Tobias Lutke admits he didn’t know much about Waterloo until he went to Silicon Valley a few years ago. The founder and chief executive officer of Shopify, one of the hottest software companies on the Canadian tech scene, had gone to California seeking venture capital funding to expand his company.
Zhou Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Waterloo, has won an Engineering Emmy® Award for developing computational models that accurately and consistently predict how people view image and video quality, the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced.
Shopify Founder and CEO Tobias Lütke, will visit the University of Waterloo on October 1, marking his first-ever appearance at a Canadian university.
Lütke will speak to a group of Waterloo’s math and engineering students in a fireside chat, where he will offer insights on what drives innovation ecosystems. He will also reveal his startup story, sharing how he became the visionary leader behind one of Canada’s tech giants.
Mariana Mazzucato delivers the first keynote presentation at the Waterloo Innovation Summit.
A series of high-profile speakers shed light on the key ingredients in building successful innovation-based economies during 50 hours of high-intensity talks and tours at the annual Waterloo Innovation Summit on Thursday.
When industry works hand-in-hand with researchers, ownership of intellectual property (IP) rights worth millions of dollars can be at stake.
At many institutions, IP rights are closely tied to corporate donations. Other universities view them as income.
The University of Waterloo was among the first universities to make their position clear: Intellectual property is owned by the inventor.
The Waterloo Innovation Summit is taking place this week as top business leaders, academics and policy makers gather to find out what drives leading innovation ecosystems.
Global tech leaders will join others at the University of Waterloo and Communitech in downtown Kitchener for the sold-out summit from Sept. 16 to 18.
Keynote speakers include:
The total investment includes funding from venture capitalists, angel investors, government programs and grants from the Velocity Fund. This funding milestone does not include acquisitions, such as Google purchasing BufferBox in 2012, or Kite going to Docker in 2015.
He will discuss similarities between the two seemingly dissimilar endeavours, including the roles perseverance and serendipity play in both.
Stonebraker is a pioneer of data base research and technology, a professor at MIT, and the 2014 winner of the A.C.M. Turing Award, considered the highest honour in computer science.
He will discuss similarities between the two seemingly dissimilar endeavours, including the roles perseverance and serendipity play in both.
Stonebraker is a pioneer of data base research and technology, a professor at MIT, and the 2014 winner of the A.C.M. Turing Award, considered the highest honour in computer science.