Tech Talent Tuesdays - 2026 Series

Welcome to 2026 Tech Talent Tuesdays: Calgary Workforce Advantage Edition

This is a free, bi-weekly gathering for professionals and companies in Calgary’s tech and innovation ecosystem.

This series supports Calgary’s tech workforce advantage by connecting employer priorities with community learning, creating a cycle where events generate insights that inform future programming.

As part of this programming, there are bi-weekly events to showcase learnings in tech, roundtables among tech companies to identify key learning areas,  and a report to share key findings.

This event is a collaboration among Calgary Economic Development, Careers in Technology and Innovation, Platform Calgary and the Government of Alberta's Labour Market Development Agreement (The Province of Alberta is working in partnership with the Government of Canada to provide employment support programs and services). As well as a collection of companies from Calgary’s Tech & Innovation Ecosystem.
 

March 17: The AI Era: The Tech Role Reset

AI is changing how we build, lead, and deliver.

But the biggest shift is not the technology.
It is the roles behind it.

Join us for The AI Era: The Tech Role Reset, a conversation about how AI is reshaping the balance between generalists and specialists and what that means for your career, your team, and your organization.

The rules are evolving.

Specialists are being augmented.
Generalists are gaining leverage.
Leaders are rethinking how teams are structured and how value is created.

The question is no longer “Will AI impact my role?”
It is “How will my role evolve because of it?”

This session will explore what role evolution looks like in the real world across people strategy, engineering, leadership, and team design.

If you work in tech, product, engineering, operations, HR, or leadership and want to understand how to stay relevant and valuable in the AI era, this conversation is for you.

Featured Speakers

Blackline Safety

🔹 Meaghan Whitney, Chief People Officer

Meaghan leads Human Resources, health and safety, payroll and benefits, and performance and learning at Blackline Safety. Central to her leadership philosophy is an unwavering commitment to culture, communication, and engagement in support of company values.

With more than 14 years of experience across HR, health and safety, organizational development, and instructional design, Meaghan brings deep insight into how roles evolve inside scaling organizations. She is a Chartered Professional in Human Resources and a Certified Professional of the Society for Human Resource Management.

She will share how AI is influencing workforce design, talent strategy, and the future of specialization inside modern tech companies.

Neo Financial

🔹 Júlio Falbo, Staff Software Developer

Júlio is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Neo, where he leads a squad of high performing engineers across a modern multi stack environment.

With over a decade in software development, including more than four years in leadership, Júlio believes that programming languages are tools, not silver bullets. The real skill lies in choosing the right approach for the problem at hand.

A T shaped leader and advocate for data driven decision making, Júlio champions collaborative leadership and measurable impact. His teams work across Java, Spring, Ruby on Rails, Node, React, RabbitMQ, Docker, Snowflake, Azure, and more.

He will share how AI is changing the expectations of engineers and how combining broad thinking with deep expertise is becoming the new standard.

What We Will Dig Into

• How AI is reshaping the balance between generalists and specialists
• What deep expertise looks like in an AI augmented world
• How leaders should rethink team design and capability building
• The rise of the T shaped professional
• What skills will matter most in the next three to five years

📍 Location: Platform Innovation Centre
🕓 Time: Tuesday, March 17th, 4:30 to 7:00 pm