Echosec Selected as a NextBC Top 25 Innovative British Columbia Technology Company

VICTORIA, British Columbia - May 5, 2014 - PRLog -- Echosec Systems, developer of the Echosec social map search is pleased to have been selected among an elite group of B.C tech startups as a Top 25 tech company. The NextBC Top 25 from DigiBC (www.digibc.org (http://www.digibc.com)) recognizes the most innovative companies that are expected to help shape the future of technology. As part of the Top 25, Echosec will be showcased at a special DigiBC event on May 15 in Vancouver, B.C. at TELUS World of Science to honor the group that includes such innovative companies that also include Hootsuite, Electronic Arts (EA), PayWith, Gener8, Medeo, and others.

Recently written up in SteamFeed and featured on Fox news Montana, Steamfeed shared the following, "Traditional news media, alone, will need to take heed, because the news of what is happening in the world won’t be coming from them. It will be coming from the feeds on the EchoSec map."

According to Karl Swannie, CEO of EchoSec. “This engine is not only good for finding the best local restaurant, but will also help in catastrophes where, for instance, we can virtually recreate a space with immediate and historic data, which is critical for first responders.” Early adopters, like the police, call EchoSec, “The most advanced contemporary analytic tool for law enforcement and security intelligence professionals”. Being honored within such an elite group of talent within the hotbed of British Columbia tech startup talent is truly humbling and true validation that our efforts have been recognized and appreciated - indeed we are stoked!

About Echosec

EchoSec is the next generation of the Search that connects you with trillions of pictures and posts made by billions of people, which never normally make it to common search engines. EchoSec is the first Search Engine of its kind to realize that ‘where’ matters as much as ‘what’, and brings it all together to clearly show the insufficiencies of current data monitoring techniques to control ‘secret’ and ‘classified’information. EchoSec’s unique way of harvesting and displaying dynamic and user-generated content from sites like Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram, gives EchoSec a completely unfiltered and real-time view of the world. And, as you would expect, the results from EchoSec are spectacular. It excels in the urban environment, but it is equally extraordinary in places where you would not expect to find shared data. Areas like military bases, government facilities, private facilities, disaster zones like Tacloban in the Philippines, and even in ‘impenetrable’ countries like North Korea. Recently, Echosec was swamped with user traffic during the Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia and  during the ongoing conflict in Kiev, Ukraine.

About NextBC

BC's tech community will gather this May to identify and celebrate our top 25 most innovative technology companies that will influence the future. This marks the first year of this showcase, which will take place on May 15th. NextBC will be held in beautiful Vancouver at the Telus World of Science. NextBC showcases the most innovative, game-changing technology produced by BC companies shaping our future and changing the way we do business. Bringing together industry peers, leaders, media and supporters, this event honours the visionaries that are leading BC's tech community into the future. See https://www.picatic.com/NextBC

About DigiBC

DigiBC is the Industry Association for Digital Media and Wireless companies in BC. We are a not-for-profit, 100% membership and sponsorship-funded organization. We represent Mobile & Wireless, Video Games, Animation & Special Effects, Social Media, and Online Marketing.

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For more information on EchoSec, please visit http://www.echosec.net

Echosec can be found on Twitter @Echosec_Search