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every stage of business development.
“Innovation is highly valued in Smiths
Falls; we are an inventive community,
we have reinvented ourselves on more
than one occasion, so it seems natural
that businesses with a similar innova-
tive spirit would be drawn here.”
In Good Company
A succession of other pioneering
initiatives have also found their way
to Smiths Falls in recent years, drawn
to the innovative spirit of the town.
A relative newcomer to Smiths Falls
is William Bond Ai, a cutting-edge
business with its roots in the canna-
bis industry, and its eye on the future
of artificial intelligence. Nate Morris,
founder of William Bond Ai, explained
that he believes in the coming years
artificial intelligence is going to trans-
form the way we buy, grow, and study
cannabis.
Morris himself has been involved in the
cannabis industry for 20 years, and
decided that Smiths Falls, or as he calls
it, the “Cannabis Capital,” was the ideal
place to be to develop this technol-
ogy. “Canopy is actively recruiting the
best and brightest cannabis experts
on Earth to Smiths Falls,” Morris said,
“This influx of expertise into a rela-
tively small town has resulted in a fun
and exciting new culture developing.
The synergistic capacity of a town like
this to launch a bunch of businesses
and new technologies is incredible.
