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Digital transformation for live music association

As a subsector within the creative industries, live music events have been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 and subsequent repercussions related to stay at home orders and social distancing measures to control the spread of the disease. With this project, we will be addressing challenges related to the recovery of the live music industry in the short and medium term, as well as exploring sustainable hybrid solutions for the long term. The student will be developing digital transformation strategies that integrate digital tools or solutions in a meaningful and purposeful way, in order to satisfy the needs and desires of audiences and customers, and so that the organization and others like it can sustainably weather future crises. This iterative development work will take into account audience experience, collective experience, participation and intimacy, core aspects of the public experience of cultural offerings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lorena Escandon

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Live Music Association

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Workforce Planning Project Phase 2

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to the job market. Employment services organisations, including Kingston Economic Development Corporation (our partner organisation), indicate that the growth of businesses and economic activity is seriously hampered by the inability to hire qualified employees. To alleviate the mismatch between demand and supply in the labour market, it is imperative to develop the ability to (a) rapidly detect trends, such as shifting demands in specific regions or types of jobs, or new types of positions or skills, and (b) better communicate to job seekers accurate information about the skills and jobs in demand, to facilitate their rapid reskilling. The purpose of this project is to create a platform enabling the regular and rapid analysis of job demand data scraped from various online databases already in place. The platform will enable answering the following questions: What skills are employers in Kingston and Eastern Ontario looking for? What skills do the jobseekers in Kingston and Eastern Ontario have? Where can the skills be found and where are they needed? What rapid skills development opportunities are available to job seekers that will quickly align them with the needs of the job market?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan

Student:

Partner:

City of Kingston

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Virtual Events Engagement

Following the COVID-19 pandemic that adversely affected the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce, this research project involves innovative means of communication; engagement; solicitation of members, grants, and government aids amongst other initiatives. It will help increase the financial sustainability of the Chamber, strengthen connections to the community, bring local businesses back to shape, and consequently help revive the local economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Woychuk

Student:

Partner:

Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

People, Places, Policies and Prospects: Affordable Rental Housing for Those in Greatest Need

This research project examines affordable housing options and experiences of those in greatest need. The regional Ottawa team is part of a national collaboration of researchers, practitioners, and community partners forming the “housing for those in greatest need” node of the CMHC-SSHRC Collaborative Housing Research Network of the National Housing Strategy. The national project examines various sub-populations of marginalized groups of people in different regions in Canada. The Ottawa regional team is using a community-based participatory research approach to examine the experiences of formerly homeless youth experiences with accessing and living in various affordable housing options. This research will provide a better understanding of youth experiences in affordable housing, and how to improve mechanisms that address youth homelessness and improve affordable housing options and experiences for youth populations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Blair Rutherford

Student:

Partner:

United Way Ottawa

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Alcedio Capital Inc. – Investment Banking Intern

Help both the Investment Banking Team and Financial Advisory Team in evaluating mandates for investment and potential capital raises. In addition to evaluating new opportunities the candidate will also help evaluate business processes for portfolio companies as well as Alcedio Capital and related entities. The role will provide exposure in both

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

Alcedio Capital

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Alberta Soil Carbon Characterization Project

Croplands are labeled as “climate change mitigators” given their ability to trap carbon dioxide (CO2) as soil organic matter (SOM). SOM is a complex mixture of compounds, primarily carbon (C), derived from plant litter’s decomposition. Healthy soils are now part of “verified C markets”, which are corporate programs in which enrolled farmers receive money for keeping SOM in the ground. Metrics of success are often limited to bulk soil C stocks. This is a critical limitation – not all SOM is created equal and may behave differently in the environment depending on their properties. Within the framework of the “Alberta Soil Carbon Quantification Project”, an Alberta-based C initiative, we propose to study SOM composition among the province. This work aims to provide science-based information for managing soil C at the farm level, taking into account processes that define its potential as a SOM reservoir and resilience in a warming climate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Hazendonk

Student:

Partner:

Food Water Wellness Foundation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Project Manager Intern

I am anticipated to be working in the marketing and product development of the Athlete Character Evaluator which is a question-based test that through the use of behavioural and psychological analytics gives an understanding of the athlete’s mental makeup based on 25 different personality ranges. The test is based upon the premise that athletes that succeed have similar identifiers such as the deep desire to succeed and a willingness to sacrifice. Having something to identify that grit and other success indicators can allow for athletes to better understand themselves, and what they can do to succeed.
I will be working on this project largely independently and identifying potential partners in order to create an accurate analytical test that provides upwards of 25 characteristic identifier points. This process will allow me to develop relationships with a variety of potential partners as well as organize meetings and profit-sharing agreements between the involved parties.
The significance of this project lies in its ability to open an entirely new market to METL and then the integration of it’s current main product into the offering of the product to allow for a high-level comprehensive offering of services. This will provide an area of growth for METL during the pandemic and as consumer behaviour for interacting with each other shifts drastically.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Scott

Student:

Partner:

METL

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Telework Business Analyst

This internship will require the intern to research successful telework practices and describe these findings in a written report. The report should outline the key research findings and provide recommendations on the implementation of a telework program. The research will then present these findings as part of their final deliverable. Once the internship is complete, the expected benefit will be the use of the internship’s research to guide the implementation of a telework program.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lee Swanson

Student:

Partner:

City of Saskatoon

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Public administration; Utilities

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Corepoint Solutions Inc. – Marketing Strategy Intern

The intern will be able to significantly impact the volume and velocity of our customer funnel, helping a growing start up increase our reach. The intern will benefit from the mentorship of several Corepoint team members and consultants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

CorePoint

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Corepoint Solutions Inc. – Business Strategy Intern

The intern will be able to significantly impact the volume and velocity of our customer funnel, helping a growing start up increase our reach. The intern will benefit from the mentorship of several Corepoint team members and consultants.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

CorePoint

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

The Cartelle Group Ltd. – Digital Marketing & Media Production Assistant

Cartelle will continue to scale the marketing consultancy side of the business by continuing to add and refine processes and tools. Brainstorming marketing strategies, and turning those ideas into real-life plans whether that is a new ad campaign, a print ad, a landing page, or systematic results documenting, client work is always evolving. The role of the interns is to help manage client projects and ensure an overall organized workflow process. The business is currently porting to new and more robust marketing automation tools along with exploring others such as Active Campaign and Lucky Orange. This role also includes project management and account coordination to ensure that client deliverables are met on time and on spec. Our company would be able to get more organized and take on more clientele, resulting in increased revenue and business growth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

The Cartelle Group Ltd

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Development of a multiplexed readout for microwave kinetic inductance detectors

As new generations of millimetre-wavelength cosmology experiments look to detect ever-fainter signals, they require ever-increasing levels of sensitivity. Because modern detectors and readout systems already operate at such high levels of performance that they attain the physical limit imposed by the photons they detect, any improvements in sensitivity must instead come from increasing the number of detectors that an experiment operates. The next-generation experiment on the South Pole Telescope, SPT4, proposes to achieve this by adopting a detector technology which is new to this scale of experiment, the microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID).The first major deployment of these detectors for scientific means at millimetre wavelengths, this represents a significant technical challenge, as existing systems on the telescope must be either majorly overhauled or developed anew. These systems centre around the transport of signals into and out of the cryogenic equipment which houses the experiment’s focal plane. The development of these systems involves testing with MKIDs, which are operated at sub-Kelvin temperatures (100mK) and require highly specialized experimental setups, such as are available at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and at the University of Chicago.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matt Dobbs

Student:

Partner:

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory;University of Chicago

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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