The Pandemic, French Fries and the Future of Steak: Inside the Mind of Food Expert Evan Fraser
Inside the brain of Food Expert Evan Fraser
CityAge: What has COVID-19 told us about Canada’s food security?…
Why We’re Launching Smart City Futures
The term ‘smart city’ has been around for more than a decade, an esoteric subject embraced by the urban planning and tech intelligentsia who believe digital tools will make our cities better places. Find out more: https://smartcityfutures.io/introducing-smart-city-futures/
From airplane napkin sketch to world leading ag tech revolution
An Interview with Dave Dinesen, CEO of CubicFarms, on the future of food. Greenhouses have been around for centuries in some form or another, to help us extend growing seasons. But they can be finicky, don’t work in all climates and can be labor intensive. A pandemic can make it even tougher to airlift in […]
No trust, no data: the way forward for farmers and software providers
The potential gains associated with digitizing Canadian farm records are clear – increased productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and ease of access to the data that will help keep Canada’s farmers competitive and get the best results from their land. But there’s a problem on the farm. Most Canadian farmers are aware of the benefits from data, […]
McMaster Research Co-op leads charge to harvest community energy
Canada loses 60 per cent of its energy because of heat needlessly exhausted out of our homes, office towers, data centres or grocery stores. McMaster University professor Jim Cotton has a plan to change that. “We’re taking heat that we just dump out of our arenas, our data centres, our grocery stores, and reusing it […]
Mayors from two different countries share same water woes: storms, shrinking shorelines and lead pollution
Walter Sendzik, Mayor of St. Catharines, Ontario, and Chair of The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, and Billy McKinney, Mayor of Zion, Illinois, and Chair of the Mayors Commission on Water Equity, got together to chat about their cities’ water infrastructure problems, at CityAge’s Future of Water Infrastructure digital event on September 9th. […]
Breakout City Mayors: The 4 steps to success
CityAge recently brought together the leaders of America’s Breakout Cities — the places that are making a mark as we emerge from the pandemic. Here are four things we learned from our first panel discussion with Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve, Erie Downtown Development Corporation’s Corey Cook and Boise Mayor Lauren McLean. The panel was hosted […]
Building On A Decade Of Success, CityAge Appoints Managing Director To Expand Its Platform Focused On the Future of Cities
With new leadership and growing capabilities, CityAge positions global platform for long-term growth Vancouver, BC, Feb. 16, 2022 – Ten years ago this month, CityAge, a platform that brings together community leaders who are building the future of our cities and planet, held its first-ever event in Vancouver, BC. Today, the company announced its Flagship Series for […]
Q&A With Alon Marcovici, Managing Director, CityAge
Q: What attracted you to the position of Managing Director with CityAge? A: I see tremendous opportunity for growth at CityAge. Having worked for three NHL teams, it might seem cheeky to make a hockey reference, but we’re looking at a hockey stick growth curve for CityAge. In speaking with many of our longstanding partners, event […]
10 Canadians using data to build the health care system of the future
In 1961, Tommy Douglas’ Saskatchewan government innovated a vital Canadian institution when he introduced Canada’s first universal publicly funded medical care. Sixty years later, a group of Canadians are reinventing health care all over again. And they’re doing it using the ascendant tool of the digital age: data. Deploying data holds risks. But it can […]