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Data Science – So Hot Right Now!

By Admin / Jun 6, 2016

Last month’s Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) started with some hands-on problem solving for attendees to mull over: How long will it take 3,000 people  to filter through one registration desk, given there are four possible streams they could register through, sorted alphabetically by last name? You might be tempted […]

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SDN Symposium 2015

By Admin / May 24, 2016

Cybera will be hosting an invite-only, one-day technical symposium in which participants will learn and exchange practical technical experiences with SDN, OpenFlow, and OpenStack. The symposium will kick-start exploration and adoption in the Canadian Innovation, Research and Education community. It will precede the 2015 Cyber Summit, which this year is […]

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Connecting Calgary through sports

By Admin / May 17, 2016

For anyone thinking about creating their own app, my advice would be to just get started. It doesn’t matter how, but just start taking things forward. Moments build momentum.

CRTC Wraps Up Hearing on the Future of Broadband in Canada

By Admin / May 12, 2016

Last month, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) wrapped up a three-week hearing on the future of broadband in Canada. Nearly 90 academics, public interest groups, individuals, municipalities, and telecom companies appeared before the commission to comment on the feasibility of including high speed internet as a “basic telecommunications […]

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Disaster recovery cloud resources available to Albertans

By Admin / May 4, 2016

Businesses or individuals who are affected by the fires in and around Fort McMurray are invited to use Alberta’s Rapid Access Cloud to temporarily store a backup of their servers, or get their websites, email hosting or other services back up and running. Available through Cybera, Alberta’s not-for-profit technology accelerator, […]

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Banff Venture Forum

By Admin / Mar 1, 2016

Alberta Enterprise is a Foundation Partner of the Banff Venture Forum.  Hosted on September 22 & 23, 2016, the Forum is designed to showcase the hottest hi-tech companies from across North America, offer insight into key issues within the industry, provide a premium networking opportunity and give companies a chance to […]

Low Earth Orbit Satellites

By Admin / Feb 26, 2016

Despite the fact that we all agree internet access is essential, less than half the global population have access to it.

Cybera helps non-profit initiative using large video files

By Admin / Feb 19, 2016

Iman Bukhari, Communications Specialist The everyday use of video is advancing every year, as is the size and quality of these videos. It is so easy to record great-looking HD videos that almost everyone has a “movie-worthy” clip or two on their cell phone or other devices. Videographers have moved […]

Systems and statistics: moving data science beyond machine learning

By Admin / Feb 2, 2016

By Jordan Engbers, PhD from Desid Labs Inc. Data science focuses on applying statistical methods — primarily machine learning algorithms — to transform data resources, big or small, into data products that provide actionable insights. This near-complete reliance on statistical methods has led some to argue there is little difference between data […]

Calgary EDU App Challenge: Nov 6-8, 2015

By Admin / Jan 6, 2016

It takes more than one app developer to create educational tools for students. It takes students, educators, school boards, businesses, community organizations, designers, creators and coders to build something truly valuable.