Alberta’s technology community has another opportunity to recognize the founders, companies, investors, and supporters helping the province’s innovation economy grow. Nominations and applications are now open for the 2026 Start Alberta Tech Awards, which will return to Calgary for their ninth year on November 4 at Studio Bell. The annual awards celebrate individuals and organizations […]
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Experts to Discuss Best Practices as Alberta Embraces the Building of AI Data Centres
In March, a panel of local tech experts outlined why Alberta is a contender in the race to build AI infrastructure. Less than four months later, Meta unveiled official plans for a $13 billion data centre in Sturgeon County northeast of Edmonton. The company expects 3,000 skilled trade workers to be onsite at peak construction. […]
North Vector Dynamics Lands NordSpace Investment to Advance Canadian Defence Technology
Calgary-based North Vector Dynamics has secured a strategic investment from NordSpace Ventures to accelerate its work in autonomous defence systems, advanced propulsion and hypersonic technologies. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. North Vector Dynamics was named one of Calgary.tech’s 10 Homegrown Calgary Startups to Watch in 2026, recognized for developing Canadian technology designed […]
Sundog Technologies Seeks to Innovate Drone Capability for Aerospace Applications
A Calgary-based company is innovating aerospace logistics with heavy-lift drone technology. Sundog Technologies cofounder Ali Najmabadi says the goal of the company is enhancing to “lower the cost and increase the availability of aerial logistics.” Sundog is developing technology based on advances in hybrid and electric vehicles. “What has allowed hybrid and electric vehicles to […]
How Cellar’s ‘Rotten Potato’ Project Aims to Shape Future of Agtech in Canada with Early-Warning Tools
Cellar Insights this month unveiled the launch of the Rotten Potato Data Project. Launched in 2023, Cellar Insights uses a combination of sensors and cloud-based algorithms to remotely monitor potato health during long-term storage with an aim to reduce food loss and optimize the quality of crops post-harvest. The startup’s Rotten Potato Data Project is […]
EMeRG Launches AI-Powered Hospital Intelligence Platform
Calgary-based EMeRG is putting hospital-level intelligence at the centre of MedTech strategy with the launch of Hospital Intel Suite, a global software platform designed to help healthcare companies identify commercial opportunities and bring new technologies to market. The platform combines data on hospital infrastructure, installed technologies and clinical capabilities with hundreds of other variables in […]
Play On! Calls Calgary Tech Companies Off the Bench
Calgary tech companies know how to build products, raise capital, and grow teams. This August, they are being challenged to prove they can build a street hockey lineup, too. Play On! Calgary will transform 10 blocks of downtown Calgary into a sprawling street hockey festival from August 20 to 22, complete with 20 rinks, live […]
StackDX Crosses Border After Reaching 70% of Canadian Oil and Gas Production
Calgary energy software company Stack Technologies is heading south after establishing a substantial footprint in Canada’s oil and gas sector. The company announced that producers responsible for approximately 70% of Canada’s oil and gas production now use at least one product from its StackDX software platform. Stack also revealed that it has signed its first […]
SaaS Had Its Run. Custom Software Is Winning It Back.
There’s a version of business software history that most Calgary founders lived through without ever naming it. Twenty-Five years ago, if your company needed a tool that didn’t exist off the shelf, you built it. That meant hiring developers, standing up servers, and sinking real capital into something you then had to maintain forever. It […]
Calgary Tech Innovator QuantaSense Eyes Next Steps Following Aerospace Acceleration
QuantaSense is preparing to raise capital and begin sales of its flagship product this autumn. The Alberta startup is a member of the second cohort of the Aerospace Accelerator Program, powered by the Aerospace Innovation Hub. Cofounder Abdul Mohamed has been working on the technology behind QuantaSense since his research work at University of Calgary, […]