Vancouver Tech Podcast

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, with the help of the CRT (Civil Resolution Tribunal). Salter, along with Lauryn Kerr, Expert Systems Analyst at the BC Ministry of Justice, Dispute Resolution Office gave an in-depth talk at the Vancouver Legal Hacker's meetup in June entitled: AI, Expert Systems and the Justice System: Inside BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal. In the talk, the two offer an overview of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, how it works, and insight into the background of online resolution dispute. Follow Shannon Salter on Twitter at @shannonnsalter and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast. Links talk: Inside BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal civilresolutionbc.ca Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tec

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 words of advice and caution for software companies facing a rewrite of a monolith into a service-based distributed system. Follow Scott Bellware on Twitter at @sbellware and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast. Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events July 24 - 27, 2017 MON: July 24 TechVancouver Meetup (TechVancouver | at Telus Garden | 6:00pm) TUE: July 25 How AngelList Can Help You Raise Your Next Round. (Launch Academy | 11:45 am) WED: July 26 Web Components Vancouver Meetup, speakers from EA & Google (Clio's office | 6:00 pm) The Promise Land? (VanDev | UBC Robson Square C550 | 6:45 pm) THU: July 27 Tony Robbins & The Power of Suc

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 time organizing their teams and groups, and shares from his extensive experience in "growth hacking," including some great insights on analytics and A/B testing. Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech events of interest over the upcoming week. Follow Ken McDonald on Twitter at @KenPMcDonald and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast. Links TeamSnap How to Acquire Your First Million Customers Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events July 17 - 20, 2017 MON: July 17 Teaching Bots to Talk - Design & Content Conference Extra Event (Style & Class Meetup Group | at Rio Theatre | 6:00 pm) TUE: July 18

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 graduated Stanford, and receiving an MBA from Wharton, while also speaking four languages: Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. He offers insights into some of the differences in opportunities between Japanese companies and foreign companies with offices in Japan, as well as some helpful tips for exploring the Japanese job market. Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives us a great overview and curated list of tech events of interest over the upcoming week. Follow Jerry Chi on Twitter at @peacej and Samantha Ming at @EventsPodcast. Links Supercell Disrupting Japan The Japan Venture Show Tech in Asia Slush.org connpass.com justa.io japanesepod101 memrise anki Eve

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 software design shift. 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 our business? "The database layer; how you arrange your bits on disk, is one of the biggest factors in terms of the plyability of a monolithic codebase to become services. If not the biggest. I happen to think it is the biggest." - Nathan Ladd Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast gives a review of the Unbounce Call to Action Conference that happened last week, and fills us in on the upcoming events of the week. Follow Nathan Ladd on Twitter at @realntl and Samantha Ming

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 job market for software developers in Korea, Rockwood says attending local tech meetups, like the Seoul Elixir meetup which he currently organizes, is an excellent way to meet people and connections, and even find meaningful employment. Programs, such as the Korean government's Tech Incubator Program for Startups or TIPS, are helping the thriving Korean startup scene. For those interested in life as a software developer in Seoul, South Korea, follow Rockwood on Twitter at @kevinrockwood. Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Jun 26 - 29, 2017 MON: Jun 26 Day 2: Call To Action Conference (Unbounce | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8:00 am) HackerNest Vancouv

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. Lalonde suggests that there's nothing like this is Canada, yet. So a potential market exists for someone to capitalize on. Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver. Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Jun 20 - 23, 2017 TUE: Jun 20 React Native Talk Series: Offline First React Native (React Native Vancouver | at Clio | 6:00 PM) JavaScript for Beginners (Ladies Learning Code | at Amazon | 6:00 PM) WED: Jun 21 Software Developers: Tech Stack Must Haves* *(BC Tech Association | at Hootsuite | 5:00 PM) Node.js 101* *(UBC Robson Square | 6:45 PM) THU: Jun 22 Code & Coffee (at

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 better understand and record the experiences of women in technology and to promote vibrant women in tech communities across the country. To our knowledge, this has never been done before in Canada. There are smaller qualitative and quantitative studies and lots of anecdotal evidence of women's experiences in tech, but no one has taken on a project of this magnitude or mandate. Check out the KickerStarter campaign and show your support by backing the project! Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver. Follow Women in Tech World on Twitter at @wintechworld Events Podcast Presents: Vancouver Tech Events Jun 13 - 16, 201

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 how an identity may be verified through a credit bureaux. However, Trulioo's services can be used to globally. Samantha Ming from the Events Podcast shares the upcoming week in tech meetups around Vancouver. Follow Trulioo on Twitter at @trulioo Events Podcast Presents: Meetups Around Town Jun 5 - 11, 2017 MON: Jun 5, 2017 Networking Tips w/ Career Experts from Hootsuite and Hyperwallet (BC Tech Innovation Hub | 5:00 PM) TUE: Jun 6 The Future of Work (The Studio at Creative Coworkers | 6:30 PM) WED: Jun 7 Meet Local Tech Companies at Talent Day! (BC Tech Innovation Hub | 5:00 PM) Cloud Spanner Tech Talk (7 Gate Venture Labs | 6:00 PM) The Spring Showcase

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 our business? Dymitruk shares his software development experience and thoughts on what leads to the monolith, how do avoid it, where to go from there, and has an interesting spin on technical debt, preferring to consider it more of an investment, particularly if it is something that is contributing value to the business. Follow Adam Dymitruk on Twitter at @adymitruk 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

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 the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift. 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 our business? This week's special guests share their expertise and insight with software architectural design, built up over decades of experience. 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, de

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. Handling chores such as dog walking, grocery shopping, alcohol delivery, Ikea purchase and assembly, and several others you might expect. While the ease of use makes Porter a no brainer for the consumer, vendor partners find value in having more volume driven to their businesses, for free* (provided these vendor partners maintain excellent service records with Porter's customers and with their own). Natavio started out with an idea in 2015, and launched in 2016. Starting with an idea he felt could really dominate the market, Natavio incorporated in February 2016. He admits it took him about three months to hand-craft an MVP (minimum viable product). With a backgro

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 embedded software and systems engineering or bridge building, time to feedback, and dive into eventsourcing. The past decade of web development has, for a large part been dominated by the MVC (model-view-controller) architectural pattern. Bellware and Ladd believe that event-sourced systems architecture is a general architectural design that is applicable for most systems, not only special purpose only for fin-tech, for example. The next decade of software development may see a lot more event-sourcing, as SOA (Service-oriented architecture) becomes more mainstream with current trends towards microservices. Bellware mentions that a major difference betw

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 consumption, and more. In journalism, understanding that we have our biases when we're reporting, then potentially overcompensating by pointing out the other sides that could be there, may create a bias in another direction or a two-sided argument. Public trust in media is at an all time low, but trust in particular media institutions remains high. While people in the United States distrust "the media," there is an identification with certain outlets. Newspapers or news programs from 50 years ago had a much more standard who, what, when, where, why approach to news. Now, just given the fact that we can get so much information about breaking news events ins

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 and collaborate together on a mobile app idea that makes a social impact. Then jump into some discussions around Spring Activator. Spring is a startup school for entrepreneurs who want to change the world, helping people go from an idea on a napkin to about a million dollars a year in revenue. The reason they call themselves a startup school is because they have recognized that the startup world has been attracting people from the mainstream It's no longer about people with just tech backgrounds, but people with diverse range of backgrounds with some amazing ideas and they're trying to catalyze them. Incubation and acceleration is at the code of what Spring does. He

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 and special guest Dorfam Mirgharavi, business development at Aequilibrium.ca discuss Mirgharavi's experience in technology ranging from Future Shop to Tesla to Aequilibrium. Aequilibrium is a holistic design and development studio focused one web and mobile app development. They like to focus on the financial tech sector, working a lot with retail and payments. They tackle problems such as how to create frictionless consumer experiences when people walk into a retail store or bank. The team at Aequilibrium is very creative and active in Vancouver's local tech-community and yes they are hiring! Check out available opportunities on their careers page. Theme music by A

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, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform Our special guest this week, Mark Mandel tells us about Google Cloud Platform, some ridiculous(ly great) things you can do with cloud computing, such as create a take on rock-paper-scissors, called happy-angry-surprised, using Firebase and Cloud Vision API, where making funny faces into a webcam replaces making shapes with your hands. Ogryzek and Mandel discuss cross-cloud failovers, and the ability to run sets of containers across clusters of machines at scale with the Kubernetes container orchestration system. And being able to orchestrate using Federation across multiple data centers, regions or even clouds for hybrid

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 Dymitruk, CEO of AdapTech Solutions open the show with a mention of Scott Bellware's Eventide-Project and the upcoming Ruby microservices workshop, April 29th and 30th in Vancouver. For a chance at a free ticket, make sure to retweet the following with @vantechpodcast (Drawing and winner announcement on April 22nd, 2017). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ruby-microservices-workshop-vancouver-tickets-32550250676 This week, Ogryzek pick's Dymitruk's brain on topics ranging from Event Sourcing, following particular patterns in software problem solving while remaining tech-agnostic, developing a consulting business in Vancouver's current climate, responsibly onboarding junior

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 April 22nd, 2017) 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 @designlablive for a chance at a free general enrollment seat. (Drawing and winner announcement on March 29th, 2017) Special Guest John Richardson of Ethelo Decisions Special guest John Richardson Founder and CEO Ethelo Decisions, a social enterprise dedicated to new ways of doing group decision making, using online technology. Ethelo was born out of trying to find a way of impacting and improving democracy, and answering the question "What is democracy going to

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 colleagu