We held a party on the best rooftop in the city to celebrate the VX Showcase and our community. More than 250 guests gathered in the BC Canada Pavilion on the 4th floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery to eat and drink and celebrate. The VXcellence awards honoured contributions to both the VX Showcase and to the Digital Room in the BC Canada Pavilion from Switch Interactive, Canpages, Tangible Interaction, Rainmaker and others. Vancouver’s premier chocolatier, Thomas Haas, provided an amazing cake and we all got a perfect view of the “Ignite the Dream” light show over Robson Square. We also enjoyed access to the Vancouver Art Gallery, including the Digital Media room.
VX Conversations – Vancouver Meets the World | Audio
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
On February 25th in Vancouver, DigiBC presented a full day of conversations featuring an international group of thought leaders and innovators, part of the VX Conversations series.
In all there were five sessions presented at the BC Showcase Centre at Robson Square.
This session is titled Vancouver Meets the World, and featured:
- John Meadows, writer
- Boris Wertz, founder W Media Ventures
- Dr. Ginger Grant, Managing Partner, Creativity in Business Canada
- Ron Burnett, President , Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- Rob McLaughlin, Assistant Director General, Digital, National Film Board of Canada
The conversation was moderated by Sara Bailey, Creative Director, VXperience.com…
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runs 39:40
Note: You will hear some audio from the outdoor performance space where Olympic celebrations were taking place while this discussion was going on inside.
Other sessions in the series included:
Wireless Meets Digital
Medicine Meets Mobile
Collaboration Meets Innovation
Entertainment Meets VFX-3d
VX Conversations – Entertainment Meets VFX-3D | Audio
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
photo by Christine Lim-Labossiere
On February 25th in Vancouver, DigiBC presented a full day of conversations featuring an international group of thought leaders and innovators, part of the VX Conversations series.
In all there were five sessions presented at the BC Showcase Centre at Robson Square.
This session is titled Entertainment Meets VFX-3D, and featured:
- Shawn Walsh - Image Engine
- Glenn Entis – Vanedge Capital
- Amir Nasrabadi – Pixar Canada
- Alexandre Kaurykh - Rossar Media, Moscow
- Eric Edmeades – Kerner Studios
The conversation was moderated by Warren Franklin, CEO Rainmaker Entertainment
The session began with the panelists introducing themselves, starting with Amir Nasrabadi ….
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runs 39:00
Note: You will hear some audio from the outdoor performance space where Olympic celebrations were taking place while this discussion was going on inside.
Other sessions in the series included:
Wireless Meets Digital
Medicine Meets Mobile
Collaboration Meets Innovation
Vancouver Meets the World
VX Conversations – Collaboration Meets Innovation | Audio
Friday, February 26th, 2010
On February 25th in Vancouver, DigiBC presented a full day of conversations featuring an international group of thought leaders and innovators, part of the VX Conversations series.
In all there were five sessions presented at the BC Showcase Centre at Robson Square.
This session is titled Collaboration Meets Innovation, and featured:
- John Koetsier, COO, Easybits Software
- Olivier Vincent, CEO, Canpages
- Par Singh, President, Intellectual Ventures Canada
The conversation was moderated by Dean Prelazzi, Director, ICT, Wireless & Digital Media, BC Innovation Council
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runs 39:43
Other sessions in the series included:
Wireless Meets Digital
Medicine Meets Mobile
Entertainment Meets VFX/3D
Vancouver Meets the World
VX Conversations – Medicine Meets Mobile | Audio
Friday, February 26th, 2010
On February 25th in Vancouver, DigiBC presented a full day of conversations featuring an international group of thought leaders and innovators, part of the VX Conversations series.
In all there were five sessions presented at the BC Showcase Centre at Robson Square.
This session is titled Medicine Meets Wireless, and featured:
- Don Jones, VP, Wireless Health, Qualcomm
- Peter Robertson, GM, GE Health Care Canada
- Dr. Gerri Sinclair, Director, Centre for Digital Media
- Brad Zdanivsky, VerticalChallenge.org, UBC and SOC robotics
The conversation was moderated by DigiBC’s Michael Bidu. He asked the panelists to introduce themselves, starting with Brad Zdanivsky…
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runs 41 minutes. At the 25 minute mark you’ll hear some sound leaking through from the adjoining outdoor performance space
Other sessions in the series included:
Wireless Meets Digital
Collaboration Meets Innnovation
Entertainment Meets VFX/3D
Vancouver Meets the World
VX Conversations – Wireless Meets Digital | Audio
Friday, February 26th, 2010
It’s not every day you get to hear insights from a world-famous blogger, leaders in the phone and wireless industry, game developers and a digital entrepreneur – all in the same room, all at the same time.
On February 25th in Vancouver, DigiBC presented a full day of conversations featuring an international group of thought leaders and innovators, part of the VX Conversations series.
In all there were five sessions presented at the BC Showcase Centre at Robson Square.
This session is titled Wireless Meets Digital, and featured:
- Robert Scoble, author & blogger, Scobleizer
- Chris Langdon, VP, Network Services, Telus
- Saul Orbach, Founder, COO at Aguru Images, Inc.
- Doug Whatley, CEO of Breakaway
- Gregg Sauter, Director, Global Head of Media Partnerships and Content Publishing at Nokia
The conversation was moderated by DigiBC’s Michael Bidu, who posed the first question to Robert Scoble…
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runs 26:21
Other sessions in the series included:
Collaboration Meets Innnovation
Medicine Meets Mobile
Entertainment Meets VFX/3D
Vancouver Meets the World
DigiBC Signs MOU with Korean Industry Group
Friday, February 26th, 2010
DigiBC has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea’s Gyeonggi Digital Contents Agency (GDCA).
The memorandum sets out the commitment of both organizations to promote opportunities to connect and form business partnerships between digital media companies in both countries.
Under the terms of the MOU, both organizations are committed to helping visiting delegates from both countries to make business contacts and to take part in networking opportunities. They will also facilitate tours and other meetings or events for visitors.
Top-level executive meetings will also take place whenever delegates from one organization are attending the other’s trade missions. As well, both DigiBC and GDCA are developing plans to to exchange personnel to develop projects and for other activities promoting their industries.
More than 70 member companies of DigiBC contributed time, money and expertise to help create the VX Showcase and to present innovative tools for visiting non-accredited media to use to have an extraordinary experience while visiting Vancouver.
Those services included XOMO’s VX Connect, a unique matchmaking app; Sierra Wireless’s new 21 megabits per second AirCard USB modem; Canpages new business directory release, enabling rich media information on smart phones; Vidroller, a new app that enables threaded video conversations, and Vericorder, an advanced smartphone mobile media application for recording, editing, and sending audio, video and photo files.
Tangible Interaction Lights Up Olympic Visitors | Audio
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
A year and a half ago, Alex Beim was hoping his company, Tangible Interaction, would be involved with the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. He never would have predicted that all together, he and his team would create 16 different installations related to the games.
Tangible Interaction Design creates full-on sensory experiences people can interact with in the everyday physical world. You can see them at Vancouver House, the BC Pavilion, and if you’re an athlete at the Games, inside the athlete’s village.
When I talked to Alex (on Feb 24) he was sworn to secrecy about yet another Olympic related project, Tangible Interaction’s contribution to the closing ceremonies.
“The ultimate achievement for us is to get someone so engaged with something they kind of want to hang out and enjoy their experience there…that’s why we do what we do”
To find out more about Tangible’s unique work, I spoke with Alex by phone from his studio in Vancouver…
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If you aren’t able to see any of Tangible Interaction’s work at the various locations in Vancouver during the Olympics, you can see videos and photos of their projects on their website.
You can also see examples of their work in this video tour of the Multimedia Gallery at the BC Pavilion, or in this tour with photographer Kris Krug.
Pug Pharm Enters Open Beta Phase “Snoget”
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Pug Pharm Productions Inc. (Pug Pharm), a local online developer, today announced that it has entered the open beta phase for its social networking online (SNO) application, Snoget – the first Web 3.0 “Social Discovery Engine.”
Snoget is a new form of online discovery and social connection within a dynamic, entertaining, and constantly changing system, introducing all the complex human emotions around the desire to collect, connect, and communicate.
Watch the online tutorial here.
The strength of Snoget is its ability to function as a Social Discovery Engine and deliver simple, fun challenges that bring people together with common interests – whether it’s collecting Olympic pins or connecting with other fans of your favorite movies, hobbies, and interests around the globe.
As a limited open beta incentive, the first 20,000 participants who sign up at www.snoget.com during this current phase will exclusively receive 20 board collection slots that will remain free even after the open beta has concluded.
World Class Wireless and Digital Media – The Vancouver Experience
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Much of the world is discovering Vancouver through the 2010 Winter Olympics, and they like what they see.
Many are experiencing the games using technology developed right here in British Columbia.
Vancouver is a world class centre for wireless, new media, social media, mobile, video games, animation and visual effects.
We asked some of the people who live and do business here, if they could help describe, the Vancouver Experience…
Special thanks to:
- Jonathan Morris and Todd Duym, our amazing and talented director duo from Filmgroup
- John Bucher, online editor of BC Business Magazine for moderating our conversations
- Tony Nichols, our fabulous script writer
- And to Adam Behr for lending us his wonderful voice
Collaborators
- Angele Beausoleil, VP Strategy & Client Services, Cossette Communications
- Glenn Entis, Partner, Vanedge Capital
- Dan Gelbart, Founder, Kardium, Former Co-Founder, Creo
- Dr. Ginger Grant, Professor, SFU, Faculty of Business and the School of Interactive Arts and Technology
- Dr. Michael Hayden, Director of CMMT, UBC
- Terry McBride, Founder and CEO, Nettwerk Records
- Dr. Geordie Rose, CTO, D-Wave
- Gregg Sauter, Global Director, Media Partnerships and Publishing, Nokia
- Par Singh, President, Intellectual Ventures Canada
- Mossadiq Umedaly, Clean Tech Entrepreneur, Former CFO of Ballard
- Olivier Vincent, President and CEO, Canpages
- Shawn Walsh, VFX Executive Producer, Imagine Engine, Film Division (District 9)
- Boris Wertz, Founder, W Media Ventures
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