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✅ Exploring the Obsidi® app's tech job board
✅ Connecting with top employers across North America
✅ Applying for once-in-a-lifetime opportunities
✅ Accessing exclusive Obsidi® member-only networking events

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If the 2026 Obsidi® Awards keynote gave you chills, clear your calendar. ❄️🗓️Fellicia Foster is taking the BFUTR Mainsta...
10/16/2026

If the 2026 Obsidi® Awards keynote gave you chills, clear your calendar. ❄️🗓️
Fellicia Foster is taking the BFUTR Mainstage. 🎤👑

Meet the Chief Human Resources Officer, U.S. Banking at BMO.

💼 Runs people strategy for a $7.8B platform
👥 Leads talent for ~12,000 employees
🏦 Brought 9,000 Bank of the West employees into a 55,000-person enterprise
💰 Drove $75M+ in efficiencies while strengthening culture and leadership capacity

Translation? When the C-suite decides who’s ready to lead, Fellicia’s voice is in the room. 🔑

Now she’s handing you the playbook:
⚡ How leaders actually get spotted, sponsored, and promoted
⚡ What “executive-ready” really looks like
⚡ How to position yourself before the opportunity drops

This is the conversation most people never get invited to. 👀

🚨 Accelerator Passes are 85% SOLD OUT. Her session is where the next generation of leaders will be sitting. Make sure you’re one of them.

📍 International Centre, Mississauga, ON
🗓️ Nov 19–20, 2026
🎟️ Grab your Accelerator Pass before it’s gone → link in bio

BMO

💰 $100K in cash grant funding. Up to $350K in business capital. One pitch.Ontario founders, the Business Pitch Competi...
10/15/2026

💰 $100K in cash grant funding. Up to $350K in business capital. One pitch.

Ontario founders, the Business Pitch Competition is OPEN. 🎤

🎤 Get seen. Pitch live on the BFUTR stage in front of 20,000+ tech leaders, investors and decision-makers.

🪑 Get built. Earn your seat in the Obsidi®️ Business Capital & Growth Accelerator

💵 Get funded. Unlock your shot at up to $350K, including $100K in potential non-repayable cash.

⏳ Selections are rolling, so the earlier you apply, the sooner you could be on stage.

📅 Applications close Nov 16
📍 BFUTR 2026 | Nov 19–20 | Mississauga

👉🏾 Register to pitch at the link in bio.

Take the stage. Earn your seat. 🪑

What if your next chat was with the person leading tech hiring at RBC Vancouver? 👀 🌊Meet Talent Acquisition Lead Chelsey...
10/14/2026

What if your next chat was with the person leading tech hiring at RBC Vancouver? 👀 🌊

Meet Talent Acquisition Lead Chelsey Eshpeter at West Coast Innovation: Building the Future of Technology on Nov 17. Bring your questions, find out where your experience fits, and hear from a candid panel of RBC technologists about what’s next in the industry. 🔥

Real connections, insider tech insights, and yes—plenty of great food and drinks.

Last year’s event was packed. Admission is first come, first served.

📆 Nov 17 | 6-9 PM
📍Vancouver Thurlow of RBC Dominion Securities Inc., 745 Thurlow Street, 25th Floor, Vancouver, BC

🎟️ Valid Summit Pass required.
Register 👉🏾 link in bio

You’ve seen the lineup. Now here’s the map. 🗺️The Lounge Maps are here, so you can walk in Thursday morning knowing ex...
10/14/2026

You’ve seen the lineup. Now here’s the map. 🗺️

The Lounge Maps are here, so you can walk in Thursday morning knowing exactly where your conversations are happening.

14 lounges. 2 days. And the floor isn’t the same on both. 👀

Every lounge is built to move your career forward. Get insider insights on leadership, AI, career strategy and what it takes to reach the next level, straight from the people already there. 💼

And here’s what’s coming next: the lounges will host mentorship sessions with the leaders and executives behind them. Real time, real advice, real access. 🔥

Sign-ups open next week, and they’ll go to pass holders first. If you’re not registered, you’re already behind.

Save the maps. Secure your pass. Be ready when sessions drop.
🎟️ Get your free access pass now: link in bio

AI is getting all the credit. But it’s only part of the story. 📈🔥BMO is hosting an invite-only evening in Toronto for Ah...
10/13/2026

AI is getting all the credit. But it’s only part of the story. 📈🔥

BMO is hosting an invite-only evening in Toronto for Ahead of the Curve: The Tech Trends Defining What’s Next, an official activation.

Hear BMO leaders unpack what’s gaining momentum across AI, data, cloud, software, and emerging tech, and what you should have on your radar now. Then connect with BMO’s leaders and recruiters over food and drinks. 🍽️

🎤 Featuring:
Pitchappan Shanmugam, Head, Operations Technology, Wealth Technology
Ryan Coleman, Managing Director, AI Delivery
Joanne Clemente, Director, Strategic Employee Programs
Moderated by Crystal Lam, People Initiatives Partner, Technology and Operations & Corporate Areas

🗓️ Nov 16 | 6-9 PM
📍 Toronto, ON | Invite-only

🎟️ Confirmed invite + valid Summit Pass required. A pass alone doesn’t guarantee entry.
👉🏾 Register: link in bio

Step inside the Executive Lounges. 🔒Here’s what you walk out with:✅ Regulatory foresight. Know what’s changing in tech...
10/09/2026

Step inside the Executive Lounges. 🔒

Here’s what you walk out with:
✅ Regulatory foresight. Know what’s changing in tech policy before it hits your roadmap.
✅ AI clarity. See live use cases and demos of what’s driving ROI at enterprise scale, from the leaders deploying it.
✅ Peer intelligence. Have candid, closed-door conversations with senior leaders facing the same decisions.
✅ Relationships that compound. Sit in the room with the advisors and operators shaping enterprise tech in Canada.

⚖️ Tech Policy & Regulations Executive Lounge | Fasken
🤖 Scaling AI for Business Value Executive Lounge | CGI

📅 Nov 19 | 10 AM – 12 PM | Toronto
🎟️ Executive Circle Pass only, and it’s 50% sold out
👉 bfutr

AI is rewriting your job description. Come hear from someone holding the pen.✍🏾We’re thrilled to welcome Sumee Seethamar...
10/09/2026

AI is rewriting your job description. Come hear from someone holding the pen.✍🏾

We’re thrilled to welcome Sumee Seethamaran, VP of AI & ML at TD Bank Group, to the Mainstage. 🎉

From launching Open Banking and Digital Identity at TD to shipping products at Microsoft, Sumee has spent her career turning big ideas into products people actually use. Now she’s leading the bank’s AI and ML Centre of Excellence.

So what’s in it for you? 👇🏾
✅ An insider’s view of how AI strategy gets set, funded, and scaled
✅ The moves that took her from builder to executive, and how to make them in your own career
✅ A clear read on the skills that will define tech leadership over the next five years

Whether you’re an engineer, a product lead, or stepping into management, this is the session that helps you stay ahead of AI instead of reacting to it. 📈

📍 International Centre | 🗓️ Nov 19–20
⏳ Accelerator Passes: 85% sold out
🎟️ Lock in yours before the last 15% disappears: link in bio

Big news 🚨 Intact Financial Corporation | Intact Corporation financière is officially a Leadership Partner of Meet the ...
10/08/2026

Big news 🚨 Intact Financial Corporation | Intact Corporation financière is officially a Leadership Partner of

Meet the team working at the intersection of what exists and what’s possible:
📊 One of the biggest Data Labs of any insurance company in Canada
🤖 300+ AI and data models in production, solving real-world problems
🌍 3,000+ Digital, Data, and Tech experts worldwide

Swipe to see how they’re showing up 👉🏾
🎤 Main Stage: Ranji Narine, CIO Canada at Intact Financial Corporation, joins the CIO Panel: Enterprise Priorities & Talent Signals, Day 2 at 10:40 AM. Hear straight from a CIO which skills enterprise leaders are betting on next, so you can position yourself ahead of the curve.

🤝🏾 Marketplace Booth: Get face time with the recruiters and technical experts across AI, data, software, cybersecurity, and more. Walk away with real insight into where your skills fit, how their teams grow talent, and the connections that put you on their radar.

🗓️ November 19–20 | 📍 International Centre, ON
⏳ Access Passes are FREE right now, but that ends before Day 1. Wait and you’ll pay at the door. Lock yours in today. Link in bio 🔗

Strategy, talent, trust, adoption: AI just made every one of them harder. 🧠On Nov 16, Deloitte and Obsidi® are bringing ...
10/08/2026

Strategy, talent, trust, adoption: AI just made every one of them harder. 🧠

On Nov 16, Deloitte and Obsidi® are bringing together a small group of senior leaders and decision-makers in Ottawa for Navigating the Paradigm Shift: Opportunity in Uncertainty, an official activation.

As organizations move from AI experimentation to implementation, leaders are facing bigger questions on long-term value and how to lead through the change.
This is a candid, peer-level conversation, with perspectives from Deloitte’s leaders on what is working, what isn’t, and where the opportunity is.

📍 Ottawa, ON | Nov 16, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
🎟️ Invite-only. A confirmed invitation and a valid Summit Pass are required for entry.

👉🏾 Registration link in bio

Leading in Montréal? Deloitte is also hosting Beyond the AI Shift: Rethinking Leadership on Nov 17, delivered in French and English.
👉🏾 Link in bio

Deloitte Canada

Google is hiring at . 🚀The best career moves rarely start with an application. They start with being in the right room....
10/07/2026

Google is hiring at . 🚀

The best career moves rarely start with an application. They start with being in the right room.

Google is heading to BFUTR to connect face-to-face with software developers and Forward Deployed Engineers ready for what comes after the prompt. Here are three ways to get in front of them:

1️⃣ Activation
Nov 17 | 6–9 PM | Building the Agentic Future | | Invite-only
Google technologists on agentic AI and the changing nature of software engineering, followed by networking with the Google team and fellow engineers.

2️⃣ BFUTR Industry Innovators Lounge Session
Nov 20 | 1–2 PM | From Prompt to Action: Navigating the Agentic AI Revolution
Google's end-to-end playbook for AI agents, covering frameworks, tools, and security guardrails. These are the skills that will define the next generation of engineering leaders.

3️⃣ BFUTR Marketplace
Nov 19-20 | Google Booth
Direct conversations with the people building Google's teams. Update your Obsidi® profile before you arrive so you're ready when it counts.

Skills. Access. Visibility. That's how careers accelerate. 📈

🎟️One free Access Pass. Three ways to get on Google's radar.
👉🏾 Claim yours: link in bio

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