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Intellectual Property Protection & Resources for Artificial Intelligence

February 15

12:00am – 12:00am

Intellectual property (IP) rights not only protect and encourage innovation and creativity, but a proper IP strategy can lead to commercialization, higher growth and export opportunities. In a nutshell, a proper IP strategy is essential for businesses to fully realize the growth and economic potential of their innovations, while ensuring protection of what’s rightfully theirs.

Yet, protecting IP is not as straight forward for the artificial intelligence (AI) industry as it is for a tangible innovation like a piece of hardware. That’s why Intellectual Property Ontario and the University of Ottawa invite you to join us for an in-person event to hear:

• what intellectual property protections are best suited for AI

• how to use intellectual property as a business advantage

• IP lessons learned from AI entrepreneurs

• Available supports through IPON including up to 25K for IP services, mentorship services and IP education.

We also invite you to join us after the event to network with IP experts and industry peers.

Cyber Security: How to Protect Canadian Agriculture from a Growing Challenge

January 10

8:30am – 3:00pm

Welcome to Cyber Security: How to Protect Canadian Agriculture from a Growing Challenge, the inaugural event hosted by CAAIN (Canadian Agri-Food Automation and Intelligence Network). This hybrid workshop features top Canadian and international experts discussing the do’s and don’ts of staying secure in today’s increasingly technological agricultural environment.

If you’re involved in farming or primary food processing, you can’t afford to miss out.

Join in-person for a full day including breakfast and lunch– for only $100 for CAAIN members. Not a member? You can either pay $150 to attend the event or get a free network membership. If you can’t make it to Guelph on January 10, 2023, you can attend virtually for $50 (members) or $100 (non-members).

2022 Reimagining Canada’s Traditional Economy: Genomics and Digital Technology

December 13

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Join us on December 13 for a virtual broadcast exploring the opportunity to reimagine traditional economies through digital technologies, genomics and biomanufacturing.

Panel 1 — Lift All Boats: The opportunity in digitizing Canada’s traditional industries

Panellists:

• Jean-Charles Fahmy — President and CEO, Canada’s CENGN
• Stephanie Holko — Director, Project Development, NGen
• Mariam Awara — COO, Pulsenics

Panel 2 — Clean DNA: How genomics can reduce emissions and drive economic growth for Canada

Panellists:

• Fei Luo — Co-founder and CEO, Liven Proteins
• Bettina Hamelin — President and CEO, Ontario Genomics
• Iris Redinger — Founder, Material Futures
• Warren Mabee — Associate Dean and Director, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University

Communitech: Future of Health Solutions Showcase

December 13

11:30am – 1:30pm

Join Canadian healthcare leaders and startup founders for a showcase of brilliant Canadian tech solutions to advance our healthcare system.

Communitech and our partners are working to mitigate this crisis with our Future of Health 2022 program. Join us online on December 13th, 2022, at our Solutions Showcase as 10 of Canada’s top startup and scale-up technology companies will come together to pitch their market-ready tech solutions to improve our healthcare systems.

Take part in the community effort as we identify and connect with founders who have the potential to transform your healthcare organization and celebrate Canadian innovation alongside founders, investors, entrepreneurs, innovators and healthcare leaders.

2022 Pitches and Pitchers – IO Ignition Cohort 17 Pitch Finale

December 8

4:30pm – 7:00pm

Pitches & Pitchers – what better combo to celebrate both Cohort 17 and the close of a great year. Join us for the 17th edition of the IO Ignition Pitch Finale and a fun happy hour to celebrate all our successes from 2022. We welcome all to join us in person at Bayview Yards on Thursday, December 8th from 4:30 – 7:00 pm ET.

What better way to close off the year with an event full of networking, inspiration, innovative ideas and pitchers (yes, we mean both beer pitchers and founders who are pitching). Prepare yourselves to be blown away by 15 tech entrepreneurs from the IO Ignition Program. You will be hearing from talented individuals from industries including edtech, govtech, finance, communication, transportation, cleantech and more!

2022 – BlackBerry IVY L-SPARK Demo Day

December 8

1:30pm – 5:00pm

Join us on Dec 8th to see the latest connected vehicle solutions built on BlackBerry’s Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, BlackBerry IVY!

The BlackBerry IVY L-SPARK Accelerator Demo Day will showcase four companies that were given access to the BlackBerry IVY intelligent vehicle data platform to develop high-impact solutions to improve driver and passenger experiences. Demo Day is a hybrid event to celebrate the successful conclusion of the BlackBerry IVY L-SPARK Accelerator.