Putting Vancouver on the Tech Map
Ian Bell has been busy. In addition to guiding startup Tingle.com to Round 3 of this year’s New Ventures BC Competition, he has been working on a super secret side project that promotes Vancouver as a world-class technology center.
Bell has been quietly producing a film along with a team of digital designers from Vancouver Film School. The goal of the film is to serve as a centrepiece in promoting our city by highlighting some of the incredible technology companies that have flowered here and generated worldwide impact.
And now Bell needs your help.
As part of this film we’ll be representing the density of companies on an animated map… and that’s where you come in. We’d like to use your logo and plot your company’s location on that map along with your peers. This is an excellent way for you to promote your company to a worldwide business and investment audience, and to show your support for your peers and this community. We are looking not only for companies founded and/or based in the Vancouver Area, but also development centres for global companies.
To be included in Bell’s project fill out this form now to submit your logo.
August 9th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Just wanted to make clear that this whole project would not be possible without very generous support from Microsoft and from the BCIC, BCTIA, and VEDC… all of whom are great partners for me and VFS. The team that we assembled, comprised of VFS students and new grads, are displaying incredible professionalism and dedication to the task.
Has been really exciting to see this come together and I hope to see it grow in the future..
August 10th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Are there any plans to integrate/align visualizations (ie. block diagrams) depicting the evolution of BC’s tech industry with the BC Tech map that PwC produced in the early 2000s? We have one at the NGRAIN office – I know it’s PwC’s proprietary work, but I would imagine that there are ways to collaborate with them to take advantage of the work they have done in this area. Maybe I’m walking into a nest of sorts, but it’s based on my feeling that, to be competitive globally, the BC tech sector will rely heavily on creative collaboration amongst its composite parts.