Innovative Projects Realized

VyoO (Applications Mobiles Overview Inc.)

Dans le cadre du projet de stratégie d’entreprise, l’objectif principal sera d’aider la directrice marketing et le Vice-Président Revenus, Luc Giguère, dans l’élaboration de la stratégie marketing de la compagnie. Pour la fin du stage, le but ultime est d’avoir compléter cette stratégie afin d’assurer une croissance saine et rapide de l’entreprise. Pour atteindre cet objectif, plusieurs différentes sous mandats devront être menés à terme. Plus précisément, voici une liste exhaustive des tâches prévues dans le cadre du stage : Aider à la création d’une image de marque cohérente et robuste, l’élaboration d’un plan de communication, une analyse concurrentielle, l’élaboration d’une stratégie de réseaux sociaux et de création de contenu, l’organisation d’un plan d’acquisition de nouveaux clients et une optimisation du site web de l’entreprise. Le tout sous la supervision et l’aide de l’équipe marketing de l’entreprise. Le mandat est donc multidisciplinaire et inclus tous les facettes du marketing.

Asper School of Business MITACS Program

As the Information Services Coordinator, you will gain real-world, transferable experience specific to projects, change management, and information technology and will help our organization pivot business strategy to compete with the emerging trends in the financial services industry resulting from the impact of COVID19. Your role will be supporting the IS Manager in a variety of ways. You will leverage your strategic, analytical, and project management skills to achieve specific and measurable results. An Information Services (IS) coordinator must be knowledgeable in software, hardware and networks. They must be critical thinkers and problem-solvers with great attention to detail. Since end user support and teamwork are important aspects of the role, excellent communication and people skills are required.

Liquid accelerated cold spray for copper deposition

The liquid accelerated cold spray (LACS) technology is an innovative process that uses a high-pressure liquid flow to accelerate metal and composite powders to very high velocities (above 500 m/s) so that, upon the impact on the substrate, they form a coating. Using a liquid instead of a gas as used in a traditional cold spray, makes it possible to spray particles with a larger size distribution owing to the high density of the liquid. The technology has the potential to reduce considerably the spraying costs (as compared to the current gas accelerated cold spray processes) and to deposit coatings on internal surfaces or surfaces difficult to access.

Developing a standardized, commercially viable and scalable Software-as-a-Service model which can be customized for customer retention, acquisition, and monetization using predefined adaptation strategies

Apps, mobile games, cloud based services have become ubiquitous and integral to our daily lives. These apps, although free to use, can be expensive to produce and make money either through ads or in-app or program purchases. Companies developing these services have to make software that are not only easy to use and attractive, but also integrate money making attributes without affecting user experience, thereby building a loyal user base. This research is focused on developing a standardized framework for building scalable and adaptable software to provide companies a way not only to generate revenue but also adapt it for mass use around the world.

CoEfficient Building Science Ltd. – Internship

CoEfficient Building Science Ltd. is a small building science consulting firm operating in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario. Their purpose is to accelerate the transition to a zero-carbon built environment and are doing so through the delivery of energy efficiency programs for residential buildings, cutting-edge research in large building airtightness testing, and consulting services for large/commercial building projects. Previous partners of the company include the National Research Council of Canada, Ryerson University, the University of Toronto, Sustainable Buildings Canada, and PCL Construction.
As an intern, I would assist CoEfficient to continue its growth by identifying and reaching out to existing market opportunities through effective marketing, by communicating new research funding opportunities for advanced large building air-tightness testing through proposal writing, and by strengthening work on special projects. There would be a wide range of marketing, business development, management, and special projects that I would manage and/or assist with.

Business Strategy Intern

To help launch an e-commerce platform for Labatt to mitigate the ongoing challenge of COVID-19 and the impact of on-premise locations closing. The e-commerce platform will enable shoppers to buy alcohol in an on-demand way. The phases of the project include market research, competitive analysis, performance monitoring of the pilot project, and providing key strategic insights to the Labatt Strategy and E-commerce team.

Stage gestion des opérations du programme AI@CENTECH – Thales

Dans des marchés en rapide évolution, les clients à travers le monde font confiance à Thales. Thales est une entreprise où les personnes les plus brillantes du monde entier se regroupent pour mettre en commun leurs idées et ainsi s’inspirer mutuellement.

Missions Principales:
AI@Centech est un programme d’accélération international de six mois pour les startups en phase de croissance qui fournissent des solutions utilisant une Intelligence Artificielle (IA) de confiance. Gère par Thales en coopération avec le Centech, il vise à accélérer les startups en leur apportant conseil, expertise et accès aux plateformes technologiques de Thales, leur permettant de co-construire des solutions de pointe pour les marchés du Groupe tout en accompagnant l’émergence des prochains champions mondiaux de l’IA. Plus d’information sur le site web : www.ai-at-centech.com
Thales recherche un stagiaire gestionnaire des opérations pour épauler le coordinateur. Ensemble ils pourront gérer l’ensemble des opérations du programme, coordonner et animer l’accompagnement en développement de produit et d’affaires auprès des startups, organisations partenaires (interne et externe) et développer un écosystème de partenaires en innovation.
Si vous avez une passion pour l’innovation, la formation, l’entreprenariat et êtes intéressé de rejoindre une équipe dynamique. Thales est peut-être fait pour vous.

Exigences:
Bonne connaissance des langues française et anglaise, parlées et écrites
Bonne expérience des pratiques et outils de développement de produit et affaires
Capacité de travailler en équipe et de mobiliser des communautés d’innovation pluridisciplinaires
Capacité de travail en autonomie et prise de d’initiatives,
Étudiant en baccalauréat ou maîtrise dans une spécialisation appropriée: sciences sociales, finance, communication, développement d’affaires

Integrative and Capacitating Workforce EDI

The City of Winnipeg is concerned to support the workplace experiences of employees from equity-seeking groups. This research will survey employees and convene focus groups to facilitate employees to reflect on and discuss how diverse backgrounds and experiences can be recognized and promoted as assets within the City workforce. Employees will be engaged in exercises allowing them to prioritize capacitation and integration in the workplace, and resources will be developed for continuing education.

Development of Conversational Agents and Applications in Playful Environments

In this project I will be making a talking, artificial intelligence prototype that provides meaningful, playful exchanges in different interactive settings. By taking advantage of the latest advances in machine learning and creating a model founded on knowledge from social and cognitive sciences, I will build a series of digital avatars to test how they interact with users. This research-creation project connects to other disciplines like Human Computer Interactions (HCI). In this field, human behaviour is partly studied by how people process feedback from different technologies such as the internet, social media, and mobile applications. I aim to improve the development process of conversational AI agents, which will in turn help make new knowledge for digital arts.

Conception du référentiel des pratiques éducatives des Universités Populaires Quart Monde

Entre la formation générale et la formation professionnelle, comment imaginer une éducation à la citoyenneté, à l’appropriation des savoirs pour et par les citoyens? Depuis plus de 60 ans au Québec et dans le monde, les mouvements d’éducation populaire ont expérimenté et construit des pratiques éducatives sans instructeur, sans institution et sans manuel, en croisant les savoirs académiques aux savoirs de vie, et surtout en partant de l’expérience et de la pensée des personnes. Pourtant ces pratiques sont peu documentées, peu connues et peu reconnues. Le but du projet de recherche est de concevoir, avec ceux qui les font, un référentiel de ces pratiques, en partant des animations des universités populaires du mouvement ATD Quart Monde. À travers une analyse des archives, l’observation de ces pratiques telles qu’elles se font et des entretiens avec leurs animateurs, la recherche permettra de les évaluer et d’en dégager les éléments fondamentaux.

Water Protection and Participatory Film Making: Empowering connections among intercultural groups, Indigenous youth, water, culture, tradition, and technology

The shared goal of researching how filmmaking can be an effective tool in contributing to water protection efforts, and in promoting safe water access for Indigenous communities, has brought together groups from different cultures, sectors, and countries (Canada and Australia). This internship, with the industry partner River Voices Productions will allow the intern to conduct interviews (with individuals and groups) to produce an academic article focused on best practices in innovative research methodologies like filmmaking with groups.

More specifically, during the interviews (to be conducted online because of COVID-19), the intern will show film footage gathered from previous research activities that were conducted in 2019 with a group of Indigenous youth from Northern Quebec. Highlights will include clips from: a 10-day cultural canoe expedition, a trip to Australia to meet Indigenous communities there, visits to a hydro-electric dam and a desalination plant, participating in water testing and water ceremonies, as well as learning about traditional stories and water policy making.

The research interviews will relate to innovative research practices like film making that maximize sharing research knowledge in adaptive and novel ways; findings from this work will be disseminated in an academic publication.

Solving the integration problem for loyalty programs

Paying with a mobile phone within brick and mortar retailers is becoming increasingly popular, as it adds convenience as well as security to the payment process. Many retailers that use interac terminals with tap technology allow mobile phone payments in this way but are unable to integrate loyalty points into the mobile payment process. This is called the mobile loyalty payment integration problem, as most retailers who offer loyalty programs, have to scan the mobile loyalty application but are unable to have the process take place while the consumer is paying with the purchase through the mobile application. This issue can potentially be solved through could based technology, which would allow the mobile phone user to collect rewards while simply using the tap technology on the interac payment terminal, while paying for their purchase.