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UWaterloo team tests first automated car in Ontario

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · December 08, 2016 3:45 PM · 1 reaction

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have something to celebrate. They unveiled a high-tech car, nicknamed Autonomoose, that will be used in a pilot program to test automated vehicles on Ontario roads.

Today, I think we begin to write the future of a made-in-Ontario success story,” said Steven Del Duca, the Minister of Transportation, who noted the car was effectively driving itself when they arrived.

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Knowledgehook Raises $1-Million Round to Close Math Education Gap

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · December 07, 2016 1:27 PM · 1 reaction

WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Knowledgehook, whose software teachers throughout North America are using to tailor their support of individual students, has secured $1.25 million in financing to fund the platform’s expansion into global markets.

The round was led by Sayan Navaratnam of Aadya Capital and CEO of Connex Telecommunications and also includes investors Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, and John Abele, co-founder of Boston Scientific.

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U-Waterloo, WATCar & QNX pilot autonomous driving in Ontario Canada

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · December 06, 2016 10:39 AM · 1 reaction

Ontario announced that it is supporting innovation in the transportation sector by launching the first automated vehicle (AV) pilot program in Canada, led by The University of Waterloo, the Erwin Hymer Group and BlackBerry QNX.

The WATCar Project at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Automotive Research, which will monitor a Lincoln MKZ for performance and test it on-road at different levels of automation.

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University of Waterloo, BlackBerry division to test Ontario's first self-driving cars

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · December 01, 2016 2:44 PM · 1 reaction

Self-driving vehicles are hitting Ontario streets, after the province became the first in Canada to open a pilot project to test the automated vehicles on public roads.

Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca announced the program's first three participants Monday, saying they will be working with different levels of automation.

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LCBO launches innovation hub in Kitchener to explore new technology

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · November 14, 2016 1:52 PM · 1 reaction

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the government agency that manages alcohol sales across the province, is tapping into Kitchener-Waterloo’s startup community as it seeks to modernize the way it interacts with customers at its retail stores.

Even though the LCBO already has an innovation lab at its downtown Toronto headquarters, the scope of development there has been limited because of what the LCBO admits is a lagging approach to problem-solving.

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Waterloo Region has fastest-growing tech market in Canada: report

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · November 09, 2016 3:05 PM · 1 reaction

WATERLOO REGION — A new report on Canada's 10 leading tech markets says Waterloo Region is the fastest-growing, with the largest increase in new tech jobs over the past five years.

The 2016 Scoring Tech Talent Report, issued Monday by commercial real estate and investment firm CBRE Canada, found that Waterloo Region recorded an increase of 74.4 per cent in new tech jobs, followed by Winnipeg at 58.5 per cent and Halifax at 50 per cent.

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Waterloo’s P&P Optica presenting at Google Demo Day – Women’s Edition

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · November 03, 2016 11:14 AM · 1 reaction

Waterloo, Ontario chemical imaging company P&P Optica will be led by CEO Olga Pawluczyk at the Google Demo Day – Women’s Edition on November 2 in Palo Alto, California, as the company showcases its Smart Imaging technology, aimed at revolutionizing the food processing industry.

PPO was chosen, along with the other companies presenting at the event, from more than 800 applicants in over 65 countries.

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Waterloo Corridor needs more transit to thrive, CityAge told

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · October 24, 2016 11:56 AM · 1 reaction

Ontario’s Waterloo Region to Pearson Airport corridor is well established as a technology and jobs powerhouse but much more transit infrastructure is needed so it can reach its full potential, delegates at the CityAge conference in Toronto were told recently.

The "Airport Megazone" is especially underserviced, noted representatives of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) in attendance at CityAge on Oct. 6. It is Canada's second largest employer — second only to downtown Toronto — supporting 332,000 jobs, but since the airport is regulated federally, it's a relative dead zone in terms of public transit, with 90 per cent of all trips to Pearson made via automobile, the representatives explained.

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Going for the Gold of 2017

Posted on News & Media by Louis Zacharilla · September 07, 2016 12:52 PM · 1 reaction

As the first hurricane-force storm sits just off from the Atlantic Ocean’s shores, the American Northeast Summer draws to a close. During its rapid course, I took some hours to look back on the ICF Summit in June, celebrate its highlights and to consider what it means as our movement goes forward into the next Awards cycle, with its conclusion this time on the big stage of New York.

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Former Blackberry plant now Factory Square in Waterloo

Posted on News & Media by Victoria Krisman · July 27, 2016 2:14 PM · 1 reaction

Sometime this fall, a former Blackberry manufacturing plant turned light-infused office building will open its doors to companies in a Waterloo, Ontario area branded as the Idea Quarter, a mixed-use technology cluster near the University of Waterloo and the region’s light rail transit system.

When Spear Street Capital set out to revitalize that area, it set its sights on redeveloping the 215,000-square-foot building at 451 Phillip Street, a space that RIM had acquired in the late 1990s. There was an opportunity to rebirth a community and free up space for companies who could not previously find room in the neighbourhood.

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