CAMBRIDGE, ON – Today, Cowan Insurance Group (“Cowan”), a leading Canadian insurance brokerage and consulting firm, announced the addition of a new role to its Leadership team. The new position, Industry Leader, AVP Technology and Digital, continues the evolution of Cowan’s support of the technology ecosystem, providing innovative programs for clients, the TechLife® omni-offering to…
The popular free-to-play action hit Warframe® is going interplanetary with an altruistic holiday program featuring player gift-giving for a good cause. Starting today, Canadian developer Digital Extremes encourages Warframe players to engage their Tenno by giving in-game gifts as part of the ‘Tennobaum Gifting Extravaganza.’ The more players give this holiday season, the more they…
TechAlliance has partnered with IBM Canada to bring a new initiative to London- a pitch competition where the winner has a shot at $25 thousand dollars and a spot in the prestigious LAUNCH Incubator in San Francisco. You can come watch seven companies give their best pitch next week, but until then, check out this…
StarTech.com announces that Lynn Smurthwaite-Murphy has been named President effective December 5th, 2016. As President, Ms. Smurthwaite-Murphy will lead the Executive Team and overall operations of StarTech.com. Before joining StarTech.com, Ms. Smurthwaite-Murphy previously served as the Executive Vice President at Westcon-Comstor North America where she was responsible for a complex $2.6B, 600 employee and four…
Critical Outcome Technologies Inc. (TSX Venture: COT; OTCQB: COTQF) (“COTI” or the “Company”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company advancing a pipeline of targeted therapies for the treatment of cancer, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Alison Silva as the Company’s next Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2017. Ms. Silva, who currently…
For a second consecutive year, Londoners are taking steps to bring one of three of the city’s innovations to market – and to snag their share of more than $20,000 in prize money. The annual Proteus Innovation Competition officially kicked off on November 17 with support from sponsors such as Synaptive Medical. A partnership of WORLDiscoveries, TechAlliance,…
Ontario is celebrating Computer Science Education Week with new supports for coding and computer skills in schools across the province. Initiatives include: New tech resource for teachers: Ontario is helping elementary teachers integrate coding and computational skills into teaching, with new lesson plans that can be used in all grades and across subjects, particularly math, science…
Shattering glass ceilings with $100K Back by popular demand, we’re excited to announce that Fierce Founders is now accepting applications for both the 2017 Bootcamp and Accelerator programs. Both programs will work with passionate women entrepreneurs on their business ideas in hopes to change the world. Fierce Founders Bootcamp (six-day program) New to the tech…
Cheryl Mazak of Squinchi was recently featured on CBC’s Dragons’ Den to pitch her nifty medical device. So how’d she do? Well, we’re not going to spoil anything, so click here to watch the clip!
On Sunday, November 20th, 2016, St. Thomas based Entrepreneur Fabian A. Boehm, Founder of digitaldackel.ca, was awarded with the prestigious IBM award for his AI-driven app that will prevent falls of dementia patients. Fabian is no stranger to technology, having graduated from Germany’s elite university and having started his career in Germany’s Silicon Valley. “Falls…