Vancouver Summit Rethinks the Modern Tech Conference
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Skift Take
BC Tech Summit is illustrative of a growing number of conferences worldwide that showcase advances in business technology by using simple language and interactive exhibits to engage next generation citizens and consumers.
Within three years, all students in British Columbia, Canada from kindergarten to the 12th grade will have the opportunity to learn how to code.
Christy Clark, the premier of BC, made that statement during her opening keynote at the inaugural #BCTECH Summit in Vancouver last month.
Explaining that her government will eventually make basic programming skills mandatory for all students, Clark said, "Tech companies will locate to where they can find people who can do the work, so we need to start with our schools."
It was a fitting kick-off for this business tech conference designed to position BC as the new tech capital of the north.
Primarily, BC Tech Summit showed the value proposition of technology across industry sectors — ranging from the evolution of aquaponics to the rise of open government data — to drive new global business development that's reshaping society and personal computing.
It did so by contextualizing advances in tech with real world examp
