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We are here to advance the augmented reality industry in Toronto by connecting and empowering its community.
AWE Nite TO is a place for developers, creators, investors, founders, corporate decision makers and curious folk to come together to celebrate the activity and devote conviction around building an augmented reality (AR) hub in Toronto.
AWE Nite TO is part of AWE, the world's #1 XR event series, which has a reach of over 250,000 professionals all dedicated to the adoption and growth of augmented reality as the next wave of computing. AWE produces conferences dedicated to XR (AR/VR/MR) in the USA, Europe, Asia and Tel Aviv and hosts AWE Nite meetup events in Toronto, San Francisco, Chicago and New York.
If you wish to demo, sponsor, speak or volunteer at one of our events, please contact us using this form: https://usa2018.augmentedworldexpo.com/awe-nite-meetups.
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How to Land a Software Engineering Job in 2027
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The software engineering market didn't collapse. It split — and most candidates are still preparing for the market that existed three years ago.
Openings exist, but they've concentrated. AI-adjacent and infrastructure roles are competitive to fill while generalist roles sit far below their pre-2022 baseline. The entry rung has thinned as AI absorbs the well-bounded work that used to train junior engineers, which pushes recent grads and career changers into a crowded middle already occupied by laid-off mid-level engineers. Time-to-hire has stretched. Fully remote postings are rare.
The bigger change is one almost nobody is preparing for: the interview itself got rebuilt. After a wave of real-time AI assistance in remote coding screens, companies responded in two directions. Some dragged interviews back on-site. Others redesigned the assessment — adding rounds where you're handed an AI assistant and evaluated on whether you can prompt it, catch its mistakes, and defend the result. Follow-up questions became the filter. Narrating your reasoning out loud went from nice-to-have to the thing you're actually scored on.
If your prep strategy is "grind 500 LeetCode problems," you are optimizing for a screen that increasingly isn't the deciding round.
Join software engineer and mentor Phong Lam for a working session on what's actually required to land a software engineering role right now. He'll cover:- Where the market genuinely split, and which side of it your background currently sits on
- Why interview loops changed in 2026 — on-site returns, AI-assisted rounds, and follow-up questions as the real filter
- How to prepare by pattern, not volume: recognizing question families instead of memorizing solutions
- The new prep skill nobody practices — debugging and defending code you didn't write
- How to talk about using AI in your work without sounding like you've outsourced your judgment
- How mid-level and senior engineers coming off a layoff avoid reading as "generalist" on paper
- Where the openings actually are, including the non-obvious companies quietly hiring software talent
- What career changers and recent grads can do to clear a bar that moved after they enrolled
Come with your questions, your loop stories, and the roles you're targeting.
ABOUT PHONG LAM
Phong Lam is a senior software engineer at Circle, with past stops at DoorDash, Walmart, and IBM. Alongside his career he mentors junior and senior engineers on algorithmic problem solving, web frameworks, and navigating interviews. Connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/phongtlam/.3 attendees
2 Hours to Freedom: Build a Job Hunt AI Agent with Claude
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Build an AI agent that job hunts while you sleep.
In this hands‑on session, you’ll use Claude to build a job hunt agent that actually saves you time instead of creating more busywork. You’ll learn how to set up focused channels for targeting roles, researching companies, and tailoring outreach, then wire in various APIs so your agent can pull fresh job postings and context on demand. We'll learn how to have a reusable channel setup and prompt patterns you can run weekly to keep your search organized, personalized, and mostly on autopilot.Build an AI agent that job hunts while you sleep.
AI agents are an emerging way to automate parts of your job search, from sourcing roles to drafting outreach, so you spend less time grinding and more time in real conversations.
In this beta, hands‑on workshop, you’ll follow a guided build to assemble a prototype “Job Search Copilot” using Claude. Rather than promising a polished, one‑click agent, we’ll focus on helping you understand the building blocks: structuring prompts and tasks, wiring simple workflows, and tailoring behaviors for your role or niche.
Because tools and setups vary, not every participant will leave with a perfectly running agent in their own environment. Instead, you’ll leave with:
- A concrete mental model of how AI agents support a job search.
- A copy of the instructor’s working example project you can study and reuse.
- Templates, code snippets, and a step‑by‑step guide you can revisit after the session to get your own version fully working.
- No prior technical experience is required, but you should be comfortable installing software and copying commands. If you hit environment issues during the live session, we’ll provide ways to follow along using prepared checkpoints so you can still absorb the patterns and process.
This session will be recorded. All registrants receive:
- The recording.
- Links to the example project.
- Written setup instructions and troubleshooting tips.
- Whether you’re a jobseeker, career coach, or a professional curious about operationalizing AI in your workflow, this workshop is designed to give you a realistic, experiment‑ready starting point, not a finished product.
What you’ll walk away with
- A reusable blueprint for building simple AI agents with modern tools.
- A prototype “Job Search Copilot” project (or access to a working example) that you can refine after the workshop.
- Practical patterns you can extend to other use cases beyond job hunting.
Finally, this session will be recorded. If you sign up and cannot make it, a recording will be sent to you.
1 attendeeAI Professional Certification Summit!
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Learn how to become an AI consultant ! This AI web class will give you the tools you need to succeed even if you have no experience!
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In this transformative webinar, you'll discover:
How to embrace the AI revolution to reshape your business, launch new ideas to the market and create immense wealth.
Strategies for selecting the perfect AI solutions tailored to your unique business needs and goals.
The secret to unlocking time freedom and endless opportunities for you and your family.
An inside look at how their private clients are transforming their businesses daily with AI automated workflows
And more!
The speaker will present about how to use AI to get more high quality leads and appointments booked on your calendar using bots, how to increase your conversion, launch products faster than ever to the marketplace, immediately internationalize your company with new mind blowing AI tools (that handle live language and video translation), how to automate mundane tasks and much, much more!
Register for this mind expanding web-class where he shows you incredible demos of things they are doing to rapidly launch grow and scale their clients companies and projects, and what tools they are using daily to exponentially scale up the revenue of more than 60K entrepreneurs, business owners , agencies, experts and professional service companies that have participated in this course already this year!
Remember, opportunities like these are rare. Massive wealth is changing hands right now due to this transforming technology! Register now and secure your spot on this life-changing webinar!
Here's a list of ways AI can allow you to become more efficient and productive!
- Automate customer service with AI-powered chatbots
- Enhance personalized marketing with AI-driven customer segmentation
- Optimize pricing strategies through AI-based dynamic pricing
- Improve sales forecasting with AI-powered predictive analytics
- Streamline inventory management using AI for demand forecasting
- Enhance content creation with AI-generated copy and visuals
- Implement AI-driven A/B testing for marketing campaigns
- Improve lead scoring and qualification with AI algorithms
- Enhance SEO with AI-powered keyword analysis and optimization
- Automate email marketing campaigns using AI-driven personalization
- Use AI to identify and target high-value customers
- Implement AI-driven customer churn prediction and prevention
- Enhance ad targeting and bidding strategies with AI
- Automate social media management using AI-powered tools
- Improve product recommendations with AI-driven algorithms
- Implement AI-powered sentiment analysis for brand monitoring
- Enhance user experience with AI-driven website optimization
- Improve fraud detection and prevention with AI-based systems
- Streamline supply chain management with AI-driven logistics
- Use AI to optimize employee recruitment and retention
- Automate repetitive tasks with AI-powered Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
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