Varro Technologies
- Website = https://varro.tech
- Key people:
- Bob Summerwill – Co-Founder and CTO
- Also Executive Director, ETC Cooperative
- Also Community Ambassador, CryptoChicks
- Also Community Member, Ethereum, EEA, Hyperledger
- Alison Alexis – Co-Founder and CEO
- Also Financial Controller, ETC Cooperative
- Bob Summerwill – Co-Founder and CTO
FISSION
- Website = https://fission.codes/
- Events = Boris organizes many events in BC and around the world
- Discord = https://discord.gg/daDMAjE
- Key people:
- Boris Mann – Co-Founder and CEO
- Brooklyn Zelenka – Co-Founder and CTO
University of British Columbia
- Website = https://ubc.ca/
- Blockchain @ UBC
- Events = https://blockchain.ubc.ca/news/events
- Key people:
- Vicki Lemieux
- And more to add from https://blockchainubc.ca/team/
- UBC Blockchain Club
- Website = https://www.facebook.com/UBCBlockchain/
- Events = https://www.facebook.com/pg/UBCBlockchain/events/
- Key people:
- Andrew Tan (Co-President)
Government of British Columbia
- Website = https://gov.bc.ca/
- Key people:
- John Jordan – Executive Director, Emerging Digital Initiatives, Office of the CIO, Government of British Columbia
- OrgBook BC Project
- Website = https://orgbook.gov.bc.ca/
- Key people:
- Steven Curran – Member, Technical Governance Board, Sovrin Foundation
- BC Securities Commission
- Website = https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/
- Meetup = https://www.bcsc.bc.ca/About_Us/Events/
- Key people:
- Hyder Zach Masum, Manager, Legal Services (Capital Markets Regulation) and Fintech Team Leader
- James Leong – Senior Legal Counsel
DCTRL Hackerspace
- Website = https://dctrl.ca/
- Meetup = “Dctrl”
- Key people:
RightMesh
- Website = https://www.rightmesh.io/
- Meetup = Ad-hoc hosting for various meetups
- Key people:
- Chris Jensen (Co-Founder)
- John Lyotier (CEO, RightMesh AG)
- Melissa Quinn (Director of Corporate Strategy)
- Brianna MacNeill (Manager, Global Strategy & Partnerships)
Others (to be made into full sections when I get a chance)
- Victor Wong, BlockApps – https://www.linkedin.com/in/vic4wong/
- Dean Sutton, BlockTech Ventures – https://www.linkedin.com/in/suttondean/
- Guy Halford-Thompson, BTL – https://www.linkedin.com/in/guy-halford-thompson-41592442/
- Blockchain Intelligence Group – Multiple people.
- Aziom Zen – Cryptokitties – Dapperlabs – Multiple people
- Coinpayments – Multiple people
- Bluzelle – Multiple people
- Northmark Ventures – Bernd Petak (Co-Founder)
- 7 Gate Ventures
- Boris Wertz
- Peter Rizun
- These new BCH people
- Chris Coldaway
- Indigenous Blockchain
- Government Blockchain
- Coincards
- CryptoCanucks
- Claire Gallant
- CryptoChicks Vancouver
- Holochain
- Next Decentrum
- Manie Eagar
- Symetria
- Tanna Po
- Richmond Chamber of Commerce
- Blockchain @ EA
- Microsoft, Amazon, Mozilla, IBM Vancouver
- Mining companies from Cancord conference
- Mogo
- That Polkadot guy – https://twitter.com/Rabasso
- Launch Academy
- Gary’s esports thing
- Dean Sutton’s new gig
- Guy Halford’s new gig
- Blockchain @ SFU, Capilano College, BCIT, others
- Fraser Valley blockchain meetup (google all meetups)
- Google for Vancouver blockchain job postings
- Tom Carchrae
- Dan Merino
Not recommended
- Finhaven (DH Kim)
- Squire Mining
- Vanbex (Kevin Hobbs, Lisa Cheng)
Dead
- BC Blockchain Ecosystem Society (Manie Eagar, Andrew Csinger, Vicki Lemieux, Sean Burke, Catriona Power)
- BC Blockchain Forum (MaRi Eagar)
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