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Mary Carmichael: Building Cyber Resilience Across Canada

Mary Carmichael stepped into one of the more consequential roles of her career when she was appointed Field CISO, Western Canada with Bell Cyber. The position is deliberately outward-facing — less internal mandate, more market engagement — and it suits her. “I spend time with customers, partners, and the broader cybersecurity community, listening to what...

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Margaret Dibor: Dima Risk Solutions: Building the Right Foundation

Margaret Dibor arrived at Web Summit Vancouver 2026 with a new build, a sharper product, and a philosophy refined by a year of hard-won development. When Portfolio.YVR spotlighted her in the 2025 Special Edition, she was advancing a bold premise: a virtual CISO and privacy officer, accessible to the small and medium businesses that needed...

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Yali-CyberShield: Building Security Confidence From the Ground Up

Amarjeet Kaur, CEO and Co-Founder of Yali-CyberShield, returns to the Portfolio.YVR spotlight with a sharper product thesis and a year of deliberate, foundation-building work behind her. When the publication profiled her as part of the 2025 Web Summit Special Edition, she had set an ambitious target: 100-plus active customers and strategic partnerships with incubators, legal...

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Lyndsay Malchuk: The Story Behind the Story

When Portfolio.YVR featured Lyndsay Malchuk in the 2025 Web Summit Special Edition, she was already making her mark as a capital markets reporter with an instinct for uncovering what lies beneath the polished surface of corporate communications. A year on, the most significant shift has been one of scale. What has changed most in her...

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Helen Siwak: Editor’s Message: Web Summit Special Edition II

If the inaugural Web Summit Vancouver taught us anything, it was that Vancouver was ready. The second edition confirmed it. What began as a bold experiment in bringing a global technology conversation to Canada’s west coast has settled into something the city can genuinely call its own, and Portfolio.YVR has been honoured to document it...

Portfolio.YVR Web Summit Vancouver 2026 Special Edition: BC Founders Building for Business, Community, and Net Safety

Originally published via EIN Presswire. // VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA, June 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Portfolio.YVR Business & Entrepreneurs Magazine has released its 2nd Annual Web Summit Vancouver Special Edition, celebrating the founders, operators, and professionals who converged at Web Summit Vancouver this year — each engaged in building the technologies and services that strengthen how business operates,...

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Beyond the Noise: Growth Nexus Brings Intellectual Discourse to Web Summit Vancouver

Web Summit Vancouver draws hundreds of events in its orbit — panels, parties, pitches, and after-conference gatherings that spill across the city for days. Most follow a familiar format. One evening, on May 13th, was designed from the outset to do otherwise. Tropoly and Ryan hosted the first-ever Nexus Forum in Gastown — an invite-only...

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Tropoly Reaches 1,000-Automation Milestone as North American Retailers Lean on AI to Offset Margin Pressure

Canadian retailers entered 2026 with a familiar set of pressures: tighter consumer wallets, persistent and rising overhead costs, and the slow grind of integrating AI into operations that were already running thin. For many mid-market and enterprise operators, appetite for automation has outpaced the internal capacity to build it. That gap is where Tropoly has...

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Espanda Ghorbannia (Convoy Communications) Redefines Luxury Experiential Strategy in Canada & Middle East

Espanda Ghorbannia is an Iranian-Canadian luxury marketing strategist, experiential designer, and founder whose work is grounded in a question most brands forget to ask: in a category where customers are never compelled, only choosing, what makes them choose you — and keep choosing you? That question has shaped her career across brand strategy, experiential design,...

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Michelle Raymond (Raymond Realty) Two Decades of Heart-Centred Luxury Real Estate in Vancouver

Michelle Raymond is a second-generation REALTOR and a Vancouver original, raised inside the industry by parents who shaped her understanding of real estate long before she held a license. Her mother, Pamela Hooper, modeled confidence and presence in a male-dominated environment. Her father, Mark Raymond, taught her the discipline of door knocking and the value...

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Mary Carmichael: Building Cyber Resilience Across Canada

Margaret Dibor: Dima Risk Solutions: Building the Right Foundation

Yali-CyberShield: Building Security Confidence From the Ground Up

Lyndsay Malchuk: The Story Behind the Story

Helen Siwak: Editor’s Message: Web Summit Special Edition II

Portfolio.YVR Web Summit Vancouver 2026 Special Edition: BC Founders Building for Business, Community, and Net Safety

Beyond the Noise: Growth Nexus Brings Intellectual Discourse to Web Summit Vancouver

Tropoly Reaches 1,000-Automation Milestone as North American Retailers Lean on AI to Offset Margin Pressure

Espanda Ghorbannia (Convoy Communications) Redefines Luxury Experiential Strategy in Canada & Middle East

Michelle Raymond (Raymond Realty) Two Decades of Heart-Centred Luxury Real Estate in Vancouver

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