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Government Operations committee I would say that if you really do it, be ready, because you would get surprisingly good outcomes. If you had outcome-based RFPs, you would see Canadian companies that you never thought of coming out of the woods and delivering huge value, and your problem would be suddenly realiz
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee I think we are a very good example. We had exactly that problem. We are a small company. Going to the bottom line, I think what is needed is an ecosystem led by the government that has both large and small companies. When we made our first SLSA attempt, we failed. We did not hav
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee I think they should be much more money, for sure. The amount that we've spent.... I think most of the companies here would agree that we can easily spend that much. Maybe it has to be staged, but I've always come to the end of the budget, and the customers too, on every project
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee Perhaps I could add to that for a moment. What we found is that when it's BCIP money that's being spent, it's relatively easy to convince a department to be a test department, but the step then is that sometime during the year, they would then need to come up with their own fun
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee I would say that the private sector has already realized that this is pretty much how you have to do it, and I've worked in huge companies. The approach, then, for the people running an agile project is to prove to me, every day, why I should keep your project going. That's what
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee When I was speaking at the BCIP conference in Toronto, the head of the BCIP program spoke. He told the audience that in the United States the government supports innovators from technology readiness level 1. For the BCIP program, you have to be at least at level 6 or 7. To put it
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee I initially worked as a consultant and a programmer here in Ottawa for about 10 years. My first job was working at Shirley's Bay in defence research. From there, I went on to work at Nortel. Then I worked on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch. At that point, I just had this “aha” momen
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee It was 9/11. I was doing really well on Wall Street. Along with 6,000 other people at Merrill Lynch, I was laid off after 9/11. At the age of 30, I had to start my life over again, so I decided to start a business. From then to now was about 10 years' work.
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee I would say that it's true. It's a very valuable program. I was invited to speak at a BCIP conference in Toronto. It was amazing. They had all the successful companies that year, and many of the departments were there, at a one-day conference. The energy in the room was amazing
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee Good afternoon. Thank you for your invitation. Good afternoon. My name is David Long. I am the CEO of SageTea Software, an Ottawa-based software company. Our mission is to be a global standard for software development. We have won two build in Canada innovation program awards.
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long
Government Operations committee The purpose of the build In Canada innovation program is to help Canadian companies move their state-of-the-art goods and services from the lab to the marketplace by giving the company that first major reference sale. The Innovation, Science and Economic Development website state
December 7th, 2017Committee meeting
David Long