The future of Canadian tech runs through Waterloo | BetaKit
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It turns out I was wrong. In 2024, I was responsible for a lot of parasocial helicopter parenting about Canadian tech’s young generation of entrepreneurs. People like Jocelyne Murphy and Scott Langille, who both spoke at BetaKit Town Halls. Without the support and mentorship they were asking for, I said, we might soon lament Canadian tech’s lost generation. The kids weren’t lost. They were just in the lab, building. Last week, Socratica hosted possibly the world’s largest student-run tech demo day at the Waterloo Rec Centre, filling the 2,500-person venue and leaving an additional 1,300…
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