Showing all articles by author: Bill Bean
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Laurier's DRIVE conference: Cities spur innovation
21 February 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Urban theorist and Rotman School of Management professor Richard Florida presented at the first full day of the inaugural DRIVE conference, held at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Lazaridis School of Business… Read more
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Edtech solutions are bringing old school classrooms into the 21st century
21 February 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation, Videos
Today's typical classroom of a teacher at the front, students at desks, and notes on the board is a place ripe for innovation. There are obstacles for tech solutions, but ed-tech startups are here to help. Read more
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These tech leaders are helping to drive the rise of enviro-tech
15 February 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation, Videos
Four companies from the 2017 cohort of ODX Ventures program approached the challenge of climate change from different angles. Borealis Wind, Focus 21, Surgically Clean Air, and Ukko Agro use open data… Read more
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Grow your business by solving real-world problems with open data
04 February 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Chris Willsher, Director of Platforms and Data Growth Coach on the Communitech Data Driven Innovation team talks about the benefits from using open data and the applications it has in a variety of fields. Read more
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Canada's best student coders, designers win big in Waterloo Region
21 January 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Event recaps, Featured, News
Waterloo student coders recently won first place at the Code to Win/Design to Win challenge held at Communitech. Read more
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Waterloo students snag top prizes at Code/Design to Win
19 January 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Code/Design to Win is an annual event where students compete to solve coding and design problems with all of the $12,000 in prizes being scooped up by University of Waterloo students. Read more
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Open data fuels predictive vehicle maintenance platform, Pitstop
02 July 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Using open data to power a predictive algorithm could allow a startup to access a market that is comprised of millions of potential clients: North America’s car owners. Pitstop combines proprietary datasets… Read more
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Open data helps education technology startup, Peekapak, expand into Ontario schools
15 June 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Reading, writing, and math aren't the only things educators need to teach. Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills are top of mind in today’s schools. Enter Peekapak, a Canadian education technology… Read more
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Chillwall's desire prediction AI will fulfill your curiosity for local events
04 June 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Chillwall AI is the next transformative step for Chillwall, the consumer application that combs through event websites in 2,000 cities worldwide, allowing users to discover events, map them, select them… Read more
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Open data smoothing connections between founders and funders via Hockeystick
18 May 2018 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Hockeystick, a Toronto-based startup that uses open data to reduce obstacles to the private market. Hockeystick provides data tools for companies, investors and governments to leverage data to drive greater… Read more