Alberta Innovates

Creating an Innovation Culture

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

CALGARY, Alberta, March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What if ideas, innovation, and inventions come from our understanding of culture?

Key Points: 
  • CALGARY, Alberta, March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What if ideas, innovation, and inventions come from our understanding of culture?
  • Dr. Collins believes there is no external force more influential than culture.
  • The same mechanisms of culture that sway our consumption also inform organizational behavior and societal dynamics.
  • This creates an opportunity for leaders to leverage the power of culture to inform their inventions and establish an organizational culture for constant idea generation.

Alberta Innovates Provides $12.4 million to Advance Health Innovations

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Monday, February 26, 2024

Dr. Abhilash Hareendranathan, from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, is a recipient of an Accelerating Innovations into Care (AICE)-Concepts award from Alberta Innovates , and believes he has an answer to that question.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Abhilash Hareendranathan, from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, is a recipient of an Accelerating Innovations into Care (AICE)-Concepts award from Alberta Innovates , and believes he has an answer to that question.
  • This unique opportunity is part of the suite of AICE programs designed to advance health technologies toward market adoption with the aim of providing positive economic and health impacts for Alberta.
  • This year, 10 awards are being provided to researchers and innovators around Alberta for a total of $6.1 million.
  • We’re grateful that Alberta Innovates supports our researchers’ efforts to get their life-changing innovations from the lab to the bedside, to help improve outcomes for patients in Alberta and beyond.

Where Humanity Meets Technology

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Dr. Poppy Crum , an eminent neuroscientist, is coming to INVENTURE$ 2024 (Inventures) to talk about these very things.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Poppy Crum , an eminent neuroscientist, is coming to INVENTURE$ 2024 (Inventures) to talk about these very things.
  • She will be taking the main stage on Friday May 31, 2024 to deliver a keynote address called the Intersection of Humanity and Technology.
  • “I can’t think of a better way to conclude Inventures 2024, than for Dr. Poppy Crum to share her insights about the collision between humanity and technology.
  • Launched in 2018, Inventures is gaining global interest as the place to discover new technologies, talent, capital, customers and markets.

Making Access to Rehabilitation Care Easier for All Albertans

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Friday, February 16, 2024

Traveling out of town for rehabilitation care is not unfamiliar to Marty, and many other patients like him living in rural or remote communities.

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  • Traveling out of town for rehabilitation care is not unfamiliar to Marty, and many other patients like him living in rural or remote communities.
  • About 10,000 Albertans are required to travel to major urban centres to receive specialized care.
  • The partnership between Alberta Innovates’ Digital4Health program and the Glenrose Hospital Foundation aims to use digital solutions to make accessing rehabilitation medicine easier, more streamlined, and patient-centered.
  • This will allow technology companies and clinicians the opportunity to test, spread and scale promising new rehabilitation care models.

Artificial Intelligence and the Power of Creative Thinking

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What if you could spark creative thinking by unlocking the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

Key Points: 
  • CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- What if you could spark creative thinking by unlocking the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
  • He will deliver a keynote presentation titled: Igniting Innovation: Creative Thinking in the Age of AI, from the main stage, on Thursday, May 30, 2024.
  • “As a performer, artist, and author, David will offer his analysis on artificial intelligence and the power of creative thinking.
  • Join us in Calgary, May 29 – 31, 2024.”
    David Usher is an artist, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and the founder of Reimagine AI, an artificial intelligence creative studio.

Alberta Innovates and InnoTech Alberta named one of Alberta’s Top 80 Employers

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Alberta Innovates and InnoTech Alberta are committed to investing in the growth and development of our employees.

Key Points: 
  • Alberta Innovates and InnoTech Alberta are committed to investing in the growth and development of our employees.
  • “Alberta Innovates is instrumental in creating an environment where technology companies can develop, grow, and scale makes Alberta an attractive place to do business.
  • We’re proud to be recognized as one of Alberta’s top 80 employers for the third year in a row.
  • The work we do, and the clients we serve, are critical to growing a healthy economy in Alberta.

Increasing Production of EV Manufacturing Globally Positively Influencing Growth of Lithium Market

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Government subsidies for EVs, along with investments in this space, are likely to act as an additional booster to market growth.

Key Points: 
  • Government subsidies for EVs, along with investments in this space, are likely to act as an additional booster to market growth.
  • The Grand View Research report added: “The market is characterized by a high degree of innovation to optimize both the manufacturing process, and also obtain high purity lithium.
  • Players have invested in R&D heavily to optimize the usage of lithium in high-growth end use segments such as electric vehicles.
  • The lithium market is at a high stage of growth, with an accelerated pace.

Artificial Intelligence Meets the Artificial Body

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Monday, January 15, 2024

What if you could combine artificial intelligence into an artificial body?

Key Points: 
  • What if you could combine artificial intelligence into an artificial body?
  • “Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence are making robotics incredibly realistic.
  • It is that intersection between artificial intelligence and an artificial body that allows us to consider the possibilities of the future.
  • Ameca is just one of the remarkable things you’ll see at Inventures; so, join us in May and be amazed and inspired.”
    Multiply the power of artificial Intelligence with an artificial body.

Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge Selects Successful Projects

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alberta Innovates and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) are announcing the successful projects in Phase III of the Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge (CFGC).

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  • EDMONTON, Alberta, Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alberta Innovates and Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) are announcing the successful projects in Phase III of the Carbon Fibre Grand Challenge (CFGC).
  • The five successful projects are based in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, and they are competing to produce carbon fibre from Alberta bitumen.
  • As part of the competition, the commercial carbon fibre must cost 50 per cent less expensive than current carbon fibre products.
  • 13 applications were received for Phase III of the carbon fibre grand challenge, launched earlier this year.

Creating Innovation Opportunities for the Energy Sector

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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alberta Innovates is announcing new funding through the Digital Innovation in Clean Energy (DICE) program.

Key Points: 
  • CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alberta Innovates is announcing new funding through the Digital Innovation in Clean Energy (DICE) program.
  • The DICE program supports the development of digital technologies that create value and jobs while reducing emissions in the energy sector.
  • Proposals may include areas such as:
    New clean energy sources and storage technologies that are efficient, cost-effective and reliable.
  • “The DICE competition provides opportunities for positive collisions between technology developers and those in the energy sector with pressing needs.