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Deploy Sponsors Space Apps Ottawa 2020

Another year, another space apps hackathon!

Deploy Solutions is proud to be a continued organizer and sponsor of the fourth annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon event, which is the local version of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge.

Ottawa, prepare for liftoff! The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with nearly 200 cities around the world, Ottawa teams will form and build products and prototypes against NASA- and CSA-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial and science data. This FREE and entirely VIRTUAL event will run from Friday evening, October 2 to Sunday, October 4. Find out more, including how to register, at http://www.spaceappsottawa.com.

The solutions to the challenges rely on publicly available open sourced data from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and other international space agencies and organizations.

Each year this event is provides a fun and creative introduction to the world of open source and space industry projects. Due to COVID-19, this year’s event will be entirely virtual.

See you there!

Space Apps Specialist Re-Launches At GeoIgnite

The Pivot

Inspired by our long-running sponsorship and involvement of annual space hackathon events, Deploy Solutions has made a strategic ‘pivot’ to focus on the burgeoning commercial space sector.

We now provide our clients with access to valuable space data by creating innovative space applications — end user-focused software applications that harness information from space. Insights and analyses from satellite imagery and other data can benefit a wide variety of sectors, from agriculture and shipping through to urban planning and environmental protection. Our innovative 'software factory approach' streamlines the software development process, vastly reducing development cost, time, and risk for anyone looking to utilise space data.

Re-Launching at GeoIgnite

We made the decision to re-launch our brand to focus solely on the space sector during GeoIgnite Online 2020, the first-ever virtual version of the Canadian national Geospatial event.

With COVID restrictions preventing travel and space sector conferences postponed and cancelled all over the globe, the organisers of GeoIgnite Online conference decided to migrate the event online following the successful inauguration of GeoIgnite in 2019. Like other major sectorial events including the International Astronautical Congress and Utah’s Small Satellite Conference, GeoIgnite aimed to bring the conference and exhibition experience directly into the offices and homes of delegates and exhibitors.

We seized the opportunity to press on with our plans and take advantage of GeoIgnite Online 2020 as the virtual venue for our official brand re-launch as Silver Sponsors of the event.

New Horizons

Our Founder & CEO Nick Kellett presented two sessions at GeoIgnite, one entitled ‘New Horizons in Space Apps Development’ and the other a ‘social hour’ with Kevin Jones, VP of Product at PCI Geomatics. Kellett explained, “We had put a lot of research and planning effort into our pivot and re-branding effort and knew GeoIgnite conference would be the perfect venue to showcase our new exclusive focus on the space sector.” However, with the pandemic everything was suddenly thrown into doubt.

“The GeoIgnite
team made the decision to try an online format and it allowed us a chance to
move forward as planned, albeit with some adaptations.”

He added, “The virtual event was a massive success and certainly harnessed the agile, dynamic, ‘can-do’ spirit of the geospatial community. And, it was fun and insightful!”

Jonathan Murphy, Managing Director and Founder of GoGeomatics Canada & the GeoIgnite event, stated, “GoGeomatics Canada was proud to have Deploy Solutions, one of Canada’s most exciting and innovative Space companies,  showcase their strategic importance to the future of the Space sector at GeoIgnite.  Deploy Solutions successfully connected with participants both in Canada and globally enhancing the experience for everyone.”

GeoIgnite Online 2020 welcomed a wide variety of remotely located delegates with heavy participation from across Canada’s geospatial sector and involvement from federal, provincial, and municipal government organizations such as the Canadian Space Agency, Natural Resources Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Statistics Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans.

Want to learn more?

At Deploy Solutions, we are excited by our new horizons. Want to learn more about what we do, and how it can help you? Book a call!

COVID-19 Special Edition Hackathon, and Impact on Space Apps Ottawa 2020

Space Apps Challenge – COVID-19 Special Edition

NASA will hold a virtual Covid-19 Special Edition of the Space Apps Challenge on the weekend of May 30-31. This is in addition to the annual event which will still be held in October. You will find more information about the special edition event here.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will take this opportunity to release data from MOPITT and Radarsat 2 satellites in the hope that participants across Canada and elsewhere will use them to tackle one of the Covid-19 challenges.

Space Apps Ottawa 2020: Online Only?

Our first concern is to hold our annual event in a way that is not only fun, inspiring, and educational, but safe and secure for all participants.

COVID-19 pandemic will require us to comply with new public safety regulations and bylaws and there is an enormous amount of uncertainty about what October might look like. We may not be able to physically hold this event.

Having said that – our hackathon is still a go!

The organizing committee has begun to plan for a version of this event that will be primarily virtual / online. We will provide updates when we know more.

Register now to help us plan your hackathon experience

Although event details are uncertain, it will be held October 2 to 4 as originally planned.

Please register online in order to ensure your space and allow us to provide you with the best possible experience. In addition, if you would like to assist with sponsorship, volunteering, organizing, or mentoring; or have feedback or suggestions on what a great online hackathon experience could look like, please email us at info@spaceappsottawa.com or contact me directly on LinkedIn.

We hope you will join us for another great year solving “out of this world” challenges in a fun (and now virtual) environment!

A New Horizon – Space Apps in Canada

In October Deploy Software Solutions was an organizing sponsor of the third annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon, which is the local branch of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. The event is

…an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with nearly 200 cities around the world, Ottawa teams will form and build products and prototypes against NASA-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial and science data.

This is a fun introduction to the world of open source projects and the space industry. The challenges are designed by both NASA and our own Canadian Space Agency. Solutions to the challenges rely on NASA’s publicly available open sourced data and require teamwork and creativity!

At this year’s Canadian Space Society annual summit, CEO Nicholas Kellett had a chance to speak about the opportunity Space Apps hackathons can play in Canada’s space industry. The presentation, called “A New Horizon: Space Apps in Canada” provided a

…satellite-eye view of hackathons and space apps globally and in Canada. What are they, what business problems and technical challenges can they solve, what is their history and how can the Canadian space industry leverage them to achieve downstream software excellence?

View the full presentation on SlideShare.

Space Apps Ottawa is back, October 19-21

Deploy Software Solutions is once again proud to be a host sponsor of the annual Space Apps Ottawa hackathon, which is the local branch of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge. The event is

…an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with nearly 200 cities around the world, Ottawa teams will form and build products and prototypes against NASA-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial and science data. This FREE event will run from Friday evening, October 19 to Sunday, October 21.

This is a fun introduction to the world of open source projects and the space industry. The challenges are designed by both NASA and our own Canadian Space Agency. Solutions to the challenges rely on NASA’s publicly available open sourced data and require teamwork and creativity!

Last year’s teams used artificial intelligence, GIS and mapping technologies, industrial design techniques, and many other cool ideas and technologies to meet their chosen challenges. Find out more, including how to register, at http://www.spaceappsottawa.com

We hope to see you there!

Deploy Solutions Sponsors "Space Apps Ottawa" Event, April 28-30

Deploy Solutions is proud to be a sponsor of the inaugural Space Apps Ottawa event, which is the local branch of the global (and highly popular) NASA International Space Apps Challenge.

Ottawa, prepare for liftoff! The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is an intense 48-hour global weekend hackathon for developers, designers, engineers, entrepreneurs, astronomers and enthusiasts. Along with nearly 200 cities around the world, Ottawa teams will form and build products and prototypes against NASA-designed challenges that leverage spacecraft, celestial and science data. This FREE event will run from Friday evening, April 28 to Sunday, April 30. Find out more, including how to register, at http://www.spaceappsottawa.com.

The solutions to the challenges rely on NASA’s publicly available open sourced data. It is our hope that this event will serve as a fun and creative introduction to the world of open source projects.

There is a lot of early interest from many Ottawa tech community groups and companies. See you there!

Deploy's New Company Website Launches

Welcome to Deploy Software Solution’s newly-launched corporate website.

Our vision is to reduce the remarkably high rate of software project failures worldwide, by transforming the way companies manage them.

To that end, we have just launched this company website to showcase the growing list of consulting services and products we can offer our clients.

In addition, we are currently working hard on our software project delivery methodology, accelerators and tools, many of which we will share on a dedicated micro-site / blog. We plan to open that up to the public in the first quarter of the 2017. You can sign up to our “Software Projects” newsletter to get notified the instant it is live, or check back regularly for more news.