Past Articles
Thought Leader: An Innovator of Industry
Helping companies and organizations focus on the goals and tasks important to them.
When I established Technology North over twenty-five years ago, our driving vision was to create lasting solutions wherever we worked. The original founders weren’t satisfied with sitting down and simply selling a service.
May 01, 2024
Innovate Alberta: Systematic Innovation
How does one create lasting change? For over twenty-five years, Technology North Corporation has been answering this question where it can, whenever it can.
Using his company’s resources and experts to create assistive technology in the hopes to modernize the care system.
May 01, 2024
RoboCoach’ Developer Helps Employ People on Autism Spectrum
“Helping people does not need to be a charity, it can also be a business.”
People with high functioning ASD can thrive doing many of the same types of routine business tasks neurotypical people do every day.
February 28, 2022
SMEs to Deliver Effective and Meaningful Workplace Inclusion Programs
Canada has record-low unemployment along with record high job vacancies.
The country is literally running out of workers. In every industry, businesses are facing significant labour shortages.
April 20, 2022
How an Alberta Entrepreneur Built Software to Employ People with Autism Around the World
Alberta and federal government innovation programs have been crucial in developing software that helps young adults with autism.
Credits assistance from Alberta Innovates, as well as from the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program, in commercializing and marketing his company’s software platforms.
June 23, 2021
Providing Youth on the Autism Spectrum with Skills and Training to Enter the Workforce
When young people have the tools, resources and supports they need to start their careers, they embark on a path to success
The Government of Canada is investing over $10 million through Employment and Social Development Canada's (ESDC) Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) program to help more than 400 youth on the autism spectrum get the support and skills training they need now to find good jobs.
April 01, 2021
Fast Scanners Help Drive Autism Jobs at Service Bureau
Alberta company gives youth with autism a sense of purpose by equipping them with the right scanners to process paper in large volumes
For Ling Huang, running a service bureau is about providing youth with autism a sense of purpose and equipping them with the right scanners to process paper in large volumes.
July 17, 2020
An Innovative and Holistic Approach for Autism Employment and IT labor Shortage
Research Article
Technology North has developed a novel approach to a current social trend encompassing business, technology, and employment.
There is a need defined by the requirement within business jurisdictions to increase the social inclusivity of people with disabilities in employment spaces.
January 05, 2020
8 Steps to Deliver Your Dream
We all have dreams. But, in so many cases, our dreams often go unfulfilled or only partially realized.
In early 2019, Ling started a project called “RoboCoach”, an assistive technology platform to overcome employment barriers faced by youth with ASD.
May 15, 2020
Engineered to Help
“I look at system issues on the whole,” Ling says. “Things can be easily solved by a holistic system engineering approach.”
Maybe not always so easily. After all, it’s been a decade since he first fully committed himself to helping people on the autism spectrum lead more independent quality lives.
May 08, 2020
A Holistic Live-Work Community Concept for Autistic Adults
Every day, autistic parents around the world are asking the same question.
Currently, families are faced with just two options to support their loved ones as they enter adulthood. The first option is to set up a trust fund for their loved one and hope for the best possible future.
May 08, 2020
