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Communitech AVIN Ventures; Get up to $50k!
The Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN) Ventures program at the Waterloo Regional Technology Development Site (RTDS) supports Ontario based businesses who use high definition (HD) maps and mapping technologies in the development or enhancement of their products or services.
Mapping technologies can be directly supporting the connected and autonomous vehicle sector, or supporting other verticals such as transportation, logistics, utilities, infrastructure, internet and media.
Successful companies will be awarded: up to $50,000 in funding towards eligible project costs for product development, market traction and scaling their company.
True North Conference and Festival
June 19-20 | All Over Waterloo Region
The True North conference is all about smart, dynamic people asking and answering tough questions about issues at the intersection of humanity and tech. But everything is about balance, so after we deal with the complex issues of global importance, it’s time to listen, dance, play, eat and sing at the True North festival! (Or you can join one of our meetups and stick with the issues. It’s your life.)
True North festival events are open to the public, so you don’t need to attend the conference to check out the Campfire in Waterloo Town Square, the DTK Music Festival in Kitchener, or any other event in the Region. Still, tickets for the True North conference are 85% sold out, and you don’t want to miss hearing from these amazing people.
Please note: Data Bytes will not be publishing in June while we’re all at the True North 2019 conference. Got your tickets yet? We hope to see you there!
South Korean telecom giant signs agreement to develop 5G-based HD Map
SK Telecom will produce a high definition map with centimeter-level accuracy using a 5G-based platform that will automatically update when it gets road observation data from advanced driver assistance systems over the 5G network. Read More
How a Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident
Researchers identified new methodologies for insurance and banking companies to improve risk prediction using Google Street View data. But implementation would raise privacy and ethics issues. Managing the various aspects of data innovation continues to be a fine line to walk. Read More
Programs & Events
Data Hub Sessions: Leveraging next-generation AI to generate HD Maps at scale
Wednesday, May 29 | 11:50 AM to 1:00 PM | Communitech Data Hub, Waterloo
Learn about the exciting field of HD Vector Maps, business opportunities and challenges associated with creating HD Vector Maps at scale and an introduction to the Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN) and the Waterloo Region HD Map and Data Platform.
Our guest speaker, Bill Singleton is VP of Sales at Ecopia.ai, where he engages with geospatial analytics partners to find new ways of combining vector base maps with alternate data sets to help public entities better understand and improve their communities.
Attend in-person or by live stream - get your free tickets now.
Data for Good Waterloo Region + House of Friendship Datathon
Saturday, June 1 | 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | 1100-305 King St. W, Kitchener
Do you enjoy applying data science to solve problems? Would you like to make a difference in your community? Please join Data for Good, Waterloo Region's first Datathon, in partnership with House of Friendship, to support its mission of providing food, housing, community resources and addiction treatment to those in need in Waterloo Region.
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.
Communitech Data Hub tenant career opportunities
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)
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.
