helen siwak, editor in chief, marketing, communications, vancouver, bc, west coast luxury, publisher

Helen Siwak (ELL Comms) on 3 Decades of Entrepreneurship & the Future of Independent Publishing

Born and raised on the Canadian Prairies, Helen Siwak’s creative spirit was shaped by an early love for storytelling and an insatiable curiosity about human experience. Drawn to the vibrancy of the West Coast, she relocated to Vancouver and immediately immersed herself in the city’s underground arts and culture scene. There, she launched In Hell’s...

karen lam, filmmaker, director, tax lawyer, helen siwak, portfolioyvr, vancouver, bc, yvr, business, entrepreneurs, industry magazine

Karen Lam of Black Opiate Entertainment Premieres Armageddon Road at Fantaspoa

When Portfolio.YVR profiled lawyer-turned-filmmaker Karen Lam last September, her fifth feature film, Armageddon Road, was poised on the edge of the world. The Vancouver-based writer-director and co-founder of Black Opiate Entertainment had spent years building toward a moment that would carry her work far beyond Canadian borders. As it turns out, that moment arrived in...

liting chan, wedding planner, corporate events, portfolioyvr, helen siwak, vancouver, bc, yvr

Liting Chan of Paradise Events Has Built One of BC’s Most Trusted Luxury Event Studios

Liting Chan does not waste words describing what Paradise Events does — she describes what it creates. Since joining the company in 2016, she has guided it through a fundamental transformation: from a rental-based business into a fully integrated creative studio where planning, design, décor, floral design, and production exist under one roof, developed collaboratively,...

portfolioyvr, helen siwak, vancouver, bc, yvr, editorial, eic

Helen Siwak: Editor’s Message – Issue 12 – Women to Watch For

Eleven women. Eleven businesses. Eleven reasons Vancouver’s entrepreneurial landscape looks different in 2026 than it did the year before. This is Portfolio.YVR’s first all-woman issue — and it will not be our last. It is dedicated to the founders, strategists, creatives, and builders who are advancing their industries with clarity of vision and serious intent....

web summit vancouver 2026, portfolioyvr, helen siwak, ritchie po, business, ai & tech, bc, yvr

Web Summit Vancouver 2026: A Record-Breaking Edition for Canada’s Tech Scene

Web Summit Vancouver 2026 wrapped as one of the most significant tech gatherings ever held on Canadian soil. Over three days at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the event drew 20,235 attendees from more than 100 countries — a nearly 30% jump from the year prior — alongside 1,197 startups and 768 investors, the largest investor...

Portfolio.YVR Launches Issue 12 Headlined by Luxury Strategist Espanda Ghorbannia of Convoy Communications

Originally published via EIN Presswire. VANCOUVER, BC / 04 MAY 2026 Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine proudly announces the release of Volume 4, Issue 12, headlined by Espanda Ghorbannia, Iranian-Canadian luxury marketing strategist, experiential designer, and founder of Convoy Communications — a boutique agency dedicated exclusively to the luxury sector, operating at the intersection of brand strategy...

web summit, queer innovation, vancouver, bc, portfolioyvr, helen siwak

Twenty Thousand Minds, One City: Why Web Summit Vancouver Demands Your Attention

There are conferences, and then there are catalysts. Web Summit has never been content to be the former. Since its founding in Dublin over a decade ago, it has grown into something altogether different: a global gathering of the people who are actively building, disrupting, funding, and questioning the future. Over one million attendees have...

dean vlad x, vlad xanthopolous, phuckeryu, portfolioyvr, helen siwak, vancouver, bc

When the Joke Is the Business: Vladimiros Xanthopoulos Launches the University of Phuckery

Vancouver-based entrepreneur Vladimiros Xanthopoulos has launched University of Phuckery — an irreverent, satire-driven ecommerce platform offering tongue-in-cheek bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral “degrees” within a fully imagined academic universe built on classical symbolism and intellectual parody. Designed as a fully automated direct-to-consumer digital campus, the platform comments on achievement culture, burnout, performative professionalism, and the relentless...

anthony green, greenhat security, vancouver, bc, yvr, portfolioyvr, helen siwak, entrepreneur

Anthony Green: Building World-Class Cybersecurity and Assurance from Canada

GreenHat Security represents the most distilled expression of Anthony Green’s approach to cybersecurity: practical, rigorous, and built around meeting organizations where they are. As co-founder of GreenHat Security and GreenHat Assurance, Anthony launched the two firms to address a challenge he had encountered repeatedly across industries. Companies are expected to be secure, compliant, and audit-ready,...

ritchie po, cybersecurity, portfolioyvr, helen siwak, vancouver, bc, lawyer, yvr

Ritchie Po: Data Privacy, AI Governance, and the Art of the Four-Minute Pivot

Ritchie Po is a data privacy lawyer and consultant based in Vancouver. Since his last profile in Portfolio.YVR in June 2024, he has expanded his practice to encompass AI governance and cross-jurisdictional legal compliance. He has partnered with TechImpossible, a Vancouver-based IT security consultancy founded by Peter Skaronis, focusing on GDPR compliance, and with Monachus,...

PORTFOLIO.YVR

PORTFOLIO.YVR

Helen Siwak (ELL Comms) on 3 Decades of Entrepreneurship & the Future of Independent Publishing

Karen Lam of Black Opiate Entertainment Premieres Armageddon Road at Fantaspoa

Liting Chan of Paradise Events Has Built One of BC’s Most Trusted Luxury Event Studios

Helen Siwak: Editor’s Message – Issue 12 – Women to Watch For

Web Summit Vancouver 2026: A Record-Breaking Edition for Canada’s Tech Scene

Portfolio.YVR Launches Issue 12 Headlined by Luxury Strategist Espanda Ghorbannia of Convoy Communications

Twenty Thousand Minds, One City: Why Web Summit Vancouver Demands Your Attention

When the Joke Is the Business: Vladimiros Xanthopoulos Launches the University of Phuckery

Anthony Green: Building World-Class Cybersecurity and Assurance from Canada

Ritchie Po: Data Privacy, AI Governance, and the Art of the Four-Minute Pivot

Meet Helen Siwak, EIC

PORTFOLIO.YVR – Vol. 4 Issue 12

PORTFOLIO.YVR – Vol. 4 Issue 11

Deadline Coming Soon!

MEDIA KIT 2026

RI x ELL Comms Submission Page

Follow Us on IG

Partners & Affiliates

Connect with Portfolio.YVR!

RI x ELL Comms Submission Page