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Thank you for having me, Toronto. What a week! Toronto Tech Week reminded me of something important. There is only so much you can do online. The real magic still happens when people get in the same room. Startup Ecosystem Canada made that happen. They didn’t just organise events, they created the conditions for real connection. The kind that doesn’t come from messages, emails, or scheduled calls, but from shared space, spontaneous conversations, and the energy you only get when founders, investors, and operators are physically present in the same ecosystem. It is easy to underestimate that. But ecosystems are not built through content alone. They are built through collision. Through people meeting people they were not supposed to meet. Through ideas changing direction mid-conversation. Through opportunity finding you when you are not actively looking for it. That is what stood out most to me during the week.