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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
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What's new HYPERDRIVE?
28 July 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Startups
Change seems to be a theme this month for HYPERDRIVE, Communitech’s startup accelerator, as it welcomes its third cohort of startups. But it isn’t just the people, products and pitches that account for… Read more
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What's new HYPERDRIVE?
28 July 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Startups
HYPERDRIVE is back, with a new cohort, a new style, and brand new ideas. Read more
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Inaugural Tech Sessions arts event hits right note at the Hub
19 July 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Tech Sessions aims to incorporate the art scene and tech ecosystem together in Waterloo Region. Read more
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Lend an ear: Blues or indie, Thursday event shows off what’s happening in local music scene
12 July 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured, Small to Mid Size, Startups
The tech ecosystem and the arts community in Waterloo Region have a date. Tech Sessions is having an event to introduce the two. Read more