On December 1st, 2021, LegalWills.ca announced the completion of the first fully electronic Will in British Columbia with a Canadian Armed Forces member based at CFB Esquimault. This is a major shift in the deployment of LegalTech for Wills but resulted in little media coverage. This is odd given that British Columbia is the first […]
Thought Leaders
Our Thought Leadership series highlights the province's notable domain experts and is meant to offer guidance and insight to our readers. Interested in sharing your knowledge? Reach out to rob@techcouver.com with your pitch.
How To Accelerate Cloud Adoption With Security By Design
In a world of continuous change and disruption, Canadian organizations should embrace security from the start to accelerate business transformation and resilience. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world online – and as we enter year two of the new normal, we’re finding that the transformation is permanent. Workers want to work from anywhere, consumers want […]
Why Virtual Healthcare is Here to Stay Post-Pandemic
The pandemic has impacted industries across the country, but its effects have been felt most profoundly in the healthcare industry. While front-line workers have been working tirelessly to care for patients suffering from COVID-19, Canadians looking to access basic healthcare have faced their own set of challenges: increased wait times at clinics and doctors’ offices, […]
Connecting The Dots: November 2021
Bruce Claggett (Managing Director at Switchboard Public Relations) connects the dots between the trends, headlines and narratives that are informing the B.C. tech sector. This month, Bruce hones in on the players that are creating positive change in B.C. There is a sense of optimism in the industry that we want to shine a light […]
Remote Work Skills Make Software Developers A Top Talent Target
Will the job market be more competitive for Canadian software engineers post-COVID? In the pre-pandemic world, we picked coworkers like we picked roommates. We put a lot of emphasis on whether we liked the people we worked with, probably because we spent so much time-sharing physical space with them. What 2020 taught me most about […]
This Year’s Giving Season Critical For Canada’s Charitable Sector
In March 2020, the Vancouver Cantonese Opera (VCO) closed its theatre doors due to COVID. The charity works to preserve and protect the art of Cantonese Opera, an endangered form of intangible cultural heritage connected to the Chinese Canadian community. Like so many arts organizations in this country, this also meant closing the door on […]
NFT-101: Still Sleeping on NFTs? Here’s How to Get Involved
We claim to be a community-oriented group with a goal of introducing NFTs to the masses. So, why isn’t democratizing the NFT industry every artist’s top priority? On May 3rd, 2014, Kevin McCoy minted the first NFT (non-fungible token), “Quantum,” long before the crypto market exploded. A pixelated image of an octagon filled with denoting […]
Rallying The World To Join A Local, Sustainable Farming Revolution Driven By Tech
Just past the one-hour mark of CubicFarms AMPLIFIED I appeared on camera for the third and final time. Over the course of those 20 seconds, my goal was to communicate how passionately I believe in the new industry category, local chain ag-tech, being launched at the October 21 event. As CubicFarms’ Chief Marketing Officer, I’m […]
Entrepreneurship in Pandemic Times
The pandemic and resulting economic shutdown to contain it over the last two years have affected businesses worldwide. At the height of the pandemic there were an estimated 11,000 people working in downtown Vancouver compared to an average 119,000 with office occupancy hovering around 10-30%. Now, with the provincial government in Step 3 of the […]
How Real Estate is Reaping the Rewards of the Industry’s Digital Transformation
It has been a year and a half since the onset of the global pandemic, and as with the rest of the world, the real estate industry has undergone pivotal changes to provide immediate solutions for business continuity. The digital transformation of real estate is not new, but the pandemic has significantly accelerated this process, […]