born, a city-wide get-together in the middle of June that somehow welcomed 15,000 attendees to over 300 events—making it Canada’s largest grassroots