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Steve Irvine on the TechTO stage

Steve Irvine

Founder & CEO, integrate.ai

Artificial intelligenceTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2017

Steve Irvine founded integrate.ai in Toronto in 2017 after running global partnerships for Facebook and Instagram from Menlo Park. The company builds software for machine learning across sensitive data that cannot be pooled. He told a TechTO audience in March 2017 what it means for a business to have a soul, and why he came home to build.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO17:25

Steve Irvine of Integrate.ai presents Building a Business with Soul

TechTO · March 2017
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In their words

The best companies in the world are the companies that you can look at and you really feel have depth to them or have soul.

TechTO, Mar 2017 · watch at 03:31 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Interview
Integrate.ai CEO Steve Irvine on Becoming a Global AI Leader and Toronto's EdgeBrainStation
2017

Quick answers

What is integrate.ai?

A Toronto company Irvine founded in 2017. Its platform lets organisations run machine learning and analytics across data they cannot move or share, using federated learning and differential privacy.

What did he do before?

He ran Facebook's global partnerships team from Menlo Park, covering 22 offices, and had founded two marketing technology companies before that.

Why did he build in Toronto?

He has said he chose Toronto over Silicon Valley because it is where modern AI research came from — Geoff Hinton's students now lead AI labs worldwide.

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