In this episode of WRLWND Radio, Marcello Sukhdeo talks with Allen Lalonde, Senior Executive for IBM Research and Development on the opening of the IBM Innovation Space, a new start up hub in Toronto which is designed to accelerate innovation.
On September 21, IBM in partnership with the Ontario Centres of Excellence and the Government of Ontario launched the IBM Innovation Space. The objective of this hub is to provide the means to help entrepreneurs, startups, and developers so that they can work on innovate ideas and move rapidly their business plans from research to commercialization.
In this interview, Allen Lalonde talks about why Toronto was chosen for this space, the benefits to entrepreneurs and startups by being a part of this community, the two biggest challenges that the province has been facing with startups and how to become a part of this community.
Thanks to Allen La-lone and team at IBM Canada for sharing the vision of this initiative and how startups can move rapidly to commercialization.
Thanks for listening.
