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AND THE WINNERS ARE...
Oct. 19, 2009
Iain Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development (back row, fifth from left), joins the high-tech winners celebrated at Connect '09, the B.C. Innovation Council's annual awards event. Also pictured are Dean Rockwell, CEO of BCIC (front row, fifth from left) and BCIC board chair Greg Aasen (front row, far right). For BCIC's news release listing all the winners, click here.
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LISTENING TO SMALL BUSINESS
September 28, 2009
Ministers Iain Black and Murray Coell (standing) consulted with Small Business Roundtable members at a recent meeting. Throughout Small Business Month in October Minister Black will exchange ideas with small business entrepreneurs with a goal of strengthening the sector which makes up 98 per cent of all businesses.
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INNOVATIVE WIRELESS TESTING CENTRE MOBILIZES BEST OF B.C.
August 18, 2009
Minister Iain Black and Wavefront president James Maynard turn the table on the media at the official opening of Wavefront, B.C.’s new testing and commercialization centre for the wireless and mobile communications community.
Wavefront provides small and medium-sized wireless companies and developers from B.C. with testing facilities, access to mobile handsets from around the world, industry expertise and advice, and commercial partnership opportunities. In 2007, the Province provided the Wireless Innovation Network of BC (WINBC) with $5 million in seed money to set-up Wavefront and make British Columbia a global hub for wireless innovation and research and development.
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NEPTUNE UNDERSEA LAB ENTERS FINAL CONSTRUCTION PHASE
July 3, 2009
The cable-laying ship Lodbrog winches up one of the power nodes for the NEPTUNE Canada underwater ocean lab as Iain Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, and Ida Chong, Minister of Healthy Living and Sport and Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA, look on. The lab has entered its final construction stage, with nodes and instruments being installed throughout July, and should be transmitting data late this year.
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Ian Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, listens to Chris Barnes, project director of NEPTUNE Canada, discuss the final phase of building the world’s first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet. Barnes and Black both spoke at a celebration of the project’s progress at the Esquimalt Graving Dock, where undersea instruments are being loaded onto ships to be installed offshore up to two kilometres deep.
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After touring the cable ship Lodbrog, Minister Black explains the benefits expected to result from the Province’s $42.9-million investment in NEPTUNE Canada. The Lodbrog came from Taiwan to install millions of dollars’ worth of sensitive scientific instruments on and above the Juan de Fuca Plate. The minister spoke at an event at the Esquimalt Graving Dock, hosted by the University of Victoria, which heads the NEPTUNE Canada project.
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Members of the platform party who spoke at a ceremony to mark the last phase getting the NEPTUNE Canada project up and running gather on the jetty at the Esquimalt Graving Dock to watch a demonstration of a power node being lowered into the water. From left: MP Mike Lake, parliamentary secretary to the federal Minister of Industry; Ida Chong, Minister of Healthy Living and Sport and Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA; and Iain Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic development.
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MINISTER SPEAKS AT CELEBRATION OF B.C.'S TOP TECH COMPANIES
June 17, 2009
Iain Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, addresses a crowd of 700 at the B.C. Technology Industry Association's 15th annual Technology Impact Awards, honouring B.C.'s top technology companies. The minister also presented scholarships to four students for academic excellence in the field.
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MINISTER PRESENTS TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIPS
June 17, 2009
Iain Black, Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development, with this year's four winners of the B.C. Technology Scholarship Awards, which the minister presented. From left: Adam Gray, Tyler Poole, the minister, Irene Peng and Keith Martin. The scholarships are funded by industry, and are presented at the B.C. Technology Industry Association's Technology Impact Award celebrations.
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Hon. Iain Black was appointed Minister of Small Business, Technology and Economic Development on June 10, 2009.
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