Today at TECTERRA, we're announcing a new vision and mission concentrated on philanthropic programs with a focus in community, learning, and growth in the geospatial industry workforce. TECTERRA's funding model has changed, and we are no longer receiving funding from government sources. As a...

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  Written by: Geneviève Grenier from Geoselec As an entrepreneur, it was difficult for me to determine which business challenges to talk about for this blog. I nonetheless managed to narrow it down to two areas common to all enterprises: finance and personnel. 

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  Written by: David Getzlaf from Hexagon's Autonomy & Positioning Division Perhaps you’ve reached a growth ceiling and need help scaling your business to the next level. Or you want to find a good home for your company that will continue with your vision rather than sell to a private equity company...

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We’re making changes to our programs so that we can better serve the geospatial community in Alberta. We’re looking at ways we can provide more resources to companies and individuals who work within the geospatial technology industry (or community).

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  Written by: Mike Allan, CEO, Routeique One of the most significant challenges we faced as a new supply chain technology company in Calgary was hiring team members specializing in AI, ML, data science, coding, DevOps, and UI/UX.  Often, we were competing for a relatively small pool of candidates...

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   Written by: Matthew Lowe, CEO & Co-founder, ZeroKey ZeroKey was launched in 2016 with the dream of building a novel human-machine interface so natural and so intuitive that users needn’t spend months learning to use it like they would a keyboard. We dreamt of productivity gains, futuristic...

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Written by: Donnalee Riley, Culture & Communications, LoKnow RainBarrel is a proprietary audience graph based on commercially available geo-spatial data. We use probabilistic models to aggregate devices based on how they interact in the physical world, providing relevant, custom-built audiences...

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Written by Gary Zhang, CEO of MRF Geosystems:  In 1998, MRF’s revenue was mainly from GIS software licenses. While we felt like winning a gold medal every time we sold a license, we were frustrated that the volume of software sales was not high. A typical project was less than $50,000, even with...

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Written by: Christopher Kam, CEO, ARK Innovation Technology: At Ark Innovation Technology, we've developed and supported our flagship SaaS product, Fieldshare, for ten years. And while keeping an online data management platform secure and up-to-date has challenges expected, the last two years have...

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Remote-sensing Pioneer Stephen Achal wins the 2021 Influencer of the Year Award By the autumn of 2019, after more than 30 years working for ITRES Research, a Calgary-based manufacturer of an array of remote-sensing and mapping applications, Stephen Achal had made an out-sized mark on the spectral...

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