Québecs Booming Tech Haven Produces Seven SXSW® Award Finalists
Summary
This, along with 275 college and university programs designed hand-in-hand with local employers, significant tax incentives and highly-competitive costs, has convinced such big-name West Coast companies as Electronic Arts and Warner Brothers to open studios here.” “The IT industry is one of Québec’s fasted-growing sectors,” says Louise Fortin, director of Economic Services at the Québec Government Office in Atlanta.The first product for Might Cast, The NEX Band, is the world’s first collectible, social, gaming, proximity detecting wearable device; giving users and ever-changing experience PPLCONNECT (Social Technologies category) PPLCONNECT is a free app that allows users to access and use their smartphones from any web-enabled device, without changing their cell number Synbiota (Innovative World Technologies category) Synbiota is a collaborative open web platform that allows anyone to safely and sustainably create new medicines, materials, food and fuel by engineering life, virtually, using real DNA as building blocks The SXSW Interactive Awards honor the concept of creation and strive to showcase the most innovative, “pushing the boundaries” projects developed by the world’s interactive community.The company collaborated with NBA Digital for the 2014 Jam Session during the NBA All-Star event February 14 – 16 in New Orleans Invest-Québec Invest-Québec consists of a team of experts providing the full range of services needed for organizations to set up operations in Québec and ultimately achieve long-term success Kiwili Kiwili is a web application management tool providing real-time information flow on estimates, billing, expenses, project management, accounting, time sheet reports, charts and agendas, all combined with a private social network.This, along with 275 college and university programs designed hand-in-hand with local employers, significant tax incentives and highly-competitive costs, has convinced such big-name West Coast companies as Electronic Arts and Warner Brothers to open studios here.”“The IT industry is one of Québec’s fasted-growing sectors,” says Louise Fortin, director of Economic Services at the Québec Government Office in Atlanta.The first product for Might Cast, The NEX Band, is the world’s first collectible, social, gaming, proximity detecting wearable device; giving users and ever-changing experiencePPLCONNECT (Social Technologies category)PPLCONNECT is a free app that allows users to access and use their smartphones from any web-enabled device, without changing their cell numberSynbiota (Innovative World Technologies category)Synbiota is a collaborative open web platform that allows anyone to safely and sustainably create new medicines, materials, food and fuel by engineering life, virtually, using real DNA as building blocksThe SXSW Interactive Awards honor the concept of creation and strive to showcase the most innovative, “pushing the boundaries” projects developed by the world’s interactive community.