RightMesh Bi-Weekly Update: March 27, 2019
TL: DR
- RightMesh CEO, John Lyotier, presented on a panel alongside Vinay Gupta, Michael Casey, and Mihriban Ersin Tekmen: ‘Combating Global Poverty on the Blockchain’.
- RightMesh Co-Founder, Chris Jensen, spoke at the BC Tech Summit on ‘Blockchain Products Shaping the Future of the World’ alongside, Jody Rebak, Bill McGraw, and moderator Kate Wilson.
- RightMesh CTO, Dr. Jason Ernst, was honoured with the ‘Young Alumnus Award’ at the School of Computer Science Honours & Awards Gala at the University of Guelph.
- Keefer Rourke was awarded ‘Co-op of the Year’ from the University of Guelph.
- The RightMesh team hosted an exclusive Canadian Premiere screening of the film ‘Trust Machine’ by award winning filmmaker, Alex Winter.
Press
- Featured: Canadian Premiere Screening of Documentary TRUST MACHINE: THE STORY OF BLOCKCHAIN on March 11, by NewsWire
- Published: Can Blockchain Change the World? (part 2), by John Lyotier
- Featured: Computer Science Student Keefer Rourke Wins Co-op Student of the Year, from the University of Guelph
- Featured: Previous Award Winners, by University of Guelph
SXSW
RightMesh CEO and Co-Founder, John Lyotier, and Entrepreneur in Residence, Joe Allan Deobald, joined over 70,000 people from around the world to attend SXSW 2019. This prestigious annual festival celebrates the most innovative technology, film, and music, and fosters a collaborative spirit unlike any other.
Our CEO, John Lyotier, spoke on a panel on ‘Combating Global Poverty on the Blockchain’ alongside Michael Casey, Senior Advisor at MIT Media Lab, Vinay Gupta, CEO of Mattereum, and Mihriban Ersin, COO of Colendi. Each of the speakers offered their unique perspectives on how to address the issue of the growing digital divide felt by underprivileged global citizens. This is a problem close to our hearts at RightMesh, and we are grateful to have had the opportunity to share our knowledge on a large stage.
For the duration of the festival, John and Joe met with fellow entrepreneurs, innovators, and Nodebodies from around the globe. Both left with a discovery of applicable new ideas and learned about innovations that caused them to think different.
BC Tech Summit
The conference explored how we use emerging technologies — from AI to Robotics, Quantum to Cleantech, Blockchain to AR/VR — to solve the biggest challenges facing BC and the world today.
With this theme, our Co-Founder, Chris Jensen, spoke on a panel on ‘Blockchain Products Shaping the Future of the World’ alongside, Jody Rebak, Chief of Staff at Dapper Labs, Bill McGraw, President and CEO of Northstar Venture Tech, and moderator Kate Wilson, Technology Editor of the The Georgia Straight. The panel discussed how identifying how blockchain technology can create value for businesses and the technology’s potential to disrupt industries including banking, healthcare, real estate, education, and agriculture.
Youth Innovation Day
RightMesh was proud to participate in the #BCTECHSummit Youth Innovation Day. This event provided 1,000 grade 10–12 students an opportunity to learn about the BC tech ecosystem and offered diverse and immersive programming on relative topics in the technology sector.
Our Chief Product Officer, Saju Abraham, conducted a workshop on the real benefits and pitfalls of blockchain technology to 250 students. Through hands-on exercises, students learned how the underlying mechanics works in a blockchain and gained insight into the kind of revolutionary applications that can be built with this technology.
The students asked great questions and left with more knowledge on decentralized systems to allow them to consider next steps in their education and careers.
Trust Machine
On March 11th, the RightMesh team hosted an exclusive Canadian Premiere screening of the film ‘Trust Machine’ by award winning filmmaker, Alex Winter.
The feature film explores the evolution of cryptocurrency, blockchain, decentralization, including the technology’s role in addressing important real-life problems including world hunger, security, and income inequality.
RightMesh CEO and Co-Founder, John Lyotier is featured within the film, discussing RightMesh technology.
Thank you to all those who join us!
Learn more about Trust Machine here.
Dr. Jason Ernst receives Young Alumni Award from the University of Guelph
RightMesh CTO, Dr. Jason Ernst, was awarded the Young Alumnus Award from the University of Guelph this past week. The award recognizes a University of Guelph Computer Science graduate, of the last ten years, who has distinguished himself in his profession, community, and the University.
To name a few accomplishments since graduating, Jason has been named on the Forbes Technology Council, held an executive position on the ACM Future of Computing Academy, become an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph, and Co-Principal Investigator on a $2.13 M Mitacs research grant to bridge the digital divide.
Keefer Rourke receives the University of Guelph’s Co-op Student of the Year
We’re excited to share that Keefer Rourke, RightMesh Software Developer and student in the School of Computer Science, has received the University of Guelph’s Co-op Student of the Year 2018 — Ian Pavlinic Memorial Award for Innovation.
The Ian Pavlinic Memorial award recognizes the outstanding contributions of a student in the areas of academic achievement, workplace performance, innovation, contributions, involvement within the community, and impact during the work term. Keefer went above and beyond in all categories.
Mitacs
Associate Professor and Technical Advisor to RightMesh, Dr. Dan Gillis, visited our Maple Ridge office to meet with Xuan Luo, our current MITACs student and to review her project. While here, Dr. Gillis also interviewed several potential candidates for the upcoming semester.
Upcoming Events
- FFCON19, April 3–4th
RightMesh CEO, John Lyotier, will be presenting twice next week at FFCON19, in Toronto, Canada. On April 3rd, John will field a Q&A session about how blockchain is shaping our future following the exclusive Toronto Premiere screen of Alex Winter’s documentary,‘Trust Machine: the story of blockchain’, which features RightMesh. On April 4th, John will participate in a panel discussion. The conference brings together high growth and emerging startups-scaleups, professionals, regulatory bodies and ecosystem stake holders to launch, connect, invest, and scale the next generation of global companies. - Advance Ontario Conference, May 14–16th
RightMesh CTO, Dr. Jason Ernst, will be speaking at Advance Ontario, a conference focused on encouraging collaboration among experts in their fields. Dr. Ernst will be speaking on how technology will save the world, predominantly through improved connectivity.
We’re Hiring!
Our team is continuing to grow! We’re looking for passionate problem solvers to join our growing team and help us connect the next billion.
Current open positions include:
- Decentralized Wireless Protocol Engineer
- Distinguished Software Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Mitacs — PhD Research
- Mitacs — Postdoctoral Research Fellow
RightMesh Has Moved to Rocket.Chat
Don’t forget that we have transitioned our main channel of communications from Telegram to Rocket.Chat.
With Rocket.Chat, community members can participate in conversations that specifically interest you and avoid the ones that don’t. We can take deeper dives into specific subject matters and spark more productive conversations by segmenting topics into clearly defined channels including:
- #tech
- #bizdev
- #rmesh
- #use-cases
- #announcements
- #careers
- #press
- #chinese-channel
- #russian-channel
- #support
- #rocketchat-feedback
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