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Steve Blank: 'There will be a morning after'
09 April 2020 | By Bill Bean in: COVID19, Featured, News
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the economy greatly, and CEOs that cannot keep up are facing extinction says Steve Blank, Silicon Valley veteran, author, professor at Stanford University. Blank was on… Read more
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Lessons in Data Governance
09 March 2020 | By Bill Bean in: Data driven innovation
Sidewalk Labs was one of the biggest urban innovation proposals in Canadian history. An innovative waterfront project which promoted future tech such as self-cleaning trash cans, and sustainable structures.… Read more
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Students converge on Communitech to navigate careers in design
08 March 2020 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
About 100 students participated in the first Navigate Design: Craft Your Future conference. There were 11 sessions sponsored by Google, the governments of Ontario and Canada. Read more
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Revolutionizing content intelligence
22 January 2020 | By Koosha Totonchi in: Data driven innovation
Originally Prinova, Messagepoint has evolved with content. They started as a service-focused customer communications management (CCM) integrator, and now are a top global software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform… Read more
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Nine students score $5K each in Code to Win challenge
18 January 2020 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
Nine students got a perfect score at Code to Win this year, earning them $5,000 each. Code to Win continues to be a great opportunity for young software engineers and corporate sponsors to connect for… Read more
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The Concierge Cases: StoreCrossing
11 December 2019 | By Koosha Totonchi in: Data driven innovation
Communitech's Data concierge can help local entrepreneurs run their online businesses such as in the case of Umer Farooq, founder of StoreCrossing which allows smaller businesses to sell their products… Read more
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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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How Blockchain is Revolutionizing Freight
22 November 2019 | By Koosha Totonchi in: Data driven innovation
Roadlaunch, a live freight supply chain management system uses blockchain to enhance supply chain transparency and enabling global freight, fleet and logistics transactions management. 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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The Concierge Cases: Summatti
11 November 2019 | By Koosha Totonchi in: Data driven innovation
According to a study, only 1-5% of customers actually complain to management level staff about customer service issues while the vast majority won't mention anything formally but will speak about related… Read more