These tech leaders are helping to drive the rise of enviro-tech

Some are calling this era the Anthropocene: the epoch of human influence on the Earth on a planetary scale. It’s fertile ground for transformative thinking, and the open data that is now available thanks to governments seeking to be more transparent can be at the centre of creative solutions to some of the world’s most significant problems. Check out some Communitech companies exploring the bright future of enviro-tech.

Data Hub Sessions: Introduction to the 5G ENCQOR Program and IPaaS Testbed

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Communitech Data Hub

ENCQOR is building a 5G wireless testbed at the Communitech Data Hub to enable small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to get early access to a state-of-the-art 5G development platform for prototyping new products and services.  The platform supports enhanced mobile broadband, low latency for mission-critical machine-type communication and massive machine-type communications for the Internet of Things (IoT). SMEs accessing the testbed will be among the first to scale and commercialize 5G-enabled solutions, giving them a considerable first-to-market advantage in the global economy.

Future of Transportation and Mobility Series: Self-Driving Cars & Increased Safety

Thursday, March 28 | 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM | UOIT Automotive Centre of Excellence

Network with industry, entrepreneurs, government and academia, and hear from speakers who will focus on the safety and mobility freedom that can be realized with the integration of Autonomous Vehicles at this year’s Future of Transportation and Mobility Series on Self Driving Cars and Increased Safety.

DisruptAI Hackathon at Evoke

April 3 - 4 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Arcadian Court, Toronto

DisruptAI is a two-day, data science-focused hackathon sponsored by Microsoft which challenges you to disrupt your industry using AI and data science. The hackathon will be held in conjunction with Evoke, one of Canada's biggest developer conferences. Teams of up to five members from your organization will collaborate and compete against developers from Canada's most innovative and influential companies to win a share of $10,000 in prizes.

The Next Generation Networks (NGN) Demonstration Program

The NGN program helps small and medium-sized Ontario technology companies accelerate their commercialization efforts by giving them no-cost access to enterprise-scale computing and networking testbed to run projects that accelerate their commercialization efforts. Specialties include: SDN/NFV/SD-WAN, IoT, Data Centre/Cloud, Security, Mobile Networks, Network Transport, and Network Applications (eg: automation, analytics, operational support, etc).

The ENCQOR 5G Demonstration Program

The ENCQOR 5G Demonstration Program supports standalone small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) projects and SME collaborations with industry partners and or public sector organizations such as municipalities, healthcare facilities, public utilities for testing and validation activities using the ENCQOR 5G Innovation Platform as a Service (iPaaS) testbed in order to develop or advance new technologies, products, processes and services.

ENCQOR 5G SME Technology Development Program

The ENCQOR 5G SME Technology Development Program supports collaborative technology development projects to develop, integrate, test or validate pre-commercial 5G technologies for the Innovation Platform as a Service (iPaaS) testbed. SMEs can apply by responding to Challenge Statements posted to OCE’s website. Challenge Statements will be posted on a rolling basis.

Hiring at the Data Hub

Looking to make a difference in a new role? Here are some organizations that are looking for people like you.

• CIBC Data Studio
  • Data Scientist (Co-op)
  • Data Scientist (Full-time)
• Skirtswap
  • UI/UX designer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • Computational Linguist
  • Administrative Assistant
• Summatti (contact info@summatti.com with resume)
  • ​Front End Developer (ReactJS)

Access historical data on global commercial shipping and vessels 

The exactAIS Archive provides historical data for performing analysis into shipping traffic and trend patterns as well as long-term vessel tracking all across the globe. Request access to the most complete record of global vessel movements here.