Projets novateurs réalisés

Business Strategy Internship – Predict Technologies

Predict is currently working on initiating digital health pilots, RePill and HotDoc, that are slated for Fall 2020. Our first project codenamed RePill, a digital pharmacy marketplace to improve patient choice and prescription adherence, is under development. RePill aligns the most up-to-date pharmacological practice standards and PHIPA-compliant digital health regulations. The current prototype is designed to accurately transcribe physical prescription records and connect patients to subscribing pharmacies and physicians for scheduling of convenient pick-up and delivery services. Our most recent pilot, EduSafe, is being developed to support essential service institutions screen for CoVID-19 symptoms via mobile or web-based applications for tiered data access. Our prototype features an educational institution model that can seamlessly track administrators, educators, students, and family members with real-time data visualization and instant reporting / messaging features.

Marketing Coordinator

The project will focus on growing the company’s digital education initiatives. Marketing aspects of the project will focus on lead capture and customer acquisition. Strategy aspects of the project will focus on building business cases for software integrations and solutions.

Comparing Standard and Extreme VaR Models During Highly Volatile Periods

A bank’s Value at Risk (VaR) determines the amount of capital that it must set aside to satisfy bank regulations. VaR relates to the size of potential trading losses; the greater the VaR, the greater a trading loss the bank could suffer and consequently the more capital it must set aside. This reduces the probability of default, but it also reduces the potential scope of derivative trading operations, reducing potential profits. VaR is obtained from a mathematical model for the joint evolution of all risk factors influencing the value of the bank’s trading portfolio. Unfortunately, in periods of market stress of the type experienced recently, VaR numbers produced by conventional models are unreliable. However, an alternative modeling approach based on Extreme Value Theory (EVT) has recently shown promise. This project will research the practical application of this methodology to a range of trading portfolios. The project will evaluate the performance…TOBECONT’D

Business Process + Software Developer

I’ll be helping ShapeMeasure create software that will help with scaling the business and improving process efficiency.

Marketing Coordinator

PigeonBox is e-commerce delivery solutions company, offering online shoppers a convenient pickup locations. PidgeonBox is currently located in 3 Skytrain stations across the lower mainland and at the beautiful UBC campus. PigeonBox has also added a PigeonBox Delivery service, where we are helping local retailers fulfil their local deliveries. PigeonBox is looking for a Marketing Intern to help launch our service with Translink (tentatively mid-June) as well as to help promote the delivery business. As our Marketing intern, you’ll play a big part in increasing our brand awareness and increasing our digital reach. The Marketing intern will be in charge of developing creating digital content, creating our brand identity and increasing our customer acquisition through exciting campaigns. Our ultimate goal is to learn and figure out what needs to be done in order to reach a mass market adoption in the shortest time possible. This requires a strong understanding of our target user group, conversion/drop-out factors, and tactics that goes along with those.
• Customer discovery to identify our ideal target market.
• Track user funnel (acquisition, registration, conversion, repeat usage).
• Create and implementing various digital marketing and social media marketing campaigns to increase our brand awareness.

Business Development Coordinator

Covid-19 has impacted vacancies and cash-flow of properties under management and has caused HomeSphere Capital to be delayed by uncertain economic markets and potential fluctuations to real estate property values. We will be working to develop a rent deferral program for commercial tenants, as well as create a risk mitigation plan to help prepare and manage future uncertainty caused by Covid-19.

Mely.ai

L’objectif principal du projet est de développer la stratégie marketing de l’organisation. Tout d’abord, puisque c’est une compagnie qui n’a pas encore rentrée officiellement sur le marché, elle aura besoin d’un énorme soutien marketing afin de développer sa notoriété. Le développement de cet organisme permet également au Canada d’avoir une jeune entreprise québécoise, compétente et qui se différencie face aux compétiteurs. La réussite de ce projet permet également d’aider les autres entreprises dans leurs projets. Un défi majeur est surtout l’intégration et l’acception sur le marché de cette compagnie. Elle doit se créer un nom et se faire connaître. En revanche, c’est un secteur innovant et en pleine expansion. Les modèles Agiles font de plus en plus partis des devises des entreprises et c’est une nécessité de développer un logiciel tel que celui de Mely ai.

FutureVault Business Strategy Internship

This student will join the FutureVault marketing and strategy team. This team has a number of key mandates for the organization. The team supports and influences the strategic direction and design of the overall product and solution with a focus on driving product-market fit to ensure that the products and services being developed have the appropriate forecasted demand and are competitive in the market. This is accomplished by executing on a go to market strategy and marketing plan with a focus on efficient digital marketing campaigns and account-based marketing initiatives. These activities are planned based on marketplace research and market data. The intern will also support the design, layout, and messaging for corporate and investor relations materials, including presentations and investor packages. The planned research and implementation work of this project will ultimately help FutureVault tailor a secure and collaborative data-management platform to meet the unique needs of different organizations throughout Canada.

Research Coordinator

The South Island Prosperity Partnership (SIPP) is a non-profit organization that serves as Greater Victoria’s economic development agency. As a public/private alliance with over 65 members, SIPP’s governance structure is very unique in Canada. 11 municipal governments, nine First Nations, three post-secondary institutions, several business and industry associations, NGOs, and over 30 of the region’s major employers collaborate towards making the region an even better place to live and work. The COVID19 pandemic has impacted the Greater Victoria region disproportionately due to the region’s high percentages of tourism-related jobs. In response, SIPP has created a 40 member taskforce to develop a regional recovery strategy (to be launched this fall). SIPP is proud to work with the Mitacs program to engage a research and strategy intern who will work with our team on analyzing data, developing research reports and recommendations from over 100 stakeholder organizations, and helping the team develop the final report.

Bacon Financial Technologies Inc. – Hardbacon

Hardbacon s’apprête à lancer un nouveau produit afin de répondre au contexte d’incertitude économique créé par la pandémie du Covid-19.

Non seulement les Canadiens sont plus soucieux que jamais de payer moins de frais sur leurs services financiers, mais la plupart des entreprises offrant des comparateurs ont mis fin à leurs programmes d’affiliation en raison de la pandémie.

Hardbacon lancera donc au courant des prochaines semaines un comparateur de comptes de banque, de robots-conseillers, de courtiers en ligne, et de CPG.

Le produit devrait être lancé au courant de l’été et certains d’entre eux sont deja lancés sur Hardbacon.ca (soft launch).

Le candidat retenu pour le poste de stagiaire en développement d’affaires et gestion de projet agira en quelque sorte à titre de pdg de cette start-up à l’intérieur d’une autre start-up.

Développement de solutions pour l’utilisation de l’impression 3D pour la production de composants de machines d’emballage alimentaire

Les machines d’emballage alimentaire sont produites en fonction des besoins du client et, par conséquent, chaque projet a ses propres exigences. Pour cette raison, l’étude de nouveaux procédés et matériaux est importante pour l’innovation et la concurrence sur le marché. D’autre part, les technologies de fabrication additive sont de plus en plus accessibles et réalisables pour la production à l’échelle industrielle. Le but de projet est de proposer la fabrication de composants mécaniques qui entrent en contact direct avec les aliments à travers la fabrication additive. Afin de comprendre les besoins de l’industrie, une vaste étude de cas sera réalisée sur les processus de nettoyage et le choix d’une pièce à remplacer. Ce projet permettra à l’entreprise de maitriser de bénéficier d’une première approche structurée pour appliquer l’innovation technologique à la production de pièces alimentaires à partir de l’impression 3D.

Seq2Hypergraph: Link prediction on knowledge graphs using relation conditioned Transformer Networks

Learning from relational data is crucial for modeling the processes found in many application domains ranging from computational biology to social networks. In this project, we propose to work on developing new modeling techniques that combine the advantages of the approaches found in two fields of study: Machine Learning (through graph neural networks and transformer networks) and Statistical Learning (through statistical relational learning methods). By combining the advantages of both approaches, we aim to obtain better prediction results for an array of problems such as classification and link prediction in relational data.