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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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The Concierge Cases: Waterlix
20 October 2019 | By Koosha Totonchi in: Data driven innovation
Waterlix is a company that aims to help cities manage their waterways and improve and detect infrastructure issues and optimize replacements of faulty pipelines. Read more
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AVIN Waterloo Ventures Fund welcomes first cohort
09 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Data driven innovation, Featured, News
The AVIN Waterloo Ventures Fund has chosen 8 companies to receive $50,000 and mentorship as part of a program offered through the Ontario Centres of Excellence, the Waterloo Economic Development Corporation… Read more
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LPWA technologies launching on ENCQOR 5G testbed at Communitech Data Hub
08 October 2019 | By Communitech Data Team in: Data driven innovation, News
ENCQOR 5G has launched a low power, wide-area network (LPWA) at the 5G digital Innovation Hubs. This network will allow small to medium sized enterprises develop and test the next generation of smart solutions. 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