Projets novateurs réalisés

Practitioner Network & Nutraceutical Manufacturing Optimization

Bird&Be is a fertility startup committed to growing families through science-backed products that are personalized to individuals at each stage to and through the journey to parenthood. Their nutraceutical products were formulated by fertility naturopaths, and specifically designed for people at the preconception stage (as well as the pregnancy and postpartum stages), to give them optimal doses of essential nutrients and antioxidants to support fertility. Bird&Be is partnering with Seneca to move successfully through the crucial time for product launch and manufacturing scale-up. The intern on this project will research vendors, secure ingredients for a solid supply chain, ensure proper planning for the orders, report packaging and regulatory needs, outline claims for website, and submit for certifications where possible. The Bird&Be products researched here will provide fast and accessible fertility care for Canadians.

The Delphi Group-Information Systems Analyst Internship-Christina

Delphi is working in a constellation of organizations, including GLOBE Series, CBSR, and Leading Change. Our vision is to achieve a sustainable, prosperous, and socially just future for the next generation. Our team’s mission is to transform the way leading organizations generate value and take specific steps to make our world a better place. Our team passionately believes that businesses can be both profitable and have a positive long-term impact on the environment and our society. In this climate of change, our group of organizations connects and supports companies to engage in a process of transition towards a clean and more equitable economy and provides tools to aid a sustainable acceleration of this process. This work has led to unexpected growth in the demand for our services.
The Information Systems Analyst Intern will benefit from an inclusive work environment and will lead a project that involves the enhancement of our information technology systems and services. As part of this project, the Intern will evaluate the performance of existing systems and will support the design, development, and implementation of various business application systems and programs.

Lenmark Industries LTD-Digital Marketing Assistant-Ashley

Founders Leonard and Mark Buhler have started Lenmark in 2016, with buying and selling equipment auctions, but they have quickly realized that there must be a better way for people and businesses to transact equipment and assets. This is how the idea was born and the development moved on from here, towards growing a business focused on e-commerce and digitalization. Lenmark understands there has been a shift in technology. We took the hard work out and have created an automated proprietary software to help us store, manage, and list our products on all of our marketing channels. When it comes to e-commerce, branding becomes an inevitable need. Brand development for online businesses can be very complex, as it has so many different facets. This project is aimed at building a branding process that will stand out and will situate our organization apart from our competitors. The Digital Marketing intern will utilize her knowledge and in-class learnings to build a real life strategy and increase our online market exposure by using Search Engine Optimization. This project will support more effective e-commerce processes will support the optimization of our current platforms.

Flywheel Digital-Junior Growth Strategist-John

A technical marketing agency, Flywheel Digital provides data-driven SEO and digital advertising services. We specialize in “feedback loops,” i.e. using data from customers’ behaviours online to inform our strategy. To illustrate, we would often launch several test campaigns and then double down on the “winner” based on the highest number of conversions. In the last year, numerous changes in data collection and privacy policies have changed the nature of the data we can access, which in turn reflects our need to change strategies. More often than not, we can no longer determine precisely how many conversions our campaigns drive. This has led to lower ad spending and less business across the industry. This represents a challenge and an opportunity to differentiate ourselves. This project will allow the intern to conduct research on improving digital advertising feedback loops and make a presentation recommending changes to data practices to Flywheel leadership. The Digital Junior Growth Strategist will experiment with applying the recommended changes in data practices in a controlled, friendly “test” client environment. Once the recommended changes are validated, the intern will work with the Flywheel team to roll them out across all Flywheel clients.

Digitalization and automation of lab processes for life science companies to improve efficiency

Scispot is on a mission to help life science companies including Canadian biotech companies automate and digitalize their lab processes while keeping track of all of their resources (samples, inventory, equipment, etc.). The goal of this project is to improve and grow our platform to support as many life science companies as possible. This project aims to improve the current platform’s features while also creating new features to support different workflows for different companies. The aim is to further improve the UX and UI of the platform while being intuitive as digital solutions not being intuitive enough is a major concern in this industry. While the platform is being improved on, this project aims to expand the product’s market presence and outreach to reach life science companies far and wide. We believe our product has the potential to have a significant impact on the bioeconomy and help bring new life-saving products to market faster.

Digital Wallet Integration with Multiple Blockchain Networks

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a remarkable trend that the documents on papers are replaced by digital documents. The partner organization, MyLaminin, has developed a new blockchain-enabled document sharing and verification service platform, that enables individuals, organizations, and governments to securely share important personal and business documents using blockchain. This project aims to extend MyLaminin’s platform to support multiple different blockchain networks that issue their credentials securely to a single digital wallet. The intern will understand the scope of change and/or modifications that would be required to enable different blockchain networks. The new functions of the envisioned platform include credential management for different networks, document request and sharing for multiple organizations, and document sharing on different blockchain networks. In the project, MyLaminin will acquire the comprehensive solution of the platform extension, including the documents of requirement analysis, design, development, and test plan.

Sites archéologiques en péril : identification par modélisation prédictive

Le projet consiste a établir un nouveau protocole d’identification des zones à potentiel archéologique ou patrimonial qui serait spécifique aux besoins des MRC et des municipalités. Que ce soit pour la planification en amont de développement urbain, pour mieux cibler des zones de fouille archéologique de sauvetage dans des secteurs en érosion ou bien pour mettre en valeur un site patrimonial à ses citoyens, un système d’identification des zones prioritaires serait un outil indispensable pour la planification des projets archéologiques. Ce projet a pour objectif de créer et mettre de l’avant cet outil afin de favoriser une collaboration avec les instances gouvernementales et ainsi créer des projets sur-mesure, planifiés, efficaces qui permettent de mettre en valeur le patrimoine canadien.

A Ranking Method: The Top Integrated Energy Generation/StorageTechnologies (Building and Community Scales)

Analysis of the best performing technologies will be conducted relative to the areas of buildingintegrated energy generation and storage of such energy at the building/community scale.Relevant product and other technological literature will be collected and various areas of performancewill be used for comparison. Such metrics of performance for generation/harvesting technology willinclude (but may not be limited to) conversion efficiency from the energy source to usable energy, costof installation and useful operating life span. Metrics of performance for storage technology will include(but may not be limited to) total energy storage capacity, losses and other factors (such as durability)affecting storage efficiency, cost of installation and useful operating life span. Limiting factors such asinstallation requirements and building code requirements will also be explored.This will provide S2E with a useful resource for implementing such technologies into Project SmartCommunity and other future projects while also providing a framework for a database of products.

Co-designing and Communicating Equitable and Transformational Climate Actions

In this Mitacs project, the BSI intern will work with the University of Toronto’s Urban Climate Action Project (UCAP) and with Social Innovation Canada to distill and build on insights gleaned from jurisdictional scans, environmental reports, and other outputs produced by the University of Toronto’s Sustainability in a Living Lab course cohort and previous ones. As well, they will design and facilitate co-design workshops and other events that contribute to the co-creation of real-world low carbon solutions with stakeholders and partners.

Développement d’un outil web de cartographie dynamique des projets visant la conservation des écosystèmes et le maintien des usages du fleuve/golfe St-Laurent

Développement d’un outil de cartographie dynamique en ligne Le Fonds d’action Saint-Laurent (FASL) est un organisme à but non lucratif et de charité qui favorise la conservation des écosystèmes et le maintien des usages du fleuve Saint-Laurent et de son golfe en soutenant des projets de préservation, de mise en valeur et de réhabilitation du fleuve, ainsi que des projets d’éducation et de sensibilisation aux enjeux du fleuve Saint-Laurent. Le FASL a soutenu à ce jour la réalisation d’une centaine de projets touchant le fleuve, de même que ses affluents. La quantité croissante d’information produite par l’organisme nécessite des solutions technologiques et logistiques lui permettant d’en assurer une gestion et une diffusion efficace. Le stage proposé vise à doter le FASL d’outils et de procédés qui lui permettront de mettre
en valeur son rôle et ses réalisations auprès de ses partenaires, de ses bénéficiaires et d’un public interpellé par le fleuve par le biais d’une cartographie interactive connectée à une base de données en ligne.

Développement d’une plateforme B2Bpour favoriser le circuits court

Développer une plateforme de commerce en circuit court pour le B2B.

Digital Energy Platform Use Case Development – Awesense

Awesense is a clean tech company in the energy space whose mission is to accelerate the transition to clean energy by making it easy to build data-driven applications for a decarbonized grid.

To facilitate that, Awesense has been building a Digital Energy Platform that electrical utilities, consulting companies and software solution vendors can use to quickly prototype and develop decision support analytics applications for a wide variety of use cases. For utilities, this alleviates the need of repeatedly engaging in data integration efforts with each new software vendor or consultant for each desired use case – instead, integrate only once with the Awesense Platform, then add on as many platform-compatible applications as needed. For application providers, this helps focus on delivering the use case rather than doing data integration.

The Awesense Platform will have economic and societal impacts by enabling a thriving ecosystem of software companies trying to speed up the clean energy transition (including the electrification of transportation infrastructure), thus addressing social or environmental issues important to Canadian society.