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Fluxible 2021 festival set to go live starting June 7
05 May 2021 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News
Fluxible, Canada's user experience festival, is back with another virtual event starting June 7, 2021. Design for good is a key theme this year. Read more
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Fluxible responds to COVID-19 with Fluxible TV
26 May 2020 | By Kelly Pedro in: COVID19, Featured, News
Fluxible cancelled the Canada's UX festival in early March because of the pandemic. Only a few days later, they already had their gears turning, which has amounted to Fluxible TV, launching soon. Read more
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On climate change, no time left for small ideas
27 June 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News, True North
The True North 2019 workshop "Waterloo Region: Canada’s First Carbon-Neutral Region?" asked questions such as "How could that happen? What would it look like? How would we get there?" The workshop brought… Read more
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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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Women-in-tech group gets boost from a Nobel winner
25 April 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News
Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) launched its Waterloo Region chapter at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Wednesday with a talk entitled “Curiosity Drives Innovation,” delivered… Read more