British Columbia has always been known for its lush forests, its rugged coastline and its breathtaking mountains, but over the past two years it is becoming recognized for something else: a growing number of unicorns. As a recent article in Business In Vancouver noted, the province has become home to more than a dozen privately held tech […]
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A Culture of Innovation Powers BC Tech Members Across Sectors
The pandemic. Climate change. Supply chain disruptions. For many, such contemporary realities can stand in the way of anything resembling business optimism. Yet, for leaders in BC’s technology industry, they are merely challenges waiting for solutions. But what makes the difference? Is it luck or something more? Those attending BC Tech’s #WhatWorks Industry Innovation – […]
Canadian Companies Need To Be Less Conservative When Hiring Remote Overseas Talent
One of the positive effects of the pandemic is just how much it accelerated the availability of remote work. Although Canadian companies are now building distributed teams, welcoming talent from across the country, the country is still lagging behind others like the US, UK, the Netherlands, and Singapore who have been benefiting from the cost […]
Technology Empowers Educators To Lead Important Conversations And Individualized Learning In The Classroom
British Columbia’s curriculum has evolved over the years, yet the education model that focuses on academic success and print-centric learning has remained the same. COVID-19 accelerated the shift towards online learning, disrupting the classroom and proving that more innovation and resources were needed to succeed in a virtual setting. While technology has been considered to […]
Connecting the Dots: March 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 March’s Connecting The Dots, the team looks back on an International Women’s Day to remember, the B.C. tech sector’s latest wins and a tech-enabled surge of support for Ukraine. Moving the needle […]
Backing Up Data Shouldn’t Be A Chore: 3 Tips To Make Data Backup Easy
Picture this: you are one step from finalizing a document that has taken you hours, days, maybe even weeks to complete. You turn on your computer to take it over the finish line and something happens; blue screen, beach ball of death, or no response at all. Panicked, you do all you can to get […]
BNPL Is Here To Stay, and Canadian B2B Is Jumping On Board
Nearly two years since the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, the Canadian economy is finally starting to claw its way back to pre-pandemic levels. It’s been a slow and exhaustive process for many, but particularly demoralizing for businesses and the entrepreneurial spirit. COVID-19 has transformed our perception of the economy, altered major elements of our daily […]
Paving The Way For Future Generations: Guardian’s 3D Tech Is Mapping First Nations Lands
When building LlamaZOO’s TimberOps technology, a tool that allows 1 to 1 scale 3D topographic visualizations of the land, aka digital twins, I had my first “Aha!” moment for Guardian – I realized how many other use-cases this technology could have and how readily it could be deployed to First Nations across British Columbia. The […]
How Technology Creates Clarity For Consumers
Technology Now Enables Consumers to have Clarity on the Science Backing Nutritional Claims We all know that a good night’s sleep and eating healthy enables us to perform at our best, but when it comes to what eating healthy means, there is overwhelming confusion for many, as noted in this report by FoodInsight.org. We can […]
International Women’s Day 2022 – A How-To: Raising Female Voices in the Tech Industry
As the Canadian tech industry continues to underrepresent women, an issue the pandemic only exacerbated, it’s important to celebrate female voices in the industry. In Canada, there continues to be inequities as this demographic is largely underrepresented among Canada’s largest sectors. Less than 25% of all C-suite executives are women, only 4% identifying as women […]