# Rami Alhamad

**Technology entrepreneur, AI policy contributor, and founder based in Ottawa, Canada.**

## About

Rami Alhamad is the founder of [Alma](https://alma.food), an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights.

He previously founded PUSH, a wearable sports technology company for biomechanics and movement analytics. PUSH was acquired by WHOOP in 2021, after which Rami served as VP of Product at WHOOP.

Rami is a Venture Partner at [Antler](https://antler.co) and a Founder in Residence at [Mila](https://mila.quebec), the Quebec AI Institute.

He is based in **Ottawa, Ontario, Canada**.

## Expertise

- Artificial intelligence and machine learning (applied, product)
- AI policy, governance, and regulation in Canada
- Technology entrepreneurship and venture building
- Digital health and nutrition technology
- Sports technology and wearables
- Product management and consumer software

## AI Policy & Publications

- **[Bridging the AI Policy Gap: Perspectives from Canada's Builders](https://www.cigionline.org/articles/bridging-the-ai-policy-gap-perspectives-from-canadas-builders/)**. Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), 2024. Contributor representing the perspective of Canadian technology builders on AI policy and governance.
- **[CIGI Expert Profile](https://www.cigionline.org/people/rami-alhamad/)**. Centre for International Governance Innovation

## Talks & Writings

- **[Building Users Before Models](https://gamma.app/docs/Building-Users-Before-Models-m22as7ipfyl8trn)**. Talk at Mila, 2026. On customer discovery and product thinking before model development.
- **[Action Potential](https://actionpotential.co)**. Newsletter on technology and society.

## Projects

- **[Crew](https://www.ramihmd.com/crew)**. A community marketplace and live leaderboard for useful Grok Bot teammates.
- **[Redpen](https://redpen.ramihmd.com)**. An open-source, browser-based review tool for marking up app screenshots, dictating feedback locally, and downloading the annotated set. [Source](https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV/redpen).
- **[Dreamers](https://www.ramihmd.com/dreamers)**. An immersive art timeline tracing human migration from our earliest journeys to a speculative Mars in 2050, built with the CanvasUI Bend effect.
- **[AI Party Games](https://www.ramihmd.com/projects/ai-party-games)**. Multiplayer games where the LLM runs on each player's device with no server inference.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ramihmd.com
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ramialhamad
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/ramimatic (@ramimatic)
- GitHub: https://github.com/HMDRAMS-DEV
- Alma: https://alma.food