This event is organized by U of T Entrepreneurship as part of as part of Toronto Tech Week.

Note: Event details can change. Please visit the unit’s website for the latest information about this event.

How to Build a $100B Company, Brick by Brick

Join Reynold Xin, co-founder of Databricks, a San Francisco-based data and AI infrastructure startup valued at over $130B and one of the fastest growing tech startups in history. Reynold is a proud U of T alumnus (BASc in Engineering Science) who will share his story of a founding team that turned a research project into a business with a global footprint, over 8,000 employees and thousands of enterprise customers.

This signature event celebrating Toronto Tech Week will discuss:

• Origin story of the company and advice for young founders

• Trends, opportunities, and threats in the field of big data and artificial intelligence

• What Canadian business leaders, innovators, investors, and government need to do to compete

• Lessons learned from a life spent in Silicon Valley

• How to effectively commercialize research and what has changed since 2013 when Databricks was founded