Episode 68: Koho Goes Live

Vancouver Tech Podcast

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 your most pressing VR question, along with http://designlablive.com/vr-workshop @vantechpodcast @deisgnlablive for a chance at a free general enrollment seat.

BC Tech Summit comes to a close, the Vancouver-based fin-tech company Koho launches to public in Canada.

Ogryzek takes an introspective look into cross-team pairing in a technology focused work environment, encouraging developers to pair with other developers and even members of QA or Product Management to ensure a higher quality of code craftsmanship, product understanding, and business value. Further, he suggests technology workers communicate openings available on their teams to peers and former colleagues with whom they have enjoyed collaborating.

Meetups Around Town, Mar 20 to 26

Monday, March 20th

• Polyglot Vancouver Reading Group (Stage 3 Systems 220-750 Hamilton St) 6:00 PM
• Vancouver Linux Users Group - VanLUG (SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings), 7:00 PM

Tuesday, March 21st

• Tech Talent Meetup (BC Tech Innovation Hub, 887 Great Northern Way), 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• VPC UX Design 101 (Launch Academy, 300-128 W. Hastings) 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• VPC Spring Startup School (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St.) 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Non-Technical Entrepreneurs (The Tribe Space, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Vancouver Clojure (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St.) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday, March 22nd

• Women Who Code Vancouver (Mobify, Suite #420 - 725 Granville Street Suite) 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
• Vancouver Pluralsight Study Group (PNI Digfital Media Offices, 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM 6:30 PM
• VPC Startup Ladies Night (Launch Academy, 300-128 W. Hastings), 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• VanRE:Tech (Vancouver Real Estate Tech and Data Meetup) (CBRE Vancouver, #2500-1021 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Vancouver Hack Space (Vancouver Hack Space, #104 - 1715 Cook Street) 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Vancouver Financial Innovation Community (The Edge (Gore Street Entrance, 289 Alexander) 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Thursday, March 23rd

• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (The Tribe, 68 Water Street, 4th floor) 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• ReactNative Vancouver (Bench Accounting, 545 Robson St) 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Vancouver Amazon Web Services User Group (Hothead Games Office, 1555 W. Pender St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn Data Science (SFU Harbour Centre - Room 7000, 515 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• ember Vancouver Meetup (Later HQ, 500 - 353 Water st) 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• From C to C (location shown to members) 7:15 PM to 9:00 PM

Saturday, March 25

• VanVR (Hugh Dempster Pavilion UBC, 6245 Agronomy Road, Room 301) 9:00 AM to Sunday at 5:00 PM $200/ticket
• Vancouver Internet Technology Talents Networking @ 9CAT.NET (Room 205 8171 Park Rd, Richmond) 8:30 PM

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

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