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CanAI

CanAI · About

Two builders who teach.

CanAI is run by two founders who build AI for real businesses, then teach others to do the same. In English, French and Arabic.

Nadeje Tabib smiling and gesturing while teaching an AI workshop
Photos: Souhir Photography
Nadeje Tabib smiling and gesturing while teaching an AI workshop

Photos: Souhir Photography

Nadeje Tabib

Co-founder · Tech & training lead

  • Computer science engineer. Has led tech projects and teams across France, Tunisia and Canada for close to a decade.
  • Co-founded AVCare, a smart app for early stroke detection: 3rd laureate of the Orange Social Entrepreneur Prize 2019.
  • Built and ran software delivery for startups and enterprise clients: learning platforms (including a training platform with 120+ trainers and coaches), web and mobile apps, and solar simulators.
  • Teaches AI hands-on: co-facilitated « L'IA au service de vos projets » with Femmes Connectées in Ottawa in September 2026.
  • Selected for Anthropic's Claude SMB Trainer Program. Teaches in English, French and Arabic.
LinkedIn profile

Sofi Elhalawani

Co-founder · Applied AI & operations

  • Founder of AvioAI: applied AI for real-world operations, including voice AI, AI agents and automation.
  • Built and sold Order Direct, an AI product for restaurants: phone takeout ordering, reservations and SMS campaigns.
  • Winner, “Best Voice Agent that can securely access user’s data”, Eh-I Summer Vibe Hackathon, Ottawa, July 2025.
  • Has owned and run Café Crista in Ottawa since 2015: “understand how the operation actually works before deciding where technology belongs.”
  • Years of coaching adults through career changes, which shapes how CanAI teaches.
LinkedIn profile

Why we started CanAI

Nadeje builds the tech. Sofi runs a real small business and builds voice agents for others. Both kept seeing the same thing: people don’t need to be sold on AI. They need a door in, taught by people who use it every day on real work.

CanAI is that door: free community nights, hands-on workshops, and custom builds when training is not enough.

Official launch: October 24, 2026, Ottawa.

What matters to us

Hands-on, not slides

Your real work, your real data

Plain language in EN, FR, AR

Honest about limits

Privacy, and what not to paste.

Moments

AI workshop « L'IA au service de vos projets » for Réseau des Femmes Entrepreneures Connectées, CSC Vanier, Ottawa, September 2026. Co-facilitated by Nadeje Tabib and Sarah Bouchkhi.

A previous session delivered in French, not the November 14 workshop.

Highlights from the September 2026 French AI workshop in Ottawa
Photos: Souhir Photography
Photos: Souhir Photography

Let’s put AI to work.

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