Charlene Tessier, Strength in Numbers Virtual Summit Charlene Tessier, founder of the Strength in Numbers virtual summit joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek this week to discuss community building, and networking in the current state of the world. Have a listen, and make sure to get your free ticket to the Strength in Numbers virtual summit w…

Kahlil Ashanti, Founder of WeShowUp.io Kahlil Ashanti, Founder of WeShowUp.io, joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek to discuss the journey of discovering and developing a product and a business that has come out of a combining a rich history of experience in performing arts and web-based payments. "In addition to performing, it was actually ou…

John Thompson, Analytics Leader & Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Data Science Thought Leader. John Thompson, Global Head, Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at CSL Behring. Author of Building Analytics Teams: Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement, and Analytics: How to Win with Intelligence joins…

-Download Episode 104 Annee Ngo, Co-Founder and CEO of Startup League Join Annee Ngo, Co-Founder and CEO of Startup League with host Drew Ogryzek to talk about Startup League, QUP, and more for the first episode of the new Fall 2019 Season of the Vancouver Tech Podcast. Having spent the past several years in the North American startup scene, spendi…

-Download Episode 103 Angela Griffen, CTO of Glance Technologies Angela Griffen, CTO of Glance Technologies Inc. joins host Drew Ogryzek to talk about Glance Pay, the life of a CTO, team culture, and more! As a seasoned software developer and CTO, having started her career when building web-based software solutions was first starting out, Griffen s…

-Download Episode 102 Mike Volker of New Ventures BC Mike Volker of New Ventures BC joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss New Ventures BC, its venture acceleration program, and the BCIC-New Ventures Competition. "The ideal participant would be an individual participant or group of indivuduals that think they have something that has huge potential in t…

Jeffery Walsh, EtherParty Developer VanBex, a team of blockchain consultants and experts does client work, helping with development, marketing for businesses that want to integrate blockchain, smart contracts, crowdfunding and also has their own projects. EtherParty is a VanBex project that helps by making smart contracts easier to use. Smart contr…

Joni Brennan, President of DIACC Joni Brennan, president of the Digital Identification and Authentication Council of Canada joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss digital identity, and some of the challenges, dangers, and benefits associated with it. Brennan is working on trying to solve some of the problems with digital identity, such as storage of pe…

Special Guest Ahmad Nassri of Telus Digital Special guest Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss community building, TechMasters, and business and team organization. Nassri likes to describe Telus Digital, an approximately 300 person team, with a large presence in Vancouver as well as Toronto, as being…

Special Guest Nicky Kunstman, Internal Recruiter at InVision Special guest Nicky Kunstman joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss InVision, and the process of recruiting. People who are passionate about issues of scale, usability, cloud-computing, and seeing the difference they are able to make in the lives of people on the design and UX side of things,…

Special Guests MaRi Eagar and Manie Eagar Special guests Manie and MaRi Eagar of Digital Futures, who conducted the first study in Canada that set out to discover competitive drivers to build and further develop the ecosystem that supports Vancouver, BC, and Canada, as a global Blockchain and FinTech hub. And who have more associations and accompli…

Special Guest Dan Garfield of Codefresh Special guest Dan Garfield, VP of Marketing at Codefresh joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss continuous deployment with Codefresh, a CI/CD (continuous integration and deployment) platform with a focus on providing end-to-end automation for everything containers and Kubernetes. Historically looking at how autom…

Special Guest Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen Special guest Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency, and ICOs. AxiomZen is a company that is always investigating new technologies, building their own startups, partnering with external investors to build startups with them, building companies for fortune 50…

Special Guest Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry Special Guest Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Mann is an active contributor to helping grow Vancouver's technical community, he is involved in open source, running "geek meetups," and started FrontierFroundry wi…

Special Guest Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp Special Guest Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp in South Africa joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). Founder of ProsperiProp, a company currently in the process of an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), Morkel says the idea is to make it possible for a perso…

Special Guest Barinder Rasode, President and CEO of NICHE Canada, and Co-Founder of RoundHouse Radio's She Talks Special Guest Barinder Rasode, President and CEO of NICHE Canada, and Co-Founder of She Talks joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss cannabis legalization in Canada, and how NICHE Canada (National Institute for Cannabis Health and Education)…

Special Guest Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk Special guest Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss the development culture, organizational structure and some use cases for Splunk, the company that brings us log monitoring and analaysis tools and services. Cruise explains a little…

Special Guest Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform Special guest Kelsey Hightower joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss Kubernetes, its differentiating features in contrast to Mesos, CloudFoundry, Heroku and other Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, such as OpenShift which is actually built on top of Kubernetes. When c…

Special Guest Alejandro Lujan of ScalaQuest Special guest Alejandro Lujan joins host Drew Ogryzek to discus the programming language Scala, the types of problems Scala, and functional programming languages in general are good at solving versus object oriented languages such as Java, for example. As a professional trainer and consultant for Lightben…

Special Guest Brittany Whitmore of Exvera Communications Special guest Brittany Whitmore of Exvera Communications joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss PR in the world of tech, including 3D printing, crowdfunding, virtual reality, and what it means to tell great stories about inspiration and entrepreneurialism. In addition to being a public relations …

Special Guest Shannon Salter, Chair of BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal 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, wit…

Special Guest Scott Bellware of the Eventide Project 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 …

Special Guest Ken McDonald of TeamSnap 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 ti…

Special Guest Jerry Chi of Supercell 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 grad…

Special Guest Nathan Ladd of the Eventide-Project 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 …

Special Guest Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs (S. Korea) 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 j…

Special Guest Ryan Lalonde, Startup Entrepreneur 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. Lalo…

Special Guest Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World 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 bette…

Special Guest Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo 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 …

Monoliths Versus Microservices, Part II 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…

Monoliths Versus Microservices Special guests Charles Krempeaux, CTO of Koho Nathan Ladd, co-creator of the Eventide Project, Adam Dymitruk, CEO of Adaptech Solutions and Scott Bellware, co-creator of the Eventide Project join host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what …

Special Guest Jonathan Natavio CEO & Founder at Porter CEO & Founder at Porter (www.summonporter.ca) Jonathan Natavio, joins host Drew Ogryzek and shares his startup story from student to intern to founding a company. Porter is a tech enabled consierge platform helping companies and working professionals take care of their day to day tasks. Handlin…

Special Guests Scott Bellware & Nathan Ladd Host Drew Ogryzek and special guests Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd of eventide-project.org discuss their backgrounds in computing, differences in the rapid iteration environment of a web startup using an MVC framework like Ruby on Rails, and the term "engineering" with regards to web-development versus e…

Special Guests Nikolay Malyarov and David Uberti Special guests Nikolay Malyarov, COO of PressReader and David Uberti, staff writer for the Columbia Journalism Review join host Drew Ogryzek. Malyarov, Uberti, and Ogryzek reflect on topics from biases in journalism, the notion of objectivity, the effects of socioeconomic change on journalism media c…

Episode 73: Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator Special Guest Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator Special guest Keith Ippel, Co-founder and CEO of Spring Activator speaks with host Drew Ogryzek about the interdisciplinary, inter-school hackathon Startup Hacks; a non-coding hackathon competition where business and tech oriented attendees team up a…

Special Promotion Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017) Special Guest Dorfam Mirgharavi, business development at Aequilibrium.ca Host Drew Ogryzek an…

Episode 72: Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Special Promotion Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017) Special Guest Mark Mandel, …

Download Episode 70 Episode 70: Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions Drew's Meetup Picks of the Week DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (The Tribe, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM PolyglotVancouver (Unbounce, Suite #400 - 401 W. Georgia St) 6:00 PM Special Guest Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions Host Drew Ogryzek and special guest Adam Dymit…

Episode 69: John Richardson of Ethelo Decisions Intro Host Drew Ogryzek opens the show with more special mentions and giveaways! Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! (Drawing and winner announcement on …

Intro Host Drew Ogryzek opens the show with some special mentions and giveaways! Scott Bellware presents a Ruby Microservices workshop in Vancouver, April 29th and 30th: Retweet https://goo.gl/dTue29 with @vantechpodcast to be entered into a draw for a free ticket! There's also an Intro to Virtual Reality Workshop brought to us by Design Lab. Tweet…

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 vis…

Episode 66: Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites Intro & Meetups Around Town Drew, Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites speak about onboarding new people, and strategies for evaluting during the 3-month probationary period. Advisor Websites has been growing by about 5-8 people a year for the past several years. One strategy tried was a "team retr…

Intro and Meetups Alex and Drew open the show talking about the themes of their past weeks, including communication, interrupting programmers breaking their concentration, project management meetings and red-tape, design sessions, improving processes, when to outsource versus build in-house. Alex is currently reading Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss,…

Intro & Meetups Around Town Drew and Alex talk about Adaptech Solutions being tech agnostic, and what that means. Drew speaks about the responsibility a software developer has to deliver clean, maintainable code. Alex went to the Women Who Code Vancouver meetup. Drew wanted to go to the Docker Vancouver meetup, but couldn't get an Evo, so he ended …

Intro Guest co-host Kim Hansen, CEO of Signl.fm and Drew Ogryzek open the show with some discussions about speak to text, Web RTC, machine learning, tensorflow, IBM's Watson, Go Time transcribed, how games like Katamari Damacy show the human tendency to derive satisfaction from cleaning up, the convenience of Google Now, how CES was all about Amazo…

Episode 62: Nikolas Badminton On this week's podcast Drew talks about hiring incentives at his company. Alex put her node reading on hold and with help from Adaptech Solutions is building an Event Store (stores events for CQRS solutions) using node.js which so far includes creating a basic webserver. She's installed and is learning to use Vimium (C…

Episode 61: Renee Hildebrand We're excited to have a special guest host this week, Holly Peck, Director of Women Who Code (Vancouver) who joins us for the interview with Renee! Alex & Drew open the show talking about interviews at Drew's workplace, talentful and The Bike Shed Podcast and discuss Alex's coding progress which you can read more about …

Episode 60: Rob Bucci of STAT Analytics Alex & Drew open the show talking about workplace dynamics and whether it's appropriate to use the term "guys". Drew talks about his company's new onboarding process which includes using automating testing and seed data. They discuss Alex's coding progress (tutorials and reading up on Git and node.js) which s…

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. Prot…

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 …