Colin Toal

Principal, AI/ML Business Development, Amazon Web Services

CloudTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2021

Colin Toal works on AI/ML business development for startups at Amazon Web Services in Toronto. He was previously CTO of Chisel AI, which applied natural-language processing to commercial insurance underwriting until it filed for bankruptcy in April 2022. His TechTO talk is about creating change inside both large companies and startups.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO24:22

Invoking Change in Both Large & Start-Up Companies | Colin Toal

TechTO · October 2021

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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2021. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Colin ↗

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Podcast

Invoking Change in Both Large & Start-Up Companies | Colin ToalTechTO Together · mentions Colin

2021

Around the web ×2

Podcast

Insurance AI: How Chisel.ai is reinventing the commercial insurance market with Colin Toal, CTOProductive AI

2024

Video

Colin Toal, Chisel AI, Natural Language Understanding in the Real WorldNorth Technology People

2021

Quick answers

What is Colin Toal's role?

Principal, Business Development for AI/ML at Amazon Web Services, working with startups. He is based in Toronto.

What was Chisel AI?

A Toronto company founded in 2015 by Ron Glozman that used AI and NLP to read unstructured commercial insurance documents. Toal was its CTO. It filed an assignment in bankruptcy in April 2022 after a funding round stalled.

What does Colin Toal speak about?

Building something from scratch inside both large corporations and startups — how similar those paths are, and how they differ.

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