Pragya Sehgal

Can be contacted at psehgal@itwc.ca or 647.695.3494. Born and raised in the capital city of India - Delhi - bounded by the river Yamuna on the west, Pragya has climbed the Himalayas, and survived medical professional stream in high school without becoming a patient or a doctor. Pragya now makes her home in Canada with her husband - a digital/online marketing fanatic who also loves to prepare beautiful, healthy and delicious meals for her. When she isn’t working or writing around tech, she’s probably watching art films on Netflix, or wondering whether she should cut her hair short or not.

Articles By Pragya Sehgal

Martello tests its SD-WAN solution on 5G infrastructure, says UC testing is next

Martello Technologies announced today that it has completed the first phase of testing of its SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) solution on Encqor 5G, Canada’s first pre-commercial 5G wireless network for open innovation.

Published on: December 3rd, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Canadian construction tech software company Bridgit opens Toronto office

While Toronto's burgeoning tech community continues to roll the red carpet out for hundreds of new startups every year, only a handful of them focuses on the construction tech space. One of them

Published on: December 2nd, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Canadian businesses are doing a poor job helping employees travel safely and effectively, says new study

Travelling for work is often stressful for employees, but a recent global survey of business travelers by SAP Concur dug a little deeper into the personal safety concerns, and the frustrations around ineffective

Published on: November 22nd, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Diversity more than just meeting numbers, everyone needs to ‘go all in’ says #movethedial founder

Women account for only about 25 per cent of Canada’s tech industry, and it's a number that's remained stagnant over the past 10 years. While attendees at this year's #movethedial Global Summit remained

Published on: November 20th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

TD and The Big Push team up and launch ‘Lift-Off’ program to support women entrepreneurs

TD Bank Group and a Toronto-based business accelerator have entered into an agreement designed to support women entrepreneurs in six key areas of business, including information technology, finance, marketing, sales, public relations, and

Published on: November 20th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Onlia develops a safe-driving app, calls Canada a nation of speedsters in its recent study 

Eight in 10 Canadians admit to having an "Inadvertent Lead Foot", according to a study by Canadian car and house insurance company Onlia, and its app Onlia Sense is hoping to improve people's

Published on: November 19th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Toronto startup wants to cut the time it takes for Canadian startups to scale in half

It takes roughly 10 years for Canadian startups to scale. Highline Beta is working towards cutting that time in half.  Highline Beta is a Toronto-based startup co-creation company that builds and funds new

Published on: November 12th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Shopify introduces Shopify Email, a new email marketing tool

Shopify has introduced Shopify Email, a new email marketing tool that aims to make email marketing easy for its  “new-to-marketing” merchants or those without any technical or marketing expertise, the company announced today.

Published on: November 6th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Canadian businesses lagging in network innovation to support digital transformation, says Cisco report

Canada lags far behind other nations in terms of strategic implementation of projects and networking innovations that support digital transformation, spotlights Cisco’s recently released 2020 Global Networking Trends Report. Canada ranks 11th among

Published on: November 4th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Small businesses outside of big cities driving Shopify’s merchant base in Canada

There are over 34,000 Shopify merchants in Canada living outside of the six major urban centers, representing more than 64 per cent of all Shopify merchants in Canada, reveals Shopify’s first global impact

Published on: October 31st, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Apple’s wearables, home and accessories business shines in Q4

Fueled by accelerating growth from its wearables and services business, Apple experienced a strong fiscal 2019 with its highest fourth-quarter revenue ever, the company revealed this week, despite under-performing Mac and iPhone sales.

Published on: October 31st, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Dell announces Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme

Dell has announced the Latitude 7220 Rugged Extreme tablet, and as its name suggests, the tablet is strongly made and capable of withstanding rough handling. “Dell Rugged customers are often operating in the

Published on: October 30th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Top 10 tech companies in B.C.

Published on: October 21st, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Zoom chooses Jabra PanaCast as the first video conferencing device for its new service

Jabra is collaborating with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. to offer a video conferencing experience for its newly added feature to Zoom Rooms. Zoom will be using the Jabra PanaCast, a Panoramic-4K video device,

Published on: October 16th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal

Facebook’s Libra project confirms its governing council after several major companies withdraw

After some of its major backers including eBay, MasterCard, PayPal and Visa Inc. announced their withdrawals, 21 members of the Facebook-led Libra Association formally signed onto its charter and formalized the Libra Association

Published on: October 16th, 2019 Pragya Sehgal