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Our 2023 Venture Showcase is happening November 29, 2023!

Join us November 29 for the 2023 Venture Showcase to meet entrepreneurs from our community who are set to be the next generation of leaders in impact and innovation.

The Venture Showcase features teams across our pipeline ranging from up and coming ‘Sneak-a-Peek’ teams at the outset of their journeys in incubation, ‘Ones-to-Watch’ ventures who are in the middle of commercialization and ‘Ready-to-Raise’ HATCH Venture Builder teams gaining traction at the acceleration stage. This event will give you a preview of our entire community, connecting you with venture teams and our wider innovation network. Check out our 2022 Post Event Report for more information.

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EIW23 Wrap-up

That marks the end of another fantastic entrepreneurship@UBC Immersion Week: across 3 days, 60+ speakers and 600+ attendees, we can confidently say that this year was ‘one for the books’! Thank you to everyone who joined us and inspired collaboration and action against the Climate and Human Health Crisis we are facing. Thank you to all of our speakers and sponsors for supporting the event.

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Venture Shoutouts

Koodos to our ventures

• OnDeck Fisheries AI won Canada’s Ocean Supercluster for Electronic Monitoring, taking home $1.5M
• Orca Water completed their pre-seed round of $600,000+
• Viridis Research took home the $10,00 Innovate BC Sustainability Prize at the New Ventures BC Competition
• Seleste won the $5,500 Luminaries Diamond-in-the-Rough Award at the New Ventures BC Competition
• Immfinity Biotechnologies and Orca Water were selected in the top 10 New Venture BC Awards

Special shoutout to our Climate Venture Studios Lead, Shannon Bard, on winning the Clean50 Award!

 

Alumni Updates

Exciting updates from our Alumni who are transforming the world

• A2O Advanced Materials Inc. was awarded the Innovate BC Ignite Award
• Arca was granted $1.25M from the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy  to fast-track the commercial scaling of its air-to-rock carbon mineralization solution.
• Aspect Biosystems won Company of the Year – Scale at 2023 Technology Impact Awards
• ChopValue and leading real estate firms joined forces to recycle 12 million chopsticks!
• Elevated Signals recently closed their Series A financing
• Simbi Foundation’s is increasing efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages in B.C.

 

Upcoming Events

AI & Ethics: The Conversations Companies Need to be having today
October 17 • 5:00PM • UBC Robson Square Theatre In this session you will hear about use cases and insights covering a range of topics such as how companies (employers) adopt AI technologies for talent recruiting, hiring and HR practices; media communications, authentic content and digital rights; and data privacy, tech efficiencies and IP. >> Learn more and RSVP >>

 

Women Founder Meetup
October 18 • 8:30AM • UBC Point Grey Join us on Wednesday, October 18 at UBC Point Grey for our Women Founder Meetup for women and non-binary founders and leaders across our ecosystem! >> Learn more and RSVP >>

 

Women Founder Meetup
October 19 • 4:30PM • UBC Robson Square Join us on Thursday, October 19 at UBC Robson Square for our Women Founder Meetup for women and non-binary founders and leaders across our ecosystem! >> Learn more and RSVP >>

 

TechPong 2023
October 19 • 4:30PM • UBC Robson Square Grab your paddles cause it’s on like ping pong—Vancouver’s ultimate party with a purpose is back and bigger than ever.  >> Learn more and RSVP >>

 

Policy Communications Workshop Series
October 30 • 12:30PM • Hybrid  CSDI will manage and conduct an integrated series of eight workshops across UBC to help students, faculty, and staff communicate their research effectively to stakeholders for policy change. All workshops will be hybrid, with an option to join online via Zoom.  >> Learn more and RSVP >>

 

Invest in BC presented by Lumira Ventures
November 2 • 8:00AM • Terminal City Club Attendees can expect a dynamic program featuring compelling company pitches, insightful presentations, and engaging panel discussions. Entrepreneurs participating in this exclusive event gain an invaluable platform to share their stories, receive actionable feedback, and establish connections with diverse stakeholders. >> Learn more and RSVP >>

 

Mark your calendars – Our Venture Showcase is on November 29th!
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Hello,

My name is Bertina Do, and I am a second year food science at the University of Guelph and an organizer part of Nucleate Cultivate. I am writing to inform you of an opportunity for students to participate in our annual hackathon for current challenges in cellular agriculture, with a $2000 cash prize for the winners! This hackathon is open to all students (STEM or not, Grad or Undergrad) and gives them the opportunity to compete, learn, work with industry mentors, and get immersed in the field of a/cellular agriculture.

Considering your background and network in the alt protein/cellular agriculture space, I am hoping that you could share our application and marketing blurb with any relevant students, professors and departments.

All the information is listed below and our application flyer has been attached.

Please feel free to email me with any questions/concerns.

From,
Bertina Do
Organizer of Nucleate Cultivate

Have you heard of cultivated meat? Animal-free dairy? Synbio based caviar? These are all examples of the rising industry: cellular agriculture. Cellular agriculture is moving quickly to revolutionize the future of food before our planet runs out of natural resources to feed our growing population – learn more here!

The Cultivate Tomorrow hackathon is a one-of-a-kind program to immerse students into the alternative protein field in a 3-month hacking period. We will provide education, personal mentorship from industry pioneers, exclusive seminar series, and professional development and networking opportunities. This year, we have introduced a new learning platform to optimize the hacking experience, while helping develop essential skills for students to develop a career in this field. We are open to undergraduate and graduate students with all different majors, skills, backgrounds, and levels of understanding of cell cultured food products. Together, in teams of four, YOU will help create a sustainable food system with your unique perspective, creativity, and motivation.

Compete in one of our tracks for two chances at a $2000 cash prize:

Advertising Strategy, where you will prepare a marketing strategy and advertising campaign for a specific novel food product.
Underutilized Resource/Novel Tech, where you will identify a new technology, material, or ingredient that can improve the production process for cell ag / precision fermentation.

The final deliverables will be unique to each track and will include things like a proposed marketing campaign, novel content, techno-economic analysis, literature review and more!

During the application period, Nucleate Cultivate will be holding open office-hours to address any questions that arise:
Friday, October 20th, 10-11AM EST – Zoom

Registration is open until November 1st. Registration and more information can be found on our website! Feel free to attend office hours or email cultivate@nucleate.xyz with any application or program related questions.

Best,
Nucleate Cultivate Team

Have great agricultural research to share but unsure of how to get it applied on the ground?

Join Seeding Success: Getting Your Research Into the Hands of Farmers, a three-part communications training course hosted by the BC Agricultural Climate Action Research Network and BC Food Web. Geared towards professionals and students working in agricultural extension and research, this training will build skills in the art and science of effective communications with a focus on written materials. The sessions will cover principles of adult learning, strategies and tips for translating research so that farmers will want to read it, and how to share your research summary to get it into more farmers’ hands. Participants will also have the option to complete a summary of their own research during the training.

Thursdays on Nov. 16, 23 and Dec. 7 from 9:30 – 11:00 am PST.

Learn more and register here: https://www.bcacarn.ca/rushmore_event/seeding-success/

For more details please contact Cao, Juliana at: juliana.cao@ubc.ca

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IOF SEMINAR – October 13, 2023

Advanced Models and Solutions for Mitigating the Impact of Ship Noise on Marine Mammals

Image by Alan Bedding from Pixabay

In the scientific community, it is now well recognized that anthropogenic noise poses serious threats to marine mammals. The main noise sources come from large commercial vessels such as cargo ships, tankers, cruise ships and ferries to small-size watercrafts such as motorized boats, fishing vessels and tugboats. Propeller cavitation, hull vibration and onboard machinery are the three primary sources of ship noise. In the low-frequency noise range (< 200 Hz), the propeller cavitation noise dominates the underwater-radiated noise (URN), which coincides with important frequencies used by whales and fish for their natural activities. In this talk, I will highlight our MELO project focusing on in-house high fidelity CFD and physics-based machine learning (PBML) models for modeling and controlling ship noise. To address this complex multidisciplinary problem of ship noise, the project aims to deliver a better understanding of fundamental physical mechanisms related to turbulent vortex and cavitation dynamics, which are essential elements for the generation of tonal and broadband propeller noise. For far-field noise propagation, we employ our PBML toolbox to create an end-to-end mapping between the ship noise source and the specified location of marine mammals. The proposed framework has a relevance to adaptive ship route optimization as well as the development of URN mitigation technologies.

 

Rajeev K. Jaiman is currently an Associate Professor and NSERC/Seaspan Industrial Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver. Prior to his current appointment at UBC, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS, he was the Director of CFD Development at Altair Engineering, California. Dr. Jaiman earned his first degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He received his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Computational Science and Engineering option. His research interests broadly include multiphysics simulations, fluid-structure interaction, computational fluid dynamics, data-driven modeling and machine learning.

 

Dr. Rajeev Jaiman
Professor
UBC Mechanical Engineering

Friday, October 13, 2023 – 11:00am  – 11:50 am
HYBRID: AERL Theatre, 2202 Main Mall, UBC Vancouver and
Online over Zoom

IOF community members (students, faculty and staff) do not need to RSVP for this seminar series.

UBC members, alumni, and all others, please RSVP at:
https://oceans.ubc.ca/rsvp-iof-seminars/

Hello LFS graduate students!

 

The Grad Student Council is hosting a board game night on Friday, October 27th from 4:30 to 8 pm.

Join us in Agora MCML basement for board games and food.

 

RSVP by October 23rd @ 4pm:

https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3FeWj8TB37qar54