{"id":33164,"date":"2026-05-05T19:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/33164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:44:16","slug":"toronto-tech-week-reveals-new-homecoming-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/33164\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tech Week reveals new Homecoming speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Khazzam, Andrew D’Souza, Lulu Cheng Meservey, and others join lineup for official mainstage event.<\/p>\n

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Float co-founder and CEO Rob Khazzam, Google DeepMind\u2019s Amit Vadi, and Boardy founder Andrew D\u2019Souza are among the latest speakers joining Toronto Tech Week\u2019s official mainstage event.<\/p>\n

Homecoming<\/a> returns for its second year on May 27, where it will anchor Toronto Tech Week\u2019s days-long celebration of Canadian technology. Hosted at History, Homecoming aims to bring together more than 1,000 of Canada\u2019s top builders for a day of \u201creal conversations, bold ideas, and the energy of a city and country ready to build.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bLast year, Homecoming reached more than 100,000 live viewers and featured some of the biggest names in Canadian tech.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year at History, we have a lineup that genuinely reflects the breadth of what\u2019s being built in Canada right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mell Truong,
Toronto Tech Week<\/p>\n

Along with Khazzam, Vadi, and D\u2019Souza, organizers announced on Tuesday several other big-name guests for Homecoming 2026. They include Rostra founder and CEO Lulu Cheng Meservey, OpenCode founder and CEO Jay V, Wygo co-founder and CEO Jocelyne Murphy, Waye founder Sinead Bovell, and Shopify VP and head of engineering Farhan Thawar.<\/p>\n

This new crop of speakers will join a lineup that already features Canadian tech luminaries like Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst and Shopify CEO Tobi L\u00fctke, who is returning for a second year.<\/p>\n

Several other homegrown Canadian tech leaders will also appear at the event, including Andrew Macdonald, president and COO of Uber, Andrew Chau, co-founder of Neo Financial, Emily Hosie, CEO of Rebel, and Alex Danco, editor-at-large at Andreessen Horowitz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year at History, we have a lineup that genuinely reflects the breadth of what\u2019s being built in Canada right now,\u201d Mell Truong, a Toronto Tech Week founding organizer, told BetaKit. \u201cLulu, Farhan, Sinead, Rob, and everyone joining them aren\u2019t just impressive names, they\u2019re the people proving what Canadian tech is capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homecoming is one of more than 400 events that will happen as Toronto Tech Week descends on the city from May 25-29. Last year, more than 15,000 people attended, making the non-profit venture the largest grassroots tech gathering in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year, organizers have already planned more events, invited more speakers, and are preparing for a significant turnout.<\/p>\n

BetaKit is a\u00a0Toronto Tech Week<\/a>\u00a0media partner. With files from Douglas Soltys.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy Wax Pencil Imagery. Photo by Nicole Richard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Khazzam, Andrew D’Souza, Lulu Cheng Meservey, and others join lineup for official mainstage event. Float co-founder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14839,14841,14840,414,14850,14837,2852,6186,14845,14847,14843,94,14844,14838,14842,3284,14849,48,11780,14848,14846],"class_list":{"0":"post-33164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-amit-vadi","9":"tag-andrew-dsouza","10":"tag-boardy","11":"tag-events","12":"tag-farhan-thawar","13":"tag-float","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-history","16":"tag-jay-v","17":"tag-jocelyne-murphy","18":"tag-lulu-meservey","19":"tag-ontario","20":"tag-opencode","21":"tag-rob-khazzam","22":"tag-rostra","23":"tag-shopify","24":"tag-sinead-bovell","25":"tag-toronto","26":"tag-toronto-tech-week","27":"tag-waye","28":"tag-wygo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}