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Business Strategy Internship: Marketing & PR

The covid-19 pandemic has greatly affected SpÃrkel’s supply chain. Slower manufacturing in China and busy shipping routes will make stock-outs and fluctuating supply levels common for the foreseeable future. This is pushing SpÃrkel to adapt and invest in long term marketing strategies such as Public relations and influencer marketing for which the intern will research best practices and implement strategies. This project will allow SpÃrkel to build a stronger community of users, which will decrease their reliance on advertising and improve the resilience of the business overall.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charlene Marion;Yanan Wang

Student:

Partner:

Sparkel

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Bishop's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Hybridity Media’s Circles Software Development and Research; Agha Khan Museum opening, Light Based Interactive Research in LED technology andin experimentation with Ambient Video and Interactivity

Hybridity Media’s Circles, is a user-friendly software application. With motion senor
technology and light projections, it causes the audience to become the art by painting a visual
portrait on a screen using their dynamic body movements
Hybridity’s design of the Aga Khan Museum opening , using our signature interactive art
installation techniques, is an opportunity to fuse a thousand years of early history with the
future of electronic artistry.
Push and Pull is Hybridity’s epitome of play and experimentation. The user controls the music
and the projections by dancing and moving about. Bringing it to the Vancouver International
Children’s Festival is a chance for us to model our prototype for our choicest audience yet.
Through the development of these projects, Hybridity Media will research and develop
projection mapping and interactivity through sensor·based technologies like Microsoft Kinect,
in an installation setting , allowing for new artistic visions enabled through innovative forms of
programming architecture.
We will use the three projects as case studies for…TOBECONT’D…

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Bogen

Student:

Partner:

Hybridity Media

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Emily Carr University of Art + Design - Main Campus

Program:

Accelerate

Vertical Market Expansion Lead

Now, Mploy hopes to expand its business scope in the education industry by helping schools find the best and most suitable employees, while helping teachers and professors find the best schools for work. Mploy is currently looking to expand solutions to support a new vertical market in Mexico, which focuses on recruiting teachers for 50,000 private schools in Mexico. Internship will analyze the education market in Mexico and other countries in North America, including recruitment process, platform competitors and other market analysis,, and research the best path for vertical market expansion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Mploy Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Outreach Coordinator

For the next few months, the Social Diversity for Children Foundation (SDC) is looking to enhance the lives of as many children with disabilities as possible, due to the absence of traditional support systems for neurodiverse children during this COVID-19 pandemic. Since a large part of SDC’s initiatives depends on community partners, the Outreach Coordinator is a pivotal role that bridges the divide to form deep and meaningful relationships with local businesses, other charitable organizations, and the government. The key responsibilities of the intern would be grant planning and research, grant proposal development and reporting, community outreach, and donor relations. They would be responsible for working with our staff to communicate with potential donors, organizations, and government entities to secure new opportunities that would benefit the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Social Diversity for Children Foundation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Noise-aware wearable speech enhancement system

This project aims to design an embedded system to enhance human speech in noisy industrial environments to boost automatic speech recognition (ASR) performances. Speech recognition is desirable for workers to log information in the system without using their hands, which improves productivity significantly. In this project, the system will learn to remove the ambient noise using machine learning and an array of microphones to boost the speech recognition performance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Grondin

Student:

Partner:

Agilean

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of Enhanced Superplastic Behaviour of AA5083 Aluminum Sheet for Vehicle Weight Reduction

Large automotive body panels are currently manufactured by heating aluminum sheets and pressurizing them into a die. However, this superplastic forming process requires long cycle times to avoid tearing the sheet. Preliminary work has demonstrated that by applying small pressure oscillations in addition to the increasing base line pressure a significant increase in the formability of superplastic alloys can be achieved. This research will consist of experimentally applying small oscillations to AA5083 sheet specimens pulled in tension. The objective of this investigation is to determine the ranges of amplitude and frequency of the superimposed oscillation that maximize the sheet formability. The conditions that optimize the sheet formability will ultimately be applied to industrial processes in order to reduce process time and improve part quality. It is anticipated that this research will help to further reduce vehicle weight and associated manufacturing costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Green

Student:

Partner:

AEM Power Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

HI-DSR: Hyperspectral Images enhancement via Deep Sparse Representation model

The current non-destructive and fast method of hyperspectral imaging technology are used for different application from remote sensing to medical imaging and food processing. Due to the nature of acquired data which are massive as well as physical consideration depend on the type of application, the careful, fast and accurate data analysis is mandatory to accelerate the usage of HSI technology. To cope with the type of HSI data in which the sparsity assumption is applicable, this project aims to address the HSI data representation though the sparse problem under deep learning approach. Eventually, the research project will provide possible unique feature extraction spatially/spectrally to give more accurate/realistic results but provable in the sense of sparsity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Saeed Gazor

Student:

Partner:

MatrixSpec Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

FiX – Flash-in-XNA (Xbox New Architecture)

V7 is seeking to advance its innovative rapid prototyping tool FiX (Flash-in-XNA) – a core piece of its game
engine toolkit for Xbox360, PC, and Windows 7 Phone platforms. The tool allows designers and artists to build
assets in Flash/Actionscript and bring them into an XNA platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kimberly Voll

Student:

Partner:

v7 Entertainment

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

CDL-West Internship

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed venture development program for massively scalable science and technology based ventures founded to positively impact the human condition. The CDL has instituted a unique summer program in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerates ventures that address Covid-19 in terms of information-based solutions. CDL-West, based at UBC Sauder School of Business, supports CDL-Recovery in venture recruitment, venture management, pedagogy, virtual event management and in achievement of mentor-delegated objectives. Given that CDL-Recovery exists above and beyond regular CDL-West programming, the CDL-West interns are crucial to the programs execution. The CDL-West interns will support all elements of CDL-Recovery but will have special emphasis on virtual event management and providing consultative support for the benefit of the ventures’ achievement of mentor-delegated objectives. Projects may include market analysis, customer development, financial analysis, and other core activities related to building early stage start-ups as designated by program mentors and allocated by the CDL-Recovery team.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

CDL Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Outreach Coordinator

An intern would assist us in two main ways: helping us adapt to the current pandemic
by assisting with moving our programming online and adapting to the current scenario as well as helping use a fresh pair
of eyes to help us secure grant opportunities by communicating with entities and other organizations. The key responsibilities of the intern would be grant planning and research, grant proposal development and reporting,
community outreach and donor relations. They would be responsible for working with our staff to communicate with potential
donors, organizations, and government entities to secure new opportunities that would benefit the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Social Diversity for Children Foundation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Business Development Assistant

Tality Kombucha is a local kraft kombucha company, which has its own 2500 square foot facility in North Vancouver. The company has big plans to expand during the summer of 2020 and is in need of a self-motivated individual who is eager to learn quickly and on the fly . Tasks at hand will include and are not limited too: managing Facebook ad campaigns, developing content for advertisements, creating customer engagement, reaching out to influencers, logistical optimization from order fulfillment to delivery, and participating in branding, R&D, and promotion of new product launches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Tality Kombucha

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Business Development Intern

CrashMeal Services Inc. is a mobile application based food-delivery platform in Vancouver. The company provides “meal plan” subscriptions from restaurants through the application. The role of a Business Development Intern will involve interacting with early users of the service and actively advertise the service through social media to create awareness of the service as the organization prepares for launch. Once the launch is underway, the intern will be required to actively pursue feedback from the users for delivery locations, waiting times and quality of service, which will shape future strategies of acquiring new users.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

CrashMeal Services Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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