Intersect’s 5th Annual Bike Day
We’re pretty fortunate people, here at Intersect. We get to spend our days creating exciting digital products for clients we love working with. Unfortunately, not everyone gets to be as fortunate as us. But we have a desire to change that, and we’ve started by trying to make summer days better for some less fortunate... [Read More]
Are You Ready for the Next Race in SME Mobile Banking?
There are six things to help financial institutions warm up In North America, over 99% of business are SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprise). Over half of them rely on mobile banking to access and manage their accounts. For millennial business owners, the reliance on mobile banking jumps to nearly 70%. This makes the technology used... [Read More]
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A Tech Newbie’s Thoughts on Collision 2019
A lot has happened in the last four weeks. I changed jobs going from a traditional corporate company located in the heart of the Financial District to a fast-moving tech innovation firm that is young, creative, and, most importantly, open to new and fresh ideas. I transitioned from a marketing and communications role to a... [Read More]
The 4 Biggest Mistakes Companies Make In Product Development
How to build outstanding digital products and avoid common detrimental mistakes Intersect has been working with different companies across multiple industries since 2006, and over the last 13 years we’ve gained insight into the choices companies make and the mistakes that come with those choices. These mistakes appear time and again when we work with... [Read More]
Women Who Crush It
We wouldn’t be who we are without our people. And it just so happens that a lot of our people are women. At Intersect, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of inclusiveness and growth, but it’s no secret that women in technology face unique challenges. We asked some of Intersect’s leading ladies to share their experiences and keys to success in tech (and life). Here’s what they had to say. [Read More]
An Introductory Hands-On With Reinforcement Learning
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are hot topics these days amongst those that play in and around the tech world. We hear our clients asking about these things quite often too. Everyone wants to know how artificial intelligence can help to improve their digital experiences. The problem with this though is that a lot of... [Read More]
Give Me An Hour, I’ll Give You Solutions
If you give me an hour, a room with three or more people, and a pressing topic for your business or product, together we can come up with solutions. Using some not-so-secret tech, I can help you highlight and determine the key issues around that problem and determine a series of solutions, prioritized by impact... [Read More]
AndroidTO Video Roundup: Logins, Superpowers, and Black Hat Hacking
At the beginning of November, we proudly teamed up with the Toronto Chapter of the Google Developers Group to host the 9th annual AndroidTO conference. We were joined by a great community of developers who wanted to gather insights from one another and gain knowledge from some great speakers who work for some of the... [Read More]
AndroidTO 2018 – Communities Bettering Communities
Last week, with the help of the Toronto chapter of the Google Developer Group, we hosted for the 9th year running, the AndroidTO conference. Every year we are in awe of the talent and calibre of Toronto and GTA’s finest developers that come together for a day of networking and learning from other well accomplished... [Read More]
The 5 Principles of Solutions Architects
Many people may have never heard the term “Solutions Architect” before, but here at Intersect, it is one of the most important roles on our team. As our colleague, Anson Kao points out in a recent blog post, some companies will call this role a “Technical PM.” However, at Intersect we know that what these... [Read More]