Our partner Newlab VP Marketing Kristine Colosimo in the house C2 discussing placemaking for innovation and the current AI gold rush!

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It's Innovation Week! 🚀

Highlighting a few of our leaders

Linda Schucroft: Innovating Riyadh’s King Salman Intl Airport, Former SVP at YVR

Greg Twinney General Fusion , pioneering carbon-free fusion energy

Mark Masongsong: UrbanLogiq, using AI for better government decisions.

Impressive to see Vancouver top 19 North American technology hubs for job growth in that sector between 2019 and 2023.
#technology #AI #BCecon
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ATTN BC Startups: With our partner London & Partners we are taking a delegation of selected startups to join our delegation and program in the UK to London Tech Week 2024 and the AI Summit this June.

email - [email protected] to inquire

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OpenAI demos real-time language translation with its latest GPT-4o model.

The most thought-provoking part of tobi lutke's BetaKit interview about tech in Canada:

'It's the same story over and over and over again.'

'We started Canada on trapping beavers, and exporting the pelts to London for them to make all the money.'

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Revolutionizing Mental Wellness: How a Canadian Startup Leverages VR for Health and Healing ⁦FloatVR⁩ techcouver.com/2024/05/09/can…

It was a pleasure to moderate this conversation with some great minds working on AI. Thank you Frontier Collective for bringing us together.

Watch: Industry leaders discuss how AI will impact creativity, identity and storytelling, this panel was held in Austin for SXSW at our Frontiers of Innovation Day in March. Frontier Collective

Panelists:
Matthieu Lorrain - Google
Allison Duettmann - Foresight Institute
James -

We're headed to Calgary, Alberta at the end of the month for Inventures Canada 2024 powered by Alberta Innovates

Our CEO Dan Burgar will be joining a discussion titled: Acceleration Innovation: Scaling Strategies for the Digital Era.

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Applications open for Innovate BC’s Ignite program to fund local R&D projects. #BCtech
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Congrats to our Anthonia Ogundele Founder and Exec. Director of Ethọ́s Lab for winning bcbusiness 2024 Women of the Year Awards for Diversity and inclusion.

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Congratulations are in order for our fantastic NBA Foundation grantee partner Ethos Lab 🥳🎉

Anthonia Ogundele, founder of Ethos Lab won a prestigious Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award from bcbusiness

We are so proud of the work Anthonia has done to create an inclusive

Here’s a recording of the panel I did on spatial computing from SXSW this year with Blair Macintyre, Evan Helda and Trista Pierce in Austin. Have a listen if you have time.

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#OurNextReality #XR #VR #AR #AI Dan Burgar at #C2MTL24

❓ #DidYouKnow ? We achieved our first fusion reaction in 2005 using our MTF approach on Bowen Island, BC—in a garage! This set us on the path to practical commercial fusion energy. Read what we’ve accomplished since: linkedin.com/posts/general-…

🔥2023 wildfires in Canada force over 230,000 people to flee from their homes and emitting 2.3 Gt of carbon dioxide - 3X Canada’s total economy emissions. This May, CICE calls on innovators to help Canada lead in wildfire tech advancement. Learn more:
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Our Dr. Danny Goel, a surgeon & CEO of VR/AR startup PrecisionOS, celebrates Western Canada’s first Stryker Mako Robot at his hospital in Burnaby. This robotic tech enhances precision in hip & knee surgeries, ensuring faster recovery & better outcomes.

Vancouver's Sanctuary AI keeps on rolling! Sanctuary AI and Microsoft are joining forces to advance general-purpose robotics, leveraging artificial general intelligence to potentially revolutionize how humanoid robots learn and operate.

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Congrats to our own Pocket Sun 👩🏼‍🎤 on her Vancouver screening of her documentary Show Her The Money Movie The film addresses how women are getting less than 2% of venture capital funding and demystifies what venture capital is.

More info:
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