Jade Salazaar of UBC-Rogers Partnership Named Peak Emerging Tech Leader
March 1, 2023
Rogers Innovation & Partnerships Lead Jade Salazaar, who is based in ICICS and helps manage the UBC-Rogers Partnership, has been named an Emerging Leader in the Tech category by The Peak.
Summer Entrepreneurship Program
The Faculty of Applied Science (APSC) and the ICICS team behind HATCH are pleased to offer the 2023 APSC Summer Entrepreneurship Program (SEP). The program provides support to students and teams wishing to advance their ideas utilizing novel technologies or systems that could have an impact on the world. The program will also help teams […]
Addressing the Healthcare Crisis at the Leading Edge
January 31, 2023
Dr. Kendall Ho, Digital Emergency Medicine lead in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine and a practicing emergency department physician at Vancouver General Hospital, is leading a multidisciplinary effort supported by the UBC-Rogers partnership to address the healthcare crisis in the emergency department with new patient monitoring technologies.
New Ventures Joining HATCH
We would like to welcome some promising new ventures entering the HATCH Venture Builder in ICICS. Brief descriptions follow, with links to the venture websites for more information. Verdi: Irrigation Automation. Verdi customizes water & fertilizer for individual groups of plants. This reduces the cost of irrigation automation by up to 80% and enables growers […]
HATCH/e@UBC Food Ventures Focused on Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing
The HATCH Venture Builder (“HATCH“) is UBC’s late-stage accelerator for technological and social innovations with strong commercial potential. A collaboration between ICICS and entrepreneurship@UBC, HATCH provides teams with the space, resources, and expertise they need to succeed. Sustainability is an important focus for HATCH. Here, we profile three ventures that are making an impact on sustainability and responsible sourcing […]
Bradshaw Research Institute for Minerals and Mining (BRIMM) Joining ICICS
Decarbonizing the planet to address climate change presents the world with a confounding paradox. In the next 30 years, we will need as much copper as has been produced in human history. Electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, etc. all require copper. What was considered low grade 20 years ago and the lower threshold for […]
$2.85M Federal Funding to Study the Climate Impact of Travel Behaviour Changes Leverages UBC-Rogers Partnership Research
November 24, 2022
Professor Mahmudur Fatmi, a Civil Engineering professor at UBC-Okanagan (UBC-O) with a focus on transportation, is the PI on a recently awarded $2.85M federal grant from Environment and Climate Change Canada for “Integrated Development of Transport Data, Model and Community Outreach Tool for Urban and Rural Regions.”
UBC Campus Models Cities for Drone Operation over 5G
November 15, 2022
The “Campus as a Living 5G Lab” created by the UBC-Rogers Partnership is being used to research the viability of employing drones in cities—which UBC models—to safely deliver packages like prescription drugs.
Blockchain Governance Initiative Network to be Hosted by Blockchain@UBC Cluster
The ICICS research cluster Blockchain@UBC will be hosting block #7 of the Blockchain Governance Initiative Network from November 30 – December 2, 2022. Block #7 focuses on governance for digital economic networks. Overall, the Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN) seeks to deepen common understanding and to collaborate to address issues faced in sustainable development of the blockchain […]
Prof. Dave Michelson to Teach 5G Postgraduate Course at Harbin Institute of Technology
November 4, 2022
Professor Dave Michelson, who is an active researcher in the UBC-Rogers Partnership on 5G R&D, has been invited to share his expertise by teaching the postgraduate course “Propagation and Channel Modeling in 5G Communication System Design” atthe Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in China.