Harish Consul
Keynote Speaker | Calgary, Alberta
CEO & Venture Capitalist
Future & Tech Trends | AI & Digital Innovation Expert
Harish Consul Expertise Business Leadership, Business Growth, Global Business & Trade, Innovation & Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Emerging Technology & Tech Trends and Small Business Development.
About Harish Consul
Harish Consul is a globally recognized innovation strategist, venture capital leader, and keynote speaker with more than three decades of experience in entrepreneurship and technology investment. As Founder and CEO of one of Canada’s leading private venture capital funds, he has advanced startups, small companies and fortune 500 companies across industries by driving systems improvement and scaling through artificial intelligence, digital innovation, future technology, digital transformation, fintech, and high-growth ventures. His firm has invested early in startups and emerging companies positioned to reshape business and society. Harish is also a trusted advisor to multiple technology unicorns and serves on several boards and advisory boards, where he guides strategies for exponential growth.
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HARISH CONSUL BIOGRAPHY
Harish Consul is a globally recognized innovation strategist, venture capital leader, and keynote speaker with more than 35 years of experience building, scaling, and investing in high-growth companies worldwide. He is the Founder and CEO of Ocgrow Group of Companies and its venture capital arm, Ocgrow Ventures, both privately held with a focus on real estate development and global technology investment.
Ocgrow Group was established in 2005 following an early career that included leadership roles such as Vice-President for Western Canada at Ellis-Don and Director at Kingswood Capital, along with the founding of Pacific Sun Properties and Pacific Century Group Ventures in Vancouver. This foundation in entrepreneurship and corporate leadership positioned Harish Consul to scale his own ventures and expand into international investment.
His firm has been an early investor in several internationally recognized companies including Amazon, Shopify, Coupang, Viome, Garuda Aerospace, and Heliogen. Under his leadership, the portfolio spans artificial intelligence, digital innovation, e-commerce, cloud computing, SaaS, fintech, cleantech, healthcare, longevity, and other emerging sectors.
In addition to his investment activity, he serves as a strategic advisor and board or advisory board member for many high-growth technology organizations. These include Calgary Economic Development, Viome, Connectomes, Platform Calgary, Longevity Technology, Garuda Aerospace, the Alberta–India Economic Corridor, Via AI, iON Health, and the Alberta Tech & Innovation Panel.
As a keynote speaker, Harish Consul is widely recognized for delivering insights on global technology innovation, building unicorn teams, generative AI, health technology, longevity, and venture investing. His expertise has been shared at leading conferences in London, Abu Dhabi, New Delhi, and other international forums. He was a featured speaker at the AIM 2023 investment conference in Abu Dhabi and continues to be sought after for media interviews around the world.
Harish Consul earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Calgary, becoming the youngest engineering graduate in Canada at age 20, before attending the MBA program at the University of British Columbia. His education and early leadership roles provided the foundation for a career defined by entrepreneurial success, guiding him from real estate ventures to the creation of Ocgrow Group and Ocgrow Ventures, where he established a global reputation as an investor and strategist.
Throughout his career, Harish Consul has advanced companies through early-stage investment, scaled growth platforms, and positioned organizations for long-term market leadership. His professional journey reflects a consistent focus on innovation, value creation, and building the conditions for exponential growth across industries.
Today, Harish Consul continues to be at the forefront of the next technology revolution. Through his leadership in venture capital, his board roles, and his international speaking engagements, he remains focused on artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and the transformative opportunities they create. His experience combines technical acumen, strategic foresight, and a commitment to supporting teams and organizations that are shaping the future of technology, business, and society.
Harish Consul Topic Presentations
Harish Consul Calgary, Alberta, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Art-official Innovation: Accelerate into the Future
Exponential Growth in the Age of AI: Digital Revolution
Rethink & Rework for Growth: Business Reinvention, Innovation and Transformation
Rebuilding Trust in the Digital Age: Innovation, Intelligence, and Human Connection
Future Global Trends in AI and Digital Innovation: Are You Prepared for the Future?
Building Unicorn Companies: Every Business is Tech Business
From Startups to Unicorns: Leading in the Tech-first Economy
Health and Longevity: AI Innovations Shaping the Future of Medicine
Global Family Offices and Generational Growth
Future-ready Leadership: Disruption Proof Cultures
The Abundance Equation: Where Mindset Meets Growth
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