The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: TalkMaze founder Ghalia Aamer is gearing up for a busy couple of months championing her own company and Edmonton's innovation community both locally and abroad; Bitcoin Well CEO Adam O'Brien weighed in about cryptocurrency becoming an Edmonton election issue; bitcoin mining operation that set up shop without approval in Sturgeon County has been forced to shut down; Edmonton's Robolution, Electronic Grid Systems, and others are among the Inventures startup pitch finalists; applications are still open for NPower's free training for youth.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Another edition of the Great Alberta Pitch Marathon is in the books; the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) has announced 20 scholarships for the nine-week Machine Learning Technician Certification; TECTERRA has announced the shortlisted finalists for the 2021 TECTERRA Awards; Bitcoin Well announced its Q2 2021 financial results; and Technology Alberta has announced the NExT Level careers program.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Samdesk has been awarded a contract by Transport for London (TfL) to provide notifications about emerging disruptions to the transportation network; this year's AccelerateAB will be structured as a one-day event in Edmonton on Nov. 9; MNP published an article about Edmonton as a fast-growing technology and innovation hub; Bitcoin Well is acquiring Ghostlab; Showbie now has a team in the United States; and Technology Alberta is offering a micro-credential series called Tech Leadership for the Future.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: Prairies Economic Development Canada, or PrairiesCan, will serve Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, replacing Western Economic Diversification Canada; Alberta Enterprise Corporation has invested $10 million in Yaletown Partners second Innovation Growth Fund; Startup Edmonton interim director Lauren Briske will be moving on in September; Bitcoin Well virtually rang the opening bell at the Toronto Stock Exchange on July 30; NanoCanada, which has formed the first Canadian nanomedicine cluster, has received funding.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: QuoteToMe has raised $2.5 million in a fully-subscribed series seed round; Innovate Edmonton has announced its Innovation Growth Council; DiveThru was recently featured in Seventeen magazine alongside apps like Headspace and Calm; SecurePark Technologies was bought by American firm ROKER Inc.; and Matthew E. Taylor, a fellow-in-residence at Amii, talked about reinforcement learning;

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: AltaML has announced a new collaboration with Microsoft Canada and the University of Waterloo to provide training and mentorship to students; Startup Edmonton says this year's edition of Edmonton Startup Week will take place Oct. 18-22; the first cohort of the 2021 AI4Good Lab has wrapped up; the Alberta Digital Innovation Office is hiring; and The Great Alberta Pitch Marathon will feature more than 100 startups from across the province on Aug. 19.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: The founder of Canadian Filaments Inc. has been recognized with a youth entrepreneur award from Futurpreneur's RBC Rock My Business Start-Up Awards; Drone Delivery Canada Corp. has entered into an agreement to deploy its patented drone delivery solution at EIA; CBC profiled Kemet Advanced Manufacturing Ltd.; Darrell Petras has joined Innovate Edmonton; Nathan Ip, an Edmonton public school trustee, has joined Startup Edmonton.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: RWI Synthetics has been named a top 10 finalist for the international Why stop at zero? sustainable mobility challenge; Edmonton fell 35 spots in StartupBlink's latest global ecosystem rankings; Alberta Innovates has launched Alberta Digital Traction; Casey Hudson, previously the general manager of BioWare in Edmonton, has started a new game development studio called Humanoid; Wyvern has signed a deal with Ontario-based SkyWatch Space Applications Inc.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: West Edmonton Mall is getting ready to launch what's being billed as the largest virtual reality attraction in North America - it's called Virtual Land; Spontivly has been accepted into the Tampa Bay Wave's TechDiversity program; Amazon is building a 600,000 square-foot robotics fulfillment centre in Parkland County; the Canadian Urban Institute featured Edmonton's tech and innovation ecosystem; and Start Alberta is hiring an executive director to lead its next chapter.

The latest headlines & happenings in Edmonton's tech community. This week: the Start Alberta Deal Flow Platform has launched, making Alberta the "first location in North America to join a vast network of startup ecosystems" powered by Dealroom; Startup TNT raised at least $1 million for seven companies at its investment summit last week; legal services application PainWorth won "best emerging product" at a recent innovation challenge; Pacylex Pharmaceuticals has recently closed its Series A financing round; and Lenica Research Group has partnered with Health Gauge.