Startupville

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Startupville

Startupville features interviews with successful small-city tech founders on what it’s like to start and grow a tech startup in a smaller city away from the major hubs of Silicon Valley and Toronto, and how that has shaped their business. At Startupville, we challenge the notion that the next big thing can only be made in Silicon Valley. Startupville is produced in partnership by Innovation Place and Martin Charlton Communications.

  1. 26/04/2023

    Ep 86 - Jeff Dyck w/ Siemens EDA

    Siemens EDA, a segment of Siemens Digital Industries Software, is a technology leader in electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware and their tools and industry-leading tech enable customers to embrace digital transformation to accelerate the pace of innovation. In 2017, Siemens acquired Solido Design Automation, a Saskatoon-based company that was the world leader in machine learning-based EDA software for variation-aware design and characterization. On this episode, we talk with Siemens EDA Senior Director of Engineering, former Solido Vice President and local legend Jeff Dyck about his professional journey and how Siemens EDA has grown by more than 10x since we last spoke. We also dive into exciting topics like the future of AI, how to maintain startup growth and how to create a company culture that makes employees want to come into the office. Buckle up folks, this is a good one! The Startupville podcast is brought to you by Innovation Saskatchewan and was recorded in our new recording studio inside Collider Saskatoon -- Saskatchewan's only tech and research co-working space. “There’s going to be a whole bunch of applications that are going to emerge in the next few years. It’s happening incredibly quickly. A thousand new startups trying to use large language models for all kinds of verticals that have never been thought of before. If you can find a data set, you go and train it and see if that’s a cool thing, then figure out what you need to do to turn it into a product.” – Jeff Dyck on generative AI

    40min
  2. 22/02/2023

    Ep 84 - Live at Cultivator's 24 Hour Startup

    Join us in the Startupville Thunderdome recording live at the 24 Hour Startup event at Cultivator HQ. 24 Hour Startup is hosted at Cultivator HQ in Regina, Saskatchewan, and brings together the best and brightest entrepreneurs, developers, lead designers, and makers, to pitch ideas, form teams, and build a minimum viable product (MVP) in 24 hours. Participants experience what its like in day-to-day startup life while building their company, but with access to some of the world’s top mentors, entrepreneurs and supporters who are ready to help them launch in their pitch to celebrity guest judges! On this episode, we've condensed 24 hours into just under 40 minutes and features exclusive interviews with some of the celebrity guest judges as well as past and current participants. Get the full scoop on what went down during this year’s 24 Hour Startup by tuning in now. We sit down with Danielle Gifford (Movement51), Dana Abdullah (Bell Ventures), Hannah Tait (past participant/winner), Zakiyyah Noorally (participant) and Jordan Lazaroff (participant). This podcast is brought to you by Cultivator & Innovation Saskatchewan “What I’m really excited for is just the diversity in teams that have come together and what they’re able to accomplish in 24 hours. It’s really, quite astounding, when you see all these ideas up on a wall, and then you actually see it conceptualize into a business model in terms of a target market audience and how they would actually generate revenue.” – Danielle Gifford, Movement51.

    39min

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Startupville features interviews with successful small-city tech founders on what it’s like to start and grow a tech startup in a smaller city away from the major hubs of Silicon Valley and Toronto, and how that has shaped their business. At Startupville, we challenge the notion that the next big thing can only be made in Silicon Valley. Startupville is produced in partnership by Innovation Place and Martin Charlton Communications.

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