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Communitech: TrueNorthTV: Talking Creative Destruction with Ajay Agrawal

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October 19
2020

If you’re a tech entrepreneur in Canada, you’ve most likely benefited from the work of our next guest, Ajay Agrawal. He’s the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab and co-founder of The Next 36, Next AI and Next Founders. Agrawal joins us on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at noon ET to talk entrepreneurship, the effects of COVID-19 on innovation and more. This episode is brought to you by @TD_Canada.

More about Ajay: Ajay Agrawal is the Geoffrey Taber Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. In addition, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA and Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto, Canada. He is the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab, a program to accelerate commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind and a co-founder of The Next 36, Next AI, and Next Founders, all not-for-profit programs that support young entrepreneurs, many of them working in the field of machine intelligence. He also co-founded two annual conferences on machine intelligence. #TrueNorthTV #TechForgood

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