Vancouver Tech Podcast

Special guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss how technological innovation is helping increase access to justice. The online resources use ai to help people find solutions to their problems, and even resolve disputes, with the help of the CRT (Civil Resolution Tribunal).

Salter, along with Lauryn Kerr, Expert Systems Analyst at the BC Ministry of Justice, Dispute Resolution Office gave an in-depth talk at the Vancouver Legal Hacker's meetup in June entitled: AI, Expert Systems and the Justice System: Inside BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal. In the talk, the two offer an overview of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, how it works, and insight into the background of online resolution dispute.

Follow Shannon Salter on Twitter at @shannonnsalter and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

MON: July 31

User Interviews: The Simple Secret to Fast Growth

HackerNest Vancouver July Tech Social

WED: Aug 2

React Native Hack Night

Tech Starters Code Night!

THU: Aug 3

Laravel Meetup

Intro to Deep Learning with Fast.AI

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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

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Special Guest Scott Bellware, co-creator of the Eventide Project, a toolkit for developing event-sourced distributed systems, joined host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around Microservices versus Monolithic software architecture.

Bellware shares insight from his development experience and offers words of advice and caution for software companies facing a rewrite of a monolith into a service-based distributed system.

Follow Scott Bellware on Twitter at @sbellware and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

MON: July 24

TUE: July 25

WED: July 26

Web Components Vancouver Meetup, speakers from EA & Google

The Promise Land?

THU: July 27

Tony Robbins & The Power of Success Conference

ViDIA Summer BBQ 2017

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special guest Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer at TeamSnap and co-author of How to Acquire Your First Million Customers: Scaling Your Online Business by Laying the Foundation for Growth, joins host Drew Ogryzek.

McDonald tells us about TeamSnap, the team management app that helps save coaches and managers time organizing their teams and groups, and shares from his extensive experience in "growth hacking," including some great insights on analytics and A/B testing.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech events of interest over the upcoming week.

Follow Ken McDonald on Twitter at @KenPMcDonald and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

MON: July 17

TUE: July 18

WED: July 19

THU: July 20

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special guest Jerry Chi of Supercell, the mobile game company behind titles such as Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, and Brawl Stars, currently under soft-launch only in Canada, joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss what it's like living and working in Japan as a foreigner.

Chi has an impressive background having graduated Stanford, and receiving an MBA from Wharton, while also speaking four languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. He offers insights into some of the differences in opportunities between Japanese companies and foreign companies with offices in Japan, as well as some helpful tips for exploring the Japanese job market.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech events of interest over the upcoming week.

Follow Jerry Chi on Twitter at @peacej and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

MON: July 10

TUE: July 11

WED: July 12

THU: July 13

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special guest Nathan Ladd, co-creator of the Eventide Project (http://eventide-project.org/) joins host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift.

What is a monolith? What does microservices architecture bring to the table? What should we consider when determining what makes sense for the software that drives our business?

"The database layer; how you arrange your bits on disk, is one of the biggest factors in terms of the plyability of a monolithic codebase to become services. If not the biggest. I happen to think it is the biggest." - Nathan Ladd

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives a review of the Unbounce Call to Action Conference that happened last week, and fills us in on the upcoming events of the week.

Follow Nathan Ladd on Twitter at @realntl and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast.

TUE: July 4

WED: July 5

Kubernetes In Practice

Tech Starters Code Night

THU: July 6

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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Guest Kevin Rockwood from Skelter Labs in South Korea, a company working on several artificial intelligence based projects joins host Drew Ogryzek. After 8 years working in Cincinnati as a software developer, Rockwood and his wife decided to move to Korea.

Having not done any research into the job market for software developers in Korea, Rockwood says attending local tech meetups, like the Seoul Elixir meetup which he currently organizes, is an excellent way to meet people and connections, and even find meaningful employment.

Programs, such as the Korean government's Tech Incubator Program for Startups or TIPS, are helping the thriving Korean startup scene.

For those interested in life as a software developer in Seoul, South Korea, follow Rockwood on Twitter at @kevinrockwood.

MON: Jun 26

Day 2: Call To Action Conference

HackerNest Vancouver June Tech Social

TUE: June 27

Day 3: Call To Action Conference

Developer Happy Hour hosted by Hyperwallet

Discussion about imposter syndrome and kicking it to the curb

WED: June 28

SR&ED – Everything You Need to Know!

Corporate Finance Part 2: Navigating your business's financing options

THU: June 29

Fundraising Part 2: Crowdfunding

PHP Meetup

Continuous Testing, Integration, and Deployment for Ruby Projects

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Special guest Ryan Lalonde, local startup entrepreneur joins host Drew Ogryzek to discus product validation, development, finding a market, and the product he is currently working on in the growing cannabis industry.

Eaze, sometimes called "Uber for weed" is a medical marijuana delivery service. Lalonde suggests that there's nothing like this is Canada, yet. So a potential market exists for someone to capitalize on.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver.

TUE: Jun 20

React Native Talk Series: Offline First React Native (React Native Vancouver | at Clio | 6:00 PM)

JavaScript for Beginners (Ladies Learning Code | at Amazon | 6:00 PM)

WED: Jun 21

Software Developers: Tech Stack Must Haves* *(BC Tech Association | at Hootsuite | 5:00 PM)

Node.js 101* *(UBC Robson Square | 6:45 PM)

THU: Jun 22

Code & Coffee (at Mobify | 6:00 PM)

Explore The Holodeck (Women Who Code | at Finger Food Studios | 6:30 PM)

FRI: June 23

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Guest Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World joins host Drew Ogryzek and discusses her background, the importance of increasing diversity in tech, and the Driving WinTech Canadian tour to connect women in tech.

This fall, Women in Tech (WinTech) is conducting a Canada-wide fact-finding mission to better understand and record the experiences of women in technology and to promote vibrant women in tech communities across the country.

To our knowledge, this has never been done before in Canada. There are smaller qualitative and quantitative studies and lots of anecdotal evidence of women's experiences in tech, but no one has taken on a project of this magnitude or mandate.

Check out the KickerStarter campaign and show your support by backing the project!

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver.

Follow Women in Tech World on Twitter at @wintechworld

TUE: Jun 13

WED: Jun 14

THU: Jun 15

SAT: Jun 10

Sales Workshop (Spring | 10:00 AM)

Google Analytics Workshop (Brainstation | 10:00 AM)

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Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

This week, Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo joins host Drew Ogryzek and dicusses online identity verification. If a manufacturer, say in a developing market wanted to trade or sell, a solution that enables that transfer could identify them using Trulioo. Trulioo's service is used for identity verification, similar to how an identity may be verified through a credit bureaux. However, Trulioo's services can be used to globally.

Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver.

Follow Trulioo on Twitter at @trulioo

MON: Jun 5, 2017

TUE: Jun 6

WED: Jun 7

THU: Jun 8

SAT: Jun 10

Sketching in VR using WebVR and Aframe (RED Academy | 9:00 AM)

Marketing Workshop (Spring | 10:00 AM)

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

Dive deeper into Monoliths Versus Microservices with Part II, where special guest Adam Dymitruk, CEO of Adaptech Solutions joins host Drew Ogryzek

What is a monolith? What does microservices architecture bring to the table? What should we consider when determining what makes sense for the software that drives our business?

Dymitruk shares his software development experience and thoughts on what leads to the monolith, how do avoid it, where to go from there, and has an interesting spin on technical debt, preferring to consider it more of an investment, particularly if it is something that is contributing value to the business.

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect

The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding member of our community.

Listen to the show here, email us, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.