Consulting Groups Toronto

Snowflake BI Day with Sigma and Omni: Practical Labs

## Snowflake Toronto User Group: Snowflake BI Day with Sigma and Omni: Practical Labs We are excited to invite you to the next Snowflake Toronto User Group meeting on **Tuesday, November 17th, 2026, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM**. Talks will start promptly at 6:00 PM. **On the Agenda:** Join us for a hands-on BI Day focusing on Sigma Computing's and Omni's latest BI and AI features. You will work through practical exercises in hands-on labs led by Sigma Computing and Omni, exploring modern BI workflows, AI-driven analytics, and interactive dashboarding. Here is how the event runs: Interactive lab sessions showcasing advanced BI capabilities and AI integration from Sigma Computing and Omni. This is a practical, hands-on workshop, so please bring your laptop ready to follow along and work through real-world exercises. Small group discussions and Q&A will allow you to ask specific questions and leave with actionable skills you can use right away. Please remember to bring your laptop to participate in the exercises. Afterward, we will network and socialize over light refreshments. **Networking & Community:** A light meal and refreshments will be served, and attendees will receive exclusive items from the Snowflake community. Don't miss out on this opportunity to network with fellow Snowflake users and gain valuable insights. RSVP now to secure your spot and join our growing community. Please register to participate in this exciting event! **Location:** OneEleven, 325 Front St. W, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2Y1 **4th floor**, left of the elevators

FREE Spanish, English, and French Oral Conversational Classes4 Adults!!

\*These classes are not a language exchange, but instead are meant to be a step in between so that students feel confident maintaining in depth and grammatically correct oral conversations outside of class\* \***Meetup event numbers only tend to show new students registering and do not include returning students attending class.** **Per class, there is an average of 7 students.** The first 2 classes are free and then only cost between $18 and $36 depending on which type of class you want to continue with\* These French, English (For Spanish and French speakers only), and Spanish classes are primarily meant for adults who are travellers, or who are planning to live in a French, English, or Spanish-speaking country. The classes are primarily oral-based through guided conversations. They will teach you how to handle conversations in situations such as **"Going to the Convenience Store"**, **"Making Plans"**, **"Negotiating Prices"**, and **"Going out for a Drink"**. To ensure that students get used to using the language automatically, students will learn to maintain contextual conversations with timing before moving on to the next lesson. Call (647)787-9953, e-mail us info@monkeylingo.ca, or visit monkeylingo.ca for more information! **Online and private classes are also available!** No other language classes are as conversational as these ones. We guarantee it! Cheap parking can be found using the "Spot Hero" app.

Humans in the Loop: Building and hiring for AI at Questrade

​This is a free event, but approval is required. Please apply through this link: https://luma.com/humans-in-the-loop-nov-19-2026 **AI agents are becoming the new front door to financial products, and most companies don’t own that interface. So how do you build something people can trust anyway?** ​Join us for an evening with Questrade’s engineering, product, and hiring leaders. You’ll hear candid talks and a presentation on what it takes to ship real software in the era of Agentic AI, including how we built a production MCP server enabling customers to use their own AI tools, with a human deterministically in the loop. **Why attend** * ​**See how we built it:** why we created an MCP server, and how granular authorization keeps customers in control. * ​**Go deep on the hard parts:** authentication and delegation for agents acting on a customer’s behalf, and how we design the experience when an agent sits between us and our customers. * ​**Learn how we measure it:** tool evals, performance at scale, and how we bring users up the trust ladder. * ​**Meet the humans behind it:** Questrade’s engineering, product, and AI leaders, plus the hiring managers and team members you’d work with. Hear how we hire for AI and ask them anything about the work and the teams building it. ​We’ll close the night with an open networking reception, so you can keep the conversation going over drinks and passed canapés. **Agenda** * ​**5:30 pm:** Doors open. Check in and mingle. * ​**6:30 pm:** Talk and live demo: *Humans in the Loop: Building and hiring for AI at Questrade* (presented by Bartek Kowalski, Product Manager, MCP, and Kelvin Ferreira, Senior Principal Software Engineer) * ​**7:00 pm:** Panel and open Q&A with Questrade’s engineering, product, and hiring leaders * ​**7:30 pm:** Networking reception with open bar and passed canapés * ​**9:00 pm:** End of evening **Who it's for** ​Engineers, product managers, and AI professionals who want a real look at how a Canadian fintech builds and hires in this space. **On stage** * **​[Kelvin Ferreira](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvinrodri/?utm_source=luma), Senior Principal Software Engineer:** Kelvin is a hands-on engineer behind Questrade’s MCP and API strategy. He designs how AI agents connect to Questrade securely – from OAuth 2.1 authentication and delegation to granular, tool-level permissions – making sure customers stay in control of every action. * **​[Bartek Kowalski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartek-kowalski-68117b1ab/?utm_source=luma), Product Manager, MCP:** Bartek leads product for Questrade’s MCP, shaping how customers experience Questrade through the AI tools they already use. He works on a hard question: how do you build trust and a great product when you don’t own the interface? * **​[Andrej Simeonov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/drej/?utm_source=luma), Head of Technology, Questrade Experience Platform:** Andrej leads the engineering behind the Questrade Experience Platform, the foundation that powers how millions of Canadians interact with their money. He’s focused on building infrastructure that scales reliably while staying ready for new ways of reaching customers, including AI agents. * **​[David Wieler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwieler/?utm_source=luma), Chief AI Officer:** David shapes the architecture and AI infrastructure strategy across the Questrade ecosystem. He leads how the company adopts AI and agentic tooling safely and at scale, from the platforms engineers build on to the standards that keep them secure. **Open roles at Questrade** * ​[Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/17908?utm_source=luma) * ​[Senior Manager, Software Engineering](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18018?utm_source=luma) * ​[Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18157?utm_source=luma) * ​[Senior Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18160?utm_source=luma) * ​[Team Lead, Software Engineering](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18144?utm_source=luma) * ​[Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/17837?utm_source=luma) * ​[Principal Product Designer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/17653?utm_source=luma) * ​[Senior Product Designer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18149?utm_source=luma) * ​[Senior Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18021?utm_source=luma) * ​[Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18045?utm_source=luma) * ​[Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/17444?utm_source=luma) * ​[Associate Product Manager](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/17940?utm_source=luma) * ​[Senior Product Manager](https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/qfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/18010?utm_source=luma) **About ​[TechTO](https://www.techto.org/?utm_source=luma)** TechTO is Canada’s largest community of tech builders - connecting 70,000+ founders, operators, and investors through year-round meetups, curated dinners, peer tables, and media storytelling. Learn more here: [https://www.techto.org/](https://www.techto.org/?utm_source=luma) **About [Questrade](https://www.questrade.com/?utm_source=luma)** ​For 27 years, we’ve remained independent and 100% Canadian-owned. We are a 13x winner of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and a 2x winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers. Our ecosystem includes Questrade, Questbank, Questrade Wealth Management, Community Trust, Zolo, and Flexiti, all working together to help Canadians become financially secure through cutting-edge technology. ​We’re building something worth being part of. Come see for yourself

FREE Spanish, English, and French Oral Conversational Class 4 Adults!

\*These classes are not a language exchange, but instead are meant to be a step in between so that students feel confident maintaining in depth and grammatically correct oral conversations outside of class\* \***Meetup event numbers only tend to show new students registering and do not include returning students attending class.** **Per class, there is an average of 7 students.** The first 2 classes are free and then only cost between $18 and $35 depending on which type of class you want to continue with\* These French, English (For Spanish and French speakers only), and Spanish classes are primarily meant for adults who are travellers, or who are planning to live in a French, English, or Spanish-speaking country. The classes are primarily oral-based through guided conversations. They will teach you how to handle conversations in situations such as **"Going to the Convenience Store"**, **"Making Plans"**, **"Negotiating Prices"**, and **"Going out for a Drink"**. To ensure that students get used to using the language automatically, students will learn to maintain contextual conversations with timing before moving on to the next lesson. Call (647)787-9953, e-mail us info@monkeylingo.ca, or visit monkeylingo.ca for more information! **Online and private classes are also available!** No other language classes are as conversational as these ones. We guarantee it! Cheap parking can be found using the "Spot Hero" app.

Toronto dbt Meetup, Ahead of the Snow!

Welcome to the Toronto dbt Meetup! dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data. Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, AI, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. **To attend, please read the Health and Safety Policy and Terms of Participation: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy)** **Agenda** \*5:30 > Arrive, Eat, Drink, and be Merry (aka Socialize) 6:00 > Lightning talk 6:30 > Speaker 1 7:00 > Speaker 2 7:30 > Socialize **Venue** 📍Huge thanks to [Wealthsimple](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wealthsimple) for hosting us this time! 🙌 Use elevator to get to the 4th floor for check-in. **Speaker Sessions:** Speaker TBA * **Topic**: dbt Charts [Kanchana Padmanabhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanchanapadmanabhan/), Great-West Lifeco * **Topic**: TBD [Andresa Andrade](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andresadeandrade/), Affirm * **Topic:** Scaling analytics productivity with AI Reach out if you're interested in volunteering/speaking! ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: [https://www.getdbt.com/community/](https://www.getdbt.com/community/)🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the #local-toronto channel in dbt Slack ([https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/)). dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: [https://www.getdbt.com/](https://www.getdbt.com/)

FREE Oral Conversational Spanish, English, and French Classes 4 Adults!

\*These classes are not a language exchange, but instead are meant to be a step in between so that students feel confident maintaining in depth and grammatically correct oral conversations outside of class\* \***Meetup event numbers only tend to show new students registering and do not include returning students attending class.**\* \*Per class, there is an average of 7 students. \*\*The first 2 classes are free and then only cost between 18 and 35 depending on which type of class you want to continue with\* These French, English (For Spanish and French speakers only), and Spanish classes are primarily meant for adults who are travellers, or who are planning to live in a French, English, or Spanish-speaking country. The classes are primarily oral-based through guided conversations. They will teach you how to handle conversations in situations such as **"Going to the Convenience Store"**, **"Making Plans"**, **"Negotiating Prices"**, and **"Going out for a Drink"**. To ensure that students get used to using the language automatically, students will learn to maintain contextual conversations with timing before moving on to the next lesson. Call (647)787-9953, e-mail us info@monkeylingo.ca, or visit monkeylingo.ca for more information! **Online and private classes are also available!** No other language classes are as conversational as these ones. We guarantee it! Cheap parking can be found using the "Spot Hero" app.

SD walk & talk

We’re heading back into the ravine! Our Service Safari continues, and this time we’re mixing a little walking with a little collaborative thinking. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring Toronto’s **Vale of Avoca Ravine** through a service design lens. We’ve walked the trails, gathered observations, shared perspectives, and started connecting the dots. Now we’re heading back outdoors to see what else we can discover together! ### **What’s the plan?** We’ll start with a short walk through the ravine, revisiting some of the places, observations, and questions that have come up along the way. Then we’ll gather around the picnic tables at David A. Balfour Park for a **mapping jam** — using flip charts, sticky notes and markers to bring our observations together, explore different perspectives and see what insights and opportunities emerge. Think of it as part nature walk, part collaborative workshop, and plenty of good conversation! ### **Who can join?** **Everyone is welcome!** You don’t need to have attended the previous Service Safari events or be an experienced service designer. Whether you’re curious about service design, urban nature, public spaces or simply enjoy exploring the city with interesting people, come along! ### **Bring:** Comfortable walking shoes, warm layers, a hot drink if you’d like, and your curiosity! We’ll bring the mapping materials. **A note on weather:** This is an outdoor event, so we’ll keep an eye on the forecast and share any changes if needed. See you on the trails!

Business Insights with Andy Li

It's a private session. Not a group event. Some sessions and diagnostics are done in chat text format, no live call is required needed. Advanced sessions are done with the help of personal video call. **Business Consulting with Andy Li** Unlock powerful business insights with Andy Li. With 20 years of experience and multiple certifications, Andy offers professional guidance to elevate your business success and personal growth. ### Get Clarity and Solutions **Services:** - **Business Constellations:** Unlock your professional potential. - **Family Constellations:** Resolve issues affecting business dynamics. - **Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy:** Overcome personal blocks impacting performance. **Benefits:** - **Enhanced Decision-Making:** Clear, actionable insights. - **Conflict Resolution:** Address internal and external conflicts. - **Strategic Planning:** Develop effective strategies. - **Improved Leadership:** Boost your leadership skills. - **Increased Productivity:** Overcome barriers to productivity. - **Achieve Goals:** Gain guidance on money, business, and personal desires. **Why Attend?** - **Tailored Insights:** Customized guidance for any business or personal issue. **Personal Sessions:** - Available to book at your best time online or held at the Music Garden. **Pricing:** - Free express consultations ONLINE are available. - Offline sessions starting from $25 CAD / 15 min. **How to Participate:** - **Pre-Registration Required:** Register at least one day before the event. - **Easy Registration:** Message WhatsApp at 437-606-6502. 🔗 [Register Now](https://wa.me/%2B14376066502) Don’t miss out on valuable insights to enhance your business success and achieve your goals. Reserve your spot today! **Certifications:** - Certified Hypnotherapist - Licensed Psychologist - Family Constellations Instructor - Business Constellations Expert - Master Teacher of Runic Reiki, Tantra Reiki, Kundalini Reiki - Magister of Egyptian Temple Magic and Greek Mysteries - President of Academy of Temple Arts **Details & Testimonials:** [PsiTrends.com](http://www.psitrends.com)

2026.06 - TrueNorthCTO (Toronto)

FREE: City of Toronto Small Business Forum 2026

Join Toronto’s small business community for the City of Toronto’s Small Business Forum 2026, hosted by the Toronto Small Business Enterprise Centre. Tuesday, November 17, 2026 8:30 AM–3:30 PM EST St. Lawrence Market North, 92 Front Street East, Toronto This free, full-day, in-person forum offers expert insights, practical learning and networking for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. The program includes keynote speakers, speed mentorship, roundtables, a trade show and a local marketplace. REGISTER WITH THE EVENT ORGANIZER: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-city-of-torontos-small-business-forum-2026-tickets-2002892787243 Spaces are limited. Please register separately through Eventbrite; a Meetup RSVP does not reserve admission. Agenda and updates: https://www.toronto.ca/BusinessForum Shared with our Meetup community as an external learning and networking opportunity. The City of Toronto is the event organizer.

Hands-on Lab: Shift left with reliability testing

**BRING YOUR COMPUTERS TO THIS EVENT! And check out the prerequisites below.** Join us for the second hands-on lab session, snacks, and discussion! This time around instead of talks we are going to run a free hands-on lab on how to get started with reliability testing. We'll teach you how to setup various levels of reliability testing for your application services. **Repository** https://github.com/grafana/grafanacon-2026-k6-workshop Please use Git and clone the above repository before coming to the workshop to save time and get started faster. **Prerequisites** In order to participate in the lab, you must have a laptop with Wi-Fi/Internet connectivity, running Linux/MacOS/Windows. * The following also needs to be installed: * Git * IDE installed like [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/download) or [Cursor](https://cursor.com/download). * [k6 OSS](https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/set-up/install-k6/) binary installed * [k6 studio](https://grafana.com/docs/k6-studio/set-up/install/) installed **Again special thanks to Nokia and Mark Prosser for hosting us at their downtown office.** **Agenda:** 6:00-6:15 PM: Arrivals and introductions 6:15-7:40 PM: Hands-On Lab 7:40-8:00 PM: Q&A, networking and wrap up **Facilitators:** Cristiano Ventura, Marylia Gutierrez and Nikola Grcevski

From Agentic Development to Automated Delivery

How do you move from actively guiding AI agents to having them carry work through your team’s development process? Join us for a practical session on agentic workflows in GitHub. We’ll show how people and agents clarify requirements, plan changes, and capture project knowledge, then use those shared skills and context to automate tasks such as assessing issues and reviewing pull requests. Through demos, we’ll explore how these steps can connect into a workflow that takes a small bug from report to proposed fix, helping teams move faster and reduce bottlenecks. Along the way, we’ll show how engineers can inspect the agent’s work, step in when it needs refinement, and retain control over what merges. **Elevator Access:** Upon arrival, scan your event QR code (emailed separately by CIBC SQUARE Guest Registration) at the elevator lobby. The system will direct you to the designated elevator. Simply follow the instructions displayed by the scanner to reach the 44th floor. *Come at 5:30 PM to grab some pizza and network. The presentation kicks off at 6:00 PM!*