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Soft skills: 10 body language tips for leaders

With more than 50 million views, Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk on power poses offers an eye-opening example of the power of soft skills. In it, as well as in her follow-up book on body-mind effects, Cuddy talks about how small tweaks in body language can...

Bold business ideas: Where is tech taking us?

For the first 250 metres it all goes well. I am in Singapore, in the back of a prototype driverless car, gazing at the other side of the road. Then our car decides to veer slowly into the path of...

Using Data To Build The Right Habits

Most New Year’s resolutions fail and by March, many of us have forgotten or given up on the plans we set out with on January 1st. Bad habits can be a little hard to kick, and good ones can be equally...

14 Top Tech Skills In Demand In 2019

Tech is a broad field, and there are a lot of interesting directions you can go in. In this article, we'll look at the various areas of tech, how much demand exists for each skill, and where to go to...

Women helping drive Calgary’s tech renaissance

Alberta’s female entrepreneurs have doubled the national average in participation in technology according to the Alberta Enterprise Corp.’s 2018 Deal Flow study, which notes 70 per cent of the province’s tech companies are generating revenue, with nearly a quarter bringing...

It’s not too late to build a Canadian advantage in technology

Once again, Canada seems to see its future as a branch-plant economy. This time it is in the digital world, where we are turning to Big Tech from abroad rather than working to build a Canadian advantage to exploit our...

ML-era in cybersecurity: A step toward a safer world or the brink of chaos?

While artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been transforming various fields of human activity for some time now, their full transformative potential is yet to be realized. ML-based technologies will increasingly help fight fraud, evaluate and optimize business...

How to design a system for ethical innovation in tech

Google was founded over two decades ago, but they released their first public set of ethical technology principles just last year. Facebook launched out of a Harvard dorm in 2004, but they formally launched an ethics program with a public investment last month. The...

The best way to prep for a case interview. (10 Tips)

Your knowledge and character will be put to the test Recruiters will push you to your limits, put you into unconventional situations and force you to think on your feet. After all, you are a candidate for working with some...