Techopia Live: Giatec cracking into concrete industry | Episode 264

Ottawa Business Journal

What if you could disrupt one of the world’s oldest industries with IoT and artificial intelligence and significantly reduce its carbon footprint? Wouldn’t that be a game changer? That is precisely what Ottawa’s Giatec Scientific is doing. Now 14 years into its mission, Giatec has commercialized academic research into a complete suite of solutions for the world’s $800-billion concrete industry. Its two founders Pouria Ghods and Aali Alizadeh ‒ supported by advisors such as Debbie Weinstein and Jeff Westeinde ‒ are gaining traction in a very old world industry, signing on companies such as Lafarge. Giatec estimates its products are now used in 85 countries and 12,000 construction projects. In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher speaks to Ghods about the company’s journey, its rise to 150 employees, its goal to create a complete digital solution for users of concrete and what comes next for this Giatec.