Thalmic’s Stephen Lake challenges federal government to better define Canada’s innovation agenda
Just a few months ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scrapped the title of industry minister and appointed MP Navdeep Bains…
Events
DMZ and TechGirls Canada panel tackling STEM’s diversity problem says ‘get the hell out of the way’
Thereâs a mythology surrounding many of the worldâs best-known CEOs and entrepreneurs â stories of living in parentsâ…
Why startups need to raise less and hustle more
If there’s one story that Ron Spreeuwenberg wants startups to remember, it’s the stories of Flooz and Beenz. The…
PwC, Uber, City of Toronto, and Metrolinx partnering to host hackathon
After announcing its StartUpHere initiative, it seems that the City of Toronto is making good on its promise to support the…
District 3 boosts Montreal FinTech scene with Fintech Breakfast Parlay
At Concordia University’s entrepreneurial community, District 3, its dedicated entrepreneurial hub, brought together…
IDEO’s Barry Katz hosting design thinking bootcamp at Communitech
Barry Katz, a Fellow at IDEO, professor at Stanford University, and author of six books, is coming to Communitech in Waterloo…
Data mining innovation spawns a new kind of Gold Rush
âThereâs gold in them thar hillsâ â and thanks to a blend of machine learning technology and traditional geological…
University of Waterloo leads change with women in tech and HeForShe at #WIMIn2016
This weekend, Waterloo Women: Ideas, Makers, Innovators (WIMIn) brought over 100 women together at the University of Waterloo…
#DellSMBChat: The changing ways we work
A recent Regus report states that remote employees in Canada can only work in coffee shops for 20 minutes before productivity…
#Dx32016: Retail Prophet Doug Stephens on the “end of the beginning of ecommerce”
âRetail is dead,â notable tech investor Marc Andreessen declared back in 2013. âRetail chains are an implausible economic…
CXI offers “Tinder for startups” at retail pitch competition
Just one day before the start of Dx3, Canadaâs largest digital retail conference, The Working Group (TWG), Mercedes-Benz,…
#Dx32016: Playing with Samsung Pay, coming to Canada this year
If the last two weeks have been an indication of anything, it’s that mobile payments are about to be a big thing in Canada.…
Five things we learned from #Dx32016
Thousands of people stormed the Metro Toronto Convention Centre this week for Dx3, Canadaâs biggest digital conference. Those…
Vancouver hosts new hackathon for social good this weekend
VanHacksâ sold-out âhackathon for social goodâ happens this week from March 4 to 6. The event brings together coders…
#Dx32016: How Kik will use chat bots to sell products to teens (and everyone else)
First it was desktop, then mobile, and now, according to Paul Gray, Waterloo-based Kik’s director of platform services,…