Displaying episodes 61 - 90 of 106 in total
June 16: AI4Society is a hub for ethical artificial intelligence collaboration at the University of Alberta
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: AI4Society is a new initiative at the University of Alberta that will serve as a hub for eth...
June 9: Edmonton Police tech accelerator questioned amid Black Lives Matter protests
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the Community Solutions Accelerator launched by the Edmonton Police Foundation earlier this ...
June 2: Start Alberta and the A100 want to expand the reach of Alberta's innovation ecosystem
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Start Alberta has launched a new campaign called the Start Alberta Partners Initiative; Lase...
May 26: Tech trailblazers cast cautious eye on city’s new innovation path
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Taproot Edmonton dives into the new innovation entity; Alberta Enterprise Corporation has an...
May 19: Edmonton-based Food Search Inc. among CODEVID-19 hackathon winners
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Food Search Inc., an Edmonton-based project led by Vinson Luong and Tyler Findlay, won the t...
May 12: City Council unanimously endorses new innovation entity with $5M/year in funding
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: a new organization with a mandate to make innovation a major economic driver in Edmonton wil...
May 5: Concerns raised about Alberta's new contact tracing app
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: ABTraceTogether, Alberta's new contact tracing app, has already been downloaded more than 10...
April 28: Open letter calls on provincial government to support technology and innovation
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: an open letter to the provincial government calls for support for tech companies; ACAMP laun...
April 21: Innovate Edmonton cuts raise concerns for local tech community
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: EEDC is under fire from the former head of Innovate Edmonton over whether advocacy for the c...
April 14: iSmartWays raises funding to deploy connected vehicle technology
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: iSmartWays raises funding to deploy connected vehicle technology; Amii has joined the Roche ...
April 7: Edmonton Regional Innovation Network receives $2.7 million from Alberta Innovates
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the Edmonton Regional Innovation Network has been approved for $2.758 million by Alberta Inn...
March 31: Fighting COVID-19 misinformation
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Timothy Caulfield has received funding for a research project that aims to address the sprea...
March 24: #YEGTechCares campaign is raising $175K for Edmonton's Food Bank
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: more than a dozen local tech companies have come together for the #YEGTechCares campaign whi...
March 17: Hackathon encourages apps to help survive the COVID-19 pandemic
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the organizers behind the Dev Edmonton Society have launched a hackathon called CODEVID-19; ...
March 10: Student DevCon connects students to Edmonton's tech community
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: nearly 300 students attended Student DevCon to learn about the opportunities available withi...
March 3: Budget 2020 cuts another $10.7M from Alberta Innovates
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Budget 2020 includes a further $10.7 million reduction in funding for Alberta Innovates; Str...
February 25: DrugBank wins $125K Startup TNT Investment Summit, 2S Water and Future Fields also funded
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: DrugBank won the $125,000 Startup TNT Investment Summit pitch competition last week; ACAMP a...
February 18: Reducing the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: A new algorithm developed by University of Alberta computing scientists promises to make Bit...
February 11: Edmonton Police look to artificial intelligence and machine learning to help solve crimes
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the Edmonton Police Service is assessing the use of facial recognition technology and is lau...
February 4: Startup Edmonton launches 12-week pre-accelerator called Propel
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Startup Edmonton has launched a new 12-week pre-accelerator program called Propel; the five ...
January 28: First Startup TNT pitch night draws a crowd
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: more than 100 people attended the first Startup TNT Pitch Night; DemoCamp Edmonton 48 featur...
January 21: Yardstick Assessments and ProctorU merge to form Meazure Learning
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Yardstick Assessment Strategies is merging with ProctorU to form Meazure Learning; TIQ Softw...
January 14: Sprout Fund makes seed investment in SmartAccess
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: SmartAccess has received a seed investment from Sprout Fund; ten members of the University o...
January 7: Provincial working group is exploring how to attract new investment in tech
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: a provincial working group is exploring how to attract new investment in tech, Rewardful has...
December 17: Scope AR acquires WakingApp
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Scope AR has acquired Tel Aviv, Israel-based WakingApp, City Council votes to create new inn...
December 10: Edmonton named most open city in Canada for fourth time
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Edmonton has been named the most open city in Canada for the fourth straight time, Amii welc...
December 3: Edmonton sees 26% increase in tech jobs over the past five years
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Edmonton surgest by more than 10 points to crack the top ten in CBRE's latest Scoring Canadi...
November 26: Scotiabank donates $1.25M to support AI research at the U of A
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Scotiabank is donating $1.25 million across five years to fund the Scotiabank Artificial Int...
November 19: Kindred AI donates robotic arm to help U of A students study reinforcement learning
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Kindred AI has donated a robotic arm to the University of Alberta's department of computing ...
November 12: Accelerate Fund II invests in G2V Optics
The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Accelerate Fund II has announced an investment in G2V Optics, CEO Tiffany Linke-Boyko is lea...
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