Showing all articles by author: Bill Bean
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Mapping the world - and Waterloo Region - with AI
11 December 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Ecopia.AI is partering with Communitech, WatCAR and the Waterloo Region Economic Development Corporation to use the Waterloo REgion as a test bed to scale out HD vector maps for autonomous vehicles. Read more
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Changing nature of work poses collective challenge
20 November 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Economist, author, broadcaster and Senior Fellow Linda Nazareth spoke to 130 attendees at a breakfast event as part of Communitech's speaker series on the future of work and learning. Read more
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Growth spurs graduation for Deloitte DSpace lab
06 November 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Enterprise, Featured, News
Deloitte's Dpace lab has recently graduated from its home in the Communitech Hub to a new home across the street, in 2015 it opened the innovation lab in Communitech with a handful of staff however now… Read more
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On climate change, no time left for small ideas
27 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
The True North 2019 workshop "Waterloo Region: Canada’s First Carbon-Neutral Region?" asked questions such as "How could that happen? What would it look like? How would we get there?" The workshop brought… Read more
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Cybersecurity workshop delivers sobering stats
26 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
A cybersecurity workshop was held on the second day of True North 2019. The workshop started with some unsettling facts to share about cybersecurity, such as the need for more talent, and more diverse… Read more
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Retooling our notions of work as tech reshapes the future
25 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, Future of Work, News, True North
At True North 2019, Manulife hosted Future of Work and Learning – Taking Community Action. This workshop focused on crowd-sourced their experience and aspirations to help shape a Communitech-inspired initiative… Read more
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Bringing values along as tech marches forward
24 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
Marcel O’Gorman, professor, author and analyst of society’s uncritical acceptance of the pace of our technological present says that now is the time to be talking about the ethics of technological advances.… Read more
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Smart Waterloo Region team vows to forge ahead
14 May 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
To the members of the youth panel advising the Waterloo Region Smart Cities Challenge team, it doesn’t matter that their entry didn’t win the $50-million. Waterloo Region was the smallest of the communities… Read more
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New office, new growth for ApplyBoard
18 April 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
ApplyBoard held the official opening of its new Kitchener office space. They are a one-stop website for international students seeking admission to any of 1,000 schools in North America. Read more
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Open data gives the edge to the consummate angler
05 April 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
FISHBUOY, a data-driven app that helps the angler crunch the numbers on where to make that record catch. Open data can turn a primal experience into the ultimate experience for the sport fisherman. Read more