Edmonton’s Folk Fest is back and is as timeless as ever. #efmf2016 Thursday photos.
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Local restaurants and chefs are doing what they do best to support evacuees who have landed in our city. On Monday, May 9, Sabor co-owners Chris Mena and Lino Oliviera are donating 100 per cent of their sales at the downtown location of Urbano Pizza Co. (110, 10220 103 St.
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He’s been in office just a few short months, but Justin Trudeau wants you to know that he’s taking clean tech seriously.
Back in November 2015, just over a month after the election, Canada joined with private sector leaders like Bill Gates and other leading nations — including the United States, India and France — in launching Mission Innovation to accelerate energy innovation worldwide. A few months later, the Liberal government has signalled its commitment to the future of Canada’s clean tech sector once again.
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Creating the New Alberta!
This Report reveals options for addressing Alberta’s wide-spread
decrease in economic resilience and weak SME ecosystem
ALBERTA’S CURRENT REALITY
Widespread Resilience Decrease
Jobs/People Impact Severe
Edmonton Region decreased 19%, now …
On par with Calgary. Most industries decreased
Only Legal Services and Tourism escaped
Decreased corporate investment
Increased unemployment and layoffs
Decreased job creation
Constraints on Recovery
Limited Government Role
67% view the Ecosystem for SMEs as ineffective
Banks and VCs are too risk averse to help
Market access, debt and government ideology
Policy support for SMEs and entrepreneurs
Invest in research before projects or techcom
Negotiate trade agreements
Industries Most Vulnerable
Industries Least Vulnerable
Infotech (Analytics) and BioTech (Health)
Research (Education)
Forestry (Wood Products)
Legal (Security)
Human Resources (Development)
Tourism (Entertainment & Hospitality)
TOP 3 OPTIONS CITED FOR SIGNIFICANT WEALTH CREATION
Immediate
Mid-term
Long term < 5-years
Tourism (Hospitality)
Agriculture (Food Processing)
Construction (Real Estate)
5-15 years
BioTech (Health)
Renewable energy
Transportation and Infotech
> 15 years
Nuclear energy including –
advanced manufacturing
Renewable energy
Essential for Creating the new Alberta! A resilient economy,
Leadership in innovation, and Energy transitions
Join us in Red Deer, November 26th – our all-industry Convention for addressing
what can be done to advance recovery and improve Alberta’s economic resilience
ABCtech’s CONNECTOR SERIES 2016
November 26th – CONVENTION – Red Deer
Creating the new Alberta! – Vision & Leadership
Stay-tuned as we work with Alberta NGOs representing Alberta industry and professions for assembling panels and panelists, presenters and sponsors for generating a series of resolutions on what Alberta industry and professions can and should do to achieve economic recovery and improve the province’s economic resilience.
Education & Research
Health & BioTech
Infotech & Analytics
Human Resources & Development
Energy & Distribution
Construction & Real Estate
Environment & CleanTech
Engineering & Design
Government & Public Policy
Transportation & Logistics
NGO – Non Government Organization
Agriculture & Food Processing
Finance & Investment
Legal & Security
Communications & Marketing
Entertainment & Hospitality
Manufacturing & Export
Forestry & Wood Products
Management & Strategy
Other
Our 2016 Alberta forecast
Alberta continues to feel the tremors following the oil price quake: an oversupply of oil and warnings of climate change, a worldwide economic slowdown and low interest rates, and sustained geo-political turmoil. Can it get any worse? Here are two cautionary notes for 2016: one, for the new Alberta government – heed the lessons learned from the Ontario debacle, and two, for troubled corporations – don’t go it alone. Innovation is mandatory, but innovation is more than an idea, to recover, to grow, and to prosper, requires a market and often a new partner.
Forecast – Going small, swift, and supple:
1. Increased bankruptcy filings and a rise in M&A activity;
2. Increased public spending on infrastructure;
3. Increased investment activity targeting emerging technologies; and
4. Public restructuring of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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(Phys.org)—Chinese based Guangzhou OED Technologies (makers of O-paper displays), in collaboration with another unidentified Chinese company has announced that they have developed what they are claiming is the “the world’s first graphene electronic paper’
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The Alberta Government is merging the four existing corporations into one entity with four subdivisions. The leaner entity is aimed at saving administrative money to the tune of $2 million a year…and it should. The governance has changed too. The new 10 person Board was appointed in mid April and is Chaired by Judy Fairburn, …
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The move away from an oil-driven economy is already underway, so why are we really fighting the Leap Manifesto?
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If we don’t accept the reality of climate change, and work to reverse it, things will only get worse for Albertans
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“The government can start putting people back to work without having to wait for the price of oil to
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