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Rohan Jayasekera on the TechTO stage

Rohan Jayasekera

Chief Technology Officer, hungerhub

TelecomTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2017

Rohan Jayasekera co-founded Sympatico and was its CTO, building what became Canada's first mass-market consumer internet service. A Waterloo computer science graduate, he was CTO of the Toronto grocery-delivery startup Urbery when he took the TechTO stage in 2017, and is now CTO at the office catering company hungerhub.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Rohan Jayasekera of Urbery presents TechFromTO: World Firsts

TechTO · April 2017
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Rohan ↗

In their words

When you create something that's new, it's yours for the rest of your life.

TechTO, Apr 2017 · watch at 06:54 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Article
Five reasons why Toronto is a pioneer in tech from Urbery's Rohan JayasekeraBetaKit
2017

Quick answers

What was Sympatico?

Bell's consumer internet service, which Jayasekera co-founded and built as CTO. He argued on the TechTO stage in 2017 that it was a world first for mass-market internet access, and that it continues today under names like Bell Internet.

What was his TechTO talk about?

Five things Toronto did first — the first personal computer (1974), Steve Mann's wearable computing, Carolyn Burke's 1995 diary site as the first blog, and Sympatico among them.

What does he do now?

He is CTO at hungerhub, the Toronto office-catering company, per his own published profile.

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