iWIST Sponsors + Community Partners
iWIST is part of the VIATEC coalition, a group of island-based tech-focused organisations who aims to increase inclusivity, and ensure that the broader tech community knows that they ‘belong’ even if they are not ‘members’ of one organization or another.
VIATEC, short for Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology & Entrepreneurship Council, is a not-for-profit technology organization based in Victoria, BC. VIATEC's mission is to cultivate the most cohesive tech community in the world by providing resources to tackle shared opportunities and challenges while boosting a sense of belonging and shaping the region.
VIATEC started in 1989, when a community of technologists and entrepreneurs joined together to share information on how to build companies and support the tech industry. Since then Victoria’s economy has changed dramatically and its brand has been transformed.
The not-for-profit organization works closely with their members to offer a variety of events, programs and services. In addition, VIATEC serves as the front door of the local tech sector and as its spokesperson. To better support local innovators, VIATEC owns a building (Fort Tectoria) where they offer flexible and affordable office space to emerging local companies along with a gathering/event space for local entrepreneurs.
PLATINUM SPONSOR
Quicksilver is an island based business and technical consulting firm. They work with you to realize your business objectives. Quicksilver was recently split into two parts:
Quicksilver Business Innovation group focuses on scalability, strategy, and organizational change management. All the higher order functions required for successful scaling, roll outs and transformations.
Their goal is to make clients successful by helping them achieve their objectives faster than they ever thought possible.
Quicksilver Software Development is pure, unapologetic tech - anything software that you want to do, any language, from embedded systems to web including all the math you can eat, and of course Data and everything to do with Data, sits at the heart of it all.