Projets novateurs réalisés

COVID Business Strategy – Fehr

Research our organization’s current ability to adapt to events such as COVID-19 and options we could take to improve this flexibility (I.e. what is our cross-training status across the organization, how well are we operating and completing tasks digitally, without face-to-face contact, could this be made more efficient)

COVID Business Strategy – Novella

This project will investigate the ways businesses in the tourism, events and convention industry as well as the energy services industry, dealt with or are dealing with the crisis. These are the two hardest hit industries according to the Prime Minister.

COVID Business Strategy – Ogunlana

This project would accelerate the work Rainmaker is doing to create new opportunities for Canadian companies expanding to new markets in order to survive; and recover from the COVID economic impact.

Rainmaker will expand its market knowledge, and by extension become more effective in our support for Canadian companies as they recover from the covid crisis. As we expand our market knowledge of various global markets, we are positioned to advise and support companies as they gain market share abroad.

COVID Business Strategy – Wahab

Blue Monarch Management is a Canadian, privately-owned Management Consulting firm operating in Calgary and Toronto specializing in critical inquiry, strategy and business transformation. At every touch point, our consultants and business development staff reflect on what experience we want our prospects, clients, partners, and team members to have. Blue Monarch Management consultants speak ‘digital’ and excel in building proficiency with the information, systems, and operating technologies in our clients’ industries.

Technology Transfer Services Internship

Technological innovation drives economic growth, improves business efficiency, disseminates knowledge and often lays the foundation for social change. We look to innovation to help us overcome the many challenges that the global community faces. In order to foster innovation, researchers and inventors must have a nurturing environment in which they have pathways to licensing and commercialization opportunities for their creations. Technology licensing is also one of the avenues for transferring knowledge to the community so that social and economic benefit can be realized through new technological advancements. This project will build connections for researchers to intellectual property, technology transfer, and commercialization opportunities.

Africa Trade Desk

The Africa Trade Desk promotes bilateral trade and commerce between Canada and the African continent. This project will help the organization finalize its corporate messaging and promote upcoming summits through social media marketing. The goal of the activates of this project is to increase knowledge of business opportunities between Canada and countries in Africa.

Rel8ed.to Analytics

The research associate would be involved in one or more of the following projects:
– A banking customer is interesting in identifying small-business property holders with specific financial attributes that may be responsive to a special funding opportunity
– A major global data provider has requested “special cuts” of data from our global database on subscription basis. We need to develop an end-to-end business and execution plan to satisfy this request.
– A government entity wishes to use our database for emergency management purposes during national disasters. We need to devise and implement a quality control process for data to ensure timely data updates to serve this critical need.

Identification des facteurs de vulnérabilité conduisant les athlètes à se doper

Malgré une littérature importante sur le dopage, il n’existe toujours pas de base de données complète qui permet une harmonisation des facteurs de vulnérabilité des athlètes au dopage. Le projet de recherche proposé s’articule donc à construire cette base théorique sur les facteurs de vulnérabilité en les catégorisant afin de comprendre les motivations qui poussent les athlètes à se doper. En conséquence, l’objectif est en premier lieu d’établir cette harmonisation des facteurs de vulnérabilité chez les athlètes. Ensuite, la recherche vise à créer un modèle de changement comportemental avec les facteurs de vulnérabilité afin de mieux pouvoir les associer aux programmes d’éducations proposés par les Organisations nationales Anti-dopage dans le but de les rendre plus complets. L’Organisation mondiale Anti-dopage, en tant que partenaire, retirera deux avantages importants à ce projet. Conformément avec le nouveau standard international sur l’éducation qui arrive en 2021, elle aura l’opportunité de bonifier les futurs programmes d’éducations sur le dopage. Elle pourra aussi développer le volet de la prévention en bénéficiant d’une solide base de données sur les facteurs de vulnérabilité qui aidera à mieux comprendre ce qui pousse les athlètes vers le dopage.

Integrating Symbolic Reasoning and Statistical Perception in Task and Motion Planning

A robot, like any cybernetic system, must perceive it’s world and act upon it to accomplish goals. Most goals are complex and must be broken down into simpler tasks. In the physical world, these tasks almost always require motion to accomplish. But motion itself is far from simple; joint movements must be coordinated, obstacles avoided, physical obstacles respected, and efficiencies maximized. Moreover, this task and motion planning problem is presented in a dynamic and incompletely-known environment. Solving this foundational problem requires high-level background knowledge about the world, understanding of the environment formed from sensory input, reasoning over this information, and low-level motion control for taking action in this environment.
In this project we focus on the integration of symbolic and statistical models for improving applications including perception, action selection, and execution in robots. This project aligns with one of the core research areas at Sanctuary AI, and allows us to further the work necessary to have robots actively participating in dynamic human environments.

Uniting the Métis Nation of BC through values based leadership and strategic culture

The Métis Nation of BC, (MNBC) has been challenged with a sense of division among staff, governance and citizenship. As a result, programming is missing a strategic framework while ministries and chartered communities operate as independent silos. There is a clear and collective desire to rejuvenate Métis culture but without first acknowledging current state and a clear future state (Stroh, 2015), it is difficult to coordinate initiatives within all the cohesive Métis groups in BC. With this united and strategic framework MFCBC will be able to better serve their clients with an authentic understanding of the MNBC citizens’ values.
Through the process of Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider, 2005) and dialogical (Bushe, Marshak, Schein & Schein, 2015), solution focused coaching conversations, this project will identify MNBC’s collective values for a common vision to emerge to promote Métis culture and community in BC. In a Métis youth study findings showed that engagement in culture improves the mental health of Métis youth (Smith, 2016). This research idea proposes that a strong connection with core values will surface a shared Métis identity that will serve as a strong foundation for social connection and community. A current understanding of the needs of Métis people in BC will allow MFCBC to align programming appropriately.
Research will include interviews of regional representatives elected in the September 2020 election. This first stage will inform a large group dialogue with individual community presidents to build to unite Métis citizens in BC.

Researcher-in-Residence Initiative in Cultural Mapping, Economic Development, Social Inclusion, and Urban Planning

The City of Kamloops has volunteered to become a living laboratory for the study of community-engaged research and participatory practices in small city urban planning. The three-year Researcher-in-Residence (RiR) Initiative, supported jointly by Thompson Rivers University and the City of Kamloops, affords the City the opportunity to deploy enhanced research resources , with the aim of testing and documenting best practices in (1) community-university research engagement, (2) the integration of cultural mapping to effect more participative and pluralist policy development and planning, and (3) the development of new models for public planning and participatory decision making in small cities.

Analyse des impacts de la disponibilité en eau sur la croissance, le transport de sève (sapflow) et la nutrition des arbres

Les changements climatiques auront des effets importants sur la forêt canadienne. L’augmentation de la température combinée à des précipitations stables pendant la période de croissance, amèneront une diminution du contenu en eau des sols forestiers et augmenteront la probabilité de sécheresse intense dans le futur. Malgré quelques études récentes, les impacts sur les forêts au Canada demeurent relativement peu documentés. C’est pour combler ce manque d’information que ce projet vise à :

A. Déterminer l’impact des variations climatiques sur la croissance et l’utilisation de l’eau à l’échelle de l’arbre en temps réel in situ.

B. Caractériser les impacts des variations climatiques et des sécheresses sur la fertilité des sols et la disponibilité des éléments nutritifs pour les arbres.