Centre for Digital Media

05/15/2026

Global investors, government leaders, and creative-tech industry partners gathered at CDM this week as part of the Creative Technology Tour led by Invest Vancouver to kick off Web Summit Vancouver 2026.

Hosted at the Centre for Digital Media within Vancouver’s Creative District, the afternoon highlighted how BC’s connected ecosystem of talent, education, industry, infrastructure, and innovation continues to attract global attention and investment.

The event featured remarks from BC Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport, Anne Kang, Vancouver City Councillor Mike Klassen, DigiBC CEO Loc Dao, CDM Board Chair Bill Tam, LowTide Properties’ Matthew Dixon, alongside CDM leadership Ted Gervan and Mary Lim (she/her).

“CDM is an anchor institution, where talent is not just trained, but tested, as students work on real-world problems with industry partners from day one. This helps position B.C. talent among the best in the world and strengthens our creative economy,” shared Minister Kang.

Visitors explored the newly launched CDM Innovation Gallery, interactive student-industry projects with Vancouver Community College (VCC) and Metro Vancouver and the Canadian Video Game Museum, a student venture and experiences developed through the Master of Digital Media (MDM) program - as well a studio visit to recently nominated for a Canadian Video Game Award for Best Indie Game for Fresh Tracks, Buffalo Buffalo.

The afternoon highlighted:

🎮 Real industry collaboration
💡 Hands-on multidisciplinary product developments
🚀 Direct access to leaders shaping BC’s creative-tech sector
🌎 Opportunities connecting talent, innovation, and industry

As Councillor Mike Klassen shared: “CDM helps create the conditions investors look for: access to high-quality talent, strong industry collaboration, and a direct connection between innovation and commercialization.”

The afternoon reinforced CDM’s growing role within BC’s creative-tech sector and the increasing international interest in Vancouver’s innovation ecosystem.

Read more about the visit, partnerships, projects, and conversations shaping BC’s creative-tech future: https://lnkd.in/gu8DCpb9

Big extra thanks to: Patrick Owens, Gordon Inglis, Ryan Dunnison, Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia and City of Vancouver as well as the whole CDM team for making this happen!

04/22/2026

Trying to make sense of where AI fits into your product workflow?

Join Agentic AI for Product Designers with Kat Moynahan, a one-day, hands-on workshop focused on helping you bring AI into real product development and design work as the space evolves.

This workshop is built with CDM alumni and working professionals in mind and is grounded in real production environments.

You’ll explore how agentic AI can support your process, where it creates the most value, and how to move ideas from concept through to deployment with more clarity.

You’ll leave with a practical approach you can apply right away, and continue building on in your role.

📅 May 8
⏰ 8:45 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Centre for Digital Media, Vancouver

Register now: https://luma.com/tpbwetwj

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04/21/2026

Know someone exploring digital media or thinking about their next step in their career? 😄

The Technical Communication Bundle (TCB), part of the Master of Digital Media at the Centre for Digital Media, offers optional support for students who want to strengthen how they communicate ideas, tell their stories, and build portfolios that reflect their work. 💪

This term, students explored STAR storytelling with Ted Gervan, job search strategies with Ryan Dunnison, portfolio development with Christine Kuo and Thelma Wiegert, and new ways of thinking about transmedia IP with Arthur Protasio.

It’s one of the ways students build confidence and prepare for real-world opportunities within a creative-tech community.

To learn more about TCB and the MDM program, visit the link: https://bit.ly/mdm-tcb

04/20/2026

Learn how CDM's Master of Digital Media program can transform your career.
Join us on May 6 for a free live webinar on the Master of Digital Media program at CDM. We’ll walk through how the program combines hands-on, industry projects with real-world experience, and what that actually looks like for students.

Our admissions team will also be live to answer questions on applications, scholarships, and program fit.

May 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM PT
Register: https://bit.ly/4tGVNTL

04/13/2026

Here's a great example of how education and industry can come together in a meaningful way - last week we welcomed the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages, for an immersive visit highlighting CDM’s applied, industry-integrated approach to education.

From Indigenous-led workplace innovation to game venture development, and studio-based collaboration, the visit brought forward a range of projects that reflect how students are working through real challenges with real partners.

A few highlights:
-ReGenHR ( Workplaces) – advancing Indigenous cultural safety through digital tools and HR transformation
-Character Forge (Canadian Video Game Museum) – a game venture startup building an interactive experience to move users through the game development pipeline, launching at the Museum of Vancouver this July
-Buffalo Buffalo Studio– showcasing co-developed projects and real-time production with industry

When this model works, the outcomes are clear. Talent is developed through doing, ideas move faster, and the connection between learning and industry becomes tangible.

Thank you to Minister Miller for taking the time to connect with our students, partners, and project teams at the Centre for Digital Media. Thanks to the team who shared this day with us: Bill Tam, Patrick Owens at Buffalo Buffalo, Carrie Lamb at Sacred Workplaces, Ryan Dunnison, Loc Dao and Anthonia Ogundele.

And thank you to Canadian Heritage, moments like this reinforce the value of applied, collaborative learning and the role it plays in shaping Canada’s digital and creative future.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3O0Ne6D

03/24/2026

Creative ideas travel fast when students start sharing their work!
Centre for Digital Media welcomed students from International Professional University of Technology 国際工科専門職大学 for an academic exchange visit.

Our Master of Digital Media (MDM) students opened their project rooms and walked our guests through the digital products they are building with industry partners. The IPUT students brought their work too, sharing animations, prototypes and video projects they’ve been developing in Tokyo.

What followed was exactly the kind of exchange we love to see at CDM. Students gathered around each other’s work, traded ideas, asked questions, and connected over creative technology, design and culture.

Thank you to our MDM students who stepped up to lead tours and welcome our guests. Moments like this are what make our community special.

03/12/2026

Industry User Test Day at CDM is where our Master of Digital Media teams open their projects to the world.

Industry partners, recruiters and innovators joined us to test prototypes, ask tough questions and help shape what these projects become next.

It’s a day full of experimentation, insight and energy as students push their ideas further before final delivery.
Thanks to everyone who joined us and helped make it happen.

This is what building the future looks like!

Thanks to our partners: Thanks to our partners: Accenture, Metro Vancouver, Canadian Video Game Museum, Gist Tech, Coal Car Studio Ltd., Ludic Lemur, Buffalo Buffalo, Elumai, The Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society (CAUDS), Sacred Workplaces, Huawei, Tandem Impact.
Plus DigiBC and the CDM team!

03/03/2026

We had the pleasure of welcoming multidisciplinary artist and advocate Kristina Lao to CDM for a 'Building Relationships' workshop with our MDM students, and it was one of those sessions that stays with you.

Instead of “how to network,” we talked about how to actually relate to people.

Kristina broke down the four pillars of strong relationships:
=Trust
=Communication
=Mutual benefit
=Reliability

We explored social anxiety in professional spaces, practiced box breathing techniques used in high-pressure situations and shared practical ways to make connections stick.

One tip students loved: after any event, write down one thing you remember about each person you met. Their name and one detail. That is how you move from transactional to relational.

This is what the MDM experience is about. Not just building products. Building confidence. Building community. Building relationships that last.

11/17/2025

11/08/2025

Our students stepped behind the curtain at Industrial Light & Magic's () Vancouver studio for an exclusive industry tour.

We got an inside look at how ILM brings impossible worlds to screen. From pre-production concept work through the full VFX pipeline, modeling, rigging, animation, FX, lighting, and compositing, we saw how artists collaborate to create the seamless visuals that define modern filmmaking.

Surrounded by iconic props (yup, that's Chewbacca, R2-D2 and Ultraman), we learned about career paths in VFX, the technical workflows that power blockbuster productions, and what it takes to work at one of the industry's most legendary studios.