“I had the chance to work with Mike Spendlove for over 5 years. Mike is one of those rare people who leave their mark on your career in such a way that you're ever grateful to have worked with them even years later. One thing that struck me early on is Mike's contagious positive energy and his ambition to grow his people. During early days of Infusion, Mike has helped grow many senior developers and architects into client facing, confident consultants - a trait which many developers need help with. He has led onshore and offshore development teams in multiple high-visibility projects, and delivered prolific results even in unfavorable conditions. When he took over the reign as the Development Manager, people cheerfully followed and learned from him as he organized and delivered multiple social and training events; including Team Leadership, Agile, Modern Web and Technical Interviewing topics. He has helped me and many others on interviewing and helped grow our Web Practice by finding and hiring great talent. His trustworthiness as a consultant and his relationships with our clients helped retain their business on multiple occasions. Mike's technical and natural leadership skills eventually positioned him as the leader of our Practice Experts group, a crème de la crème of developers and architects working on cutting edge problems; and later on he was appointed as the Application Development Offer Lead (Director) after Avanade acquision, where he managed solution offerings and helped grow our consulting business. I'm happy to have worked with such a talented leader as Mike and hope that our paths will one day cross again.”
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What a great couple of days with Canada's fintech sector this week. The energy and determination to make financial services better for Canadians is…
What a great couple of days with Canada's fintech sector this week. The energy and determination to make financial services better for Canadians is…
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We're hiring software engineers at Substack, and I want you to DM me about it. I'm really proud to work here. We’re a tech company, yes. But our…
We're hiring software engineers at Substack, and I want you to DM me about it. I'm really proud to work here. We’re a tech company, yes. But our…
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Excited to join the panel at OneEleven’s Pitch Showcase - Elevate Edition tomorrow. Looking forward to discussing what investors look for and sharing…
Excited to join the panel at OneEleven’s Pitch Showcase - Elevate Edition tomorrow. Looking forward to discussing what investors look for and sharing…
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Had a great opportunity earlier this week to speak about Indigenous loan guarantees and represent the Building Ontario Fund’s Indigenous…
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Downtown Toronto today with some of the Architech team at the Microsoft Partner event, and the message is clear: AI success starts with the right foundations. Microsoft put a spotlight on the technical advantages of the Azure stack (from cloud databases to enterprise-grade security) showing how they address real concerns around security posture, scalability, and speed to innovate. The reality is that AI doesn’t exist in a vacuum. To get beyond proofs of concept, organizations need solid infrastructure, governance, and cloud-native design. Other themes: 1. AI is everywhere. Microsoft is embedding AI into every partner motion. 2. Microsoft + Nvidia partnership is unlocking compute and model performance at a scale that makes once-intractable problems solvable, driving breakthroughs across industries from healthcare to manufacturing to agriculture. 3. Adoption is about alignment. Success with GenAI depends on matching the right technology and approach to a company’s goals, rather than chasing hype. The focus is shifting from experimentation to purposeful outcomes. 4. The rise of frontier firms. Leaders will rewire around agents that handle knowledge, workflows, and customer interactions. Those that master agentic delivery will set the pace, leaving others scrambling to catch up. The conversation today reinforced that the gap between leaders and laggards is about to widen. And tomorrow it continues with the #MicrosoftAITour in Toronto: a full day of keynotes, labs, and hands-on sessions to show how to put this into practice. We’ll be there. If you are too, let’s connect. #MicrosoftAITour #Azure #AI #Toronto
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