A decade of the same question, asked in a lot of rooms: buy or build? I gave a talk on it in 2016. I gave one on it again this month. Here’s everywhere else it’s come up along the way.
Advisory roles (ongoing)
- Advisory Board Member, Master of Business Analytics — Schulich School of Business, York University, 2016–present
- Advisory Board Member, Master of Management Analytics — Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2017–present
iQmetrix / Daybreak era — 2024–present
- “Build vs. Buy: How the Easy Parts Got Easier and the Hard Parts Got Harder” — Daybreak AI Labor Summit, 2026
- “From Omnichannel to Agentic Commerce” — Telecom Retail Summit, MWC Barcelona, 2026
- “Agents in the Wild — A Supply Chain Use Case” — Aggregate Intellect, AI Agents Series, 2026
- “From Prompts to Profit: Practical AI for Wireless Retail” — iQmetrix SummitX, 2025
- Telecom Industry Address — iQmetrix SummitX, 2024
- “Doesn’t Confuse the Familiar with the Essential” (podcast) — iQmetrix CTO era
Kinaxis era — 2020–2022
- Introduced Demand.AI — Kinaxis Kinexions, 2022
- Speaker (virtual, COVID) — Kinaxis Kinexions, 2021
- “AI Hype Cycle: Taking Stock of Where We Are” — Rotman / Salesforce event
Rubikloud era — 2015–2020
- “AI & The Supermarket — A Field Guide” — Grocery Innovations, 2019
- Presenter, “Retail Tomorrow” — Microsoft, 2018–19
- Panelist, “Cloud Native Data Platform” — Microsoft Retail Exchange
- “Putting AI Into Production and Helping Retailers Compete With Amazon” — ARCHITECHT (Medium), interview, 2018
- Interview on retail data & AI trends — CNBC, 2018
- Presenter, Canada’s innovation gaps — Scale AI, Sept 2018
- Presenter — Fujitsu Customer Advisory Board, 2018
- Speaker — McGill Fashion & Retail Conference, 2018
- Presenter — Deloitte TMT AI Seminar, 2017
- Intro/briefing session — Vector Institute, 2017
- Speaker — Toronto Machine Learning Summit, 2017
- Presenter, customer meetings (Dick’s Sporting Goods, Price Chopper) — NG Retail North America, 2017
- “A Practitioner’s Case Against ‘Insights’” — WIRED Retail, British Museum, London, Nov 2016
- Panelist, careers in analytics — McGill (Desautels), Nov 2015
- Speaker — Toronto Data Science Meetup, Nov 2015
- Guest lecture, data science — Schulich School of Business, Sept 2015