Person: Graham Taylor

The Short Report – Aug. 25, 2021: $100M to study safer railways, planning Canada’s first Mental Health Innovation Incubator, SSHRC Anti-Black Racism committee, and more…

FEDERAL ELECTION More than 200 Canadian tech and business executives are asking more of their peers to sign an open letter calling on federal political leaders to outline how Canada can achieve “prosperous, secure, equitable and sustainable” growth in a post-pandemic economy. Released Aug. 24, the letter stresses the need for Canada to adopt Canadian-made…

Waterloo tests AI for use in financial sector

The Univ of Waterloo has developed software with AI algorithms that can help financial institutions justify the decisions they make as they comply with regulations.  Waterloo’s deep-learning algorithms are able to process and analyze rich data, and detect patterns that even users can’t tell how the analyses were made, researchers say. To test the algorithms,…

Dr David Dolphin

Dr David Dolphin has been appointed CEO of the BC Innovation Council (BCIC), replacing interim head Cindy Lum who remains as COO. Dolphin is a highly regarded researcher and company executive best known as the creator of Visudyne, the blockbuster drug commercialized by Quadra Logic Technologies Inc (QLT) for which he served as VP technology…

Graham Taylor

Graham Taylor has been appointed by Precarn Inc as VP external relations. Taylor was brought back into the organization after leaving in the wake of Precarn’s failure to win new funding in the last federal Budget to implement a broader mandate (R$, March 9/05). He will be responsible for developing strategic partnerships and planning initiatives…