Avondx developed a Voice Analytics solution to assist companies in enhancing Customer Engagement by monitoring Customer Service Agents (CSA) interaction with customers in the retail market. Avondx wants to improve its voice analytics solution that can determine the semantic similarity between many different phrases. We are looking for assistance with artificial intelligence and neural network […]

At the beginning of 2020, Nancy Wilson, the business owner, purchased a vertical farm from Freight Farms. Since then, she has been selling a variety of products to customers. As a business owner, her time has been devoted to all aspects of the business, like any new business. However, this has inhibited the growth of […]

GreenFlow Financial, with the help of our intern, Mr. Nikhil is looking to develop an opportunity in the financial services and artificial intelligence space. This project will focus on demonstrating applicable technology and evaluating the possibility of eliminating banks and brokers to deliver a fast and reliable mortgage matching system to the market with the […]

The home renovation industry as a whole has seen little innovation compared to other industries, and the experience for homeowners and contractors is abysmal. The intern will undertake a project to develop a Client Referral System that will allow contractors refer their clients to Model Living to take advantage of the software platform that dynamically […]

Celestica has partnered with 3 separate AI suppliers to analyze live manufacturing data and provide solutions that will replace human inspection. The role of QMIND will be to evaluate the three different AI/Machine Learning systems on how they perform on the optical inspection of the conformal coating of the PCBs.

Skill Squirrel has developed a web-based platform designed to help people in career transition, and challenged with accessing relevant career services. It serves to offer more purposeful matchmaking between job seekers, learners, trainers, and employers, while also reducing the workload of career services organizations (CSOs) and professionals that offer job search assistance, education recommendations and […]

McMaster University is collaborating with National Research Council Canada (NRC) under the AiP program of NRC, to develop smart textile technology that will integrate energy components into textile wearable products to provide daily and on-demand physical stimulus to the aged wearers. It aims to slow down or prevent the development of age-related health problems. The […]

The intern will support Apex Advisory, a capital advisory firm, in servicing a Canadian retail interior design client seeking a Confidential Information Memorandum (CIM). Although Apex Advisory has performed similar deliverables in the past, they have been few and far between, as it has primarily engaged in diligencing venture and private equity investors. Thus, this […]

A large proportion of start-ups fail within the first ten years of their inception, yet most studies focus on those companies that are successful. In Ontario, we have a unique system of Regional Innovation Centers that exist to help start-ups succeed. Historically, data has not been collected once a company is no longer actively engaged […]

The financial system that surrounds housing affordability is complex. It includes renters and owners, developers, investors, financiers and policy makers. It is influenced by market forces, economic policies, and individual beliefs and behaviours. The Financialization of Housing Lab, led by Social Innovation Canada (CSI Institute) in partnership with Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and […]

Developing new high performance steels using pilot scale facilities such as those available at CanmetMATERIALS laboratory in Hamilton is more efficient and cost effective than using industrial lines. However, some recent projects carried out for Stelco Inc revealed unexpected discrepancies between pilot scale results and real industrial data. The aim of this project is to […]

There are zones of contaminated sediment along the Cornwall waterfront in the St. Lawrence River that were identified in the Cornwall Sediment Strategy (CSS). In addition to the existing contaminated sediments accumulated over time in the river bed, there are contaminated sediments that enter the river from other sources such as wastewater sewer systems. It […]