This is covering the spread part of the Fandall podcast network Lot to cover for today because we have no be a decent slate going on for tonight But also some futures talk across the NFL now that we know what the Cleveland Browns outlook for 2022 looks like I'll go through my wind total projections for them and outline a better like in the AFC north based on the news from last week And we'll recap last week go through some golf and NASCAR best Talk about in the show and let you know how things went there. So a lot of ground to cover Let's dive on in and break it on down welcome on in to covering the spread That's right here on the Fandall podcast network in number fire calm My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm Welcome you to today's show again. We'll be talking about some NLB later on today some strikeout products my numbers like we'll go through 2022 futures bets in the AFC north and much more first of all big Thank you to Tom Vecchio for filling in for me back on Friday Tom We'll be back with you Thursday and Friday of this week to talk about Some more baseball and some more NFL stuff I will be out in Ireland for the Northwestern versus Nebraska game not to cover just for fun He's got to watch the cats international cats coming up this week So he fly went to Ireland on Wednesday for that out in Dublin gonna be a blast pretty pumped for that So Tom will be back with you Thursday and Friday check out Tom on Twitter at DFS underscore Tom will still have a shows every day throughout this week gonna have our typical show tomorrow with a pitching ninja and brandy Caduva and then also on Wednesday at fang will drop by to talk about week zero in college football It is already here. We'll get some Nebraska Northwestern questions in there as well We'll dive on into the MLB slate for today in just one second First a reminder to make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast We of course aren't of a podcast Spotify Wherever else you get your podcasts. We are there hit subscribe And if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review again We are now in daily shows for hopefully ever Especially with NFL season just around the corner So hit subscribe to get all that in your podcast feed wherever you listen to your podcast NFL kickoff is still a few weeks away But you can get in on the action now on fangal sportsbook with their NFL superwin bonus right now Anyone who places at least a $50 Super Bowl winner bet will get $5 back for each win Their team has during the regular season There are also a ton of other futures markets available like team win totals division winners player props and so much more There is no better place to get ready for football season than on fangal America's number one sports book an Official sports betting partner of the NFL must be 21 plus and president select states only Bonus issued is non with drobble free beds to expire seven days after a seat max free bet $50 Restrictions apply see terms at sportsbook.fandal.com gambling problem call 1800 gambler or visit fandal.com slash rg in Arizona 1800 next step or Texan acceptify 3 3 4 2 in Connecticut 1 8 8 8 7 8 9 7 7 7 7 7 Or visit ccpd.org slash chat in indiana 1809 with it in Louisiana 1 8 7 7 7 7 0 stop in New York 1 8 7 7 8 hope and wire text open Why in Tennessee call the red line at 1 8 hundred 8 8 9 9 7 8 9 in West Virginia 100 gambler.net or in Wyoming 1 800 5 2 2 4700 couldn't provide any money lines But my numbers like for today at least based on the Monday morning numbers did lock in the raise Minus 190 last night, but that is no longer available. So let's talk about some strikeout props My favorite one for today is going to be Domingo Armand under four and a half strikeouts and right now at fandal sportsbook That's at minus 102. You can get a better number elsewhere. I will say that yeah plus 120 I'm staring at it right now. So shop around find the best number on airman because you can get better than minus 102 Currently a fandal sportsbook. I have airman at 3.9 for strikeouts and It's combination of a couple things putting me towards the under here The first one is that airman hasn't been super effective He has a 19% strikeout rate across his six starts in the majors this year He's also facing a team with an active roster strikeout rate of 20% He's also not getting a ton of leash from a pitch count perspective He said 90 pitches once but has never exceeded that and he's gone 86 or fewer pitches in all of his other starts Now the caveat here is I had an under on airman last week did not go well He finished with six strikeouts on 71. I believe pitches. So that didn't go well But I'm gonna go back to it here once again I just think that it's the right move when you add together everything here with the pitch counts Potentially some rain in the mix in New York as well Matchups pretty tough not super effective. The Mets could just chase him early because they're a pretty good offense I think you add all that together and it says to me the under is the play here for airman now in terms of When you're betting this your guardrails for knowing what to bet it at I've actually got a month's strikeout or is under odds at 63 percent. That might be a bit high So what I would say is take 63 lower it a little bit Once we get to minus 150. That's about 60 percent implied odds. That's where you probably back off I would say probably before that to to give yourself more value more wiggle room But I doubt we get there honestly just based on where the market currently is and again You can get my or plus 120 under five and a half or four and a half right now For Fandall it's at minus 102 even at minus 102. I think that's totally fine I would say to give myself wiggle room to be wrong I would be okay going to minus 130 on the under here I would also say if you're if you're restricted to just Fandall It's probably going to shift from minus 102 because the other numbers are above this one So I'd expect that to probably length it back out to Plus, you know, even money somewhere around there So if you're going to bet Fandall wait a bit potentially see if the other markets move, but Overall, I would say you want the under on airman at four and a half strikeouts again My numbers have under odds at 63 Use that as your guiding light to decide Whether the numbers available to you are advantageous or ones you would like to pass up on I'm also showing a bit of value on jaco d'arizzi though not a ton right now He's at plus 114 in the Fandall alternate strikeout prop market to go over four and a half strikeouts so they get five plus strikeouts and I haven't projected at 4.35 which puts odorizzi's over odds around a 49 percent His implied odds are 46.7 percent. So it's a pretty small edge This one really does depend on the number you can find there weren't some three and a half floating around on odorizzi this morning And they're still available. Um, again minus 135. He's a draft king's right now over over three and a half I actually am okay with that one. I haven't 60 percent to go over three and a half So around minus 150 be fair market there if you can find him at Even longer odds to get five plus strikeouts I could buy in there So a bit more aggressive. It does have Pretty big home road splits and he's on the road here. So account for that But some of the road starts he's had it been against lower strikeout teams I've not fed this one yet. I like a bigger edge before I buy into this again. I'm at 49 or 49 percent He's at 47 implied in the fandall market, but Over three and a half Minus 150 or so. I think it's a fair number. You can get minus 135 as of right now So I check around at odorizzi. See if you are comfortable with what he's doing See if you like, uh, the matchup brand against the pirates stuff like that Weather is in play a bit here, which is scary for it over. So check that out as well but I would say shop around at odorizzi see what you can get and if you can get an advantageous number I could be okay there with the fandall market with the other markets. I have not bit yet But I'm close to doing so so check around at odorizzi But I'm on to me is the prime strikeout prop target for today Let's go now and talk about some nfl futures We now know the length of the dishaun watson suspension. He will be suspended 11 games after Two dozen credible accusations of sexual misconduct and in some cases sexual assaults. We have some Uh clarity here on the length of the suspension And after I put shakomi per set in as a starter for those first 11 games of the browns I the browns win total 8.7 wins their win total at fandall right now It's eight and a half with plus 135 on the over and that's good enough where I think you could consider the over For this team looking into the schedule here for the browns. I actually do have them favored Uh, at least slight favorites in each of their first four games They get the panthers and falcons on the road. They get the jets and the stealers at home That's not a bad stretch for them And things get awful from there on out So their next seven games before watson returns are all really really tough. I think I have them as underdogs in Literally all those games after the first four. So they're gonna have a bad stretch. We know that for sure Yeah, they're underdogs in all those games for me after the After the first four games so pretty good the first four games next seven really really rough and then they get back Get watson back in week number 13 And they have at least 60 win odds In five out of six games with watson back, which is how you get to 8.7 wins I am personally not going to bet this one. Um, I don't want to have any reason to root for this team Honestly, I don't want to be happy if they win. I don't want that personally just don't feel good about that So I'm not gonna bet it. Uh, they have great talent on this roster That's why the projection is high the non quarterback talent the browns is very good And that's why my numbers are so high if you put watson on there in full They'd be the fourth best team in the league by my numbers So that's why I'm pretty high on them from a numbers perspective at 8.7 wins for this year In terms of the afc north, uh, the browns are behind the bangles and ravens I've got the bangles of 10 wins and the ravens at 9.1. That's probably pretty low for the ravens at 9.1 wins But they're crazy difficult to project Not a lot of past catching talent despite isiah likely just beasting out in the preseason last night preseason Dfs god isiah likely passing efficiency is a big part of my model and it's tough to make them be super efficient in that arena when You know the stuff behind mark andrews and rasha bateman is dicey to say the least and even you know bateman I like him. I think he's gonna be good, but still a bit untested So it's hard for me to get super high in that from a modeling perspective But the bangles have the best win total by my projections by 0.9 wins decent amount of wiggle room there to be wrong They are plus 170 to win the afc north, which is 37 implied odds I'm kind of wanting to bite on that. I think that's actually a pretty good number and I Think that's my biggest takeaway here is that the bangles are currently a value to win The afc north right now got them that again 10 wins ravens 9.1 Browns 8.7 and let me check on the Steelers really quick. I think they're on 8 7.1 wins for the Steelers for right now tough to bet against my tommelin, but With the infrastructure on the quarterback. It's uh in the quarterbacking situation Tough to get higher than that. So it's very possible. I am too low on several teams in the afc north being the The ravens and the Steelers, but I agree with what my numbers say about the bangles I think they deserve to be as high as they are right now So I will go with the bangles at plus 170 to win the afc north I think they're a value to win there. I would take them there very okay with that one I think that's a key takeaway here again my numbers of choice and value on the browns uh over eight and a half at plus 135, but Not for me personally with the way I want to play things in terms of rooting interests, uh for this year That's going to recap the uh wrap up the forward looking stuff for this week But as I mentioned last week, I do want to keep the covering the past element of the show and play here largely for accountability So you know that we're not giving out Um recommendations here that way you have better information to decide Do I actually care what this guy says or should I look elsewhere for my bets? So I do want to go back through some bets from last week specifically the longer term once It's hard to recap all the baseball stuff. The last week was a pretty good week For the most part in regards to that last week We had brandy gudula on as always preview the bmw championship. We'll have him on tomorrow as well Talk about the tour championship He had zander schoffley add 20 to 1 to win. He finished third. He was in contention all week He was right up there. We're wearing macaroy five shots back and finished eighth He was 10 to 1 and then the matchup's brandy discussed He went 1 1 and 1 in those he hit on adam scott over see heat the gala that was minus 118 The draw was max homa and tearo hatton. There was no tie option there. So that one does push always be aware of that when you're betting to make sure Typically for the most part you're going to want the option that gives you the push You'll get better odds if a push is involved or a draw is involved in the market But more often than not that's going to be a higher hold market because they can kind of sneak higher hold in there on you Without you really knowing about it So for the most part you do want to go at the markets that Do include a push if there is a draw And that was the case of brandon last week sound did push the loss was brian harmon topping mito perera mito Kind of struggled again. He's had a rough little stretch here for a bit. So Harmon topped mito there Only 30 golfers in the field for this week for the tour championship really fun format We will need brandon's expertise to figure out how to handle that one He'll be on with us tomorrow to preview the tour championship and discuss all the intricacies for you there for an askar I had a shot with mike mcdowell at 30 to 1 I talked about 30 to 1. He was available at 40 to 1 Before the week, but then he went out and qualified third So mcdowell closed at 20 to 1 to win the race on sunday and he wasn't contention all day He led 14 laps he was out front for a long stretch of this race, but Once chase ellie got past him mcdowell slid back restarted third with Just a couple of laps left and did not get a good restart got pushed back got shuffled back Why not finishing sixth? So Didn't cash on mcdowell, but good closing line value going from his shortest odds Which are 30 to 1 closing at 20 to 1 And having a guy at that long and contention all day I felt pretty good about that. So did not cash, but I think the process was there and the results You know not too bad Despite the bet not caching the other bet I had mentioned as potentially liking on the show was joey hand top 10 at 18 to 1 that closed at 15 to 1 So again some good clv there and hand was actually running in the top six. Thanks and strategy He ran super long on his pit strategy and actually stretched out his fuel Now the downside of that was he was running six, but had to take more fuel Once he came in led to a longer pit stop. So he came out running around 19th He had worked his way back up to 15th was trying to pass martin trex junior for 14th and he wiped out. So he wrecked But you know again in contention viable bet at 15 to 1 I think that are at 18 to 1 good closing line value So although the nascar stuff didn't break in my favor from a results perspective I still felt really good about the bets not just mcdowell I also had a chris pusher one added post practice or post qualifying the nascar helper up on number fire dot com That's where you'll see all my stuff that I add post qualifying is up on number fire dot com Don't have time to do a full podcast there, but Tell good about pusher. Tell good about mcdowell didn't break my favor in terms results But still I thought overall a solid weekend across the board. I'm excited for datona for this week I'll try to find some time to squeeze in datona talk. Maybe tomorrow I'll try to run my sims tonight to get you Some datona discussion in there And we can also maybe talk some f1 So I'll try to run those numbers tonight to get that on the show tomorrow Since I will be out from on thursday and friday That is all that we have here for today on covering the spread a kind of uh covering the gambit for today across mlb and nfl looking forward and then looking back at pga and nascar as well as mentioned tomorrow We're pitching ninja on he's gonna preview The tuesday slate for mlb talked about his favorite strikeout props He did hit edward cabrera last week over four and a half and minus 106 We'll see if he can uh go back to back with good recommendations there Brandon could do a little swing by break down his thoughts on the tour championship as well And like I said, I tried to squeeze in some nascar as well If you want to get that in all of our podcasts right as they go up Make sure you are subscribed to covering the spread wherever you get your podcast and while you're there Like what you hear Leave us a rating and review as well. If you've got any questions for me I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in. Good luck to you with your mlb vets for tonight Whatever it may be we'll talk to you once again tomorrow to talk some end of the and some pga This has been covering the spread right here on the fan dual podcast network


Now, the leadership of the private telecommunications and communications senior starization of Nigeria has directed its members or our field engineers back on an indefinite strike action effective at 12 am on Thursday 4 April. In the statement issued on Monday, the group general secretary, Okuno Abdullah, said these decisions have become inevitable because the subcontractor undertaken a why project have continued to make life-measure before the workers. Now, the subcontractors include a range of groups, all stream energy solutions limited, all of our crystal limited, thylium and hydro limited, and specific tools and techniques limited. Now, Okuno said the workers are working like slaves in their own country with no entitlement commensurate to their efforts paid to them. Now, he said they are made to work without work hours and risking their lives going to the field in the wee hours of the night without adequate security provided for them among other issues. Now, they added that efforts by the union and the ministry of labor and employment to resolve that concerns of the union and its members proved supportive as the companies failed to make themselves available for consulatory meetings.


Hello and welcome to the chart of the week video with me Dave Madden Today's date is Friday the 15th of June 2018 and the time has just gone 12 50 for the summer time This week's chair to week is the tax or the Germany 30 as you call it on a platform At the journey to the German market along with other years and equities can image boost yesterday on the back of the much Dover the next dovish and expected update from Mario Draghi of the European Central Bank There's a draggy points Pointed out that the the ECB's bond buying scheme will wind down in 2018 as expected But we're not kind of a rate rise from the European Central Bank until at least the back end of 2019 if we have one at all next year Had the result was that we saw a major sell-off in the euros in the Euro and in turn We also have a decent push higher in Eurozone equities So this is this up with this candle here is the positive move on the the tax yesterday As you can see in today's session We give a small small bit of the ground back But the upper trend that has been in place since mid-march is very much still in place as you can see here the the high yesterday didn't quite get a high as the Just didn't quite get as high as the may high, but we're not too far away from it If you look at the upper trend here It's been a classic case of higher highs and higher lows You could be looking at taking out the may high and creating a new higher high If you take a look at the maxi indicator maxi Instagram You can see that momentum was in a negative negative territory or so much He swung at the positive territory So push higher and in the price has been confirmed by the increase in positive momentum So the at the moment of the momentum is with the fires if you do manage to take out the 13,200 region the next area to keep an eye out for to the upside could be 13,400 Notice how we did have a bit of consolidation in that area at the beginning of the year And if we go beyond that we could be looking towards retesting the all-time high of 13,600 Moves at the downside may find some support. We could find some support coming to play in around 12,900 notice how it managed to act as a resistance on a couple of occasions in the last week or two And south of that you may find some support to play at this red line here The two-day moving average which comes into play at 12,772 Also, you can see a bit of a crossing over of some of the moving averages the yellow line here Wanted a moving average coming to play at 12,589 and also the blue line here the the 50 moving average coming to play At 12,740 notice how all this this area entire here We have seen the moving averages act as both support and resistance So these areas here could possibly Act as a support in there in the near term So we see moving the downside if you take out the the late may alone over of our 12,554 Then that's what we could be looking at reach at heading back down towards 12,311 11 not seen since the middle of the middle of April and if you go south of that We could be looking heading down towards 12,000. Well, that's all for me this week Thank you very much


So the first drug that I took, I took when I was 12 years old. I had a drink and I quickly became an alcoholic. And shortly after that, I found drugs. My whole life, as far as I remember, I have felt alone even though I've had someone by my side, my twin brother. We took the job in Alberta, working crazy hours, always getting high. So I started using fentanyl. That's when tragedy hit. Eventually, I was on the streets, homeless. By the end of it, I was just, I was destroyed. I go home and I went into my brother's room. We were fighting for a little bit, probably about a month, but we made up that night. So we, you know, told each other that we loved each other. We cried together. We're twins, we're brothers, right? Can't be mad forever. I went to bed and I woke up at probably about 6 a.m. and I felt this weird feeling in my heart. I knew that something was wrong and there he was. He was on his bed and he was dead. After Kieran passed away, I kept using for about almost two months. Every time I used, I would cry, just bawl my eyes out. I was able to get a hold of a friend just to ask him what I should do and he suggested that I go into recovery. I've been through hell, but my life, like, I'm happy today. You know, it's a struggle, grief is, grief is hard, but like, I'm happy and that's all because of recovery. Recovery is a journey and it will have its ups and its downs. I wish I could help everyone in the world who are struggling with addiction. Reach out, ask for help. Know that you are worth it. You can get through it and you can. Recovery is real. Recovery is possible and recovery is sustainable.


Yo, yo, yo, yo, what are y'all doing trying to catch a peep at me a song Wait, hold on. Let me uh dust this off Come with me come get ready y'all Yeah, it's not that funny, I'm sorry.  Hey y'all doing YouTube. It's been a minute I know I know sorry for the way guys, but a man. I'm trying to post on YouTube a lot I'm trying to get a hundred K by the end of year hundred K by the end of year So we gotta make that happen y'all so in this video. I'm doing a mid-draft fade I'm doing something a little differently with this video. See how it goes Let me know what you guys think in the comment section below doing a little AI thing futures here But yeah, man trying to hit a hundred K by the end of year. I'm gonna be posting consistently all the time stop the cow Hopefully hundred K by the end of year y'all so peace love. I'm out boy Hot towel to raise hair and soften skin use liners to create bald line Shaver to get the hair close to skin What shavers do you use? Open lever half inch guideline Make sure you flick out Close lever open lever to halfway If you see dark spots play with the lever to lighten up the areas Create second guideline by using a number one guard Same as before guideline about half inch Don't forget to flick out the most important note as a barber Guard to light in the dark area above As you see I am flicking so I won't make a hard line I'm using a clipper comb to get rid of the bulk Make sure you angle the comb so you don't patch Zero guard open lever to lighten up the canvas Then close the lever to lighten up more Use corner of the blade so you have more control of your clipper Use liners accordingly to client's skin Some clients have more sensitive skin than others So you want them to feel comfortable in your chair Try and get the hairline as straight as possible Without pushing back


Starting all attendees are in listen-only mode good afternoon everyone It's a pleasure to have you join us today for our webinar on innovation partnerships with post-secondary institutions My name is Susan Lowe. I'm with the economic development division of the Ministry of Jobs Trade and Technology And I'll be moderating and providing some technical support for today's webinar I'm located in Victoria, BC in the traditional territories of the like one and speaking people's namely the Songhees and the Esquimalt first nations I'm privileged to be a guest here and to live where can play in these lands. They've stewarded for thousands of years Before we get started with the presentation. I'll go over some technical Issues there's two ways to connect to the webinar for audio if you have a headset or a microphone and speakers on your computer You will probably want to choose computer audio if you're concerned about the bandwidth or the computer audio has stopped working for you Or isn't working for you You can select phone call instead On the audio window and it will give you a phone number and access code Which gets you into this webinar and a pin number, which is unique to you So don't share this with the others and that unique pin lets me mute or unmute your line if we're doing question and answers later So we have a little bit of time if you need if your computer audio isn't working out Well, and you want to try that phone call We have just a little bit more time here while I introduce people and you can pick up your phone and try dialing in Please note that the audience is muted by default when you enter the webinar If you unmute your microphone from your end, then if I give you the mic You have to remember to unmute it from your end as well I'm sure that's clear as mud, but we'll make it work So the a few other things with the the go-to webinar platform the control panel is how you can interact with us during the webinar the orange Oh my There we go. The orange Arrow is how you can hide it or unhide it It will eventually hide itself automatically in a few minutes if you're not using and Then you can use the orange arrow to unhide it You can also go full screen if you want to see things really big and then Raise hands button. Although we're not gonna be using the raise hands button During the webinar because there are 65 of you and one of me and I can't cat promise that I will catch you in time Or a reasonable amount of time So if you want to ask a question about something technical or something the presenters are talking about Enter a Enter a question for staff in that enter a question for staff field and that way I can enter answer questions directly Or queue them up for the Q&A periods we've got Five presenters and and one technical DJ. That's me So I do see some questions in coming in and I will try to get to them as quickly as I can If you miss something and you want to watch it again later The the webinar is being recorded. So It will be posted. It will actually be posted in about a week's time on our YouTube channel It just has to go through a layer of approvals first so Be patient that you will get a link to the recording So if you miss something you can go back and watch it again and share it with your friends and family and watch that Christmas Dinner because I know you want to I have a quirky sense of humor and hopefully it won't get me in trouble so The presenters for today we have and there's the ask the question So today we're lucky to have a number of presenters and after I introduce each presenter They'll give a wave so you can see them in our Hollywood Squares display. We have Jamie van den Bosch from commotion College and John Zimmerman from Ocean Roadie of Sports He's here for color commentary and he'll be talking a bit about his company's partnership with commotion College We have Rose Cluchis from City of Campbell River And then we have the dynamic team of Randall height and Naomi Tabata from North Island College. Hi So I am going to turn it over to Jamie to get us rolling and then I will attend to the questions as they come in Thank you for your patience All right. Yeah Over to you Jamie. Oh I'm gonna unmute you too as a bonus. There we go. Okay, Jamie Okay, I'm just gonna see here Can you see my PowerPoint yet? Yes, we can see it In that PowerPoint mode, there we go you're rolling Hi, everybody. It's an honor to be working here on the Traditional territory territories of Lacungan and West Sandwich territories, which I've been working on for the last 12 years And it's an honor and constantly inspired to be working on this cherished land I want to talk today about applied innovation as a driver of economic development and Next People and I want to look at the whole idea of innovation and innovation a lot of people asked What that's over were used word and I just thought these definitions were good ones Innovation is a problem-solving the lifelong desire to stay curious about why is in the world not just creating something for the sake of being innovative Also innovation can be a Encourages connection and creativity more probing searching where students are more invested in their Their outcomes of their education and this is really where colleges. I think they play a role A situation in Canada for colleges We know if you look at the Deloitte report if people look into that it's called the age of disruption And they looked at rapid advances in technology and how it's affecting not only our industry and education But industries and in general and they surveyed a lot of businesses 700 to be exact and As you see only 13 were prepared. So we seek Colleges and universities playing a key role here in helping with innovation going forward Just give you a look at cross-Canada we have 5633 partnerships and 693 social innovation partnerships as well and We we are a growing concern with over a hundred institutions now across Canada in colleges teaching universities and Polytechnics that are doing applied research one of the one of the areas that Colleges are known for our technology access centers, which is a new type of innovation Centers that were created six years ago. And as you can see only one in BC, but there's 30 across Canada So we have a national presence in the applied research we do across Canada The business innovation is over a thousand business innovations 2.4 million square feet at innovation space and over 250 million worth of highly specialized equipment, which Industry and community partners can access across Canada Situation in Victoria here commotion has 18,000 learners. We have programs ranging from Industrial trades engineering technology arts and science and digital studies and we have Economic impact of 1.2 billion And we believe that we create regional prosperity through our innovations sales training and education What do we do what is applied research many of you on here may not understand what applied research is From a college context, but I'm just going to quickly say how we see it as a professionally managed application of expertise technology and best practices to solve industrial and social changes We support the adoption of technologies and knowledge transfer full spectrum of industry Interactions and administration and project management of grants as well as we one of the important things is involving faculty and students in the involvement of applied research our model our model is evolving as we speak and we're looking at also doing a lot of social development coming up in the near future and commercialization services We're a little bit different from universities. You don't have IP. We are customer demand-driven or responsive to industry and We try our best to have our students job writing entrepreneurial through the approaches of applied research with industry partners We see colleges as a calis and like universities We we take research and turn money into knowledge and we also I think our strength is taking the innovation and turning into practical applications Komosen innovates is recognized as a leader in Canada, BC and applied research with over 150 industrial partners and clients We were one of the first colleges in Canada to get a technology access center grant and We also work with UBC UVic and we and also North Island College and we'd like to partner when necessary Just quickly some one example of a solution and a problem VRX is a local company They joined with the company In Richmond they created V-rock sports simulators they came to us because they couldn't Develop a project. We took a bobsled we 3d scanned it then did a wood model as you can see in the picture here and then we Actually ended up doing all the Composite work and milling and created this First-ever bobsled simulator which is sitting in the Richmond Olympic Museum in Vancouver Richmond, BC We've also done for them for Toyota Microsoft They had a joint launch of a Toyota connects and we actually that system you see there We designed and fabricated in our shop using our full-time staff of 12 people and our complement of students Colleges stimulate economic development development through practical innovation Which I've said before You see here. We also as a cause we actually get revenue for service So we actually not only do leverage research through grants, but we actually are doing FIFA service and we actually Contribute to economic economic development and that pie chart shows some of the kind of projects we work on I'm just going to skip here the regional economic development again We see colleges and university industry and government working together to provide Contributions to economic development and I'm just going to go on here. We have a new innovation center Called the backpack Innovation lab and you can see here. This is a ideation space We had a 50-foot wall that we painted with writable wall and here is where we do our ideation And the next picture here You can see that same space being used for presentations of all the student projects and in the background You can see our technical equipment some of which was used to do the bobsled and the pictures I showed you earlier And thank you very much and you can see my information here. Thank you, and I just realized I was muted There we go. Thanks very much Jamie. I Really want that whiteboard wall. I think I'm gonna have to figure out a way to come out there and move my office out there Okay We do have a bit of time for Q&A I I don't have anything written in the in the questions box But if anyone is on the call and wants to try raising their hand I'm going to try spotting to see who has a raised hand and then I can Unmute you and you'll be able to ask your question So that raise hand button is on your control panel, which is going to appear at the top right of your screen probably Yeah, we also have John Zimmerman who is one of the partners of most in college and John Thank you very much for for bringing your time. I'm gonna unmute you here and then we can ask you about your experience Doing an innovation partnership. Jamie. You're muted now. So I'm talking for you So John hi Hello, hey there. Um, so tell me a little bit first about ocean roadie of sports What does the business do and then we'll get into the innovation partnership part? We've we've existed here on the South Island since 2001 We started as a kiteboarding brand. So we do all manner of activities are related to getting on the water kiteboarding Kiteboarding for those I'm familiar as very similar to windsurfing, but we use a kite instead of a sail That led to us developing dry suits for use on the water as well And so a very vibrant part of our business is dry suit sails and those include sails not just to recreational sailors Kip orders, but also to the We have governmental sales search and rescue first responder some tactical sales as well to police forces and military And yeah, we've been partnered with the college with specific with with commotion since I believe it was 2014 We started with an insert grant working with them We've been delighted with the partnership with with the college and access to the Babcock Center and Jamie's team at the Technology access center there that they've got So, how did you first get connected with commotion? How did you? I actually attended a conference that was put on by Viatec for various forms of government funding or you know support from various levels of government and Rick Warner from NSERC got me in touch with the college for a level one NSERC ARD grant So it was a very low engagement. It was only about thirty thousand dollars Funding that we used in order to do a level one ARD project for the college to develop Or excuse me to basically put the the final touches upon a project that we've been working on for quite a while and We actually have since Now extended that to a level two ARD, which is a three-year commitment to the college. That's a much much more involved commitment on both sides Great. Thank you. Um, so what do you see as well? What what are you doing with commotion? I'm gonna let you answer and then I'm gonna throw Jamie in here as well and unmute him So you can talk you know what what commotion delivers to us and I think it speaks to the reason why I'm here is that You know We've been able to channel funding that wouldn't otherwise be available to us through the college So there's a nice Incillary benefit to the students that are exposed to what we're working on Seeing some real real world problems being solved while they're in the classroom Or working in the Babcock Center there And what it's allowed us to do is two things that are really important to us We're not a huge business But we've actually doubled our staff since starting to work with the college Some of that is directly related other other it's just kind of Unassociated but We've been able to pick up some new employees from the college We now have three of them that have come out of the come out of the college stream Uh, so that's been fantastic because we've been able to introduce the the Student to the brand into our business before they become an employee Uh, but also what it's done is it allowed us to get a real sense of legitimacy within an industry that were quite small The industry itself is quite small. So You know the revenue that we produce isn't doesn't justify the investment of something like what the Babcock Center represents and so for us to have access to Those types of cutting edge pieces of machinery and the wherewithal to operate them that comes with the college's Background has been fantastic for us both in terms of credibility within the industry And also in terms of how helping put us, you know Shoulders with above some of our competitors that are still, uh, you know, not able to do the testing regimens or The rapid prototyping that we're able to do with commotion cool Hey, jamie. Um, how does this fit in with um the the academic programs at commotion college? That's a good question in the last couple years. We've been focusing on how do we integrate back into the education part of it we we've been spending in our first Five or six years on the external working with people like john and his companies To actually develop our expertise and get what we call street cred where companies uh lake ocean rodeo Can see us as a viable source of innovation and technical services And so the next the last two years we've been looking and working closely with our vp of education to Bring it back into the college and see how we can actually have more students getting access to these projects so that They have more experiential learning of what we've been calling at commotion applied learning So in the case of john john, we've had he said he's had some commotion students that he's employed And we've had one in particular that actually When we started the along the road with john we did an engage grant which is an insert grant 25 000 With ben what he was in his between his first and second year mechanical engineering technology And then he did such a great job that ocean rodeo says hey, let's keep going We got another grant which is an a re grant and we hired ben when he graduated to work With us and with ocean rodeo on the next iteration of their innovation cool john do you have any advice for businesses smaller businesses that I think this might be a viable option for them I'm sure I mean the What I really like about the college is um And this isn't a shot across the bow of the universities at all, but universities are great at really high level White paper thinking which I think applies quite well to medium-sized or larger businesses that have the Orability of time to kind of really take a deep dive For a business our size we need to see a road to commercialization quite quickly or we're not going to be interested in a product And that's just that's just the truth of the game or we've got to convert on our dollars that we spend And so working with the college and i'm not saying they're not capable of higher level research But the hands on you know get your hands dirty break it and fix it kind of approach the college brings has been fantastic and so You know if you're a business that is considering getting involved with research spending Or any type of government assistance with your research I would highly recommend the technology access center route and in particular working with commotion Uh, just given the fact that they they get the job done And you know, we were able to say We need to get these parameters met and we we worked towards this goal And and it's it's worked out really well for us in terms of actually getting product to the market and be able to Turn that into dollars in our back pocket to allow us to do more work with college Cool, uh, jamie. Do you want to add anything else? Oh Oh, hang on. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I muted you because of the background. You're self muted actually You gotta unmute yourself There we go, thank you. No, uh, I have nothing to add. John. That was well said. Thank you Okay, great. Uh, well, thanks for sharing that. Uh, that's that's the snapshot from locally I actually, uh, I want to get a sense and I want to engage some of our participants here We have a lovely little poll Thing here. I'm going to ask our attendees. There will be a A poll that will pop up on your screen. Here we go.  So we're going to collect responses and this is a way of waking you up because I can I can tell If you are not watching and you're multitasking So wake up So I've got some some, uh responses come in. We're 61 percent have voted So, uh, we'll give it a couple more minutes here We don't wait. We can't chat back and forth on this platform, but I can use this poll to Keep you awake And get a sense for who's heard of these things All right, I'm going to give it Just a couple more seconds here. I'll let it be open for one minute. We got 10 more seconds Let's see if we can get some more votes in You can do this even if you're connected by the phone. By the way, just just do it through your computer Alrighty, so I'm going to close the poll and then this should Allow me to share the results So we have, uh, 27 percent Are very familiar with one or more partnerships in their area 46 percent have heard a little about something like this and 27 percent are not aware of anything like this in their community So that gives us a sense. We have a pretty broad range of knowledge Among our attendees and 84 percent of you voted. So that's pretty good. Uh bees get degrees. We like to see that So, um, we'll go on next we have, uh There a bit of q&a time So if anyone wants to throw in a question to jamie and john about their experience at kamosen or ocean river sports You do that by entering a message where it says enter or ask a question to staff and it'll pop up for me I'm not getting anything yet. So I will move on but I can come back to your question and ask it later We'll have time at the end to ask those questions. Um, and if you're having challenges as well, um Just use that thing and I'll try to get to you So, um, I'm going to change presenter now and we will have rose from the city of camp over rose is an economic development officer with the city of camp over river and I'm just going to do the right muting and unmuting and then hand over the screen So that rose can share her presentation So All righty rose Thank you, and thank you for the province to the province for this opportunity to present today I am in the beautiful city of camp over river on the traditional territory of the wii wii kai wii wii kum and the mocha first nations um So today I am going to be speaking fairly fairly generically and I see I'm up ahead of slide about uh economic development at the community level and applied research so Economic development professionals are tasked with staying current with best practices and this is sometimes challenging because uh of the speed of change in in The economy and in impacts to the economy So, uh, you know, we know that communities that are fortunate to have a strong relationship with their higher learning institutes like we have here in camp over river We know how important those relationships and partnerships are and how important the partnerships are between the institutes and businesses and non-profit uh organization, so I'm going to speak a little bit about that today Great rose just before you get going. We're not seeing your slides yet. Uh, Yeah, I think we're still seeing the poll so That thing that popped up I can uh, I can set that send that to you again If you need it, let me just I'll try sending it to you again and uh Oh, here we go. I will hide the poll and change the presenter There we go. That might have been my bad. Sorry folks Newbie on the controls All right. Do you see it now? Got it Good So I won't repeat everything I said with slide one, but you can see the beautiful picture of Campbell river there So hang on a second All right Can we see the slide? Yes, we can see the slide Thank you. Very good. Okay. So I thought I'd start by talking about where Campbell river is for those of you Who have not had the good fortune of coming to our beautiful community Campbell river is located on the east side of Vancouver island mid island and uh It is it is a beautiful community. I encourage you to come and visit us if you haven't been here So Campbell river has a strong history based in the resource sector, but Has increasingly diversified its economy and I'm going to speak a bit more to that on the next slide Um, I thought I would just give you a bit of reference for me from my office It takes me 15 minutes to get to to the airport, which has several flights daily to Vancouver and It's a half hour flight Half an hour later by train. I'm downtown and we are close to a number of other things like a great ski hill At mount washington and we're within three hours of major universities. Of course, we have our important Partnership with north island college who you'll hear a bit more from later Again kind of talking to the local economy. We have some very active sectors here in Campbell river Uh, and you see them on the screen, so I won't repeat that But like a lot of other bc communities Campbell river was hit hard with a mill closure several years ago And that can have a big impact on a community But what we've seen here is that Campbell river has really rallied and taken the road of reinvention and Building on what are still some strong resource sectors such as forestry and aquaculture But also by supporting small business through programs such as our modern entrepreneur program because we recognize that these are also strong contributors to our local economy and opportunities for partnerships with With for applied research partnerships so one of the Hang on a second One of our initiatives here in Campbell river is our cr advantage, which is our municipal broadband network kind of recognizing that Some of the challenges that communities outside of large urban centers have Is access to the infrastructure to support innovation So we as a city Invested in a municipal broadband network. So we actually put the fiber in the ground And are able to offer high speed enterprise level so equal upload and download Access to the internet to businesses that exist here in Campbell river And of course we're looking to draw business into Campbell river that require that kind of technology and today Most businesses require Access to reliable and affordable internet access. So this is a big project for us And again, we think that we see it growing and supporting all kinds of innovation and research so I thought I'd talk a little bit on today's topic on research partnerships And you know, we already heard from Jamie earlier about what What applied research is so we know that it is an opportunity to solve a specific problem And here in Campbell river we have for example sectors that That rely on Creative creative solutions to problems and therefore rely on applied research partnerships I'm not going to speak to too many examples of it because I know Naomi and randall will be speaking to that when they come to their turn in this presentation But again, we know that partnerships with post-secondary institutions allow this research to happen and And that drives innovation in the community and I know it's a buzzword today But it is a necessity for the survival of of existing businesses And it's a necessity to grow new businesses in a community I thought I'd give an example of what we see here on the ground in Campbell river I wanted to talk about some projects again. I know that NIC is going to talk about a bit more, but we have some really cool and innovative Uh businesses and and entities here in Campbell river For example, we have the bc center for aquatic health sciences located in Campbell river One of the country's leading aquatic research facilities And I we may hear more about that later But we also have private businesses located here that have recognized the opportunity and the need for ongoing Research to allow their own businesses to innovate and grow and one example here is Poseidon ocean systems Uh, so there are business here in Campbell river that Are committed to ongoing research to find solutions to some of the most challenging problems In in this case in the aquaculture industry and what they're facing today with some cutting edge products And so this is a business that has Understood the need to continue Uh that commitment to research and development So our goal in economic development is to Create resilient communities that would be the case for all my colleagues in this profession And we know that partnerships with post-secondary institutions like in our case north island college They provide the solutions that these industry sectors face and that's definitely supports Resilience we know that uh it it also supports workforce development through skills training initiatives by creating new approaches to to education, especially Continuing education opportunities And workforce development is a challenge in many communities In british cambia and an area that needs more thought and development. And of course it builds relationships That promote a culture of innovation and all these things contribute to a resilient community Uh, which is our goal here in camber river. So that's my presentation. I'm looking forward to hearing from n i c Thanks very much rose. I uh, I have an opportunity now to take questions I know Naomi and randall are going to be joining us soon I'll just take controls back here so that I can So I can have control. We all know that's what I want Uh, great. Oh and sharing my webcam. So I'm not just a a disembodied voice. There we go So, um, I hope our our our attendees are getting this we don't have too many questions coming in at this point, but um I wanted to just pause here. I have another poll lined up so we can get you guys engaged again And this time I'll remember to to take it off The poll screen so we don't get interrupted going to our next thing. So here we go I'm going to get you guys going again. I'm going to launch this poll Here it comes Come in at your screen. Oh, yeah, I can see all those Little those little not attentive flags coming off as people come out to the polls These questions are a little bit longer and you can you can select more than one answer on this poll So take a bit of time to read There we go. We've got some votes coming in So I was I'm just going to talk and talk and in the in the interim here I was lucky enough to visit the city of camel river a couple of years ago when the Association of think of rylan and coastal communities had the conference there And I was amused because of the number of coastal communities whose representatives stood up and named themselves The capital the bc capital of something to do with salmon There was the bc uh salmon fishing capital the uh the home of the biggest Salmon in bc. I think every community there had some kind of connection to salmon So it was kind of funny to listen to people as they went around and definitely a lot of pride in that so it's it's a good reason why the The aquaculture partnerships are a big part of the camel river community. All right, so we've been going For a minute and 35 seconds on the on the poll. We got 84 voted I'm going to close this and share the results now so we can see where people are excited about And now I can't actually see this. It is far too small on my screen There we go. So 81 percent Oh 85 approach for developing and retaining the workforce Opportunity to attract or retain businesses Everybody wants to be put on the map. So the other three are are fairly even but there's a fair amount of interest in Applied partnerships there. So great. This will be I believe it's part of the recording so you'll you'll get that at the end and without too much additional noise from me, I'm going to turn it over to Naomi and to Randall here as I get caught up on my slides. Here we go and Unmute the right people Okay, so now Naomi I I believe I'm giving you the screen That would be great. Great. Okay, so coming at you live Okay, Susan, can you see my screen? I can Oh good. Okay. So, um, maybe stay on for a second and just make sure you can see but Randall you've got that Yeah, so hopefully you can hear me. Okay. Well, yes, I am Hi everyone, I'm Randall height. I'm vice president strategic initiatives here at North Island College I'm actually at our co mocks valley campus right now and One of my teams one of my areas is the center for applied research technology and innovation And Naomi does an excellent job of running our team There and she's at the camo river campus Yes So, uh, and I see we we have about 9 000 students in terms of Headcount about 2400 full-time equivalent students at the college. We've been around for about 43 years and this campus Picture that you see right here is our co mocks valley campus So we're about in the middle of Vancouver Island. Many people say it kind of looks like ski lodge So it's a pretty great place to To learn as you can see here, we have campuses at the co mocks valley. So that's about the middle of the island there In camo river where in Naomi is which is about 45 minutes Drive north of the co mocks valley campus. We have another campus in port al bernie, which is on the West coast farther west coast on the ukulele area as well And then we have a brand new campus up in port hearty Which is kind of the top of the island as you can see there And then we have a learning center a small learning center in ukulele Which is just right by a tofino and a great place to vacation as well Great, so i'm going to give you a bit of an introduction about cardi, which Is our center for applied research technology and innovation and james done a great job of talking about the context of applied research Sort of across the country and and what applied research and innovation Looks like so i'm not going to jump too much into that or defining it But i'll just let you know that here at north island college. We do have a A dedicated center for looking at partnerships around applied research technology and innovation opportunities To partner with local organizations and businesses And this one i'm going to skip because i think james done a great job of that And then because um rose is talking a bit about the the context jamey and john have talked about About what what the benefits of applied research are we thought we would just pepper you with some examples Of different types of applied research that happens Here at n i c and hopefully that will give you some Some some ideas that you might be able to see applications in your own community So as as rosa's mentioned cambell river has a key Economic driver is aquaculture and in total there are 6600 jobs In aquaculture and one and a half billion dollars supporting the local economy There's of course finfish and shellfish and we work with several companies And so what we'll do here is we'll give you an example of a few of those Oh randall i'm sorry i thought that was your that was that last one was your song Okay, so here we go here. Here we go into examples. So um A very recent example that we're we've just wrapped up as a partnership with a local company on denman island They are hand on pacific shellfish and they were finding that those pesky crabs were eating up all their oyster seed and they were getting Vast devastation of their crop as a result of the crab So we went in we had one of our faculty members and three students do some studies on different netting types that could be applied To their least area and see which offered the best protection from the crabs for their oyster seed So that was an insert project similar to what jamie and john talked about. It's the $25,000 grant that's very easy to access and Really provides a good opportunity to develop a working relationship and we've done quite a few of these small grants that have been Really really useful in terms of building a relationship and getting a a single project Out the door quickly and serving the needs of business and industry Um This is this is um a picture of the of the whole team from that project We have our faculty member in the pink shirt in the center The owner and her daughter are there on the right and our two of our students are pictured there on the left And it's really a great opportunity Um because not only does the the funding support all the the participation of all these folks But it does perform or the funding does support some of the materials that we purchased that's actually Still on the farm today. So it's it's a win-win all around Another example here also in the aquaculture sector is is we had a local company in the co mox area that was very very adamant that the The location of eelgrass in the co mox estuary and it's how close it is to their shellfish operation Directly impacted the sweetness in the flavor of the shellfish product So they wanted to look at where does the eelgrass? Live and how could they plan future development or future plantings of their seed? So that was a close proximity to the eelgrass and therefore benefited by gaining that sweet flavor so um We did this study and you can see in the picture that we have one of our instructors and two of our students who did gps studies um surveys of the estuary to determine where the eelgrass was and as a result they created a Map of the estuary and a plan for how the company should or could move forward in its future Seedings of the area to maximize the sweetness of their product And this is me again. Okay. So that this project is more on the social side. So we have um as throughout I was going to say throughout the island, but even beyond that there's a great or interest in local food and we had a a great interest in looking at what are the barriers for produce or providing local food that at an institutional level And this project started a few years back and we had support from our Our local regional district the comox valley regional district as well as from the mokano foundation and what we looked at was How could we enable institutions to buy local food? Was it a pricing barrier? Was it a Or was there other kind of barrier that was getting in the way and we had a really interesting to your project that enabled That looked at all the policy changes that would be that would be required And and it really turned into be something quite unlike what we had originally envisioned But really moved the conversation forward around social procurement policy on the island local food procurement and and in fact, I think Um, this audience probably knows that in in the recent Um government change the new agriculture department is looking at a feed bc initiative And it's interesting because this project we called it feed comox valley. So I I personally think that's probably not a coincidence, but um, we're not we can't quite make that jump. Um yet Uh, here we go Oh randall Yeah, I just before we get into this this example of how we work with the film industry I just want to say basically that you know, we solve problems uh for companies in the industry and often times We find when we talk to business owners that they have problems And they can't even think about solving some of them because they're too busy doing day-to-day operations And one of the great things you can do through applied research is like Naomi said It's quite easy to get an engaged grant It gives us basically $25,000 from and sort of federal funding to look at Hey, do you have problems that we can solve through applied research? That's quite yet and We can do all kinds of outside of the box things we can work in collaboration with Jamie and others at comox and college and other places an example of that is here from the film industry So just recently actually, uh, the bc film and tv crew industry replaced Ontario as the largest in Canada and so we have some film and tv Movies that are being filmed and more and more netflix and other things like that here on vancouver island But as we talked with the industry, they had a real problem because there weren't basically simply trained crews here So companies didn't want to come here as much. They would come here for scenery and other things They would get in and get out quickly But it was expensive because they had to have their crews come here So once they told us that we were able to say well, what if we train them here? And we were able to fill out a labor market partnership where we got federal and provincial funding Basically do the curriculum for a program and the film and tv crew industry um It's a three three billion in bc almost uh almost four and a half billion in canada We received about five hundred thousand dollars through that program to create the curriculum and pilot delivery once So we trained 137 Students to be grips set designers production assistants and lighting technicians They actually worked with the instructor that's on the on the right there and our instructors we actually used from industry They were filming a tv show called chess speaks shores in the parksville area And while they were on a break in filming they actually came and talked with us And then they were able to take those students and the best of the class and able to hire them Right into jobs and they actually the students actually built some sets that will be featured in this season three of that tv shows, so we're very excited about that The picture on the right is actually our president john bolman We was featured in the 2016 version of mclean's magazine For our work with first nations. We serve 35 first nations Not only on vancouver island, but also on the west coast on the mainland there bella bella bella cool area Area and we're very happy to do that and to be recognized for our work with first nations And and this project in particular We had some of our faculty in the port hearty area work with with some of the quacahuac elders And they explored leadership concepts that existed in the language and how that related to um developing leadership concepts amongst youth so a really neat project really hands on really applied And that was funded by shirk, which is another federal funding agency Um to the to about the same amount as some of the previous projects. That's also a $25,000 project The shirk deals more with the social aspects and there's also one that deals with health aspects too So we can um from the science from the health or from the social aspect Get federal funding um your local institution may be able to do that as well And then be able to make big differences obviously first nations in this case Their language is disappearing with their elders And so we wanted to do with this and some other projects that we're working on ways to not only capture That first nation language but to pass it on to other generations And then we also have a number of technology specific projects So this one is a bit of an intersection. It was a technology project But it was to be applied in an aquaculture setting and what we had was we had some sensors that were going to be Raised and lowered and an automatic system Into the water to do water quality monitoring at a variety of aquaculture sites And what we wanted to do was to develop a system that would stream the data To the cloud for real-time access regardless of whether we had cell service or not So these two students that you see in the picture and their instructor worked to develop the sensors Well, well, they bought the sensors But they worked to develop the software that would link the sensor To a communications protocol and they ended up building out the control boards building out the communications technology and software to enable that to happen and and both of these students have been now hired as a result of their Of the work on this project We've also worked with the shellfish the sector recently so for example the bc center for aquatic health sciences And if you like oysters, you've probably heard of fanny bay oysters This was an example of recently of an industry problem They harvest oysters every year and sometimes they don't find out that there's issues with them until there's a reported case of norovirus Part of the problem with that is is it might just be someone getting the flu or some other issue outside And it might not even be related to the oysters at all But sometimes it takes the market and causes them to basically throw away All of the oysters that they harvest in market also causes problems with them in terms of You know their brand and people being worried that it's not safe and other things like that so We received an insert grant thanks to some great work by Naomi to be able to develop an assay to ask for more virus to be able to find it and Indicated in oysters before they're harvested so that they don't have to waste them It is sort of like the flu in humans in that it might pass and perhaps through ocean movement and other things like that that the Oysters can be harvested at another time and be used So this is an example of us working with them We recently completed this project and it could be a quantum leap for the industry and just another example of how we can solve industry problems Yeah, and I think for for the industry the main outcome here is that The new assay developed is is not a Quantitative assay like they have at the federal government labs But it is a good screening tool and it can be delivered at one tenth of the cost of the existing tool So oyster growers who tend to be smaller companies who tend to be You know either mom and pop operations or either very small staff They can now afford to do some screening before they send their product out to market Okay, and that's that's the key examples that we wanted to give to you today Um, I think um, it's really important to note that you've kind of had a bit of an island perspective here But it it's really important that all community colleges in bc Or almost all of them have some kind of applied research or innovation program and almost All colleges are eligible to apply for these insert grants that we're talking about so they're very easy to access entry-level grants that that um a Company in your community might benefit from and certainly Jamie or I could link you with with uh Folks at at a community college near you who could help with that or we could help you in some way as well But feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions I also want to add that we're also looking at renewable energy projects in the future for cardy We're looking at solar Wind and also marine renewable energy So I will be at the conference coming up in Vancouver next week on that So please come up and say hi if you're interested in working on anything with us We have worked with some companies who've had some preliminary talks with tesla and others and we're hoping to Be doing quite big advancements in renewable renewable energy wind title and run of river in the next few years That's it for us. Thanks our contact information's at the bottom. We'd love to work with you That is awesome. Thanks very much Naomi and Randall. I will uh, I'm gonna take back People want to write down those email addresses really quick and then I will take back the screen You can also contact me later through the economic development at gov.bc.ca email If you want to get a hold of of any of our presenters today Here we go. Just switching things around Okay, so we have we have some q&a time here. We've got about 20 minutes left in our Webinar time of course everyone loves when a meeting finishes early Uh, I actually I have a couple questions and I'm gonna unmute our our whole panel and let you guys fire away here About uh about this one, but the question I have listening to this is uh, and jamie yourself muted So if you want to talk you're gonna have to do that yourself Question I have is uh Where do these ideas come from? How do these things get started if let's say I'm a local elected official Secret I am Say I'm a local elected official and I want to I want to take advantage of this opportunity Do something good for my community. Where should I get started? I I can take that. I I think the best place to come is come to the local college and have a conversation With somebody in a position like like randles or jamie or myself And and we can start navigating What the next steps might be so We we'd connect you with a company that might have similar interests or a student or faculty member who might be able to help Solve a problem and then and then we start looking at different opportunities to move forward Great. Anyone else want to add anything there? We get ideas certainly from like Naomi said from elected officials We get from industry who maybe had problems for years and they can't even think about solving something Um, and we can certainly help them do that. It basically allows you to get more more staff At no cost to you in some cases Um, and faculty experts and students the next generation and you've heard from all of us that often they get hired and they can often are young and eager and and And couldn't be your your next employees and we also hear of internally from Faculty and from students and maybe they want to solve things or have seen things And then we'll go out and look for companies that might have those issues as well So we're always looking to partner people as well. And like Naomi said You go to your college Even if you don't know what to talk to tell them your interest in doing some applied research And they should have an idea who does that at your institution Great Now I noticed that in some of the projects that you talked about it wasn't only It wasn't only gadgets and widgets that you were working on there was Some social social sector research as well So if communities want to You know do some research into a particular aspect of their economy. Is that something You know Is is a an innovation partnership like this something that a community could use to add capacity to their economic development function Anyone Jamie do you want to take a stab at that or do you want me to go? I you can go ahead You're allowed to know this social fit for that No, it is um, there's there's lots of sort of economic development and Social change aspects that we can deliver via research. There's so many variables though in that realm Including the funding opportunities So you you saw a lot of widgets and you saw a lot of science examples because that is Where it's really easy to touch base into and to seek funding the The social science side, it's not impossible. Then there's certainly lots of funding opportunities But it's not the same model necessarily No one else wants to add a thing So I'm nearly cutting out for me. So I'm not sure if uh, I didn't quite hear I'm not sure if all of you did There are a few parameters Usually it has to be a company with more than two employees. They have to be in business for at least a couple of years For us to be able to do that But they're you know, if you're not sure at all it's certainly come and talk with any one of us and we can help you with that Great and nonprofits can apply for these as well, right? Yes, nonprofits are eligible for the social science side of the research grounds. Yes, okay So I'm going to add something there at the recently the social sciences under shirk uh, put out a college pilot project and it's been going on for a couple years now And uh, that was rolled recently into under the n-circ umbrella, which is under the cci program community colleges innovation program and There was recently in the last budget. There was 10 million dollars and there was a competition And it was over 83 applications and those applications in that particular situation They can be nonprofits And they have a different criteria than the n-circ engineering sciences criteria Okay, thanks Well, um, I have a few Kudos and confidence coming in on the questions, but that that's not what we're really here for Um, I'm just gonna to hand it over to the audience one more time if anyone wants to uh to verbally ask a question instead of having to to type it in If you want to use that raise hand button on your on your screen I'm going to give there's a couple more minutes and then I will let you all go and have your lunch Because I'm here. There's some hungry people Um, I'm not seeing anything come in. So, uh, what I'll do is I will um I'm going to say thank you to all of our presenters and uh, jayme john rose randall and neyomi. Thank you very much for being part of The webinar today, which as some of the uh attendees will know is is my first time Doing one of these economic webinars. So nothing crashed. So yay The next webinar that's coming up march 22nd is uh same lunch hour bring your bring your bag lunch The bc ideas exchange is a collection of success stories from across bc And we'll be hearing from port moody The city manager of port moody talking about their brewers row initiative as well as the fields forward initiative in creston Creston valley has their mobile fruit press Um, that they are taking around to farms. Um, and I'm not going to give away the the answer So the registration link is a nice. I've shortened it for you. It's there on your screen bit dot lee slash mar 22 webinar It'll also be coming out. Uh, you'll probably get an email later this afternoon with your invitation to it as well and uh So another thing that you might want to take advantage of in in your communities is we are launching a tech dev 101 workshops And these introduce tech and innovation basics to a community They are aimed at sort of the whole ecosystem So local government staff and elected officials community economic development officers Chambers of commerce community futures the whole ecosystem of economic development We're trying to get everyone in a room in a community to talk about the tech sector in your community Your assets what opportunities you have and how to use tech and innovation as an economic development driver So we have four of those already scheduled. We're going to port el bernie We're going to camel river and will also be in kimberley and castle gar sometime in the next month and we have I think I believe we're looking for 12 more communities to do that. All you have to do is find us a venue We will bring the presenters the materials And hopefully you'll help us invite the the important people in your community to that so email economic development at gov dot bc dot ca if you want to request that workshop in your community and Um Yeah, after this webinar there will be a feedback survey that comes up as I mentioned This was my first in this series. And so I would really love to hear what you think If there's anything we can improve upon or any other topics that you'd like to see coming up We're we're now booking topics into the fall. We're going to take a summer break But I have a big lineup of topics and I'm very excited about This recording will be posted in approximately a week. Um, there will be a link on gov dot bc dot ca slash economic development It just has to get through all of this screening It's the government, right? Uh, and don't forget to register for that next webinar, which I will try to go back and give you the link again There we go. There is the link to that bit dot lee slash mar 22 webinar And with that I'm going to say thank you very much for joining us And I'm going to end the webinar. Thank you everybody. Have a great day Oh, now I have to find the button to end the webinar All right, end webinar. Here we go. Bye everyone


There isn't a magic money tree that we can shake that suddenly provides for everything that people want


I applied to Furnace because I was really interested in getting involved in entrepreneurship. I had a background in research and this was essentially a step in a very different direction for me, but it had been something I wanted to get involved with for a while and Furnace really gave me an avenue to do that. So we chose the IP we did because we lined up all the available ones and wanted to see which one would have the biggest global impact. How could we take research, turn it into innovation and translate it out into the marketplace? So the mentors provided gave us so much advice on how to start a business, how to raise money, things to be looking for, how to essentially develop a business plan, where to go to market. So they were invaluable in that sense and that's really what Furnace provides for all of its startup founders. Next potential is a waste to value company. We convert waste carbon dioxide emissions directly into natural gas using solar energy. The net effect is that we decrease a plant's expenditure on fuel by converting their waste into an additional fuel source. Climate change is arguably the biggest defining policy of our generation and if we could have an impact on that and create a cleaner source of energy that's something we'd absolutely like to be involved in. As a result of getting involved with Furnace, I've gotten the chance to travel all over the country pitching our company and pitching our idea to investors, to the industry community we're in oil and gas and it's basically as a result of Furnace that I've sat down and had dinner with top executives of Chevron for instance and that's just not an experience that most people can claim to have had. So I attribute all of that to Furnace giving me my start. If I had to advise somebody who was thinking about entering Furnace competition, I would just say go for it. That can really, whatever rudimentary plans that you might have at this point in time, the program will help shape them into something that's going to be a workable endeavor, something that can be a successful company. I never would have envisioned myself as an entrepreneur, I would never have imagined that we could have succeeded in this program as much as we have. The company that we founded is called Redox Diagnostics and it's a company that specializes in the development of diagnostic tests for neurodegenerative diseases and currently we focus on a test for Alzheimer's disease that we think is going to provide presymptomatic diagnosis of that disorder, something that currently doesn't exist yet. One of the most impactful aspects of the Furnace program I would say were the mentors and the leaders within the program, together they as a group supported us throughout and even after the program and we're still in touch with the mentors that were assigned to us and they continue to assist us now in making new connections and finding additional resources to keep this idea going and so it's just been a fantastic and worthwhile experience that I'd highly recommend.


Cultural heritage is a testament to our past and its preservation is essential for understanding our history and culture. Unfortunately, it is often threatened by war, natural disasters and human negligence. This can lead to theft, smuggling and destruction of artifacts as well as neglect of heritage sites. To combat these threats, Enigma was created with a budget of 4 million euros. It aims to protect cultural goods and artifacts from man-made threats by identifying them, tracing their origins and monitoring endangered heritage sites. By doing so, Enigma hopes to enable more effective responses to this complex and multi-dimensional problem. This article was authored by Petros Paches and Carol Ampo's Georgiatis.


Hi, from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Microsoft Ignite, brought to you by Cohesity and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Welcome back, everyone, to theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite here in Orlando, Florida. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host Stu Miniman. We're joined by Carmen Crencoli. He is the Senior Program Manager for Strategy and Ecosystem here at Microsoft. Thank you so much for coming on the show, Carmen. Thanks for having me, really, really excited to be here. Thank you. So, before the cameras were rolling, we were talking about, we're going to talk tech in this interview, but right now, we're going to talk about solutions and really sort of explain what the problems are that you are solving for your customers. So, talk about the customer pain points that you and your group are looking to solve. Yeah, so the WSTD program, when we conceived it was to address a problem that I think a lot of people who've worked with Microsoft technology are familiar with. We have some really great technology. It's very easy for users to dive in and start using it, but to really be successful requires additional level of expertise that not every AT shop is going to have. And it gets more and more complex, and we start bringing in more and more IT functionality into the stack with software-defined technologies that challenge grows. So, we feel like we've had very, very great advances in what our tech can do, and we were watching our customers struggle with it, and we decided that the best way to fix it is to create a solution program and work with our partners who have that expertise to take them, bundle them together with a set of best practices, some additional testing and validation to ensure that customers are selecting the right hardware for the tasks that they need, and then offer that as a solution instead of as build your own, which is a little more traditional in the Windows world. So, explain how it works. So, there's a frazzled IT person who's saying, I don't even know where to begin, but I have these issues. Can you give us some examples of how you hold a customer's hand through this and walk them through the process? Sure, sure. So, I would say the way we approach it right now is if a customer is going to get on board the HCI train, which I think more and more of them are, we're watching the industry shift in that direction pretty rapidly now. And they say, I've heard about Microsoft technologies, I've heard about storage spaces direct and your software defined networking capabilities, and I want to pursue that. You say, well, okay, don't just go buy some servers or recycled servers off the shelf. We want you to contact some of our partners and talk to them about their solution catalog and say, look, this is the kind of workload I'm going to consolidate on it, right? I'm consolidating virtual machines from multiple environments, and it's going to be a mix of traditional line of business apps and SQL, and I think I'm going to have about this IO profile, and they'll help you size a solution and then deliver it on site and integrate it into your business environment, right? And it lets you get something that is more tailored to what you need rather than trying to piece it together. All right, so I want to hear a little bit more about HCI, but before we do, you've got ecosystem as part of what you work on. I think most people understand that Microsoft has a huge ecosystem. Some things are really simple to understand. Server, you guys don't make servers. Operating system sits on top of that. The storage piece of it, I lived, worked in the storage industry for a number of years, worked with Microsoft, obviously a huge player in the software layer, but that was back before we called things like software-defined storage and the software-defined data center and heck, pre-cloud and all that stuff. So you've been there 21 years at Microsoft. Give a little bit about where Microsoft thinks they need to play, how you partner with the ecosystem out there, and then we'll get into some of the new pieces. Yeah, we've always viewed storage as, I mean, it's part of the area you breathe when you're computing, right? So we always partnered with the storage ecosystem to make sure that SANS and NAS devices work inside general IT environments. The shift to the software-defined mentality involved some new learning from a Microsoft perspective. We're taking on some of the integration responsibilities that storage vendors typically had, and that's part of what birthed WSSD as a solution program, was if we have to take on all of the integration work, how do we ensure that that's a good quality, right? Just buying some disks off the shelf and plugging them into the motherboard does not result in a enterprise-quality solution. So we had to define some parameters and then work with OEMs and partners who know how to do the integration work as well, put some testing parameters around it and turn out solutions, software-defined solutions that worked as well as the highly integrated, tested SANS and NAS devices of the last generation. Yeah, yeah, great, I think back, most people probably know Microsoft for like SMB, it's like you have protocols that help people with NAS devices help bring us up to speed when things like HCI, so HCI technology that's been around for a number of years, many companies partner with Microsoft, Nutanix is nearby, partners with Microsoft, VMware partners with Microsoft on some things but is a big player with their vSAN technologies. What do we call the Microsoft HCI solution and how would you compare and contrast it to the existing solutions out there? So yeah, it's a traditional strength of Microsoft, right? We're very good at partnering even with people we're competing with, right? And we're very serious about it, right? It's part of our core DNA is partnership and competition at the same time. So our HCI stack is really about integrating the functionality it's there. There's, I would say the way we talk about it, there are three main components. There's the storage layer, which is storage spaces direct. There's the networking layer, which we just call software defined networking, which includes a network controller and network virtualization capabilities. And then there's the compute layer, which is Hyper-V and the additional capabilities we layer in Hyper-V, where we think we add a lot of value, things like secured VMs and security capabilities that we add on. You layer those technologies together and integrate them into a solution with validated hardware, tested hardware, a network controller, network switch, and you get something that you can integrate into a business environment, right? These are all capabilities that are in Windows Server 2019 data center, right? This is not an additional add-on. It's not a component. It's not a thing that you download. The solution program is really about taking the stuff that's in the box and making sure customers succeed in it without having to bring in all of the expertise into their IT staff from day one. Yeah, thanks for the explanation. The one piece, if I understand right, Azure Stack also has storage spaces direct in it. So should I look at this as a spectrum of how Microsoft puts the pieces together and the WSSD is just one of the storage fundamental component that plays a few places along the stack. Am I getting that right? Yeah, it's kind of a foundational technology, right? Just like Windows Server is the host layer for all of the upper higher level workloads. Storage spaces direct is the foundational layer for building our storage for all of these like hyper-converged solutions. Azure Stack's business goals different, right? They're looking for Azure consistency and really giving an Azure experience to a customer on-prem. WSSD is more for the traditional IT shop that's used to running their own virtual environments and they're just looking for some infrastructure hosting a virtual workloads. So we're covering different ends of, I would say, the IT maturity spectrum with the two solutions but the underlying pieces are very much the same, right? The plumbing that powers Azure Stack and the plumbing that powers WSSD and the plumbing that powers Azure is built on a lot of the same core Windows technologies. What are the outcomes of this solutions department? How have you seen changes in customer behavior and helping them understand the best practices that have emerged as they implement and deploy different kinds of technologies? I would say the biggest thing we've noticed is just we get customers to be more successful when they work with our vendors, right? WSSD launched the original version of the program for the 2016, launched about nine months after we RTM. In that nine month gap, we had a lot of customers who were excited for the technology. We'd been talking about it. Our engineering teams do a great job of making people excited for the technology. We get our lovely core IT geeks pumped for this stuff and they were going out implementing it on their own, right? Buying hardware that they thought conformed, trying to implement and we were having a lot of struggles, right? It was generating more support than we'd like. Customers weren't having the experience we wanted them to have with it. Since we've started the program and we've been getting customers pointed at our hardware partners that deliver these solutions, we've had a lot more success, right? They're much happier with it. We have multiple stakeholders bought into the success of that customer solution. So the OEMs are just as invested as we are, as opposed to if you buy a server off the shelf, they're just like, the server's working fine. I don't, that's not my problem. So we're just seeing a lot more customer success out of it and we want to keep driving that forward with the 2019 version of the solution program. All right, so Carmen, anything, there's so many announcements that were made at the show. Anything in your space that you want to make sure, kind of highlight that people might have missed. Everybody knows Windows Server 2019's coming, but what's that mean for your area or anything outside of that one announcement? I think the most exciting thing is just some of the tech improvements that I know really land with this IT Pro crowd that is here at Ignite. So yesterday during Aaron Chappell, our CBP of Windows Server during her Windows Server 2019 intro session, she announced a number that we achieved on Windows Server 2019 with scalable persistent memory. I forget what the name of it is. Anyway, it was like, it was a crazy IOPS number. Scalable Optane stuff, I remember, because we had Jake on yesterday from Intel and he was like, you're going to be blown, your mind will be blown when you hear about this. It was like 13.8 million IOPS on a 12 node cluster, right? So we're continuing our engineering focus, we're an engineering company, we love making the tech better and we're getting people excited for it and then we're following up with a, by the way, if you want this kind of thing in your environment or you need it, if you need to deliver it, these are the partners you work with, we partner with them, we engineer with them, right? Like this is an engineering, a co-engineering program, get the solution from them. So, you know, I would say that's the new thing from MySpace, right? We get, I get to piggyback on all of this great engineering announcement and work and excitement and say, this is how you succeed with the technology. Don't go do it yourself, go to these people. And we're here to help you. Yes, yes, that's why I'm really grateful that you guys had me on, right? But one of the things, early things I've been told since I took over the program was I didn't even know Microsoft did HCI and I didn't know, I definitely didn't know that you had a solution program and I'm like, I know, I will work on fixing that. Well, I mean, Carmen, look, HCI, we understand that the virtualization layer is critical there. Microsoft obviously, one of the top players in that industry, so we've been waiting to hear, you know, a broader story from Microsoft in this space, so congrats on all the progress. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, this has been a really fantastic show so far. We actually have a hyper-converged expo in the application infrastructure area where six of the WSD partners just showing off their solutions in one tight space along with the engineers who work on the HCI stack at Microsoft right nearby. So if anyone wants to come check out, talk to the engineers who wrote the software, talk to them. It's a really small space, you hyper-converged it, right? Yes, it's like, it is a hyper-converged space, this. Great, well, Carmen, thank you so much and encourage anyone who is here at Ignite to go check out that booth and see what's all about. Great, thank you so much. I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman. We will have more from theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite coming up in just a little bit.