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For the second year, the Collision conference had to pivot from a live event to a virtual one, welcoming 38,039 attendees from 141 countries to its proprietary online platform.
For those not familiar with Collision, it’s a conference of short talks – five to 20 minutes – that explore technology and business topics. It’s also home to startups and more than 850 investors who want to help them.
Here are snippets from a few of the sessions that caught our attention.
He’s everywhere
Toronto mayor John Tory had a busy conference. He opened it along with conference co-founder Paddy Cosgrove. He had a press conference. He had a Q&A. And he participated in several other sessions in between, including a roundtable called