We’re excited to announce our next Member Spotlight Webinar featuring The Black Arcs! CEO Jake Arsenault will dive into key projects from New Brunswick that helped shape their technology and capabilities. Join us on March 11th to learn how The Black Arcs’ Citisketch enables communities to visualize the impact of their decisions and plan for a better future.
About The Black Arcs:
The Black Arcs’ mission is to foster a deep understanding of the impacts of our decisions through widespread access to meaningful predictive models.
Black Arcs creates interactive analytics software to support professionals, corporations, governments, and the general public. Their products illustrate the likely impacts of changes to our environments, allowing users to prototype new ideas.
Citisketch, their first product, is a community-scale simulator. Users explore civic issues by constructing their specific land-use scenarios in a digital twin of their community, which can be used to compare potential plans and engage stakeholders. They facilitate collaborative planning, helping users to punch through silos with a broad suite of features that make discussing complex issues simple and fun. Citisketch employs agent-based artificial intelligence to model mobility behaviour.
About the Speaker: Jake Arsenault, CEO – The Black Arcs
Jake Arsenault is a serial high-tech entrepreneur. He has a PhD in engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB). Before starting The Black Arcs, he founded Inversa Systems, a pioneer of gamma-ray imaging for infrastructure based on his PhD research. He supports start-ups by mentoring early stage ventures, and is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at both the University of New Brunswick and the Atlantic Ballet. He is also on the board of Springboard, Atlantic Canada’s commericialization and industry liaison network.
Jake brings a strong aptitude in both new technology and creation and customer-centric design. Jake is focused on customer engagement, product management, and branding.
