Tech & Science
BCBusiness + Innovate BC The tech sector is playing an enormous role in supercharging B.C.’s economy — contributing nearly $15 billion to B.C.’s overall economic output — but Dawn Wood, Director of Programs at Innovate BC, notes that a key ingredient is...
Some 300 people sampled food and wine at Science World’s first-ever Pairings: A gourmet evening with a dash of science on June 13. They also got to bid on silent auction items from wine to hotel stays and take in The Science Behind...
One of the largest cannabis companies in Canada has made an important acquisition, purchasing Vancouver-based Anandia Labs for approximately $115 million. Anandia CEO and co-founder Jonathan Page is widely considered one of the leading experts in cannabis genomics—the study of the...
On behalf of BCBusiness, in April Mustel Group asked 360 residents across B.C. whether they have changed their online behaviour since learning how information from people’s Facebook accounts is being exploited. Of the 276 who use social media, almost 40...
When I reconnect with Sean Clark in October 2017, it’s almost exactly a year since the last time I saw him—climbing a stage at the Vancouver Convention Centre to receive an Entrepreneur Of The Year award. His baby—Shoeme.ca, launched in 2012—had...
Nervous high-schoolers and their even antsier parents made the trip to the Vancouver Convention Centre earlier this week for the fifth annual Young Entrepreneur Leadership Launchpad (YELL) Venture Challenge. The event, which sees teams of B.C. high-school students compete in the hope of getting their business ideas...
We live in a time of unprecedented change, with digital disruption rapidly transforming 21st-century societies. Increasingly, the Canadian marketplace is dominated by novel, knowledge-based jobs requiring high levels of literacy in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Here in B.C.
Next week’s #BCTECH Summit is taking place at a time of public mistrust in technology. From parents’ despair at their kids’ smart phone habits to the effect of social media in determining foreign elections, even the most devout tech evangelist is...
Returning to the Vancouver Convention Centre this month, the BCTech Summit, delivered by the BC Innovation Council and Government of B.C., has tripled in size since it launched in 2016. That means more speakers, some 6,000 attendees and about quadruple the number...
For most people, great ideas flow from extensive experience. It takes years to fully grasp where and how to launch your innovative product or service. For a select few, though, things come together at a much younger age. That’s why we have the Young Entrepreneur Leadership Launchpad (YELL) and its annual spring Venture Challenge, which sees teams...