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VeloCity attends the Communitech Tech Leadership Conference

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This past Wednesday VeloCity along with nearly every company in the Waterloo region and beyond, attended Communitech’s Tech Leadership Conference.

The day provided some mixed responses among the student attendees from VeloCity, but overall proved to be a beneficial day. Here are some student responses on what they liked, disliked and took away from their experience at the conference:

“I’m really glad I went yesterday. Clayton Christensen, the morning Keynote speaker, made some very good arguments for taking a strategic approach to the start-up process. The idea of disruptive innovation is something that everyone in VeloCity can benefit from.”

“Although very well presented, the breakout session centered around seed communities (by Jen Evans), was somewhat disappointing. To me, it seemed like more of an introduction to the idea of communities. I was expecting something more advanced considering it was a tech conference where most of the audience practically lives on the internet.”

“Favorite Part: The breakfast (most hated part: the lunch)
Favorite Speaker: the Harvard Professor keynote about the job products do.
Lineup: pretty good, but was only there half the day (community person wasn’t that great).

Wasn’t the best conference I’ve been too.”

“For me, the most interesting part was the first keynote speaker, Clayton Christenson. I’m a business student, so I immediately tuned in when he mentioned “the things we teach in business schools that are wrong”. I thought his findings on competing against established competitors were compelling and especially relevant for start-ups.”

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