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Eve Olynyk

August 26, 2016 by Tectoria

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: Eve Olynyk!

Eve has been VIATEC’s Engagement Concierge as a part of her UVic BCom co-op for the past 4 months.

In this short amount of time, she has made VIATEC’s Accelerator Programs run incredibly smooth by giving the Executive in Residences (EiRs) and the Program Director very helpful insight, and gotten to know our local tech stars who help make tech the #1 sector in Victoria.

In addition to mastering the Accelerator Program, Eve has helped VIATEC with monthly networking events and the 2016 VIATEC Technology Awards.

Finally, in her “spare time” she even built a new site for the Accelerator Program!

To really grasp a “week-in-the-life-of”, give Eve’s blog a read. VIATEC sure kept her on her toes!

Eve is on her way to Portugal for a 6 month exchange and we wish her all the best. Who knows what talents she’ll come back with as she has already:

  • Learned to speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese
  • Performed in aerial silks, doubles trapeze and bungee trapeze
  • Started a Web Dev & Design club in Shanghai that has 800 active members
  • Been awarded a TD Scholarship
  • Been crowned with the title of “Silicon Valley Code Goddess” in China
  • Impressed everyone in Tectoria

Come bid her farewell at tonight’s Member Appreciation Night and meet the three co-op students auditioning to take her spot!

Oh, and ask her about this photo…

Eve, the Silicon Valley Code Goddess

Eve, the Silicon Valley Code Goddess

Filed Under: Tectorian of the Week Tagged With: BCom, China, co-op, Eve Olynyk, Gustavson School of Business, Mandarin, Shanghai, tectoria, University of Victoria, Viatec, Victoria

SendtoNews

August 18, 2016 by Tectoria

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: SendtoNews!

Victoria-based SendtoNews announced this week a new syndication partnership with McClatchy, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States! The agreement will see the rollout of SendtoNews’ sports video content across McClatchy’s digital publishing operations, which reach vibrant communities ranging from Sacramento to Fort Worth to Miami.

SendtoNews is North America’s leading Sports Video Ad Platform serving an expanding publisher network of more than 1500 news properties. SendtoNews generates over 200 million monthly video views through the distribution of exclusive and semi-exclusive content from 75+ sports leagues, including the NBA, MLB, NFL, NASCAR, PGA Tour, NCAA and Premier League Soccer.

A HUGE congratulations to the SendtoNews team on this great achievement.

To read the full press release, click here.

Filed Under: Tectorian of the Week Tagged With: digital publishing, McClatchy, newspaper, SendtoNews, sports video ad platform, Tectorian of the Week, Victoria

Echosec

August 12, 2016 by Tectoria

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: Echosec!

Have you heard of location-based searching? Have you seen something like this below?

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Echosec puts social media on the map so you can discover a new view of your world. The made-in-Victoria technology hunts for media that has been geo-tagged and is offered by open web servers, going beyond commonly used search tools to enable anyone to capture, curate, manage, process and visualize data in an entirely new way. This is especially useful during the Summer Olympics!

In a nutshell, Echosec combines geo-tagged location data with social media feeds to learn just about anything about anyone online: where you live, where you work, what time you go to work, and possibly even what you were doing at work if you happened to be logged in to any number of popular social networks.

Echosec aggregates all this information in a single search.

Try the Echosec public app here.

And a BIG congrats to Echosec for winning a Stevie International Business Award!

Filed Under: Tectorian of the Week Tagged With: Echosec, geo-tagged location data, GIS, location-based searching, Rio2016, Summer Olympics, Tectorian of the Week, Victoria

Foundry Spatial

August 5, 2016 by Tectoria

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: Foundry Spatial!

Local, award-winning environmental science and consulting firm, Foundry Spatial, unveiled a free new tool on Wednesday. It allows government, First Nations, industry and members of the public to access detailed information on water supply in the Cariboo region of the province. Impressive!

The Cariboo Water Tool presents monitoring information from 1,500 stream flow, groundwater, water quality and weather measurement stations in the central portion of the Fraser River watershed. It also uses innovative technology to estimate mean annual and monthly discharge for user-defined watersheds at over 180,000 locations, and provides an overview of watershed characteristics (including vegetation and topography), along with an overview of current climate and projected climatic conditions.

Read the full news release right here.

Filed Under: Tectorian of the Week Tagged With: Cariboo Region, Foundry Spatial, Online Tool, Tectorian of the Week, Victoria, Water Supply

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