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Chapter 3 of the BC Business Council’s Outlook 2020 series happened last week in the midst of all the other numerous events scheduled. As a result, I only caught one of the sessions, missing the panel discussion on Resourcing the Future: BC’s Natural Advantage with Peter Woodbridge (who I am very impressed with – he […]
Yesterday at the Gaining Ground/Resilient Cities conference Mayor Gregor Robertson welcomed over 750 participants and took the opportunity to give them a sneak peek at Vancouver 2020: A Bright Green Future, the 10-year plan which is the result of almost a year’s work by the Mayor’s Greenest City Action Team (GCAT). The report includes 10 […]
The experience of LA is still overwhelmingly one of cars, cars and more cars. On a previous trip, with Jane Bird, CEO of Canada Line leading the way, we took transit to the airport – actually it didn’t quite make it to the airport – there was a transfer to a shuttle bus from the […]
For more SI2 info go to http://www.si2.ca/. The afternoon brought a connection between social innovation and ecology — Frances Westley from the University of Waterloo talked about social and ecological resilience –and evoked the work of Buzz Holling, the famous UBC ecologist (even tho’ he left us awhile ago for southern climes). Frances is the […]
Innovation and BC’s 2020 Economy. A great topic and well-covered by the third session — a panel discussion entitled: Tomorrow’s Technology Today: Innovation and BC’s 2020 Economy. The final panel of the summit was well moderated by a pro — Dr. David Turpin, President of the University of Victoria. Dr. Turpin started off the […]
It’s all about people — how we educate them, value them and motivate them to learn, re-tool and learn again. The second session at the Chapter Two Summit was entitled: In Training for Prosperity: Education and the Real Value of BC’s Human Capital. Tamara Vrooman, President and CEO of Vancity Credit Union was a superb […]
What will BC’s next economy look like? Chapter Two of the BC Business Council’s Outlook 2020 series is entitled: Foundations for the Future: Innovation, Human Capital and BC’s Next Economy. Yesterday morning we were in the Pan Pacific “Crystal” Ballroom (you know the one with all the ceiling of solid little hanging crystal pendants — […]