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Code Now: Meeting of the Minds
17 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
Last in a four-part series called Code Now, a comprehensive look at how the Waterloo Region tech ecosystem can assist the local medical community during COVID-19 – and longer-term. In today’s concluding… Read more
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Code Now: The help doctors need on the front line
16 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
In the 3rd part of this four-part series, front-line doctors share their experiences with COVID-19 patients. Read more
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Code Now: The urgent needs behind the scenes
15 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, Featured, News
Part 2 of the four-part Code Now series: doctors, administrators, and a nurse share their office struggles to seek solutions that will allow them to allocate their resources more effectively. Read more
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Code Now: How tech can help medicine beat COVID-19
14 April 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Code Now, COVID19, News
Communitech launched a four-part series called Code Now, a comprehensive look at how Waterloo Region tech innovators can help the local medical community, both long- and short-term. The short-term has… Read more
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Chamath Palihapitiya wins crowd at Hack the North
15 September 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News
Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the University of Waterloo's most successful graduates and this week he sat down to speak at Hack the North, Canada's largest hackathon which is hosted annually at the University… Read more
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The time is now for women, in tech and beyond: panel
09 March 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News, True North
On International Women's Day, 5 influential panelists came and shared their journey and careers, as well as their thoughts about gender and technology. Tech still has some work to be done, but there have… Read more
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Ratio.City earns $100K at Fierce Founders pitch event
16 February 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Ecosystem, Events, Featured, News, Startups
The Fierce Founders Bootcamp is a six-day, Communitech-run program that helps women tech entrepreneurs improve their companies. This cumulates to a pitch event, and Ratio.City earned the $100,000 grand… Read more
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When it's time for the CEO to be 'brutally honest'
13 February 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Events, Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
Dave Kroetsch from Aeryon Labs came to speak at Communitech's Pizza with the Prez. They talked about their journey, and how they knew when it was time to step down as CEO. Read more
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Auvik CEO Marc Morin: Cease with the Valley envy
17 January 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Ecosystem, Events, Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
Marc Morin, Auvik CEO and co-founder speaks on why they are not aiming to be the "Silicon Valley of the North", but are using their own strengths to develop and grow. Read more
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Kitchener embraces Internet of Things with new Digital Innovation Lab
28 November 2017 | By Bill Bean in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Event recaps, Events, Featured, News
The City of Kitchener is launching a digital innovation lab to embrace the Internet of Things. Read more