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Angela Griffen, CTO of Glance Technologies

Angela Griffen, CTO of Glance Technologies Inc. joins host Drew Ogryzek to talk about Glance Pay, the life of a CTO, team culture, and more!

As a seasoned software developer and CTO, having started her career when building web-based software solutions was first starting out, Griffen shares knowledge and insight ranging from domain expertise, the role of a CTO as companies grow over time, the beginnings of Glance Pay, and some thoughts on future adoption of cryptocurrency payments.

Listen in to hear the whole conversation.

Follow Glance Pay on Twitter at @glancepay, and the Vancouver Tech Podcast at @vantechpodcast.

Vancouver Public Library Events

Friday, January 5

Are you curious about making movies, creating a podcast, or editing photos? What about publishing your own book or ebook? You can do all of this and much more in the Inspiration Lab. Come learn about the creative possibilities!

• 2:00 PM: All About the Inspiration Lab

Tuesday, January 9th

Learn how you can tell the story of a family member, bring together family history, or just share a vacation adventure... it's up to you! Get hands-on experience digitizing, creating, and editing media to help turn your memories into movies.

• 2:00 PM Turn Memories into Movies: Part 1

Wednesday, January 10

From personal stories, to marketing videos, to social and environmental films – it all starts with an idea and a dream. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Julia Ivanova leads this four-hour workshop where participants learn how to develop a successful, achievable film or video project idea.

• 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM: Reel Stories: Developing an Idea for Film

For more events, visit vpl.ca/events and to find out more about the Inspiration Lab visit vpl.ca/inspirationlab

Community Partners

Innovation Labs is hosting a DevOps for Any Language, Any Platform event, Tuesday January 9th, 2018 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

We are very excited to start the new year with a seminar dedicated to innovation in IT! We are bringing one of Microsoft's key cloud advocates, Donovan Brown to demonstrate how to set up your very own DevOps in your organization from scratch.

Adaptech Solutions Drive business value. Stay ahead of competitors. Build great products. January 18th, and 19th, 2018 - Adaptech Solutions is holding workshops on Delivering Effective Microservices and Hands-On Microservices Implementation: Deep-Dive.

deCode Hackathon: deCODE invites selected hackers to work alongside company engineers from high-growth tech companies to work on challenging and interesting technical challenges.

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Jeffery Walsh, EtherParty Developer

VanBex, a team of blockchain consultants and experts does client work, helping with development, marketing for businesses that want to integrate blockchain, smart contracts, crowdfunding and also has their own projects.

EtherParty is a VanBex project that helps by making smart contracts easier to use. Smart contracts exist on the Ethereum blockchain. EtherParty is like the Wix or Squarespace of smart contracts; an app you can use to click through and make your own.

Jeffery Walsh, fullstack developer of EtherParty joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss VanBex, EtherParty, blockchain development for both cryptocurrency and other uses.

With regards to what blockchain is, "I just think of it as computers agreeing on something," says Walsh. "There's a bunch of computers, and they're all running the same code. They agree on something, and that can be entered into a public ledger, because everybody agreed."

Listen in to dive deeper into how blockchains and cryptocurrencies like BitCoin and Ethereum work.

Follow EtherParty on Twitter at @etherparty_io, and the Vancouver Tech Podcast at @vantechpodcast.

Community Partners

deCode Hackathon: deCODE invites selected hackers to work alongside company engineers from high-growth tech companies to work on challenging and interesting technical challenges.

ConFoo is a conference for developers that will take place on December 4th-6th at the Sheraton Wall Center.

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Special Guest Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital

Special guest Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss community building, TechMasters, and business and team organization.

Nassri likes to describe Telus Digital, an approximately 300 person team, with a large presence in Vancouver as well as Toronto, as being the software arm, or the part that enables all the digital experiences that Telus customers, whether business or consumers are interacting with.

As the organizer of TechMasters, Nassri is very active helping to bring the technology community closer together.

Listen in to find out how this team is able to have developers deploy code to production 300 times a day, with no dedicated ops people, and more!

Follow Ahmad Nassri on Twitter at @AhmadNassri and the Vancouver Tech Podcast at @vantechpodcast.

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Special Guest Nicky Kunstman, Internal Recruiter at InVision

Special guest Nicky Kunstman joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss InVision, and the process of recruiting.

People who are passionate about issues of scale, usability, cloud-computing, and seeing the difference they are able to make in the lives of people on the design and UX side of things, while helping them make better products may find working with InVision appealing.

Listen in to dive into questions around the interviewing process, how InVision maintains a 100% fully remote team, and much more!

Follow Nicky Kunstman on Twitter at @LizaCole5280 and the Vancouver Tech Podcast at @vantechpodcast and frankly, why not go and work at InVision?

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Special Guest Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen

Special guest Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency, and ICOs. AxiomZen is a company that is always investigating new technologies, building their own startups, partnering with external investors to build startups with them, building companies for fortune 500 companies and other industry groups. For AxiomZen, breaking new ground, rather than building "me too" products is the norm. Naturally, blockchain is something they have had their eyes on since day one.

Shirley describes blockchain as a really clever technology, that is fundamentally a way of storing a series of transactions or events in a way that any sized group of people can always agree on what's in that log without any possibility of the history of that log being changed.

Bitcoin introduced the public blockchain, basically stating that because we have this technology that lets us have an indelible log of transactions that everyone agrees have occurred, we don't need a bank, explains Shirley.

Shirley believes the core technology of blockchain, being distributed publicly is disruptive because it is basically saying we don't need banks, or necessarily government to define currency for us. We can do everything in the cloud, in a decentralized way where no one is in charge, but the code.

Listen in to hear more in-depth discussion and follow Dieter Shirley on Twitter at @dete73.

Links

• Midas Guide
• AxiomZen
• AziomZenTeam on Twitter

Community Partners

Startup Week 2017 will kick off with our signature Hackathon from September 22 to 24, 2017, which will attract more than 200 innovators with the goal of building Vancouver’s next great startups.

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Special Guest Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry

Special Guest Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Mann is an active contributor to helping grow Vancouver's technical community, he is involved in open source, running "geek meetups," and started FrontierFroundry with Adrian Jonklaas in March of 2017.

FrontierFoundry was concieved with the question in mind, "What kind of company can we build in Vancouver that really has the whole world as its customers; that goes global from day one?" and thinking of areas of frontier technology, a very broad space where there's not a lot of concensus or understanding as to what successful companies in this space look like.

This space includes blockchain, augmented reality, and machine learning, and other emerging tech. How are companies in this space funded? How are they created? Who are their customers?

Mann explains that blockchain really has three definitions:

• The computer science innovation of Merkel Tree, and crypto algorithms that enable this concept of a blockchain
• Instances of public blockchain, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum
• The blockchain ethos of decentralization, trustlessness, permissionless innovation, and other interesting aspects as a result of global, decentralized networks

Definitions, Mann attributes to Lisa Cheng, cofounder of Vanbex and has written about in the FrontierFoundry blog.

Mann defines ICOs as ways of offering blockchain tokens or coins to people to buy into that will then fund building a project in some way.

According to Mann, the big thing that has happened in the last six to nine months or so, is that the Ethereum blockchain has the ability to do programming on the chain and create coins or tokens directly, without having to run an entire separate codebase. This kind of bootstrapping on Ethereum lowers the barrier for entry makes it easy for people to create and offer tokens to a global audience that people can buy to fund projects, which has resulted in some record breaking funding.

With open source as a foundation of the ethos of blockchain, various individuals collaborate on open source code repositories that actually run the core servers and clients of the blockchains and miners. Because these codebases are written in low level languages such as C and C++, which takes a fair level of expertise combined with solid computer science knowledge in efficiently implementing cryptographic algorithms, while making sure they are secure and performant; these networks have to run world wide. So, the level of effort to clone the codebase, and make changes that are both different enough from the initial codebase, and secure and highly performant, means it takes an entire stack of C/C++ programmers just to get started.

In contrast to that, doing an Ethereum ERC20 Token (a formalized standard for Ethereum tokens), can be done in an afternoon. That won't necessarily mean it is fully secure or doesn't have bugs, but it's much easier to leverage this existing technology, and standard than to develop a completely new blockchain.

Listen in to hear more in-depth discussion and follow Boris Mann on Twitter at @bmann.

Community Partners

Startup Week 2017will kick off with our signature Hackathon from September 22 to 24, 2017, which will attract more than 200 innovators with the goal of building Vancouver’s next great startups.

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Special Guest Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp

Special Guest Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp in South Africa joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings).

Founder of ProsperiProp, a company currently in the process of an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), Morkel says the idea is to make it possible for a person with as little as USD $2.00 to get involved with property investment. There's often quite a high dollar bar, or minimum investment to get involved with property investment, so he sees this as a big game changer.

Morkel says Bitcoin was the very first blockchain coin. It was the very first way of transacting and paying digitally. The open source Bitcoin currency and blockchain acts as the reference. One can download that source code and start their own coin. When Ethereum copied it and started the Ethereum chain, then decided to better it in a way with smart contracts.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are payment systems, which makes them "coins," while ProsperiProp has an asset backed item which does not run on its own blockchain, and that makes it a token, explains Morkel.

With all the hype around ICOs circulating, Morkel says some things to take into consideration, while evaluating whether to buy into a company's ICO are:

Read the whitepaper: a whitepaper is like a business plan for technology, where everything the business plans on doing is written in detail. You can scrutinize that document to see exactly where it comes from. If that whitepaper does not make sense, then that's the first alarm bell.

The team involved: does the team have experience in what they're doing, are they capable of being validated, and do you trust the people involved?

Are the people involved open to public media: Often people who want to scam you out of a few dollars will not go into the media, because they do not want to be seen or known.

Check out propxico.com to read the whitepaper, learn more about the ProsperiProp team or get involved in the ICO.

Follow Morkel on Twitter at @LlewMorkel and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Sep 12 - 16, 2017

• TUE: SEP 12

  • Vancouver Founder Institute Information Session
    (Vancouver Startup Founder 101 | at The Profile (Gastown) | 6:30 pm)

• WED: SEP 13

  • Intro to Einstein Data Discovery for Developers
    (Vancouver Salesforce Developer Group | at Salesforce | 6:00 pm)

• THU: SEP 14

  • Everything you need to know about Kubernetes + hands-on demo
    (Google Cloud Platform | at Scalar Office | 5:30 pm)
  • Intro to Deep Learning with Fast.AI: Week five
    (Learn Data Science | at Boeing Vancouver Labs | 6:00 pm)

• SAT: SEP 16

  • How To Build A Sales Process That Converts
    (Spring Startup School | 10:00 am)

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Special Guest Barinder Rasode, President and CEO of NICHE Canada, and Co-Founder of RoundHouse Radio's She Talks

Special Guest Barinder Rasode, President and CEO of NICHE Canada, and Co-Founder of She Talks joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss cannabis legalization in Canada, and how NICHE Canada (National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education) fits in.

Initially, Rasode was opposed to the proliferation of cannabis dispensaries, but seeing those who are affected in positive ways helped her change perspectives, and she now heads NICHE Canada, an organization that aims to operationalize the federal government commissioned cannabis legalization and regulation taskforce report by ensuring all stakeholders during and after the process are equipped in their fields to manage this new regime.

Rasode says NICHE has a partnership with MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), with the CACP (Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police), and other regulatory bodies that are concerned about product safetly and testing for intoxication levels. There are a lot of issues to be dealt with from economic, medical, and regulatory and public safety points of view. NICHE is working to bring all three levels of government and industry together to get them on the same page.

NICHE is hosting a job fair for the cannabis industry at UBC Robson Square on September 21st from 9:00AM to 9:00PM. Register on their site: https://www.nichecanada.com/job-fair-registration

Follow Rasode on Twitter at @BarinderRasode and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Sep 5 - 8, 2017

• TUE: SEP 5

  • 5 Steps to Creating a User-Centered Product or Service
    (Spring Startup School | at Borden Ladner Gervais | 5:30 pm)
  • Intro to HTML & CSS
    (Red Academy | 6:00 pm)

• WED: SEP 6

  • TALENT DAY: Meet local tech companies
    (BCjobs.ca | at BC Tech Innovation Hub | 5:00 pm)
  • PHP Meetup: September 2017
    (Vancouver PHP | at Eventbase | 6:00 pm)

• THU: SEP 7

  • Xamarin: .NET Standard 2.0 support and other new and upcoming features
    (.NET User Group of BC | at Microsoft Office | 5:45 pm)

• FRI: SEP 8

  • GRUB IN THE HUB: The right people to take care of your people
    (Tech Talent Meetup | at BC Tech Innovation Hub | 12:00 pm)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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Special Guest Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk

Special guest Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss the development culture, organizational structure and some use cases for Splunk, the company that brings us log monitoring and analaysis tools and services.

Cruise explains a little about LeSS (Large Scale Scrum), and that their team has been adopting it as a means of escaping some of the failure modes of traditional small-scale agile. LeSS involves things like a unified product backlog, such that every item that a product manager deems being worthy of being worked on, goes onto the shared product backlog.

One of the main reasons for Cruise's teams to be making a transition towards LeSS is to reduce hyperspecialization. Mature organizations tend to have people who develop a great deal of expertise within a narrow field. With these hyperspecialized experts, it becomes increasingly difficult for someone new to get up to speed and be productive on a codebase where someone else is already a specialist. LeSS helps to break this coupling between individuals and teams, and particular product features they historically were experts in.

Cruise also shares his thoughts on what it means to be a senior developer, including increasingly spending more time communicating and mentoring, and doing more leadership type tasks. Additionally, this includes commenting on wiki pages, reviewing code, training, and helping people to solve their own problems, while spending less time on one's own deliverables.

Follow Cruise on Twitter at @alexcruise and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Aug 28 - 31, 2017

• MON: AUG 28

  • Hackernest Vancouver Tech Socials
    (at BrainStation | 8:00 pm)

• TUE: AUG 29

  • Women's Pitch Night
    (Elevator Ventures | at Borden Ladner Gervais | 6:30 pm)

  • Lambda apps with .architect, and Lightning talks
    (Vancouver Javascript Developers | at VFS Cafe | 6:30 pm)

• WED: AUG 30

  • [Advanced] Data Science Reading Group
    (Learn Data Science | at SFU Harbour Centre | 6:00 pm)

  • Code & Coffee Pop-Up
    (at Richmond Public Library | 7:00 pm)

• THU: AUG 31

  • Intro to Deep Learning with Fast.AI: Week four
    (Learn Data Science | at Boeing Vancouver Labs | 6:00 pm)

  • CodeCore Demo Day - August 2017
    (at CodeCore | 6:00 pm)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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Special Guest Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform

Special guest Kelsey Hightower joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss Kubernetes, its differentiating features in contrast to Mesos, CloudFoundry, Heroku and other Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, such as OpenShift which is actually built on top of Kubernetes.

When considering a fully hosted PaaS solution, if you find the opinions of the solution to be too constrained for all of your use-cases, then Kubernetes becomes super attractive.

Many of the resources for Kubernetes have Kelsey Hightower's name around them, including Kubernetes the Hard Way, Udacity's course Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes, and the soon to be released O'Reilly publication Kubernetes: Up and Running.

Follow Hightower on Twitter at @kelseyhightower and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Links

• Kuberetes: Up and Running
• Kubernetes the Hard Way

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Aug 22 - 27, 2017

• TUE: Aug 22

  • - Machine Learning on Google Cloud - Bring your problems
    (Google Developers Group | at Lighthouse Labs | 5:30)

  • Vancouver Startup Office Hours: Get Business Advice from Tech Startup Founders
    (Vancouver Startup Founder 101 | at The Profile | 6:30pm)

• WED: Aug 23

  • Intro to Deep Learning with Fast.AI: Week three
    (Learn Data Science | Boeing Vancouver Labs | 6:30pm)

  • How to identify your top growth channels that will hit your marketing goals
    (Vancouver Growth Hackers | at BuildDirect | 6:00pm)

• THU: Aug 24

  • 9 Weeks from Nuclear Engineer to Front End Developer - A Talk by Robyn Larsen
    (Women Who Code | at BrainStation | 5:30pm)

  • The Women in Tech End of Summer Networking Party
    (Vancouver Women in Male-Dominated Industries | at Mobify | 5:30pm)

• SAT: Aug 26

  • Putting the FUN in FUNdamentals.
    (Lighthouse Labs | 4:00 pm)

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Special Guest Alejandro Lujan of ScalaQuest

Special guest Alejandro Lujan joins host Drew Ogryzek to discus the programming language Scala, the types of problems Scala, and functional programming languages in general are good at solving versus object oriented languages such as Java, for example.

As a professional trainer and consultant for Lightbend Inc. Lujan brings his expertise in both programming and education to an exciting online game, ScalaQuest. Each level focuses on a topic, from values and expressions, to functions, to Monads. As you progress through the game, there are a number of challenges to solve in code, helping to gain familiarity with the Scala programming language and its key concepts. Check out the ScalaQuest kickstarter campaign!

Follow Lujan on Twitter at @andanthor and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Links

• ScalaQuest Kickstarter
• Lightbend Blog: ScalaQuest

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Aug 14 - 17, 2017

• MON: Aug 14

  • SEO: How to Drive More Traffic to Your Website
    (Camp Tech | at Hive Vancouver | 12:00 pm)

• TUE: Aug 15

  • Configuring AWS ECS infrastructure with Terraform and the Segment Stack
    (Vancouver Amazon Web Service User Group | at BuildDirect | 6:00 pm)

  • Vancouver Startup Funding 101: How to Raise Capital for Your Idea
    (Vancouver Startup Founder 101 | at The Profile | 6:30 pm)

• WED: Aug 16

  • [Advanced] Data Science Reading Group
    (Learn Data Science | at SFU Harbour Centre | 6:00 pm)

  • August 2017 Meetup
    (ReactJS | at HootSuite | 6:00 pm)

• THU: Aug 17

  • Free iOS Essentials Workshop
    (Lighthouse Labs | 6:00 pm)

  • Code & Coffee
    (at Mobify | 6:30 pm)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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Special Guest Brittany Whitmore of Exvera Communications

Special guest Brittany Whitmore of Exvera Communications joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss PR in the world of tech, including
3D printing, crowdfunding, virtual reality, and what it means to tell great stories about inspiration and entrepreneurialism.

In addition to being a public relations specialist and BC Business Top 30 under 30, Whitmore is quite active in the tech community as founder and executive director of Ted X Gastown Women, resident technology professional at Roundhouse Radio, and more.

Follow Whitmore on Twitter at @BritWhitmore and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Aug 8 - 12, 2017

• TUE: Aug 8

  • Slack bots on Kubernetes - Building the future
    (Google Developers Group | at Slack HQ | 6:00 pm)

  • Vancouver Engineer to Entrepreneur: Startup Basics for Techies
    (Vancouver Startup Founder 101 | at The Profile | 6:30 p)

• WED: Aug 9

  • Crushing it on Social Media (Facebook and LinkedIn)
    (YVR Startups | at Istuary | 7:00 pm)

• THU: Aug 10

  • ViDIA August 2017
    (VIDIA | at Hootsuite | 5:30 pm)

  • Learn Data Science by Doing Kaggle Competitions: Amazon from Space
    (Learn Data Science | at SFU Harbour Centre | 6:00 pm)

• SAT: Aug 12

  • HTML & CSS for Beginners
    (Ladies Learning Code | at Mobify | 10:00 am)

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Special Guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal

Special guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss how technological innovation is helping increase access to justice. The online resources use ai to help people find solutions to their problems, and even resolve disputes, with the help of the CRT (Civil Resolution Tribunal).

Salter, along with Lauryn Kerr, Expert Systems Analyst at the BC Ministry of Justice, Dispute Resolution Office gave an in-depth talk at the Vancouver Legal Hacker's meetup in June entitled: AI, Expert Systems and the Justice System: Inside BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal. In the talk, the two offer an overview of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, how it works, and insight into the background of online resolution dispute.

Follow Shannon Salter on Twitter at @shannonnsalter and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Links

• talk: Inside BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal
• civilresolutionbc.ca

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events July 31 - August 06, 2017

• MON: July 31

  • User Interviews: The Simple Secret to Fast Growth
    (Launch Academy | 5:30 pm)

  • HackerNest Vancouver July Tech Social
    (at Free Geek Vancouver | 8:00 pm)

• WED: Aug 2

  • React Native Hack Night
    (React Native Vancouver | Bench Accounting | 6:00 pm)

  • Tech Starters Code Night!
    (Techstarters Vancouver | at Lighthouse Labs | 6:00 pm)

• THU: Aug 3

  • Laravel Meetup
    (Vancouver PHP | at Invoke | 6:15 pm)

  • Intro to Deep Learning with Fast.AI
    (Learn Data Science | at Boeing Vancouver Labs | 6:00 pm)

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Special Guest Ken McDonald of TeamSnap

Special guest Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer at TeamSnap and co-author of How to Acquire Your First Million Customers: Scaling Your Online Business by Laying the Foundation for Growth, joins host Drew Ogryzek.

McDonald tells us about TeamSnap, the team management app that helps save coaches and managers time organizing their teams and groups, and shares from his extensive experience in "growth hacking," including some great insights on analytics and A/B testing.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech events of interest over the upcoming week.

Follow Ken McDonald on Twitter at @KenPMcDonald and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Links

• TeamSnap
• How to Acquire Your First Million Customers

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events July 17 - 20, 2017

• MON: July 17

  • Teaching Bots to Talk - Design & Content Conference Extra Event
    (Style & Class Meetup Group | at Rio Theatre | 6:00 pm)

• TUE: July 18

  • Cloud Access Security
    (Public Cloud User Group | at CodeCore | 6:00 pm)
  • How to Start a Startup in Vancouver
    (Founder Institute  | at The Profile | 6:30 pm)

• WED: July 19

  • An Overview of Amazon's EC2 Container Service
    (Vancouver Amazon Web Services User Group | at ACL Office | 6:00 pm)
  • ReactJS July 2017 Meetup
    (ReactJS Meetup Group | at Dynamic Leap | 5:30 pm)
  • Using Data-Driven Design to Create High Performing Landing Pages
    (Vancouver Growth Hackers | at Mobify | 6:00 pm)

• THU: July 20

  • Google Cloud for Startups
    (Google Cloud Platform | at 7 Gate Venture Labs | 5:30pm)
  • Code & Coffee
    (Code & Coffee | at Mobify | 6:30 pm)

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Special Guest Jerry Chi of Supercell

Special guest Jerry Chi of Supercell, the mobile game company behind titles such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars, currently under soft-launch only in Canada, joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss what it's like living and working in Japan as a foreigner.

Chi has an impressive background having graduated Stanford, and receiving an MBA from Wharton, while also speaking four languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. He offers insights into some of the differences in opportunities between Japanese companies and foreign companies with offices in Japan, as well as some helpful tips for exploring the Japanese job market.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech events of interest over the upcoming week.

Follow Jerry Chi on Twitter at @peacej and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

Links

• Supercell
• Disrupting Japan
• The Japan Venture Show
• Tech in Asia
• Slush.org
• connpass.com
• justa.io
• japanesepod101
• memrise
• anki

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events July 10 - 13, 2017

• MON: July 10

  • Elevator Ventures Pitch Circuit
    (Elevator Ventures | at Fasken Martineau | 5:30 PM)
  • GBWC - Panel Discussion
    (SFU Graduate Business Women's Council | at SFU Segal | 6:00 PM)

• TUE: July 11

  • Google Cloud OnBoard
    (Google | at Sheraton Vancouver | 9:00 AM)
  • Free HTML & CSS Workshop
    (at Lighthouse Labs | 6:00 PM)
  • How To Raise Money Without Giving up Equity
    (Spring Startup School | at Borden Ladner Gervais | 5:30 PM)
  • PyLadies Code Jam
    (PyLadies Code Jam | Unbounce | 5:30 PM)

• WED: July 12

  • Product And Feature Validation
    (YVR Startups | at Istuary Idea Labs| 7:00 PM)
  • Rock My Business Plan Series BC
    (at Futurpreneur Canada BC Office | 5:00 PM)

• THU: July 13

  • CodeCore Demo Day
    (at CodeCore | 6:00 PM)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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Special Guest Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs (S. Korea)

Guest Kevin Rockwood from Skelter Labs in South Korea, a company working on several artificial intelligence based projects joins host Drew Ogryzek. After 8 years working in Cincinnati as a software developer, Rockwood and his wife decided to move to Korea.

Having not done any research into the job market for software developers in Korea, Rockwood says attending local tech meetups, like the Seoul Elixir meetup which he currently organizes, is an excellent way to meet people and connections, and even find meaningful employment.

Programs, such as the Korean government's Tech Incubator Program for Startups or TIPS, are helping the thriving Korean startup scene.

For those interested in life as a software developer in Seoul, South Korea, follow Rockwood on Twitter at @kevinrockwood.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Jun 26 - 29, 2017

• MON: Jun 26

  • Day 2: Call To Action Conference
    (Unbounce | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 am)

  • HackerNest Vancouver June Tech Social
    (Mobify | 8:00 pm)

• TUE: June 27

  • Day 3: Call To Action Conference
    (Unbounce | 8:00 am)

  • Developer Happy Hour hosted by Hyperwallet
    (Tech Talent Meetup | at Steamworks | 5:00 pm)

  • Discussion about imposter syndrome and kicking it to the curb
    (Women Can Tech | at Lighthouse Labs | 6:00 pm)

• WED: June 28

  • SR&ED – Everything You Need to Know!
    (Launch Academy | 5:15 pm)

  • Corporate Finance Part 2: Navigating your business's financing options
    (BLG’s Driven by Women Initiative | at Borden Ladner Gervais | 5:30 pm)

• THU: June 29

  • Fundraising Part 2: Crowdfunding
    (at MistyWest | 6:00 pm)

  • PHP Meetup
    (Vancouver PHP | at Invoke | 6:15 pm)

  • Continuous Testing, Integration, and Deployment for Ruby Projects
    (Vancouver Ruby Meetup Group | at Unbounce | 6:30 pm)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special Guest Ryan Lalonde, Startup Entrepreneur

Special guest Ryan Lalonde, local startup entrepreneur joins host Drew Ogryzek to discus product validation, development, finding a market, and the product he is currently working on in the growing cannabis industry.

Eaze, sometimes called "Uber for weed" is a medical marijuana delivery service. Lalonde suggests that there's nothing like this is Canada, yet. So a potential market exists for someone to capitalize on.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver.

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Jun 20 - 23, 2017

• TUE: Jun 20

  • React Native Talk Series: Offline First React Native (React Native Vancouver | at Clio | 6:00 PM)

  • JavaScript for Beginners (Ladies Learning Code | at Amazon | 6:00 PM)

• WED: Jun 21

  • Software Developers: Tech Stack Must Haves* *(BC Tech Association | at Hootsuite | 5:00 PM)

  • Node.js 101* *(UBC Robson Square | 6:45 PM)

• THU: Jun 22

  • Code & Coffee (at Mobify | 6:00 PM)

  • Explore The Holodeck (Women Who Code | at Finger Food Studios | 6:30 PM)

• FRI: June 23

  • Global AI Hackathon (at Mobify | 7:00 PM)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special Guest Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World

Guest Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World joins host Drew Ogryzek and discusses her background, the importance of increasing diversity in tech, and the Driving WinTech Canadian tour to connect women in tech.

This fall, Women in Tech (WinTech) is conducting a Canada-wide fact-finding mission to better understand and record the experiences of women in technology and to promote vibrant women in tech communities across the country.

To our knowledge, this has never been done before in Canada. There are smaller qualitative and quantitative studies and lots of anecdotal evidence of women's experiences in tech, but no one has taken on a project of this magnitude or mandate.

Check out the KickerStarter campaign and show your support by backing the project!

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver.

Follow Women in Tech World on Twitter at @wintechworld

Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Jun 13 - 16, 2017

• TUE: Jun 13

  • How To Find Your Ideal Cofounder (by Spring | at CodeCore | 5:30PM)

• WED: Jun 14

  • DisruptHR (at Science World | 6:00 PM)
  • IBCS® Presents: What Musicians Can Teach Analysts and Reporting Professionals (by Vancouver Data Visualization | at SAP | 6:30 PM)
  • Crushing it on Social Media & Q&A/AMA @ Istuary (by YVR Startups | at Istuary | 7:00 PM)

• THU: Jun 15

  • Ransomware & the Cloud (by Public Cloud User Group | at CodeCore | 6:00 PM)
  • #100DaysOfCode - Regex - (by Surrey CodeCamp | at Beta Collective | 6:30 PM)

• SAT: Jun 10

  • Sales Workshop (Spring | 10:00 AM)

  • Google Analytics Workshop (Brainstation | 10:00 AM)

Want to include your event? DM eventspodcast on instagram/twitter @eventspodcast

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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special Guest Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo

This week, Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo joins host Drew Ogryzek and dicusses online identity verification. If a manufacturer, say in a developing market wanted to trade or sell, a solution that enables that transfer could identify them using Trulioo. Trulioo's service is used for identity verification, similar to how an identity may be verified through a credit bureaux. However, Trulioo's services can be used to globally.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver.

Follow Trulioo on Twitter at @trulioo

Events Podcast Presents: Meetups Around Town Jun 5 - 11, 2017

• MON: Jun 5, 2017

  • Networking Tips w/ Career Experts from Hootsuite and Hyperwallet (BC Tech Innovation Hub | 5:00 PM)

• TUE: Jun 6

  • The Future of Work (The Studio at Creative Coworkers | 6:30 PM)

• WED: Jun 7

  • Meet Local Tech Companies at Talent Day! (BC Tech Innovation Hub | 5:00 PM)
  • Cloud Spanner Tech Talk (7 Gate Venture Labs | 6:00 PM)
  • The Spring Showcase #2: Startup Stories & Demos (CodeCore | 6:00 PM)
  • Tech Starters Code Night! (Lighthouse Labs | 6:00 PM)

• THU: Jun 8

  • Camp Tech - Intro to Search Engine Marketing with Google Adwords (Hive Vancouver | 6:00 PM)

• SAT: Jun 10

  • Sketching in VR using WebVR and Aframe (RED Academy | 9:00 AM)

  • Marketing Workshop (Spring | 10:00 AM)

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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special Guests Nikolay Malyarov and David Uberti

Special guests Nikolay Malyarov, COO of PressReader and David Uberti, staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review join host Drew Ogryzek.

Malyarov, Uberti, and Ogryzek reflect on topics from biases in journalism, the notion of objectivity, the effects of socioeconomic change on journalism media consumption, and more.

In journalism, understanding that we have our biases when we're reporting, then potentially overcompensating by pointing out the other sides that could be there, may create a bias in another direction or a two-sided argument.

Public trust in media is at an all time low, but trust in particular media institutions remains high. While people in the United States distrust "the media," there is an identification with certain outlets.

Newspapers or news programs from 50 years ago had a much more standard who, what, when, where, why approach to news. Now, just given the fact that we can get so much information about breaking news events instantaneously online, journalists have to add value through their analysis. So now if you look at a newspaper, it's not who, what, when, where, why, it's so what? Why should we be caring about this?

For PressReader it's the content that drives the consumption based on the interest of its readers. There is a deliberate and conscious effort to ensure that if there are topics I'm interested in, my feed isn't just full of the particular bias I subscribe to, but the feed will show both sides. It's then up to me, as the reader, to choose what to read.

The revolution we have gone through in the past two decades have allowed us as individuals an unprecedented access to information. Something that we couldn't have fathomed how much of that information exists before, and that's really what's fueling the progress for us as a society. So, there's never going to be enough.

How do you engage with your readers beyond simply providing them an ability to comment; how do you go beyond that? There's some really clever ideas that will be featured on the next issue of The Insider on PressReader.

Follow David Uberti on Twitter at @DavidUberti and on his podcast The Kicker