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Kik marks 10 years at tech's bleeding edge
12 July 2019 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, News
In the early days of Kik, the mobile messaging app started by Livingston and a group of engineering students at the University of Waterloo in 2009. Kik had a 10th anniversary celebration held Thursday… Read more
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VeuHub raises $2M seed round
09 July 2019 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, News, Startups
VeuHub, a three-year-old startup whose ad platform connects video publishers, brands and agencies, has raised $2 million in seed investment. The investment will enable VeuHub to scale its development and… Read more
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On climate change, no time left for small ideas
27 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
The True North 2019 workshop "Waterloo Region: Canada’s First Carbon-Neutral Region?" asked questions such as "How could that happen? What would it look like? How would we get there?" The workshop brought… Read more
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Cybersecurity workshop delivers sobering stats
26 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
A cybersecurity workshop was held on the second day of True North 2019. The workshop started with some unsettling facts to share about cybersecurity, such as the need for more talent, and more diverse… Read more
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Retooling our notions of work as tech reshapes the future
25 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, Future of Work, News, True North
At True North 2019, Manulife hosted Future of Work and Learning – Taking Community Action. This workshop focused on crowd-sourced their experience and aspirations to help shape a Communitech-inspired initiative… Read more
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Bringing values along as tech marches forward
24 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
Marcel O’Gorman, professor, author and analyst of society’s uncritical acceptance of the pace of our technological present says that now is the time to be talking about the ethics of technological advances.… Read more
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Tech for good, the finale: Find your true north
20 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, True North
True North 2019 was an exciting event filled with thinkers and doers committed to making the world a better place. The event wrapped up with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, speaking… 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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True North 2019, Day 1: A crucial conversation continues
19 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, True North, Uncategorized
True North 2019, the global-in-scale, two-day follow-on to last year’s conference about “tech for good,” kicked off. Attendees heard from various members of the global tech community focusing on the three… Read more
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True North 2019: The curtain is set to rise
18 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
True North 2019, Communitech’s show-stopping conference about “tech for good,” will welcome 2,500 attendees from around the world for two days of transformative discussion about the intersection of technology… Read more