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Vancouver Startup Week - Midweek Recap
👀 Event Season is Upon Us...
meaning it's time to brush off the soft skills and learn about what's going on in the Vancouver Startup Ecosystem. One of the biggest benefits this year is that with the interdisciplinary powers of Acorn's growing internal operations 🥁
Our lovely project manager Sarah Winter CAPM, DASM, has time blocked my calendar, and her own, so we can divide and conquer.
I *think* it's also helpful to be a face for these things, right?
...hello world.
As we get situated with the purpose and potential of new technologies, processes, and innovations
We seek to meet others in the ecosystem who can collaborate alongside us to drive this mission forward.
- Clients who want to build future-facing, sustainable, and scalable compute architectures with a really fun team
- Solutions providers who can help us maximize value for our clients
- Interdisciplinary actors who we can partner with and/or recruit to take us to our next chapter
TLDR - we want to meet you.
Having gone through the gauntlet these past years getting familiar with events, its amusing to note what happens to one in terms of character development.
🎤 * soliloquy unravels*
For I was but a technical mind with piqued curiosity wanting to enmesh my prowess with the forces of change . The world, however bright or bleak, may require logical fortitudes, discipline, and comical demeanour to navigate the seas of technical debt, feature specifications, implementation plans, and technological fundamentals...(he imagined)
🎤mmHMM
but what I learned to laugh about, event over event, was that, by and large most people don't care. Or they do, depending on the conference. The truth is these things are a whack-a-doodle. Experience at, say, a quantum computing conference prepares one to come with sound technical fundamentals, while business-oriented ones benefit from brevity.
This paradox has shaped how I engage such endeavours, and I've benefited from the fact that years of this have found me friends and acquaintances I can enjoy these festivities with together. I've even had some literary support along the journey.
Cue the tire pump.
🎺 do dodo doooo!
Acorn is currently working on, and seeking, projects aimed at bridging the digital divide in medical service systems. Through improved data management, user-centric design, and more integrated digital infrastructure, our goal is to connect these systems in efficient and meaningful ways that focus on patient outcomes. We plan to leverage our experience in user experience design, computational logistics, and digital architecture in order to:
- Build broader interdisciplinary teams including subject matter experts, cybersecurity professionals, user experience designers, AI technicians, machine learning... (running out of words now) people, and more! to
- Provide comprehensive support for digital implementations that are contextually defined by business objectives while
- Leverage industry expertise in one area, particularly UX, computational logistics, client relationship management strategies, feature-based iterative best practices derived from business objectives, to
- Scale our operations in areas like sustainable energy, waste to energy, waste to recovery in order to
- Modernize the utilization of computation in modern organizations while at the same time never using the words code ninja or [job title] ✌️wizard✌️ for the rest of eternity.
So! Our work is cut out for us.
Learn more about digital healthcare goals below.
By tinkering with new technologies, we are working towards practical applications of them in more formal projects.
As you can see below, trial and error can be quite amusing and should be encouraged. For example, we make an effort to hold ourselves accountable to accessibility standards and best practices. With the advent of tools like ChatGPT, we’re exploring ways it can expedite the generation of alt text for images, helping to meet accessibility requirements while providing meaningful captions that enhance the experience for screen reader users.
Rhetorical Question:
How would such tools work for YOU?
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Of course, what's more important is the practical avenues these tools serve for real businesses.
Trial, experimentation, tool integration, and context-informed strategies are all ways we can apply iterative approaches to better understand these techniques and technologies and ultimately add tangible value to digital systems architecture.
