Each month, the team at Switchboard Public Relations connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives informing the B.C. tech sector. For July’s Connecting The Dots, the team breaks down some multimillion-dollar M&A action, explores the new wave of Green Energy, and discusses B.C.’s Centre for Agritech Innovation. The latest deal makers in B.C. […]
Thought Leaders
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From Ambition to Action: Four Critical Steps Companies Are Taking To Achieve Net-Zero Emissions
With the effects of climate change coming into focus, investors, customers, and regulators have raised their expectations for companies, demanding that they set targets for reducing net emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) to zero and offer clear plans for achieving them. Sustainability has been the buzz word for years but 2021 was the year net-zero […]
Why are Tech Companies Keeping an Office?
I have met with many tech companies over the years, and it has been fascinating to see how the industry has evolved and how workplace design has changed alongside it. In the past decade, a sequence of quiet design revolutions has modified the way offices are used, obliterating former hierarchies of corner offices and cubicles, […]
Helping BC’s Service-based Businesses Prepare For Generation Z
Earlier this year, Vancouver was selected as one of the top five cities in the world for members of the Millenial and Generation Z cohort to make their mark. With this in mind, businesses are beginning to recognize it is no longer a choice to cater to Gen Z, but a must. This puts pressure […]
3 Things to Consider When Investing in Private Credit
Private debt is a particularly attractive private credit asset class, following a decade of consistent growth averaging 13.5% annually. Some forecasts predict private debt will accelerate to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.4% between 2022 and 2026, making it the second-largest private capital asset class by 2023. What is Private Credit? Emerging from […]
What Will Tech Offices Look Like in a Post COVID-World?
By now, we know that the pandemic has transformed the modern office. The hybrid work model has become the new norm for many tech businesses, including Microsoft, Meta and Apple. The rise of remote work isn’t all that has changed. Office design has also experienced a transformation since the pandemic, and many of those changes […]
How Digital Transformation to the Cloud Helps BC Organizations Align with Provincial Priorities
Canadian organizations have had to change the way they engage their customers, stakeholders and employees. Not only have organizations been forced to adopt digital solutions to enable remote operations, but many have also had to accelerate plans to move to Cloud solutions. They are facing the challenge of learning to integrate strategic, forward-thinking digital Cloud […]
Connecting the Dots: May 2022
Each month, the team at Switchboard Public Relations connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives informing the B.C. tech sector. For May’s Connecting The Dots, the team breaks down some multimillion-dollar M&A action, explores the emissions-reducing power of new agtech, and follows up on a trailblazing 5G research partnership. B.C. tech companies buy, […]
BC Company Among Winners in First-Ever Food Innovation Challenge
The Canadian Food Innovation Network this week announced an investment of more than $3 million into five projects, including one from the Vancouver area. The Food Innovation Challenge is a funding opportunity for Canadian food industry collaborators who want to spearhead transformative improvements that will propel the food sector forward and generate economic impact. It is […]
A Rare Delve into BC’s Cyber Talent Shortage Finds that all Stakeholders Can do More
In recent years, there has been much written about endless cybersecurity job vacancies. More recently, more has been written about how to fill those vacancies and with more urgency. It is widely believed that cybercrime has already surpassed the drug trade as the single most profitable sector of illegal activities in the world. It is […]