Collision 2024. The last one in Toronto.
Exhibition Place, Toronto, 17 to 20 June 2024. The city called it North America’s fastest-growing technology conference.
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Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto. Photo Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
- ShowCollision
- WhereEnercare Centre and Beanfield Centre, Exhibition Place
- When17-20 June 2024
- We wereOur team was there
North America’s Web Summit.
Collision is the North American conference of Web Summit, and Toronto hosted it from 2019.
In 2024 it filled the Enercare Centre and the Beanfield Centre, and the year after it moved to Vancouver as Web Summit Vancouver.
A stage at Collision 2024, Toronto. Photo Collision Conf, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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1,623 start-ups.
37,832 people from 117 countries, with 1,623 start-ups, the most Collision had ever had, and 570 speakers.
- Attendees37,832
- Countries117
- Start-ups1,623
- Speakers570
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Who else covered it.
Written up in the local press by CityNews Toronto, in the trade press by Decoder, discussed on the podcasts BetaKit and Tank Talks By Ripple Ventures, covered by the creators Tony Lawand (Fin-Tech World) and Stephanie Melodia, and by 4 others.
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Local press
- CityNews TorontoJune 2024Surveillance risks posed by AI among the technology’s most urgent problems: Hinton (opens in a new tab)
Geoffrey Hinton told a standing-room audience at Collision that AI surveillance, which could help authoritarian regimes stay in power, is a more urgent risk than the existential one.
- CityNews TorontoJune 2024Cohere co-founder ‘skeptical’ of AI creating sci-fi doomsday scenarios (opens in a new tab)
Cohere chief executive Aidan Gomez told the Collision audience that AI will take a while to exceed human capabilities uniformly and dismissed doomsday narratives.
Trade press
- DecoderJune 2024Collision’s Toronto Finale Draws 37,832 Attendees (opens in a new tab)
Counts 37,832 attendees from 117 countries at the last Toronto edition, with 1,623 startups, 45 percent of them women-founded, before the move to Vancouver.
8 more clippings
- BetaKitJune 2024“The reality check is happening now”: AI leaders on the state of the market at Collision (opens in a new tab)
Thomson Reuters chief product officer David Wong told BetaKit at Collision that the AI reality check is happening now, and G Squared partner Spencer McLeod warned on a June 18 panel that a lot of money will be lost in AI.
Podcasts
- BetaKitJune 2024How Web Summit Vancouver came to be with Casey Lau (opens in a new tab)
Episode of The BetaKit Podcast recorded in an interview room on the floor of the final Collision, with Web Summit co-host Casey Lau on the Toronto years and the Vancouver successor.
- Tank Talks By Ripple VenturesJune 2024News Rundown: Collision Conference Comes and Goes, TD Innovation Partners, and AI Developments with John Ruffolo of Maverix Private Equity (opens in a new tab)
Matt Cohen and John Ruffolo of Maverix Private Equity open the episode on the impact of Collision on the Toronto ecosystem and the opportunities its move opens for Vancouver.
Creators
- Tony Lawand, Fin-Tech WorldJuly 2024Collision Conference Toronto 2024 Highlight Reel - Fintech World hosted by Tony Lawand (opens in a new tab)
Tony Lawand's highlight reel visits startups and delegations on the floor, among them Taiwan Star Terrace and Start-Up Montreal, at an edition he puts at 38,000 attendees.
- Stephanie MelodiaJuly 2024PROOF MANIFESTING WORKS | Keynote speaker at Collision 2024 ft. Loren Gray, AI, biz tips, & more (opens in a new tab)
Vlog of speaker Stephanie Melodia at Collision 2024, a talk she had pictured in a diary entry in January, at what turned out to be the last Toronto edition.
Video
- Hospital NewsJuly 2024Collision Toronto 2024 - Hospital News Focus On Healthcare (opens in a new tab)
Hospital News filmed 30-second clips of health tech startups on the floor, some still looking for funding to go to market.
Institutions
- City of TorontoJune 2024City of Toronto hosts Collision conference for the fourth year, welcomes thousands of industry leaders and visitors to the city (opens in a new tab)
City release on opening day citing a Destination Toronto projection of $42 million in visitor spending, with more than 800 speakers and 2,000 startups expected.
- Toronto GlobalApril 2024Collision Conference - Olympics of Tech Event 2024 - Toronto (opens in a new tab)
Toronto Global's page for the Toronto Inc. Pavilion, expecting over 36,000 attendees and nearly 1,500 startups from 118 countries for 17-20 June.
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