{"id":13293,"date":"2017-01-27T14:07:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T22:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=13293"},"modified":"2017-01-27T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T22:18:45","slug":"ufv-part-of-bctech-summit-march-14-15-discount-before-jan-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/01\/27\/ufv-part-of-bctech-summit-march-14-15-discount-before-jan-31\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV part of BCTECH Summit &#8212; March 14 &#038; 15 &#8212; discount before Jan 31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/01\/27\/ufv-part-of-bctech-summit-march-14-15-discount-before-jan-31\/bctech\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13298\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/BCTECH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/BCTECH.jpg 588w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/BCTECH-300x78.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/BCTECH-150x39.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/BCTECH-200x52.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a>UFV is going to be part of BC\u2019s largest tech conference.\u00a0 On March 14 and 15, the #BCTECH Summit will take over the Vancouver Convention Centre. This is an opportunity not only to bring together BC\u2019s vibrant and innovative tech community but also the convergence of traditional industries, business leaders, government and academia that are now adopting tech in all facets of their businesses and programs.<\/p>\n<p>UFV is a participant in #BCTECH, and will have a general UFV display at the event, as well as displays\/presentations from the Agriculture Centre of Excellence and our Mechatronics program.<\/p>\n<p>Lin Long\u2019s project, titled Automating Mechanical Quality Assurance Tests for Medical Linear Accelerators, will be part of the Research Runway. The research team consists of Lin Long (Physics, UFV), Brandon VanGenderen (BC Cancer Agency and former UFV student), and Cameron Appeldorn (BC Cancer Agency).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/01\/27\/ufv-part-of-bctech-summit-march-14-15-discount-before-jan-31\/25844735814_db9ec9ca6c_z\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13301\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/25844735814_db9ec9ca6c_z-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/25844735814_db9ec9ca6c_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/25844735814_db9ec9ca6c_z-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/25844735814_db9ec9ca6c_z-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/files\/2017\/01\/25844735814_db9ec9ca6c_z-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a>Garry Fehr\u2019s project, titled Surrey Biopods: Research, Training and Demonstration Greenhouses, will be part of the Tech Showcase.<\/p>\n<p>Use the promo code is \u2018UFV100\u2019 to get $100 off the early bird pricing ($599, so brings price down to $499). Deadline is Jan 31. On Feb 1 pricing goes to $899.<\/p>\n<p>Get tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/bctechsummit.ca\/tickets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFV is going to be part of BC\u2019s largest tech conference.\u00a0 On March 14 and 15, the #BCTECH Summit will take over the Vancouver Convention Centre. This is an opportunity not only to bring together BC\u2019s vibrant and innovative tech community but also the convergence of traditional industries, business leaders, government and academia that are &#8230; <a title=\"UFV part of BCTECH Summit &#8212; March 14 &#038; 15 &#8212; discount before Jan 31\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2017\/01\/27\/ufv-part-of-bctech-summit-march-14-15-discount-before-jan-31\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13293\/revisions\/13303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}