“KAST has provided great learning and networking opportunities to connect with other tech workers in our region, and linked us to excellent resources from outside the Kootenays. The MIDAS Lab, in particular, has given us the space to develop our projects with the tools we, as a small company, couldn’t afford on our own and surrounded us with people who push our skills further.”

“You get a sense that there’s a real movement going on here. I looked around and saw other companies that are accessing VAP and I saw people talking about having a business mentor and talking about that value, and doing it in a particularly Kootenay kind of way… everyone was both working hard and playing hard, and you can see that there’s a lot of excitement …”