The Techies: New Ventures BC Competition’s 21st year, the pros and cons of hybrid events and the celebration of an ecosystem

The tweets you may have missed while you brushed up on last night’s winners.

In the previous iteration of The Techies, I discussed my ill-fated attempt to secure cognac at the New Ventures BC Competition, an event that kicked off Vancouver Startup Week 2016. Though I wrote about that interaction with a bartender, I had a bigger takeaway that evening. NVBC x VSW was the crossover event I didn’t know I needed. I was catapulted int…