Showing all articles by author: Christian Aagaard
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Eindhoven 2.0: Lessons for Waterloo Region in Dutch centre’s tech makeover
12 June 2014 | By Christian Aagaard in: Ecosystem, Featured
Mayor of Eindhoven Netherlands Rob van Gijzel toured the Communitech Hub recently and is inspired to try and create the same type of ecosystem in his home city. Read more
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The new normal: Be amazing, speakers tell STEM-minded girls
29 May 2014 | By Christian Aagaard in: Ecosystem, Featured
Jennifer Smith, executive vice-president of global market solutions at Christie Digital, encourages young women to hold on to their interests in the so-called STEM cluster: science, technology, engineering… Read more
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Attack of the green monster: DATA.BASE partner takes on algae threat
05 December 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
A local company now partnered with Communitech’s DATA.BASE program has joined the fight against algae blooms that sap waterways of oxygen and threaten other forms of aquatic life.The Centre for Community… Read more
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Participation: Essential fuel for new-age cities
15 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Smart cities need people like Anna Beard. She blogged a civil, measured critique of Day 1, noting that for all that was said about their importance, millennials (the under-34 cohort) seemed under-represented… Read more
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Weather challenges could be opportunities for smart cities
10 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Flood-control and power-grid investments are expensive, but Hoornweg, who is also Ontario’s chief safety and risk officer, said Toronto and its neighbours in the Greater Golden Horseshoe already have measures… Read more
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CityAge conference explores the big ideas that make city living attractive
09 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Municipal governments planning attractive urban centres would do well to satisfy Generation Y and they should also build urban features appreciated by women, who will make up two-thirds of the white-collar… Read more
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CityAge conference Oct. 9-10 looks at challenges, opportunities of urbanization
03 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
We are trying to integrate planning and transportation infrastructure. Economic development is intimately related to planning issues and infrastructure issues. The real premise underlying CityAge is that… Read more
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Where there’s light: P & P Optica broadens uses of spectrometry
24 September 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
P&P Optica is in the spectrometry business, developing better devices for reading the light signatures that compounds and elements give off. The heart of P&P’s success lies inside those discs: A thin layer… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Notes from an itinerant guest in the Communitech space
05 September 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, View from the 'Loo
Christian Aagaard recaps their experience as a summer guest in the Waterloo Region ecosystem. Read more
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Report beats drum for putting musically talented workers into tech jobs
23 August 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Music is much more than a luxury. A report released supported the idea that music and arts had an impact on the tech sector. Read more