Most public conversations about University of Guelph Alumni Panel skip the parts that matter to people actually doing the work.
Venue. University of Guelph. Year. Periodic. Materials/source.
Short summary. MSc Engineering Systems & Computing alumni.
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
The audience that gets the most out of it is the one already shipping something — even small, even broken — and wanting a pattern language to refine it.
Canada isn't losing the AI race because of a lack of investment. It's losing it in the middle.
— Rami Alhamad, canada strong fund startup ecosystem
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.