Innovative waste management, industry collaboration turns demolition waste into bioenergy and value-added bioproducts
An Edmonton demolition company has become the site of an innovative, eco-friendly industrial collaboration that is diverting large amounts of waste and converting it into bioenergy and potentially valuable bioproducts.
Forecasting – a powerful weapon in battling the pandemic
U of A team uses machine learning to predict cases and deaths In the year-long battle against the coronavirus, information...
Investing in the fight to conquer COVID
Alberta Innovates invested in several projects exploring ways to reduce the spread and lessen the effect of COVID-19. The researchers...
A story of business growth during a pandemic
Starting a business and keeping it going is tough. Starting a business and keeping it going during a pandemic is...
Small Modular Reactors – A four-part educational opportunity to learn about nuclear technology
Alberta Innovates is presenting a Small Modular Reactor Learning Series as an opportunity to learn about new nuclear technology, the national action plan, safety and regulations, innovation in Canada’s nuclear industry and to better understand the latest technology supply chain.
Start-up uses emerging tech and empathy to disrupt an industry
When they founded Symend Inc. in 2016, Tiffany Kaminsky and Hanif Joshaghani thought there had to be a better way—in fact, they knew there was a better way.
Edmonton company develops made-in-Alberta COVID testing kit
Edmonton-based company AQM struck a deal with Alberta Health Services to provide provincial laboratories with kits for COVID-19 testing.
Edmonton company enables paperless classrooms around the world
Update: February 4, 2021 – Showbie raises $7.5 million CAD Users rave about this Edmonton-based company’s app This story was...
Former Nightclub Promoter Develops ‘Thirst’ for Global Change
Scott Harrison, founder and CEO of charity: water, spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before realizing that for him, happiness isn’t found in cars, real estate and “conventional successes.” While travelling in developing parts of the world, Harrison became aware of the world’s clean water crisis and changed course to found the life-saving non-profit organization charity: water in 2006. Harrison will give a keynote address at Inventures 2021 in Calgary, September 22-24, 2021.
Alberta Innovates is turning 100
Illustration by Scott Carmichael We celebrate our legacy with an eye to the future Over the past 100 years, Alberta...
100 Years of Transformation: Celebrating Research and Innovation in Alberta
Join us in a year-long centennial celebration of research and innovation in Alberta. We told you about our history and...
100 years of advancing research and innovation to help Alberta and Albertans
For more than a century, Alberta Innovates has been an integral part of the province’s scientific and economic history. Although...