As the coronavirus pandemic forces people to hunker down and keep their distance in the physical world, the exact opposite is happening in the virtual realm of remote work and online video conferencing.
For just over two years, Waterloo alumni Julia Gogoleva (BSc ’15) and Sam Nabi (BES ’13) have been running Full Circle Foods, a medium-sized grocery store located in the heart of Kitchener.
The pair took ownership of the almost 40-year old community shop after it went up for sale back in 2018. Neither could have predicted the world-wide pandemic two-years later.
Julia Gogoleva (BSc ’15)
This isn’t how the Faculty of Math’s class of 2020 envisioned their graduating year. Instead of walking across the convocation stage to receive their diploma in front of family and friends, students will participate in a virtual ceremony. Then, in the months ahead, these same graduates will seek work in one of the toughest job markets in recent memory.
But there is cause for hope and optimism.
The disruptive impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown there is a need to make global supply chains more resilient, according to an expert panel.
The panel, part of Waterloo’s GEDI Post-COVID-19 Reboot Panel Series, was made up of subject matter experts from the University of Waterloo and a supply chain manager from Amazon Canada. They agreed that COVID-19 had exposed some significant vulnerabilities in global supply chains that should be addressed to insulate economies from possible future disruptions.
As people physically distance and work from home, cyber criminals have taken advantage of this uncertain time to gain access to corporate and personal systems.
In a recent Twitter takeover, Cat Coode (BASc ’01), founder of Binary Tattoo, a full- service data privacy agency, answered some of your online privacy and security questions and offered some tips on how you can stay safe online.
Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics alumnus Ed Wei (BCS ’06) is overseeing a new use for his company’s indoor mapping technology — the identification of front-line workers who may be at a higher chance of being exposed to COVID-19 inside hospitals and other health-care facilities.
In our recent webinar series, Waterloo alumni share their passions and expertise to support others during this strange time.
In our recent webinar series, Waterloo alumni share their passions and expertise to support others during this strange time.
The Accelerator Centre (AC) recently announced their new COVID-19 Support and Recovery Cohort of its AC JumpStart program, and two Waterloo students, Jaden Pereira and Aaron Paul, were selected to receive $30,000 in seed funding and $10,000 in-kind business supports to accelerate the launch of their startup TyltGo.
The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt around the world, claiming lives and putting societies on lockdown. This health crisis quickly turned into an economic crisis as businesses closed and markets tanked, leading many to declare that Canada is officially in a recession.