2018 GCCIR Matchmaking Mission to Europe “Everyone was skeptical at first as the itinerary was tightly packed, but we managed to pull it off and had five very promising matchmaking symposia in Barcelona, Prague, Munich, Aachen and Cambridge.” – Katelyn Petersen, Executive Director of the GCCIR With the inception of the Alberta-Europe Technology Collaboration [...]
Interview with Raša Karapandža FinTech Raša Karapandža (born January 4, 1978) is a professor of finance at EBS Universität in Wiesbaden. He serves as an academic director of Master in Finance program and head of chair of finance. He received a PhD degree in economics and finance from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. [...]
International Symposium on Applications of Artificial Intelligence On September 27 and 28, the GCCIR hosted a two day symposium at the University of Alberta and invited international speakers, academic researchers, policy makers, company representatives and students to discuss the applications of Artificial Intelligence to a variety of different sectors and fields. The symposium was [...]
Interview with Matthew Lowe AUGMENTED REALITY Matt is a lifelong tech hacker and founder/CEO of ZeroKey, an AR/VR company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, virtual reality and software development. After getting frustrated with decades old input hardware, he founded ZeroKey in 2015 and set out to revolutionize the world of [...]
Interview with Dave Damer WORKING INNOVATIVELY IN A DIGITAL WORLD Dave is a computer engineer and proven tech entrepreneur with over 27 years of business leadership experience, 18 of which have been spent building startups. In 2017, Dave founded Testfire Labs, a software company that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to build productivity solutions that modernize the [...]
New Membership: GCCIR joins IraSME and attends BMWi’s Innovation Day in Berlin In light of the new Alberta-Europe Technology Collaboration Fund established by the Alberta Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (EDT) and the German-Canadian Centre for Innovation and Research (GCCIR), the GCCIR has joined the IraSME network. IraSME is a network of ministries and funding agencies, which [...]
GCCIR at Global Petroleum Show 2018: Minister Hon. Deron Bilous highlights impact of international R&D collaborations between SMEs This month the GCCIR attended one of the biggest shows around technologies in the oil and gas sector, the Global Petroleum Show, in Calagry. Also attending were Orcan Energy AG from Germany and Atlantis Research Labs [...]
Interview with Dr. Chad Bousman PRECISION MEDICINE Dr. Chad Bousman is Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Genetics, Psychiatry, and Philosophy & Pharmacology at the University of Calgary and a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute. The broad vision of his research is to discover, develop, and evaluate genomic-based tools with the [...]
Interview with Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kennepohl ONLINE EDUCATION Dr. Dietmar Kennepohl is Professor of Chemistry and former Accosiate VP Acedemic at Athabasca University, a leading Canadian university offering online courses and degree programs through distance education. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from McMaster University with a B.Sc. (Honours) degree in chemistry in 1984 and continued [...]
Interview with Dr. Alexandra Latnikova MICROENCAPSULATION My name is Alexandra Latnikova and I work at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in the Microencapsulation and Particle Applications Group. I became interested in microencapsulation about 10 years ago when I moved from Russia to Germany and started my PhD thesis devoted to the development of smart [...]
