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 […]