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3 weeks ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
At Web Summit Vancouver, experts speaking on the panel "A History of the Future of Healthcare" delivered a striking message: medicine is moving faster than ever, but it's not fast enough. This paradox set the stage for a discussion about the transformation of healthcare via artificial intelligence (AI). While many industries have been completely revolutionized by technology, the healthcare sector has often lagged, clinging to outdated practices.
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3 weeks ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
The Vancouver edition of Web Summit took place last week, bringing 15,727 attendees from 117 countries together, including 159 partners, 681 investors and 50 trade delegations. A record-breaking 1,108 startups across a range of tech-touching industries exhibited, showcasing their products, services and ideas, from groundbreaking biotech advancements to revolutionary sustainable energy solutions.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
One of the most anticipated panels at this year's Consensus event, held during the Toronto-based Canada Crypto Week, shifted the focus from traditional crypto hubs like New York and Silicon Valley to Toronto.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
Tokenization emerged as a dominant theme at this year's Toronto-based Consensus conference, with panelists across the event emphasizing its growing role in reshaping global finance. Speakers noted that as regulatory clarity improves worldwide and as institutional adoption accelerates, tokenized assets are increasingly being viewed as an accessible on-ramp for retail investors.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
The global tech spotlight has turned to Vancouver, BC, this week as the city hosts its inaugural Web Summit. The event kicked off on Tuesday (May 27), and over the next three days will draw thousands of global attendees, including startups and investors, marking a major milestone for Canada’s growing status in the innovation economy.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
Consensus 2025 discussions highlighted the rapid growth and evolving landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi). Panels centered on the adoption of decentralized exchanges, the surge in stablecoin usage, the growing interest in tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs) and the momentum around possible yield-generating protocols. These discussions took place against the backdrop of a Bitcoin price rally as the GENIUS Act made its way through Congress in the US.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
The Blockchain Futurist Conference, one of several Web3 events held in Toronto during Canada’s fifth annual Crypto Week, dove into the industry’s future potential and the regulatory gaps that might stall progress. Across a slew of keynote panels and conversations, industry insiders kept coming back to a similar conclusion: Web3 is global by design, but regulation remains fragmented.
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1 month ago | 
finance.einnews.com | Meagen Seatter
The Blockchain Futurist Conference, one of several Web3 events held in Toronto during Canada’s fifth annual Crypto Week, dove into the industry’s potential and the regulatory gaps that might stall progress. Across a slew of keynote panels and conversations, industry insiders kept coming back to a similar conclusion: Web3 is global by design, but regulation remains fragmented.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
From May 11 to 17, world leaders in blockchain will gather in Toronto for Canada Crypto Week, a series of events highlighting the evolution of digital finance and the Web3 economy. In focus this year are deep dives into pressing topics like regulation, tokenization, decentralized finance (DeFi), the future of Web3 infrastructure and how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the crypto landscape. Also on the agenda is Canada’s growing role in the global crypto conversation.
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1 month ago | 
investingnews.com | Meagen Seatter
When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected Lykos Therapeutics’ new drug application for MDMA-assisted therapy last August, the initial disappointment cast a shadow over the psychedelics industry. However, the sector is seeing a resurgence of optimism in 2025 on the back of various US developments.
