James Slifierz

Co-Founder, SkyWatch Space Applications

James Slifierz

Co-Founder, SkyWatch Space Applications

Biography

In Spring 2014, built Sproutr, an online platform for entrepreneurs, with a co-founder. Grew the beta to hundreds of users on 5 continents and over 15 countries.

In April 2014, with a team of five, built SkyWatch, a project Maclean’s Magazine called “”Twitter for the sky.”” The project went on to win the 2014 NASA International Space Apps Challenge. Currently building the product/company in preparation for a beta release in April 2015. The company is currently situated in Waterloo, Ontario, as part of the 6-month Google For Entrepreneurs program at Communitech.”

James was a speaker at IEEE N3XT® 2015 Toronto.