Toronto has always been a city of builders — people who turn ideas into companies, neighbourhoods into hubs, and ambition into momentum.

Toronto Tech Week (TTW) was created to make that visible. The talent was already here. The creativity was already here. The energy was already here. What Toronto lacked was a moment that brought it all together.

In 2024, a small group of volunteer organizers set out to create that moment. Instead of launching another conference, they imagined something different: a week built by the community itself. A decentralized platform where anyone could host an event, share what they’re working on, open their doors, and contribute to the grassroots story of what Canadian tech is and can be.

What started as a simple idea became a movement. The first year of TTW exceeded every expectation, with hundreds of independently hosted events and tens of thousands of people filling the city. New ideas, partnerships, and ventures were born. It wasn’t just another week on the calendar, it was a moment for Toronto to see itself.

From that foundation, TTW has grown into the annual gathering it is today. A celebration created not top-down, but by the people who make this community thrive.

As Toronto continues to build what’s next, TTW’s mission is to help ensure the world knows.

Built by Toronto, for the world.

Clio is the world's leading provider of legal technology, providing lawyers with low-barrier, affordable solutions to manage and grow their firms more effectively, more profitably, and with better client experiences. Our products redefine how lawyers manage their firms by equipping them with the tools they need to run their firms securely from any device, anywhere.

For over 17 years, we have been at the forefront of creating innovative, cloud-based solutions tailored to the unique needs of the legal industry. Clio is the legal industry’s only end-to-end software solution for law firms, powering every aspect of the client journey from intake to invoice. Through our innovative platform design, Clio centralizes multiple products, legal payments, technology integrations, and legal workflows in one operating system, so legal professionals can focus on doing what they do best—lawyering.

We have earned the endorsement from over 100+ law societies and bar associations around the world, including recognition from all 50 state bar associations in the United States. We take immense pride in the fact that Clio has the most 5-star reviews of any legal practice management software.

With global headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, Clio boasts a diverse and talented workforce of 1,500 employees and has offices in Toronto, Calgary, Dublin, and Sydney. Our impact reaches far and wide, with more than 150,000 legal professionals that use our technology, spanning across 130 countries. Our robust ecosystem includes partnerships with over 280 app integration partners and 100 Clio Certified Consultants.

Established in 2012, BrainStation empowers professionals and leading companies to build essential skills in AI, data, product management, marketing, and design through live, instructor-led training.

BrainStation's global spaces are custom-built for real learning, deep collaboration and building connections. Located in key cities, our spaces bring industry professionals together to learn and build.

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Bizby was founded in response to a growing challenge facing Canadian product teams as data residency policies and procurement rules increasingly limited the use of US based collaboration tools. 

When Ontario government policy changes limited the use of US hosted vendors such as Miro, many teams found themselves without a practical replacement for a tool that had become central to how product work actually happens. Whiteboards were not optional. They were how teams ran discovery sessions, facilitated workshops, aligned stakeholders, and made decisions. Yet there were few Canadian alternatives that matched the familiarity, speed, and flexibility product managers depended on.

Bizby was created to solve that problem.

Founded by Marty Cerisano, Bizby is a Canadian built and Canadian hosted collaborative whiteboard designed to feel immediately familiar to product teams coming from tools like Miro or FigJam. The intent was not to introduce a new way of thinking, but to preserve existing product workflows while meeting Canadian data residency, privacy, and procurement requirements.

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The timing also reflects a broader shift. Across the public sector, regulated industries, and enterprise organizations, there is increasing emphasis on supporting Canadian innovation and reducing dependency on foreign hosted platforms. Bizby sits directly at that intersection: a modern collaboration tool that aligns with both how product teams work and how Canadian organizations are now required to procure.

For the TPMA community, Bizby supports the core practices of product management. Members can use Bizby to run discovery and ideation sessions, map problems and opportunities, prioritize initiatives, facilitate retrospectives, and collaborate across distributed teams. Built in templates such as impact effort matrices, stakeholder maps, MoSCoW prioritization, and process flows help teams move quickly from conversation to clarity.

Canadian data residency is not an add on. All data is hosted in Canada by default, making Bizby a strong fit for public sector teams, financial institutions, education, and enterprises navigating compliance constraints. This also makes Bizby easier to recommend internally, pilot with confidence, and scale without procurement surprises.

Bizby’s partnership with TPMA reflects a shared commitment to strengthening Canada’s product ecosystem. By supporting product leaders with tools that respect both their craft and their constraints, Bizby aims to help Canadian teams continue doing high quality product work without compromise.

Koru is a venture studio backed by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Founded in 2019, Koru exists to drive value creation and grow the overall enterprise value of OTPP’s portfolio companies by partnering with them to identify, validate, build and oversee new disruptive business opportunities that leverage unfair advantages. Ultimately, this is in service of providing the pensions of the teachers of Ontario.

Since 2019, Koru has built and launched 11 new ventures across a variety of industries and geographies including child care, field safety, customer service innovation, financial services, e-commerce logistics, insurance, elder care and climate tech/energy transition.