Open Source and Canada's Third Path doesn't get easier by adding people. It gets easier by adding judgment, and then by removing the things that distract from it.
Venue. Builder roundtables. Year. 2026. Materials/source.
Short summary. Sovereignty without isolation.
What the talk covers
The talk is built around concrete examples — Alma's production rollouts, the watcher daemons, the rebuilt coach, and the gradual-rollout pattern. It avoids stock slides about AI and stays specific about decisions and trade-offs.
Who it's for
Best suited for residency programs, founder cohorts, and engineering teams who want to compress a year of trial and error into a couple of hours.
Synthesis preserves disagreement; summary erases it.
— Rami Alhamad, consuming davos with ai
For the longer version, see Action Potential and the library of related pieces.
About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.