THIS WEEK IN TECTORIA

A community blog celebrating Victoria's booming tech sector

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Got a cool story about technology and creativity in Victoria? Email stories, tips, pictures, links and anything of interest to Tessa Bousfield at: tectoria@viatec.ca

LlamaZOO Interactive

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: LlamaZOO Interactive!

LlamaZOO release a production reel this week highlighting their incredible projects from 2017/17. These include: 

  • Smart Shores: Helps community risk management visualize shorelines and potential areas of water flooding
  • EasyAnatomy EdTech Platform: Facilitates the distribution of complex 3D educational content, includes functionality for exploring, dissecting, layering, and fading content, as well as adding custom notes, creating annotations, and 3D positional bookmarks all stored on the cloud
  • Jetson MR/VR: The worlds first VR cadaver dissection tool, allows for the exploration of the entire EasyAnatomy canine anatomy systems with room scale spatial inputs
  • Mine Life VR: Developed for Teck Resources, allows for stakeholders to visualize the 50 years of mine planning data which goes into an open pit mine.

Check out the video here!

 

Tectoria

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Our Tectorian of the Week is: All of Tectoria!

Tectoria was on display at its finest from September 15-17 as 37 investors flew in from all over North America, and even Norway! Investors, public and media heard the latest news from local tech companies at the Launch & Learn and saw their products in action at Demo Camp. Investors even got one-on-one time with local entrepreneurs and dove into details during a private “Pitch ‘N Putt the Harbour” event.

In addition to this, over 200 people gathered at Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club for the largest FuckUp Night gathering yet, and there was unlimited networking on rooftops, on the water, in the sky and even at the Rifflandia Music Festival.

LINKS

A huge thanks to the following local tech companies that participated:

And another huge thanks to our Local Hosts and of course, the following Sponsors & Supporters:

Pretio Interactive & Tutela Technologies

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Our Tectorians of the Week are: the duo of Pretio Interactive & Tutela Technologies!

Pretio and Tutela are hosting the 2nd Annual Spring into Startups event to catch up on what’s sprouting up in Victoria’s #startuplife. This year’s event is a bit different as they’re celebrating 3 specific startups: Hyas, LlamaZOO Interactive and Picnic/Dak.

There just might still be time to RSVP here!

The party gets going at 1124 Vancouver Street from 5pm to 8pm.

Thank you for putting on amazing events like this Pretio and Tutela!

Devan McCannel

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Our Tectoria blog has been leaning more towards featuring companies or organizations lately, but we couldn’t resist featuring one of our very own on his birthday, and a week away from his last day with VIATEC.

You may know Devan McCannel from when he dealt you a hand at a Dawson City casino, from his days at UVic (BCom – Entrepreneurship) or when he attended the City University of Hong Kong. Maybe you crossed paths when he worked for RevenueWire, when you took that random dance class in Vancouver or maybe you commented on his bungee jumping photo saying something like “Nope, no way, never.”

"Nope, no way, never."

“Nope, no way, never.”

Devan has a wealth of life experience for being under 30 and has worn a few hats, including Engagement Concierge (EC) at VIATEC since August 2014. As the EC he’s been responsible for community management, administration, advising and event management for the Venture Acceleration Program. He got to assist start-up technology companies identify viable business models and rapidly grow their revenues, in addition to helping start-ups find funding for their co-op positions through the BC-ISI Program.

He’s also been the lead organizer for VIATEC Peer Roundtables and several VIATEC events including the February 2015 VIATEC Food Bank Challenge (successfully raised over $40,000), and the Pitch Pit and Demo Camp events during Experience Tectoria 2014 and 2015.

Devan has not only proved himself to be a hard worker, but he’s also taken on the role of “office clown” with ease.

Devan’s contract with VIATEC is nearing an end, but his team will still see him half a block up Fort Street where he’ll be working with local startup company, LlamaZOO Interactive.

VIATEC wishes him the best of luck and thanks him for all the dedication he’s shown! Happy Birthday Devan!