Showing all articles by author: Kelly Pedro
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Fluxible 2021 festival set to go live starting June 7
05 May 2021 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News
Fluxible, Canada's user experience festival, is back with another virtual event starting June 7, 2021. Design for good is a key theme this year. Read more
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Fluxible responds to COVID-19 with Fluxible TV
26 May 2020 | By Kelly Pedro in: COVID19, Featured, News
Fluxible cancelled the Canada's UX festival in early March because of the pandemic. Only a few days later, they already had their gears turning, which has amounted to Fluxible TV, launching soon. Read more
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Leaders Prize at True North issues $1M challenge: Fix fake news
19 June 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News, True North
The Leaders Prize at True North is hoping artificial intelligence can give truth a chance to catch up to fakes news. The problem of fake news and misinformation prevents people from making informed decisions,… Read more
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Women-in-tech group gets boost from a Nobel winner
25 April 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News
Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) launched its Waterloo Region chapter at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Wednesday with a talk entitled “Curiosity Drives Innovation,” delivered… Read more
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Embrace discomfort and challenge yourselves, tech leaders tell students
07 March 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News
Seven leaders in tech spoke in a panel to about 60 college and university women students at the Women In Tech Power Panel. Each leader spoke about their different journey and the goal of the night was… Read more
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A master's every 10 years: How workers will adapt to change
29 January 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, Future of Work, News
How technology is changing the way businesses think about their future and the talent needed to achieve it. Read more
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Pitch In! taps power of personal stories to boost local volunteerism
27 September 2018 | By Kelly Pedro in: Ecosystem, Featured, News
KW Habilitation president Jeff Collins has been running the Pitch In! program, which is helping would-be volunteers find organizations within the tech community that can offer employment to them and need… Read more
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From police probes to transparent government: True North charts how open data is being used for good
20 June 2018 | By Kelly Pedro in: Data driven innovation
True North 2018 was a conference to untangle how to use tech for good, also it looked at how open data was contributing to the conversation. True North hosted various talks from members of the tech community… Read more
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Don't just show up, take part: How tech can help build community
06 June 2018 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News, True North
Tech companies have the power to shape their communities. At True North, there was panel discussion about building an equitable tech community. True North set out to refocus the tech industry as a force… Read more
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Tech for Good Declaration, forged at True North, goes live
31 May 2018 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News, True North
At the second day of True North 18, the Tech for Good Declaration went live. On day 1, delegates worked on the living document, which sets out to guide the Canadian tech industry’s future as it grapples… Read more