About Us

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Human obsessed, creatively led, inventing the future.

Curiosity, creativity, and empathy fuel us. We put ourselves in the shoes of others to better understand their perspectives.

At ATB Ventures, our ambitions extend beyond banking business models.

We build and launch meaningful products that bring as many people as possible into the digital economy. By focusing on the golden thread of trust that ties our digital lives together we are able to weave in the joy of being human with style and precision.

A New Future is on the Horizon

Imagining our future through the lens of these four major technology trends:

As a thesis-driven innovation lab, ATB Ventures embraces a set of operating principles and perspectives that guide all our decision-making and engineering efforts.

Data

Data-to-everything

Our health, wealth, and environment are intimately intertwined. How can we leverage network effects to stitch rich data and patterns together to create unique products that enhance how people live, work and play while discovering new business models in the process?

Machine learning

AI systems everywhere

Today, most of us use some form of narrow AI on a regular basis, like Siri or Google. As we progress towards strong AI, how can we create smarter, more powerful services that augment human intelligence and improve decision making while serving the collective intelligence and well-being of all?

Human-machine interactions

Our digital identities merge with the physical world

As AI-driven personalization, AR/VR interfaces, and sensored-enabled environments converge, commerce embeds itself deeper into our culture, including within us, acting as moving and breathing data platforms. With constant connectivity providing endless amounts of data, how can we keep consumers firmly in mind and make technology as useful as possible while seamlessly integrating it within their daily lives?

Trust

New era of certainty

The way businesses are built is changing. Our digitized world requires a fundamental shift of core infrastructure with an increasing focus on trust and identity. How can we ensure tamper-resistant transactions while combating inequities in products and services across financial services and beyond?

Delivering impact through a wider lens

There's an inherent tension between a big bank and a nimble ventures group. And while they seem at odds, they don't have to be. We go at the tension and make it a positive. Through our combined strengths, we bring an appetite to be pioneering and the clout and stability of a bank.

ATB Financial, an Alberta-built financial institution that is a catalyst for economic growth in Alberta. Since ATB got started in 1938 to help Albertans through tough economic times, it has become the largest Alberta-based financial institution, with assets of more than $60.2 billion. Today, ATB's more than 5,000 team members deliver exceptional experiences to nearly 800,000 customers.

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