Tech-focused Entrepreneurship in Canada Poised for More Success
By Yasmin Ranade
Connected is four years old, bootstrapped, and one of Canada’s top small and medium employers two years running, as well as one of LinkedIn’s Top25 Startups in Canada.
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The State of Small Business in Canada, and Future Opportunities
By Christine Persaud
October is dubbed Small Business Month in Canada, celebrating the small businesses that make up a large part of the economic landscape north of the border.
Interview with The Void’s Curtis Hickman on the hyper-realistic Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire experience
In The VOID, you see and feel every explosion, thanks to temperature effects and even the smell of smoke and burning rubber, it was exhilarating.
Battlefield AI Technology Put to Test in Canada
by Lee Rickwood
Sophisticated surveillance systems powered by artificial intelligence were used by Canadian soldiers to analyze and assess potential threats on a mock urban battlefield – the streets of Montreal.
The Future of Small Business in Canada Needs to Focus on Women
By Christine Persaud
As the small business landscape continues to grow in Canada, the female entrepreneurial presence is rising too. A third of small businesses in Canada are headed up by women, and many of them have only been around for five years or less.
E-Commerce Fuels Small Business Growth in Canada
By Yasmin Ranade
PayPal Canada recently analyzed data from 4,000 Canadian small businesses that use its platform to reveal growth data about e-commerce by small business.
Deep Learning Challenges, Opportunities for Students, Businesses, Governments at AI Summit
by Lee Rickwood
There’s an identified need for education, awareness and informative case studies about AI and machine learning to help government (and others) understand the risks and rewards of deploying artificial intelligence.
Children’s book, ‘Ara the Star Engineer,’ Shows STEM is for Everyone
By Yasmin Ranade
On International Day of the Girl a couple of weeks ago I read about a first-of-its-kind illustrated book for kids about engineering. The book, titled Ara the Star Engineer, follows a 6-year old girl, Ara, on a quest to build an algorithm to solve a big problem.