Inventures retreat: Alberta Innovates (Lake Louise)

Welcome to our new innovative friends from Inventures Lake Louise, a 3 day retreat following the Inventures conference which took place the 3 days prior. It was hosted by Alberta Innovates, and curated by The Gathering.

Met so many people who blew me away with their ideas, crazy business models, and big hearts. I just love how kind and welcoming this group was. Me and

@Jeannette Tran

were the only BC’ers at the retreat, and made so many new friends…

Beyond the amazing conversations and new connections, I loved learning more about how government plays a role in accelerating innovation. I’m so used to thinking of government as this slow moving beast that moves too slow to truly support any real innovation, but it feels like Alberta is building a different culture. I think people are waking up to the fact that if they want to be a part of this AI transformation, it is going to require alignment across all levels, and fast decision making.

There was a roundtable AI event where we got to be the dumb people in the room, that was quite eye opening. We debated for 90m about all the different things that were impeding AI adoption.

I feel each state/province and country needs to take AI as seriously as this group is. And we need to form strong partnerships between those groups, as this shit is moving too fast to do it in silos.

Here are a few photos from this event. For those of you who were/are there, what was your biggest takeaway? I think my big breakthroughs will happen after the event, once I get a chance to re-connect with new friends, and form new synergies with their businesses.

Oh and nice to see at least 5 different EO members there, from EO Calgary and Edmonton.

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