Innovate Calgary Spring 2014 Speaker Series Session 3

Tue, Mar. 25, 2014 7:30am — 9:30am

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Session #3 Innovation and the Energy Industry: Can Research
Turn into a Competitive Advantage?

Hear from industry, academic and business leaders on
leveraging research to create a competitive advantage. Learn
what is needed to facilitate cooperative efforts between
industry, Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and academia that
result in bringing energy tech to market.

Panelists: Eric Schmadtke, MBA: Vice President, EnerTech
Capital Duncan McInnis, PhD: Senior Water Supply Engineer,
Golder… Read more…

Coast-to-Coast Series: Technology for Aging Well

Tue, Mar. 25, 2014 12:30pm — 1:30am

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The Coast to Coast (C2C) Seminar is an hour-long
presentation given on a scientific topic and is made
accessible to audiences at a number of remote sites across
Canada through collaboration technology. C2C Seminars are
held every two weeks throughout the academic year.

*Sensor Technologies for Managing Disease and Disability*

*Date:*
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 — 11:30 to 12:30 PST

*Speaker Info:*

Dr. Rafik A. Goubran, Professor and… Read more…

Girls Learning Code HTML & CSS (Calgary Edition)

Sat, Mar. 29, 2014 10:00am — 4:00pm

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Bring the special girl in your life to Girls Learning Code
and create a website together!

This workshop experience offers girls the opportunity to
learn how to use creativity to build an online web presence.

Girls will learn HTML and CSS basics by hacking pre-existing
text, links, images, and videos on various templates, and
then use their skills to create their very own fun business
website from… Read more…

GRAND NCE Emerging Gaming and Digital Technologies and Solutions

Mon, Apr. 7, 2014 8:30am — 3:30pm

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The Graphics, Animation and New Media Network of Centres of
Excellence (“GRAND”) is pleased to hold a workshop at
the University of Alberta on April 7, 2014 on the general
theme of advances in game development technologies, game
design, etc., and will include presentations from agencies
and organizations providing funding to startups and SMEs and
general support to the graphics, animation and game
development community.

Aside from being… Read more…

Cloud Lunch Series Edmonton: Developing on OpenStack

Thu, Apr. 17, 2014 11:45am — 1:00pm

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Presented by Cybera (Alberta’s non-profit technology
agency)

Startup Edmonton has partnered with the national
DAIR/projects/cloud-resources/dair/ (Digital Accelerator for
Innovation and Research) program, which gives entrepreneurs
access to free cloud computing services for up to one year
while they test their products. Cybera is also providing
free cloud to Alberta makers, researchers and developers
through the Rapid Access Cloud/projects/cloud-resources/rapid-access-cloud/ pilot.

So what can you do with these tools?

Both cloud resources… Read more…

Canadian OpenStack User Group April 2014 Meetup

Thu, Apr. 24, 2014 12:00pm — 1:30pm

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We’ll be having the April 2014 #canstack meetup on this day.

We’ll meet in-person in Edmonton, as well as online. Voice
and video conferencing information to follow, but we’ll
likely use Google Hangouts again as that seemed to work out
okay.

Possible topics:

Icehouse release Upcoming summit Canadian organizations
deploying OpenStack?

If there are any ideas for what we should discuss, please
the organizer know.

Location

University of Alberta,… Read more…

BCNet 2014

Apr. 29 – May. 1, 2014 All Day

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Designed for Higher Education IT Staff and Management
Professionals at B.C.’s Colleges, Universities and
Institutes

This year, the BCNET Conference will be bigger and better
than ever. We aim to bring together higher education
information technology professionals, including staff,
management and executives, to improve learning, sharing,
collaboration and productivity across the entire sector. No
matter what your role is, our integrated program will
provide you with ways to enrich… Read more…

AccelerateAB 2014

Apr. 30 – May. 1, 2014 All Day

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AccelerateAB is an annual two-day celebration of
entrepreneurship and tech startups in Alberta. Programming
focuses on helping bold entrepreneurs set high growth
trajectory, gain traction, and build momentum as they go
from startup to scale.

Produced in partnership with the C100, A100, VCAA and
Startup Edmonton, AccelerateAB brings world-class
entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, and thought leaders
from around the world to share their experience and
insights.

Speakers: World-class entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors… Read more…