9000 Participants, 270 Exhibitors, and 200 Speakers Last week I had the opportunity to attend the BCTech Summit on behalf of App-Scoop. I am a TechTO groupie. The Toronto-Waterloo tech corridor is my habitat and I have grown accustomed to the style and approach of how we do things here. BC was different. Everything from the beautiful physical setting of being by the water and mountains at the Vancouver Convention Centre to the diversity of topics that were covered, the 3-day BCTech Summit felt like a distillation of Canada’s unique west coast tech culture. The West Coast Is About High Impact Ideas “You’ll find the west coast is all about high-impact ideas” explained a colleague from Foresight, a cleantech accelerator. The BCTech Summit was exactly that. This was the first time at a tech event where I was suddenly found myself interacting with a different breed of tech. The BC Innovation Council, BC Government, and UBC were a few of the public anchors buttressed by large corporate sponsors like Microsoft and Google. All necessary partnerships to enable the rich diversity of west coast tech to discuss ideas, educate each other, and continue paving the way to becoming unified supercluster. Here are a few topics that were covered:
Connecting You With Canadian Tech These are a few of the influencers that were present at the summit.
If you ever have an opportunity to attend the summit in the future, definitely check it out, it’s a wonderful display of BC’s rich tech culture. Author- Vishal TiwariUsing creativity talent to solve business problems Comments are closed.
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