Showing all articles in the Featured category
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Cybersecurity workshop delivers sobering stats
26 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
A cybersecurity workshop was held on the second day of True North 2019. The workshop started with some unsettling facts to share about cybersecurity, such as the need for more talent, and more diverse… Read more
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Retooling our notions of work as tech reshapes the future
25 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, Future of Work, News, True North
At True North 2019, Manulife hosted Future of Work and Learning – Taking Community Action. This workshop focused on crowd-sourced their experience and aspirations to help shape a Communitech-inspired initiative… Read more
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Bringing values along as tech marches forward
24 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
Marcel O’Gorman, professor, author and analyst of society’s uncritical acceptance of the pace of our technological present says that now is the time to be talking about the ethics of technological advances.… Read more
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Tech for good, the finale: Find your true north
20 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, True North
True North 2019 was an exciting event filled with thinkers and doers committed to making the world a better place. The event wrapped up with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, speaking… Read more
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Leaders Prize at True North issues $1M challenge: Fix fake news
19 June 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News, True North
The Leaders Prize at True North is hoping artificial intelligence can give truth a chance to catch up to fakes news. The problem of fake news and misinformation prevents people from making informed decisions,… Read more
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True North 2019, Day 1: A crucial conversation continues
19 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News, True North, Uncategorized
True North 2019, the global-in-scale, two-day follow-on to last year’s conference about “tech for good,” kicked off. Attendees heard from various members of the global tech community focusing on the three… Read more
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True North 2019: The curtain is set to rise
18 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
True North 2019, Communitech’s show-stopping conference about “tech for good,” will welcome 2,500 attendees from around the world for two days of transformative discussion about the intersection of technology… Read more
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Antonio Zappulla on how tech is making a difference
06 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Antonio Zappulla is the CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, an internationally-minded organization that seeks ways to harness technology to solve human problems and improve lives the world over. Zappulla… Read more
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Conestoga College to open campus in Kitchener core
31 May 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
With increased demand, Conestoga College decided to open a new downtown Kitchener campus at the former Market Square mall, at the corner of King and Frederick streets. The college announced that it has… Read more
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From Waterloo to Rideau Hall: Q & A with Jad Saliba
29 May 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Jad Saliba was presented with a Governor General’s Innovation Award in Ottawa. Saliba took a few minutes last week to answer some questions from Communitech News in the wake of learning, on May 13, that… Read more