Vancouver Tech Podcast

Vancouver Tech Podcast

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Vancouver Tech Podcast episodes

  • Episode 67: Graydon Bensler and Matt Visser, Syllabi Learning Solutions
    Episode 67:

    Intro & Meetups Around Town

    Host Drew Ogryzek opens the show with our guests Matt Visser and Graydon Bensler, partners in the an education technology SaaS Syllabi Learning Solutions for which Visser and Bensler sent out a demo to a few schools last week. This provided them with some early feedback that allows them to tweak the UI/UX visuals and some of the backend functionality to better meet their end-user's needs.

    Ogryzek reflects on his week where he finds that treating the product people on his team as customers, with an "under promise, over deliver" mindset allows his team to make better estimates and provide quality software.

    Visser and Bensler have been working with Adaptech Solutions, who hold a weekly meetup; DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners, held at The Tribe coworking space in Gastown, which they recommend checking out.

    A highlighted event for this week is the BC Tech Summit. Chad Leaman of the Niel Squire Society, who was on the podcast in episode 65 is putting on a half day event to build a LipSync at the BC Tech Summit.

    Special Promotion

    Retweet https://twitter.com/sbellware/status/840261818308259840, and include a mention of @vantechpodcast to be entered into a drawing for a free ticket.

    Special Guests Matt and Graydon, Syllabi.com

    Syllabi is essentially a digital student planner. Visser explains that universities such as UBC use Blackboard, Moodle, D2L, or other learning management software. Syllabi Learning Solutions aggregates student study schedules into a single customizable calendar with the due dates of all the student's enrolled courses.

    Meetups Around Town, Mar 13 to 19
    Monday, March 13th
    • Vancouver Erlang & Elixir Meetup (CodeCore 142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
    • Swift for Server Side (BC Tech Innovation Hub, 887 Great Northern Way), 7:00 PM
      • Tuesday, March 14th
      • VPC Getting Started with ES6 (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings), 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
      • Vancouver Launch Hub (The Tribe, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 6:00 PM $10.00
      • VanTUG (BC Tech Innovation Hub, 887 Great Northern Way) 6:00 PM
      • Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
      • Vancouer Erlang & Elixir Meetup (ACL Offices, 980 Howe Street) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
      • DCTRL 436 w Pender), 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
        • Wednesday, March 15th
        • .NET User Group of BC (Microsoft Office, 1100-1111 West Georgia) 5:45 PM
        • Docker (Hootsquire Headquarters, 5 East 8th Avenue) 5:30 PM
        • Vancouver Pluralsight Study Group (PNI Digfital Media Offices, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
        • Network Admin and Support Professional (BCIT Downtown campus - Room No. 471, 555 Seymour St.) 6:00 PM
        • Learn Data Science (SFU VentureLabs Harbour Centre - Rm 1200, 555 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM
        • Vancouver OpenStack Meetup (Granville @ 11th Street, 3rd Floor, 2608 Granville St.) 6:00 PM
          • Thursday, March 16th
          • DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (The Tribe, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
          • NetSquared Vancouver: Tech4Good and Nonprofits (Hive Vancouver, #210 - 128 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM
          • Code & Coffee (Mobify, #420 - 725 Granville Street) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
          • VPC Launch & Scale a Startup (BrainStation YVR, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor) 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
            • Friday, March 17th
            • The Tribe Tech events (The Tribe, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
            • Vancouver Drones (MistyWest, 554 East 15th Avenue) 6:30 PM
            • Vancouver Internet Technology Talents Networking @ 9CAT.NET (Unit 950 (call 604-440-1433 / 778-927-3746 to get you in), 777 Hornby Street) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
              • Saturday, March 11
              • Vancouver Internet Technology Talents Networking @ 9CAT.NET (Room 205 8171 Park Rd, Richmond) 8:30 PM

                • 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.

                23 min
              • Episode 66: Alex and Lester, Advisor Websites
                Guests Alex and Lester from [Advisor Websites](http://advisorwebsites.com/b) join host Drew Ogryzek to discuss the past and upcoming week in Vancouver's Tech Community, as well as their SaaS web solutions for financial advisors.
                24 min
              • Episode 65: Chad Leaman, Neil Squire Society
                Alex and Drew open the show talking about the themes of their past weeks, including communication, [interrupting programmers breaking their concentration](http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/), project management meetings and red-tape, design sessions, improving processes, when to outsource versus build in-house. Our special guest this week is Chad Leaman, of the Neil Squire Society. We talk about how [technology helped Niel Squire](https://www.neilsquire.ca/about/history/) back in the early 1980s, with a device that he could interface with using sip and puff gestures to produce morse code, and communicate.
                29 min
              • Episode 64: Nikolay Malyarov, PressReader
                Alex and Drew talk about their week, including developer responsibility for engineering clean systems, event sourcing, Women in Tech, and the upcoming VanRuby and Digital Project Managers Meetups, then interview Nikolay Malyarov of PressReader about keeping factual journalism relevant in the modern era.
                37 min
              • Episode 63: Peter Watkins, BC Developer's Exchange
                Guest co-host Kim Hansen, CEO of [Signl.fm](http://www.signl.fm/hello/) joins us to discuss speech to text, machine learning, meetups around town, and interview [Peter Watkins](https://ocioconnect2016.sched.com/speaker/peter_watkins.1vltuwce), cofounder of the [BC Developer's Exchange](https://bcdevexchange.org/), on topics from [agile teams in government](https://blog.data.gov.bc.ca/2016/12/recap-agile-teams-in-government-at-viatec/) to the [BC housing data visualization project](https://github.com/bcgov/housing-data-visualization-project).
                43 min
              • Episode 62: Nikolas Badminton
                On this week's podcast Drew talks about hiring incentives at his company and Alex talks about the Event Store she is building with AdapTech Solutions. Featured meetups around town were Hackernest (hosted by Drew), Tech Vancouver, and DDD/CQRS/ES hosted by AdapTech.
                Our featured guest this week is Nikolas Badminton! Nik is a researcher and futurist speaker who splits his time between Canada (Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal), USA, UK, and provides insights into how people, communities, cities, businesses, and countries are changing with applied exponential technology. Nik's primary interests in technology are in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.
                28 min
              • Episode 61: Renee Hildebrand
                Alex & Drew open the show talking about interviews at Drew's workplace, talentful, The Bike Shed Podcast and discuss Alex's coding progress which you can read more about in her blog. Select meetups around town Alex and Drew attended last week were the Vancouver Tech Meetup which Drew hosted at Beanworks and the DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup at DCTRL.
                Highlighted Meetups Around Town Alex and Drew are looking forward to this week are Hackernest on Monday, January 30th and the continuation of creating the product nota at DDD/CQRS/ES on Thursday, Feb 2nd.
                Our guest this week is Renee Hildebrand, Technical Writer at IT Glue!
                28 min
              • Episode 60: Rob Bucci of STAT Search Analytics
                Alex & Drew open the show talking about workplace dynamics. They discuss Alex's coding progress, meetups they attended the past week and highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.
                Our guest this week is Rob Bucci of STAT Search Analytics, a company which tracks the visibility of search content and provides insight using data science for their clients.
                36 min
              • Episode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack
                Alex & Drew open the show talking about Alex's progress learning to code which she talks about further in her blog. They discuss meetups they attended the past week and then highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.
                Our guest this week is Annee Ngo of Protohack and PressReader. Protohack activates and supports the start-up community by hosting global events that help people with amazing ideas get mentorship, training, and business requirement validation so they can turn their idea into a real-world business. Protohack also hosts white label events, and the next upcoming event will be on April 29th.
                Stay tuned for Annee's upcoming Media hackathon to disrupt mainstream media! If you're interested in getting involved you can reach Annee by email or on twitter: @protohackvan or @anneengo.
                56 min
              • Episode 58: Holly Peck
                Drew opens the show talking about resolutions and spending more time on front end javascript development, in React during the upcoming Vancouver Tech Meetup with special guest Bryan Clark from Mozilla on January 23rd. Drew then talks about upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene.
                Our guest this week is Holly Peck of Women Who Code Vancouver. You can reach Holly on twitter at @WWCodeVancouver.
                43 min

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