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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Organizations such as TechVancouver and HackerNest Vancouver host tech socials and monthly meet-ups. tests new technology on a province-wide scale for industry and government. Companies like SaskTech work closely with government and post-secondary institutions to help contribute to the number of qualified tech professionals.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

By gathering information from the internet, spear phishers tailor an email to a specific individual using their name and other information they found out about you that you may have posted on a social media account or somewhere else on the web. In the context of governance, board directors and executives are the new targets of choice.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 15 – Mid Term– Congressman Mike Gallagher

Steve Blank

I think Biden said that the top threat to America was Russia. It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology. The Goldwater/Nichols Act governs the requirements processes for the services.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

At the threshold of one of the most recognizable landmarks in human history — the sole survivor among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , dating back nearly five thousand years — my host was engaged in heated debate with a rotating phalanx of functionaries. What the heck was I doing in Egypt anyway?

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Highlights from the show Jen describes her background in government-tech partnerships. (2:52)

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, what's been widely circulated on the internet the past few months is a speech that President Obama gave in the middle of the Ebola response at NIH in December of 2014, which my team helped write, where he said, in December of 2014, "Hey, Ebola is a dangerous, horrible disease, but it's hard to spread.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. In this role, she is responsible for advancing equitable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world.