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'We're ready to listen, we're ready to make a change'
30 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Communitech CEO Iain Klugman sits down with Bryan Larkin, Chief of the Waterloo Regional Police Service in the wake of the protests that stemmed from the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. Read more
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How Vidyard kept growing in the face of the pandemic
25 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Vidyard CEO Michael Litt and the company's board of directors had an emergency meeting early in the pandemic to prepare for the worst. Three months later, they have almost 3 million more new users. Read more
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Laura Mae Lindo on Waterloo Region's response to Black Lives Matter
23 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
What might a Black woman – who is also the Member of Provincial Parliament for Kitchener Centre – have to say to the chief of the Waterloo Region Police Service at a time of unprecedented world-wide outcry… Read more
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Jim Estill: Key to success is implementation, not ideas
23 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Jim Estill was the speaker at this Pizza with the Prez. They talk about how there are plenty of ideas, but not enough "implementers" for those ideas. Read more
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Cloud DX lands $1.75M to build remote monitoring device for COVID patients
23 June 2020 | By Tony Reinhart in: COVID19, Featured, News
A Waterloo Region tech company has been awarded $1.75 million from Canada’s advanced manufacturing supercluster to develop a system to remotely monitor patients, including those with COVID-19, after they… Read more
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John Seely Brown leads off True North TV series
16 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Communitech launches True North TV, a series of weekly conversations focused on tech for good, at the intersection of technology and humanity. Read more
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Grand (Re)Opening
12 June 2020 | By Alex Kinsella in: COVID19, Opinion, Tech About Town
As bars, restaurants, barbershops and other small businesses reopen across Waterloo Region, local businesses want to ensure that they're still taking the proper precautions to keep customers and staff… Read more
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Helping Main Street go digital in the age of pandemic
11 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Communitech will work with 5,200 businesses across Southwestern Ontario to help them transition digitally through the use of e-commerce as part of the Digital Main Street program. Read more
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Clearpath's OTTO Motors lands US $29-million Series C
01 June 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
OTTO Motors, an industrial robots producer has recently announced US $29 Million in funding during the COVID pandemic - all of it from Canadian investors. Read more
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Trusscore raises $5.33 million in seed funding
29 May 2020 | By Craig Daniels in: COVID19, Featured, News
Dape Caputo and the Trusscore team set out to help flatten the COVID-19 curve in March by producing temporary walls out to help with repurposing spaces, now their efforts are being rewarded having raised… Read more