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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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All-in for agile change at Manulife
11 October 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Enterprise, Featured, News
Manulife has rolled out a new public-facing banking app that was built in-house with foundational contributions from the team at Manulife's corporate innovation lab in the Tannery at Communitech. Read more
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OpenText CEO issues call for corporate social responsibility
15 July 2019 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Featured, News
OpenText CEO Mark Barrenechea spoke about corporate social responsibility in reference to climate change at company's Enterprise World conference. Read more
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The Nimble Hippo: Setting the right expectations
29 January 2019 | By Craig Haney in: Enterprise, Opinion, The Nimble Hippo
In this issue of the Nimble Hippo we talk about innovation labs and what they should be doing and focusing on. Read more
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On a corporate innovation quest in London
26 September 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Enterprise, Featured, News
What kinds of innovation drive the most impact and what are key processes that support collaborative innovation? For three days 19 individuals with 11 Canadian based organizations traveled about London… 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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OpenText: Made in Canada, proud of it
10 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Enterprise, Featured, News
With 2017 revenues of US$2.3 billion and 10,000 employees in 40 countries, OpenText is now one of the most important, influential and global software companies in the world. But OpenText will remain a… Read more
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Phoenix-like BlackBerry leaves the cellphone behind
19 March 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, News
BlackBerry has had quite the journey. Their latest chapter involves pivoting from making devices, to making secure software. They continue to be an influential member of the Waterloo tech community. 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