Interactive Viewing Party: Desjardins Speaker Series: How to Build a $100B Company, Brick by Brick
Overview
Join your fellow innovators, founders, and curious minds for our interactive viewing party at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus! Come for the live viewing of the Desjardins Speaker Series: How to Build a $100B Company, Brick by Brick, featuring Databricks Co-founder Reynold Xin; stay for the great food, networking, and interactive activities.
The celebration will continue after with the University of Toronto Lawn Party. Meet Toronto’s community of tech innovators, discover startups at the edge of innovation, and enjoy snacks offered by U of T’s startup community.
Please note: This event, offered in partnership with U of T Entrepreneurship, is an in-person viewing party of the Speaker Series. If you are looking to view the keynote address in person at Convocation Hall, please register for the Desjardins Speaker Series event separately.
About the Keynote
Join Reynold Xin, Co-founder of Databricks, a San Francsico-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 Desjardins Speakers Series 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
How to effectively commercialize research and what has changed since 2013 when Databricks was founded
Lessons learned from a life spent in Silicon Valley
Event Details
Date: Tuesday, May 26
Time: 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Location: Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College St., 2nd floor, Multi-Purpose Room
Register
Join us at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus to watch, connect, and be part of the conversation.
Spots are limited. Register now.
Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com