The Financial Post reports in its Saturday, Nov. 15, edition that throngs of 20-somethings dressed in blazer-jean combos and armed with paper resumes were asking senior tech leaders about how to break into the industry during a brunch networking meeting in October at the KPMG office in downtown Vancouver. The Post's Yvonne Lau writes that it was yet another technology-focused event -- from networking brunches to mentorship walks to artificial intelligence workshops -- in the city that has attracted sold-out crowds of fresh graduates and young tech workers pursuing their first jobs in the age of AI. Databricks, a San Francisco-based data analytics company valued at $100-billion (U.S.), hosted a sold-out launch party in August that was attended by clients, users and eager job seekers, some of whom were wait-listed. Since August, the "local response has exceeded expectations," a company spokesman said, referring to the number of job applications it received. Last November, Microsoft held a sold-out AI job fair in the city. During the keynote, attendees jostled backpack-to-backpack for space and spilled out of the crammed meeting room. Tech hiring across Canada, however, has been mired in a deep freeze since 2023.