Vancouver Tech Podcast

Charlene Tessier, Strength in Numbers Virtual Summit

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.

Drew and James cover some of the previous events of the week, as well as what is coming for the week of February 1st. The second part of the show, is an interview with Ryan St. Germaine from BCJobs.ca. Interview starts at 0:16:10.

Ryan St. Germaine is the co-founder and CEO of BCJobs.ca as well as the CEO of Jobcast. He also started BC Tech Jobs as well as the tech meetup in Burnaby. We talk about what it is like running a 15 year old tech company, as well as starting new ones. Ryan talks about the changing job market now, and how things may change in the future.

##Interview Links

• BCJobs.ca
• BC Tech Jobs
• Jobcast

##Meetups in the week of Feb 1

###Monday, Feb 1

• VanLUG Board Meeting
  7pm, SFU Downtown, 515 West Hastings Street, Xerox Conference Rm. 1500
• Exploring Git!
  5pm, Moose's Down Under, 830 W. Pender St., Vancouver, BC

###Tuesday, Feb 2

• Lunch & Learn | WiderFunnel
  12 - 1pm, BrainStation, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor, Vancouver, BC
• Open Coffee
  8 - 9:30am, Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall Street
• Nonprofit Technology Show and Tell
  6pm, Hive Vancouver, #210 - 128 W Hastings St
• Polyglot Social
  6pm, St Regis, 608 Dunsmuir St
• How I grew my list by 700% in 2015, by Petra Mayer
  6 - 9:15pm, Langara College, 100 West 49th Avenue, Building C, North Tower elevator to room 509
• PyLadies Vancouver: Intro to Testing and Test Automation in Python
  7pm, OpenRoad Communications, 12 Water Street
• Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com: How to Not Get Screwed in Venture Financing
  6:30pm, Lighthouse Labs, 350-128 W Hastings

###Wednesday, Feb 3 2016

• Public Cloud User Group (Vancouver) Big Data & Analytics
  6 - 7:30pm, CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St

Contact

We welcome feedback for the show. We are still in the early stages of getting things together. If you have any ideas, or would like to hear a specific topic or specific person, or maybe you have an event/business you want to plug, please get in touch!

Twitter: @VanTechPodcast

Email: [email protected]

YVRDev Channel: #VTP

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Music by Jonatan Liljedahl.

First Drew and James talk about Vancouver's tech events from the previous week, and which ones are coming up next. This episode's special guest is Mike Anderson from Echosec. Interview starts at 0:19:00.

##Interview Links

• Echosec
• Apache Storm

##Meetups in the week of Feb 8

###Tuesday, Feb 9

• Intro to Web Development Workshop
  6 - 8pm, BrainStation YVR, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor
• Clojure Hacknight
  6pm, CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St.
• Intro to Bitcoin: Money 2.0
  7pm, 436 W Pender (black door to the left of hair salon)

###Wednesday, Feb 10

• Visual Analytics Breakfast ($25)
  9 - 10am, SFU Harbour Centre, Rm# 1425, 515 W Hastings St.
• Functional Programming in Scala Reading Group
  5:30 - 6:30pm, Hootsuite Headquarters, 5 East 8th Avenue
• TypeScript Fundamentals
  5:30 - 6:30pm, PNI Digital Media Offices, 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor
• Android Hack Night
  6 - 9pm, Mobify HQ 3rd Floor, 948 Homer Street
• Developer Hack Night
  6pm, Mogo 2100, 401 West Georgia
• How to Break into the Vancouver Startup Scene with Rocky Ozaki
  6 - 9pm, Spring Activator, 211 East Georgia Street

###Thursday, Feb 11

• VanCitySec: Vancouver's Premier Monthly Hacker/Security Professional Meetup
  6pm, Railway Club, 516 Dunsmuir Street (beside 7-11, up the stairs)
• Vancouver Azure: Data and Algorithms Are Turning Marketing Into a Science
  6pm, Microsoft, 11th floor, 1100-1111 Georgia St W
• Coffee ‘n’ Crowd
  8 - 9:30am, MNP, Suite 2200, 1021 West Hastings Street
• Startup Connection Night at RED Academy
  6 - 8pm, RED Academy, 200 - 1490 West Broadway
• Vancouver's Open Source WordPress Help Meetup!
  8 - 10pm, Blenz Coffee, 1203 Davie St

Contact

We welcome feedback for the show. We are still in the early stages of getting things together. If you have any ideas, or would like to hear a specific topic or specific person, or maybe you have an event/business you want to plug, please get in touch!

Twitter: @VanTechPodcast

Email: [email protected]

YVRDev Channel: #VTP

Find us on iTunes or subscribe via RSS Feed.

Music by Jonatan Liljedahl.

First Drew and James talk about Vancouver's tech events from the previous week, and which ones are coming up next. This episode's special guest is Sylvain Marcotte, CEO of 14 oranges. The interview starts at 0:34:18.

##Interview Links

• 14 oranges

##Meetups in the week of Feb 20, 2016

###Monday, Feb 29

• Spark Summit East Rewind
  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Simba Technologies 938 West 8th Ave
• HackerNest Tech Social
  8pm, Rise 1200, 1055 W Hastings Stt
• Intro to User Experience Design Workshop
  6 - 8pm, BrainStation YVR, 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor
  Price: CAD15.00 /per person
• VanMUG (Vancouver MongoDB User Group) Meetup
  6:30pm, Lighthouse Labs, #300 - 128 W Hastings

Tuesday, March 1

• Open Coffee
  8 - 9:30am, Nelson the Seagull, 315 Carrall Street
• Type Brigade No30: Project Pairs
  6:30pm, Unbounce, Suite #400 - 401 W. Georgia St.
• Polyglot Social
  6pm, St Regis, 608 Dunsmuir St
• Vancouver Clojure
  6pm, CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St

Wednesday, March 2

• Learn Data Science (reading group)
  6 - 8pm, Grow (Headquarters), #1600 - 570 Granville Street

Thursday, March 3

• Kick Demo Day
  5:30pm, Spring HQ, 211 E Georgia St
  Free, but register on Eventbrite
• .Net User Group of BC
  5:45pm, BCIT Downtown Campus, Room 282/284, 555 Seymour Street

Saturday, March 5 to Tuesday March 8

• Vancouver Open Data Day Hackathon
  Saturday, 9am - Tuesday, 8pm, BrainStation HQ, #400 1110 Hamilton Street

Drew and James discuss some resolutions and predictions for 2016, as well as the upcoming events for the week of January 11th.

The second part of the show is an interview with [Angela Bortolussi][https://twitter.com/ABortolusssi], a recruiter for Recruiting Social. Angela talks about how she got started, and where she is now. We talk a lot about how recruiting works, what makes a good/bad recruiter, how they get paid, what you need to know when looking for a recruiter. We also touch on the state of California vs. Vancouver/BC in terms of jobs and opportunities.

• Angela Bortolussi (Twitter, LinkedIn)
• Recruiting Social
• Recruiting Social Notable Awards
  • Angela
  • Chad
  • Christian
• Lunch & Learn | Angela Bortolussi, Recruiting Social Tuesday, January 19th @ 12:00 PM
• VanQ DevOps: Find Solutions, Not More Defects
• Vancouver Spark Meetup: New Functions and Workflow Examples with Spark DataFrames
• Open Coffee
• Vancouver Clojure Hacknight
• Functional Programmers
• Tech Career Network: Amazon AWS Hiring Event in Vancouver
• Docker Vancouver
• TechStarters Mentor Night
• Founder's Story: Jerome Ng, Co-Founder and CEO of VenueSpot
• GoLang Van Gopher Gala - distributed hackathon!
• YVR Dev Slack
• YVR Dev Slack Invite Page

We welcome feedback for the show. We are still in the early stages of getting things together. If you have any ideas, or would like to hear a specific topic or specific person, or maybe you have an event/business you want to plug, please get in touch!

Twitter: @VanTechPodcast

Email: [email protected]

Find us on iTunes or subscribe via RSS Feed.

Music by Jonatan Liljedahl.