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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2026. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Azam ↗
In their words
all the point solutions have been already solved. So anything you want to solve now is kind of a systems problem.
the reason we have so many customers in municipalities is because nobody's ever written software for them and that's why they're really happy to use it.
the thing that makes AI impressive is the same thing that makes this machine impressive, the printing press. It's not that it's a such an amazing device. It's that there's such a demand for language.
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Who is Azam Khan?
The co-founder and CEO of Trax, a Toronto building-regulations platform. Trax's team page, checked September 23, 2026, lists him as Co-founder and CEO and says he previously led Complex Systems Research at Autodesk Research.
What did Azam Khan do before Trax?
Trax's team page, checked September 23, 2026, says he was Director of Complex Systems Research at Autodesk Research, a research scientist at Alias Systems, and a software engineer at Microsoft, Adobe and ATI. It also credits him with more than 80 research papers and 29 patents.
Who co-founded Trax with Azam Khan?
Simon Breslav, Trax's co-founder and CTO. Trax's team page, checked September 23, 2026, says Breslav spent a decade at Autodesk as a Principal Research Scientist. Khan named him as his co-founder on the TechTO stage in September 2026.
What is Azam Khan's view on building with AI?
On the TechTO stage in September 2026 he said AI may not shorten the total build, but it lets a team find out what to build within days. He urged founders not to skip the second phase of narrowing down to a tested, reliable product.