News & Press
December 5, 2025
Ottawa Business Journal: Women Tech Founders Scaling Up
Article by Nathan Drescher in the Ottawa Business Journal focused on Ottawa women entrepreneurs and startups, featuring Alstari CEO Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima.
May 15, 2025
Alstari CEO Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering | L’Académie canadienne du génie for her pioneering work in AI, contributions to startups including International AI patents and recently published book. She thanks Claude Laguë University of Ottawa, Molly Shoichet University of Toronto, and Rafik Goubran Carleton University for the support.
April 17, 2025
Alstari CEO speaking at AI in Education Panel at Ontario Centers of Innovation DiscoveryX 2025 Conference and Tradeshow, Toronto, Ontario.
It was an excellent AI in Education panel at Ontario Centre of Innovation DiscoveryX2025. Super discussion lead by Eunice Eunhee Jang from University of Toronto with David Clausi University of Waterloo, and Shayan Sharif from University of Guelph. Thanks to Amir Pahlevanpour, PhD and the OCI team for organizing.
April 16–17, 2025
Alstari CEO and team at Ontario Centers of Innovation DiscoveryX 2025 Conference and Tradeshow, Toronto, Ontario.
Excellent Ontario Centre of Innovation DiscoveryX2025 event with Alstari student Taylor Maclean meeting the Boston Dynamics robot from Queen's University, Mauricio Ospina who lead Alstari team through countless trade shows internationally, Ken Grigg our CTO, Candace Moore helping us on marketing, and our AI in Education Panel chaired by Eunice Eunhee Jang from University of Toronto
April 16, 2025
Alstari CEO asks Jefferey Hinton about Sentient AI at 2025 Ontario Centers of Innovation DiscoveryX 2025, Toronto, Ontario
March 21, 2025
Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima was honoured with a 2025 Axiom Business Award.
Alstari CEO Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima is Excited to share the news that her book Entrepreneur Heretic or Hero of Innovation about her two AI startups and exits was honoured with a 2025 Axiom Business Award. Her category was Industry Insights. Book is available from Amazon under her name or the title. She signed copies of her book at the Ontario Centre of Innovation DiscoveryX 2025 Conference in Toronto, where she was a speaker on AI April 17 at 9:45 am. Her team also exhibited at the event on April 16-17 at the Alstari booth. Students and startup entrepreneurs got a copy free.
March 7, 2025
Alstari CEO Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima spoke at the World Financial Symposiums tech exits podcast
It was an excellent panel of accomplished CEOs sharing lessons learned including ones shared in her book on Mergers & Acquisitions of her two AI startups AmikaNow! and Amika Mobile.
October 10, 2024
Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima Receives AI Award from Acquisition International Magazine
Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima is named AI Startup Founder of the Year 2024 for her work with Alstari and the successful exits of two AI startups. Her recently published book Entrepreneur - Heretic or Hero of Innovation? is also highlighted.
April 9, 2024
February 7, 2024
Indie Reader Review
Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima's book receives a review from Indie Reader, celebrating its impact on AI and startup culture.
Book available from Amazon.com and RussellBooks.com
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November 21, 2025
Speaker on AI Exits at Techtoria, Victoria, BC
Alstari CEO Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima spoke at the Techtoria VIATEC event in Victoria, British Columbia. Her talk on AI Startups and Exits was well received. Alstari also exhibited at Techtoria 2025 — thanks to booth team members Ken Grigg (CTO) and Jorge Navarro. Hourly draws were held for Dr. Abu-Hakima's Axiom Award-winning book on entrepreneurship. Congratulations to book winners including Patricia Moura from Nexum Ecosystems.
November 15, 2023
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November 15, 2023
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