Innovative Projects Realized

Marketing Coordinator

Given the unfold of Covid, we have seen a need and requirement for less face to face and a shift to digital approach to gain market share and influencing our end users decisions to gain familiarity and move forward with us. This need has also been required for a while, as I have gone through a large number of our client base that will voluntarily meet for lunches and coffees. We mostly see now the individuals who just want material, thus leaving the relationship building curve of mine in a slight plateau.

Business Development Co-op

COVID-19 has impacted the housing, architecture, and construction industry in many ways. On the one hand, it has made affordable and sustainable housing a much higher priority, but on the other hand, it has also made developers more risk-averse.
Intelligent City is a technology-enabled housing company that leverages technology to solve these problems. We are looking to grow and support our business analysis and development team to connect to our market. Interns will support us in this critical task and learn about many aspects of design, construction, and housing.
Intelligent City is looking for interns to assist us in the market analysis, client database and outreach. As an early-stage growth company, Intelligent City is looking to expand its market from B.C. to all across Canada, and understand the nuances in every city, region, and province.
This is a crucial task as we are learning about the market we are in every day. As an outcome, the internship will establish market and client databases, outreach protocols, and a deeper understanding of the wants and needs of our clients.

Product Management Intern

As a startup, the pandemic paused what would otherwise be regular business and product lifecycles. Our timelines were negatively affected. In 2020, we were set back months and prevented from hiring economically. We have moved past design thinking (needs, research, observation, concepts, hypothesis) and prototyping. We are now building a minimum viable enterprise product, entering the” build?feedback?idea” loop, and moving toward production code and sales. Interns with a deep understanding of strategy in various domains will be critical to our success in moving from MVP into production.

Anticipated Project
Activities
This role will be focused on the go to market (G&A) side of software manufacturing and production. Some of the expected projects may be:
Planning MVP to production for multiple verticals (healthcare, insurance, enterprise software, etc)
Marketing/PR Strategy
Project management skills
Market insights (build our Gartner profile)
Investor Strategy
Web development communications (focus on messaging and copy)
Diligence on strategy requirements (i.e., replace outsourced operational business consultants for operations)
Diligence/Strategy on business applications and tools
Lean manufacturing

Corporate Analytics Intern

As a startup, the pandemic paused what would otherwise be regular business and product lifecycles. The company has moved past design thinking and prototypin and is now building a minimum viable enterprise product, entering the” build?feedback?idea” loop, and moving toward production code and sales. Interns with a deep understanding of strategy in various domains will be critical to our success in moving from MVP into production.

Product Intern

The Product Intern will develop strong project management skills by ensuring innovation priorities are executed on time and within budget for their assigned product launches. To achieve category goals, the intern will interact with multi?functional partners and work collaboratively with other teams to problem-solve issues & mitigate risks.

Marketing & Digital Content Specialist

GT Race Experience is a tourism-based business focusing on giving customers a real-life race experience. The changes due to Covid?19 have resulted in the loss of our primary marketing avenue of attending and hosting in?person public displays. Pivoting in this post?Covid?19 times GT Race is changing our marketing tactics from in?person presentations to a stronger online presence. Thus the project for the intern will be digital marketing, content creation, and social media marketing. Using existing data they will conduct a strategic analysis of existing client information to develop more focused/targeted marketing campaigns to better reach our key demographics. In addition to marketing new projects launched in 2021, and finding new demographics.

Exploring the geometry of hybrid classical-quantum algorithms optimization landscapes.

In this project the intern will work with an expert team from the company Xanadu, to explore new computational methods and approaches which could be helpful for optimizing hybrid calculations involving both classical and quantum computing combined together.

Étude de segmentation du marché de lamaintenance des moteurs d’avion etdéveloppement de stratégies marketingconséquentes

Pratt & Whitney est une entreprise de fabrication de moteurs d’appareils de vol qui se place parmi les plus grands joueurs de l’industrie au niveau mondial. Dans le cadre de ce projet, il sera question le marché de la maintenance des moteurs d’avion afin d’approfondir les connaissances de l’entreprise quant aux bénéfices recherchés dans ce marché, au processus de décision d’achat quant à la maintenance des appareils et au choix des options de maintenance ainsi qu’aux influenceurs prenant part au processus de décision. A partir de cette etude sera réalisée une nouvelle segmentation afin de définir de nouvelles stratégies marketing pour l’entreprise partenaire qui souhaite ainsi ameliorer sa compétitivité au sein d’une industrie de pointe très compétitive.

Pre-arrival services: The missing piece in the immigrant integration puzzle?

Although the education level of immigrants arriving in Canada has been steadily increasing, finding appropriate employment has remained a constant challenge for many newcomers. In an effort to improve some of the barriers that immigrants face, immigrant service organizations (ISOs) have started providing pre-arrival services for immigrants before they set foot in Canada. Pre-arrival services include orientation sessions, language classes and workshops on various topics such as job search strategies and occupational licensing. This research study will examine whether and how pre-arrival services may play a role in improving the labour market experiences of skilled immigrants and their families after they arrive in Canada. The internship will focus on collecting interview data from immigrants who have received pre-arrival services within the past five years with the aim to understand how pre-arrival services can be expanded and optimized to improve newcomers’ labour market outcomes.

Who’s at the Top? How racialized female newcomers ascend to top management teams

our overall objective is to explain the process by which FRNs move beyond attaining starter
jobs to advancing into senior leadership positions. Employment within a top management team means
newcomers are likely to make a strategic impact on business. We focus on the Greater Vancouver area
to leverage earlier research conducted in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), allowing for cross-provincial
comparisons of quantitative data (Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, 2019). The project
will focus on two research questions to further our overall objective:

1. To what extent are female newcomers represented in senior leadership positions in Greater
Vancouver?
2. What factors at the firm and individual levels explain any gaps or patterns revealed by the first
question, especially focusing on career progression of female racialized newcomers?

Relier identité et sécurité: élaboration d’un cadre analytique

De nombreux conflits sont aujourd’hui envisagés sous l’aspect identitaire. Ainsi, chiite contre sunnite, Européen ou Occidental contre immigré, Baltiques européens contre Baltiques russes, etc. Pourtant, les littératures sur la sécurité d’une part et sur l’identité d’autre part se parlent très peu. L’objectif du présent projet est dès lors de faire dialoguer ces littératures afin de mieux comprendre la manière dont fonctionnent l’identité et la sécurité et surtout le lien qui les unit. Plus concrètement, il s’agit de comprendre comment le processus de construction de l’identité et le processus de construction de la sécurité fonctionnent de pair et s’influencent mutuellement. En effet, nous postulons que la définition des frontières de l’une influence la définition des frontières de l’autre. Dès lors, l’étude d’une seule des deux variables ne donnerait qu’un aperçu partiel du “problème” et c’est pourquoi nous jugeons nécessaire la combinaison des deux littératures. En réalisant cette unification, nous avons pour objectif de proposer un cadre d’analyse unifié qui sera à la fois plus complet, plus précis et plus fin.

Engineered Polymers for Nucleic Acid Therapies

Nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA offer exceptional opportunities to fight against infectious and genetic diseases. To use nucleic acids effectively in a clinical setting, one needs to use effective delivery vehicles that can deliver the nucleic acids into the diseased cells. This project will develop effective delivery systems for this purpose. The delivery systems will be used to deliver RNA and DNA based therapeutic agents in 2 diseases, namely Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and hematological cancers. We will develop specific drugs against these diseases and test them in culture and animal models of the diseases. Successful completion of this project will advance the therapies towards clinical testing.