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The Vancouver Tech Podcast is a weekly show focusing on the growing tech industry in the city of Vancouver. Get caught up on the events and meetups around town, startups, new businesses, developers, designers, community programs, and news. Each episode includes an interview with an outstanding membe…

Drew Ogryzek

  • Sep 28, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 46m AVG DURATION
  • 106 EPISODES


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Episode 107 - Charlene Tessier, Strength in Numbers Virtual Summit

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 26:33


Charlene Tessier, Strength in Numbers Virtual Summit Ā Charlene Tessier, founder of the Strength in Numbers virtual summit joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek this week to discuss community building, and networking in the current state of the world.Have a listen, and make sure to get your free ticket to the Strength in Numbers virtual summit with a host of amazing guest speakers, and interactive workshops. Topics range from Equity Splits and Aligning your Message, to Credibility and even Virtual Retreats!Listen in to this week's episode to hear more.

Episode 106 - Kahlil Ashanit, Founder of WeShowUp.io

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 35:02


Kahlil Ashanti, Founder of WeShowUp.ioKahlil Ashanti, Founder of WeShowUp.io, joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek to discuss the journey of discovering and developing a product and a business that has come out of a combining a rich history of experience in performing arts and web-based payments. "In addition to performing, it was actually our job to stand and thank every audience member who came to see us," explains Ashanti reminscing of the early days of his perfomance career in the 90s, "And people kept saying, 'I would have paid more for that.'"Continuing how he had started, Ashanti kept shaking hands with audience members and thanking them after the show, and kept finding people echoing the same sentiment, "I would have paid more for that."Listen in to find out more about this founder's journey of discovery and development.

Episode 105 - John Thompson, Analytics Leader & Best Selling Author

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 31:33


John Thompson, Analytics Leader & Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Data Science Thought Leader.John Thompson, Global Head, Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence at CSL Behring. Author of Building Analytics Teams: Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement, and Analytics: How to Win with Intelligence joins hosts Lauren Bates and Drew Ogryzek for episode 105 of the Vancouver Tech Podcast.Thompson explains that he started writing his latest book, Building Analytics Teams: Harnessing analytics and artificial intelligence for business improvement, or at least thinking about it last year. He asked people how they felt about their analytics teams, the people on them, and the cohesion, and those kind of topics, at a few presentations in Chicago and other places around the United States. The incredible responses he received prompted him to stop working on a book he had started regarding AI and Ethics, and pivot to the topics addressed in Building Analytics Teams.This book is for people who are hiring and managing high performance advanced analytics and AI teams. So, if you're a manager and you're responsible for a data science team, this book was written for you.

Episode 104 - Annee Ngo, CEO of Startup League and QUP

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 37:51


Episode 103: Angela Griffin, CTO of Glance Technologies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2017 27:30


Episode 102: Startup Resources and Funding with Mike Volker of New Ventures BC

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2017 24:39


Episode 101: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Jeffery Walsh of EtherParty

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2017 23:37


Digital Identification: Joni Brennan

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2017 25:08


Episode 99: Business Organization with Ahmad Nassri, Principal Architect at Telus Digital

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2017 30:48


Episode 98: Recruiting & Hiring with Nicky Kunstman of InVision

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2017 29:50


Episode 97: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs - with MaRi Eagar and Manie Eagar

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2017 43:41


Episode 96: Continuous Delivery with Dan Garfield of Codefresh

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2017 45:07


Episode 95: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Dieter Shirley of AxiomZen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2017 28:22


Episode 94: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & ICOs with Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2017 48:34


Boris Mann of FrontierFoundry joins host Drew Ogryzek to discuss blockchain, cryptocurrency, and ICOs.

Episode 93: Blockchain, Crypto Currencies & ICOs - Llew Morkel of ProsperiProp

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2017 35:16


Episode 92: Barinder Rasode, President & CEO of NICHE Canada, and Cofounder of She Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2017 30:48


Episode 91: Alex Cruise, Architect/Development Manager at Splunk

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2017 43:29


Episode 90: Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Platform

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2017 25:18


Episode 89: Alejandro Lujan of ScalaQuest

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2017 26:57


Episode 88: Brittany Whitmore, Exvera Communications

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2017 29:05


Episode 87: Shannon Salter, Chair of the Civil Resolution Tribunal

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2017 35:57


Episode 85: Ken McDonald, Chief Growth Officer of TeamSnap

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2017 27:26


Episode 84: Jerry Chi, Data Scientist at Supercell

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2017 29:37


Episode 83: Monoliths Vs Microservices Part 3: Nathan Ladd

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2017 25:33


Episode 82: Kevin Rockwood, Skelter Labs

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2017 23:14


Episode 81: Ryan Lalonde

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2017 28:20


Episode 80: Melanie Ewan of Women in Tech World

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2017 34:42


Episode 79: Zac Cohen, GM of Trulioo

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2017 29:28


Episode 78: Adam Dymitruk on Monoliths and Microservices

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2017 21:47


Episode 77: Monolith Vs Microservices

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2017 38:17


Special guests Charles Krempeaux, Nathan Ladd, Adam Dymitruk, and Scott Bellware join host Drew Ogryzek for a discussion around monolithic software architecture versus microservices, what that means, and what the informed CEO should know when a team is considering tackling this type of software design shift.

Episode 76: Jonathan Natavio, CEO & Founder at Porter

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2017 27:59


Episode 75: Scott Bellware and Nathan Ladd, Eventide Project

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2017 48:42


Episode 74: Nikolay Malyarov and David Uberti

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2017 38:29


Episode 73: Keith Ippel, CEO of Spring Activator

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2017 22:13


Episode 72: Dorfam Mirgharavi of Aequilibrium.ca

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2017 23:12


Episode 71: Mark Mandel, Google Cloud Platform

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2017 25:29


Episode 70: Adam Dymitruk of Adaptech Solutions

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2017 56:41


Episode 69: John Richardson of Ethelo

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2017 23:38


Episode 68: Koho Goes Live

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2017 13:51


Episode 67: Graydon Bensler and Matt Visser, Syllabi Learning Solutions

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2017 22:08


Episode 66: Alex and Lester, Advisor Websites

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2017 23:35


Guests Alex and Lester from Advisor Websites join host Drew Ogryzek to discuss the past and upcoming week in Vancouver's Tech Community, as well as their SaaS web solutions for financial advisors.

Episode 65: Chad Leaman, Neil Squire Society

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2017 28:56


Alex and Drew open the show talking about the themes of their past weeks, including communication, interrupting programmers breaking their concentration, project management meetings and red-tape, design sessions, improving processes, when to outsource versus build in-house. Our special guest this week is Chad Leaman, of the Neil Squire Society. We talk about how technology helped Niel Squire back in the early 1980s, with a device that he could interface with using sip and puff gestures to produce morse code, and communicate.

Episode 64: Nikolay Malyarov, PressReader

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017 36:19


Alex and Drew talk about their week, including developer responsibility for engineering clean systems, event sourcing, Women in Tech, and the upcoming VanRuby and Digital Project Managers Meetups, then interview Nikolay Malyarov of PressReader about keeping factual journalism relevant in the modern era.

Episode 63: Peter Watkins, BC Developer's Exchange

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2017 42:01


Guest co-host Kim Hansen, CEO of Signl.fm joins us to discuss speech to text, machine learning, meetups around town, and interview Peter Watkins, cofounder of the BC Developer's Exchange, on topics from agile teams in government to the BC housing data visualization project.

Episode 62: Nikolas Badminton

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2017 27:22


On this week's podcast Drew talks about hiring incentives at his company and Alex talks about the Event Store she is building with AdapTech Solutions. Featured meetups around town were Hackernest (hosted by Drew), Tech Vancouver, and DDD/CQRS/ES hosted by AdapTech. Our featured guest this week is Nikolas Badminton! Nik is a researcher and futurist speaker who splits his time between Canada (Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal), USA, UK, and provides insights into how people, communities, cities, businesses, and countries are changing with applied exponential technology. Nik's primary interests in technology are in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning.

Episode 61: Renee Hildebrand

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2017 27:58


Alex & Drew open the show talking about interviews at Drew's workplace, talentful, The Bike Shed Podcast and discuss Alex's coding progress which you can read more about in her blog. Select meetups around town Alex and Drew attended last week were the Vancouver Tech Meetup which Drew hosted at Beanworks and the DDD/CQRS/ES Meetup at DCTRL. Highlighted Meetups Around Town Alex and Drew are looking forward to this week are Hackernest on Monday, January 30th and the continuation of creating the product nota at DDD/CQRS/ES on Thursday, Feb 2nd. Our guest this week is Renee Hildebrand, Technical Writer at IT Glue!

Episode 60: Rob Bucci of STAT Search Analytics

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2017 35:04


Alex & Drew open the show talking about workplace dynamics. They discuss Alex's coding progress, meetups they attended the past week and highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene. Our guest this week is Rob Bucci of STAT Search Analytics, a company which tracks the visibility of search content and provides insight using data science for their clients.

Episode 59: Annee Ngo of Protohack

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2017 55:31


Alex & Drew open the show talking about Alex's progress learning to code which she talks about further in her blog. They discuss meetups they attended the past week and then highlight a few upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene. Our guest this week is Annee Ngo of Protohack and PressReader. Protohack activates and supports the start-up community by hosting global events that help people with amazing ideas get mentorship, training, and business requirement validation so they can turn their idea into a real-world business. Protohack also hosts white label events, and the next upcoming event will be on April 29th. Stay tuned for Annee's upcoming Media hackathon to disrupt mainstream media! If you're interested in getting involved you can reach Annee by email or on twitter: @protohackvan or @anneengo.

Episode 58: Holly Peck

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2017 42:26


Drew opens the show talking about resolutions and spending more time on front end javascript development, in React during the upcoming Vancouver Tech Meetup with special guest Bryan Clark from Mozilla on January 23rd. Drew then talks about upcoming meetups around town in the Vancouver tech scene. Our guest this week is Holly Peck of Women Who Code Vancouver. You can reach Holly on twitter at @WWCodeVancouver.

Episode 57: Reza Sanaie

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2016 48:28


Alex and Drew open the show talking about highlights from the previous week's meetups in the Vancouver tech scene, then Alex talks about progress with learning to code from her blog currently hosted on Medium. Drew and Alex mention a few coding references to check out: Hong Kiat, Team Treehouse, Code Academy, and Code School. Our guest this week is Reza Sanaie. The interview starts at 0:16:40. Reza is the Co-founder and Director of Engineering at Beanworks which is a company focused on providing accounts payable solutions using cloud based software. To find out more how Beanworks can help you reach out to Reza by email: reza @ beanworks.com. Reza regularly attends and participates in the Polyglot Unconference and you can find him on slack at #yvrDev and #887gnw. Drew and Alex will be taking a break over the holidays from recording the podcast. New episodes will be available January 9, 2017.

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