York Region Artificial Intelligence Companies Center Stage at the 2018 Toronto Tech Summit - York Link

For many the acronym "AI" (Artificial Intelligence) brings immediate thoughts of Terminator or super robots taking over the world. However, as the 2018 Toronto Tech Summit – hosted at the MaRS Discovery District in Downtown Toronto – highlighted, the pursuit of AI integration threaded into "mundane" business operations such as customer service support, personnel assistants, human resources, and e-commerce activities is already having a huge impact and dramatically reshaping how these sectors engage with their customers. The Tech Summit brought together an audience of over 500 technology professionals and enthusiasts to explore the latest trends in artificial intelligence in a variety of industries including the future of autonomous vehicles. York Link was one of the lead sponsors at this year's summit. The team was out in full force answering questions from participants about the scale of York Region's technology ecosystem and about career opportunities that exist within many of its leading tech companies. Specifically, the highway 404 /407 business area has thousands of global tech firms and Canadian scale ups developing disruptive technologies in areas of autonomous vehicles, AI, IoT, business applications, mobile applications and cloud computing.