Episode 30: AtlanticFusion

Drew and James open the show with some breaking news. Then jump pretty quickly into the meetups around town. Drew gives a quick review of the Warcraft movie. The guest for this episode is Peter Thompson from AtlanticFusion. The interview starts at 0:30:00.

Peter has just settled down from a 9 month trip to various cities. He has been in Vancouver for a little over a month now, but he is already planning to make an impact. He has a really interesting past from working in Calgary, working for Code For America in San Francisco, and travelling in the cities of Canada.

Interview Links

• Peter Thompson on Twitter and on LinkedIn


• Current Startup EvryGym.com


• San Francisco Autonomous Vehicles Smart Transportation Funding


• Code for All (Global Movement)


• Code for America


• UK Gov Digital Service


• US Digital Service


• Code for San Francisco


• Civic Tech Toronto


• Open Data Van


• Ontario Digital Government Page

Meetups for the week of June 13th

Monday 13th

• Git Help! and 0-Tech (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Technology Leaders (Shown to Members) 6:00 PM


• GENR8 Technology Group (The Edge 412 - 289 Alexander St) 7:00 PM to 9:15 PM

Tuesday 14th

• Brainstation (1110 Hamilton St) 12:00 to 1:00 PM


• Decentral (Shown to Members) 4:30 PM


• Vancouver Rust (Vancouver Public Library) 5:30 to 7:30 PM


• Clojure Hacknight (Code Core 142 W Hastings St) 6:00 PM


• Women in Games (#300 - 128 W Hastings) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Wednesday 15th

• Vancouver Data Visualizations (Needs a Location) 9:30 AM


• Linux Desktop (436 W Pender St) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• Pluralsight Study Group (PNI Digital Media Offices 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM


• .NET Users Group (555 Seymour St) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• VanSwift (Needs a Location) 6:00 PM

Thursday 16th

• Code & Coffee (Mobify HQ #300 - 948 Homer St) 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM


• DDD/CQRS/ES Practitioners (Decentral Vancouver 436 West Pender Street) 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM


• Ionic Vancouver (Lighthouse Labs, 350 - 128 W Hastings) 6:00 PM


• Vancouver Scala (938 West 8th Avenue), 6:00 PM


• Learn Data Science (Bench 353 Water Street) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM


• Spark Meetup (Simba Technologies 938 West 8th Ave) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Friday 17th

• BCTIA Grub in the Hub (887 Great Northern Way) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Saturday 18th

• Unity VR Developer Workshop (David Lam Learning Centre 6326 Agricultural Rd) 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM

Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect