Intersect is a custom software organization that delivers momentum to product development, technology enablement and delivery of the digital products of some of the most well-known companies on the planet. Our team has worked within every industry imaginable with a focus on the Retail, Insurance, Banking and Hospitality Industries over our 10-year history.  

Intersect partners with forward-thinking organizations to develop the intellectual property and process that supports their desire to delight their customers, users and stakeholders.

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2019 marketing campaign that showcases what INTERSECT brings to market in a concise package.

If you need momentum, you need INTERSECT.

INTERSECT - Where User Experience Meets Momentum

Every year, just before the Victoria Day long weekend, the Intersect team takes time to build bikes to be donated to My First Wheels, a charity that collects bicycles for children in lower-income neighbourhoods across the greater Toronto area, so that they have a bike to ride over the summer. This was Intersect's 5th year of building bikes and brought our total to 65 bikes built and donated over the years.

Intersect Bike Day 2019

Finally, our third clip has our four panellists discussing how companies and intrapreneurs can work together to make change happen. From understanding why evolving is so important from a company purpose perspective to having to be open to trying new things that may not always work out, the panel gives our audience, and now you as well, some real advice for how even the largest of organizations can genuinely embrace an innovative culture.

The Intrapreneur Alliance: Behaviour Change, Communication, & Intrapreneurs - part 3

Your relationship with RxJava doesn't have to be complicated. We find many ways to use it wrong; it is also powerful when used properly. In fact, RxJava can guide you in shaping a sound architecture for your app. We only have to follow a few but decisive principles.

In this talk, we'll:

- See at how side-effect isolation can help to avoid bugs.
- Learn how to share one unique stream between your view and your presenter.
- Discover the ways a unidirectional data flow makes adding new functionality easy and safe.
- Look at how data immutability brings safety to data manipulation.

After this talk, you’ll be able to write a robust and reactive architecture for your app, taking full advantage of RxJava.

Applying Rx Best Practices to Your Architecture - Benoît Quenaudon - AndroidTO 2018 [DevFest18]

React Native and other cross-platform solutions are getting more and more popular. As Android developers, we can either be scared of them or embrace them. In this talk, I'll share my journey from the former to the latter, and what I learnt from it.

React Native: A Beginner's Journey - Simon Reggiani - AndroidTO 2018 [Part of DevFest18]

Reliable multiplatform development has been the Holy Grail for Mobile Developers since its inception. Many frameworks did appear and disappear. Kotlin/Native has come strongly, and since it is still in Beta version there are some caveats about this. Is Kotlin/Native reliable for my app? Is it production-ready?

Come to this talk to learn what Kotlin/Native can do for you.

Kotlin/Native for Multiplatform Development - Enrique López Mañas - AndroidTO 2018 [DevFest18]

What happens when a seasoned Android developer finds herself having to learn iOS from the beginning over the course of a few months? This survival guide will discuss lessons learned, differences in developing in the two platforms, and tips and resources to help you transition from Android to iOS development.

Adventures of an Android Developer in iOS Land - Yun Cheng - AndroidTO 2018 [Part of DevFest18]

Every engineer has great intentions when diving into a codebase. You want to make the code beautiful, easy to read, and modular. However as time passes and new feature and quick bug fixes are put in, somehow your android codebase turned into a mess of multiple levels of inheritance of views and fragments and you're stuck wondering how you ended up here in the first place.

In my talk, I will share with you common poor patterns that every developer first makes when developing in android and the alternative architecture patterns to ensuring clean code. We will talk about listeners, event-driven paradigms and clean architecture.

Common Poor Coding Patterns and How to Avoid Them - Alice Yuan - AndroidTO 2018 [Part of DevFest18]

Constraint Layouts, Fragments, Data Binding, Architecture Components. The continuous release of new abstractions and paradigms can be a draining process for even the most experienced programmers. For this talk, I focus on the Zen-like process of leaving it all behind and stripping away layers, rather than adding them. Android has always provided all the tools you need, you just need to know where to look for them. I talk about the Canvas and how you can draw fast and complex views, the Android Layout System and how you can implement custom responsive layouts, and using the Touch Event System to create smooth gestures across view boundaries. This talk is applicable for every level of Android developer. Familiarity with a programming language is the only prerequisite.

A Skeptics Guide to Programmatic Views on Android - Adam Erb - AndroidTO 2018 [Part of DevFest18]

I want to show you how the macOS command-line can make quick work of many things Android developers need to do. Learning how to use command-line tools will give you more ways to get your job done, and get it done faster.

I'll demonstrate real-world techniques for how you can type less in the terminal, search your projects with ease, manipulate images and JSON files, automate deployment and testing, and more. All without needing to point, click, or swipe!

How The Command-Line Can Give You Superpowers - Eric Fung - AndroidTO 2018 [Part of DevFest18]

Building Software is becoming increasingly difficult with many moving pieces and specializations. The role a Product Manager plays in orchestrating this complexity is crucial - and understanding how software works (and how it's built) is key for building great products. 

But how should a Product Manager go about learning these necessary technical skills?

 Our experts Jad Yaghi and Sam Kawtharani recently hosted a webinar on this exact topic, covering :
Why technical skills are key for a PM to build a great product Which technical skills will drive great results Tips on how PMs can grow their technical "chops", and how to prioritize what you should learn Examples and case studies on how Intersect has built a formal process to help up-skill our PMs Click to view the complete webinar. 

Why It's Important for Product Managers to have tech skills (and how we help them get there)

Jad Yaghi