{"id":260,"date":"2016-06-24T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/?p=260"},"modified":"2016-07-21T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T23:59:11","slug":"2016-viatec-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/2016\/06\/24\/2016-viatec-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 VIATEC Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viatec.ca\/articles\/annual-viatec-awards-honours-the-best-in-greater-victorias-tech-sector-video\" target=\"_blank\">Annual VIATEC Technology Awards<\/a> recognize excellence in Victoria&#8217;s biggest industry. Out of 15 awards, we are pleased to see three awards in the hands of\u00a0Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic companies:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovative Excellence &#8211; Software or service:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.echosec.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Echosec Systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2016 VIATEC Awards - Innovative Excellence (Software or Service)\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pG9hXAWao3c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employees of the Year:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aurora-walker-95699513\" target=\"_blank\">Aurora Walker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rob-o-dwyer-5b378714?authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=3JRM&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=5100238141469144076814&amp;srchindex=1&amp;srchtotal=27&amp;trk=vsrp_people_res_name&amp;trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A5100238141469144076814%2CVSRPtargetId%3A49696407%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH\" target=\"_blank\">Rob O&#8217;Dwyer<\/a>,\u00a0Software Developer and CTO at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pretio.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretio Interactive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2016 VIATEC Awards - Employee of the Year\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kaNDqZD-UjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Lennox Award for Technology Champion:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jim-hayhurst-9a461714\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Hayhurst<\/a>, CEO of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pretio.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pretio Interactive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2016 VIATEC Awards - Tech Champion\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEomDCFa2pA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all winners. There was some impressive competition, making these achievements all the more impressive. Keep up the excellent work!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viatec.ca\/articles\/annual-viatec-awards-honours-the-best-in-greater-victorias-tech-sector-video\" target=\"_blank\">VIATEC article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheknews.ca\/annual-viatec-awards-honours-best-greater-victorias-tech-sector-192228\/\" target=\"_blank\">CHEK News article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Annual VIATEC Technology Awards recognize excellence in Victoria&#8217;s biggest industry. Out of 15 awards, we are pleased to see three awards in the hands of\u00a0Engineering Entrepreneurship@UVic companies: &nbsp; Innovative Excellence &#8211; Software or service:\u00a0Echosec Systems &nbsp; Employees of the Year:\u00a0Aurora Walker and Rob O&#8217;Dwyer,\u00a0Software Developer and CTO at\u00a0Pretio Interactive &nbsp; Colin Lennox Award for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/eemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}