Ken Sim’s tech midterm report

The week before the mayoral election in October 2022, Vancouver Tech Journal asked the five top-polling candidates about their understanding of Vancouver tech. Each was quizzed on how they would support and grow the city’s innovation ecosystem, and solve local business’s biggest challenges.

Ken Sim, of course, decisively won the race to claim the top job at City Hall — defeating incumbent Kennedy Stewart by a significant majority. The then-mayor-elect made a host of pledges about how he’ll make things easier for local companies: one of the factors that led commentators across the city to dub him, unofficially, as the “business candidate.”

“The future of technology and innovation is one of the topics that I consider myself most passionate about,” he told the Vancouver Tech Journal back in 2022. “I wholeheartedly believe that Vancouver can — and must — emerge as a global leader in the technology sector.”

Two years on from that victory — and halfway through Sim’s term in office — we’re taking a look back at what the mayor has achieved, and what work he still needs to do to fulfill his promises to the tech ecosystem.

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