October 14, 2024 | Canada’s New AI and Data Act Sets High Standards for Startups
Monday, 14 October 2024
Monday Ventures: Weekly What’s Shaping the Startup Economy Canada moved forward with the introduction of its AI and Data Act (AIDA), a landmark piece of legislation aimed at regulating artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. The AIDA marks Canada’s most significant attempt to regulate emerging technologies, setting a high bar for transparency, accountability, and ethical
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Explaining the Importance of Information to a Company
Thursday, 26 March 2020
A bit of what concerns me about society, our economy, is that this topic isn’t FAR more discussed. HOW you explain the importance of information to a company is actually really simple, in my experience. You SHOW how information will impact the business. I simply do this… And then I ask… What caused what happened
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Justifying Analytics – How Every Business Knows What to Do
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Not long ago, I shared a tweet that went a bit viral, noting that in our exuberance of things like “Big data” and “Machine Learning,” and through our Education system’s increasing focus on STEM, we’d do well in society to ensure merely that everyone has a basic understand of the data that’s available thanks to
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Learning from Google Analytics in Workforce Development
Tuesday, 05 June 2018
Recently, Trevor Boehm, program Director at the Techstars Impact Accelerator and founder of Assemble, had me stand in a line. Not just any line mind you, I stood in a line with the exceptional entrepreneurs of Impact Hub’s Workforce Development Accelerator. At one end of the line, those who felt “metrics” were of great importance in
The Rhythm of Austin Innovation
Monday, 08 August 2016
I had the honor of joining Austin Inno’s Billy Utt today on The Beat. His usual host, the resplendent Brent Winstom, was I’m sure preparing to cheer Dwyer or Haas to the 200m freestyle gold tonight, so I was called up from the deck to chat live about the latest in Austin innovation, via The Beat newsletter.
How Big Data is Finding its Market in Texas
Monday, 28 March 2016
Data. Statistics, measurements, and analytics are funny things, particularly in entrepreneurship, as if you think about it, data is invaluable but difficult to aggregate, informational but difficult to consume, technical but immensely educational. Why so hard when so important? Data geeks such as myself often find ourselves lost in the weeds; we love mining
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