IoT North Conference

What does the future of healthcare, spacetech, and education have in common? Alberta.

Our first panel of the conference just kicked off the show and got the conversation going about what to expect out of the disruptive technologies transforming industries, and how Alberta is slowly becoming a major player on an international level.

Our speakers ignited enthusiasm among us by delving into some of the exciting things happening in their industries:

👉 Drivers of Innovation and Acceleration: Problem solving with end users in mind and building community. Industries like healthcare and education need to focus building solutions around problems, and have their end users in mind. Additionally, building ecosystems of community to solve larger problems is a must. Isolation amongst industry slows the progress of tackling big industry and societal challenges.
👉 Alberta as a global leader. Alberta is being chosen as the home by our successful speakers and organizations for its tight community that facilitates ecosystem growth and connections with important people, the political-will to nurture scale-ups and start-ups, and something we take for granted: the support and willingness from community to want to support up and coming entrepreneurs and organizations - something that you should leverage!
➡ We've seen the transformation of other successful cities in the world like Dubai make big changes to how they're perceived by the world (eg. tourism and sports for Dubai); Alberta needs to have it's turn with tech.
👉 The importance of building community: A lot of the success of the emerging companies in Alberta is owed to connections built either through strategic partnerships, community, and even their own community platforms. Companies need to start building communities and relationships in their industries to continue building off of the accelerating nature of these relationships. community building is what helps solve big problems and fast.👉

These are only a snippet of everything said on stage this morning. Our speakers also spoke about the specific technologies helping spacetech become a viable investment for any industry, education and healthcare accessibility for the whole world, and more!

More to come! Stay tuned for more updates!