2022 Jack Rosen Virtual Pitch Competition

Join us as the Faculty of Environment’s top student entrepreneurs showcase their groundbreaking ideas aimed at solving complex environmental and social challenges facing our planet — Dragon’s Den style.

Wednesday, Februry 9, 2022 

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Zoom - link will be provided upon registration 

Learn more about Jack Rosen 

Jack Rosen, born in Russia and raised in Canada, was an accomplished businessman. He joined his late father, Israel Rosen in the family business, Rosen and Sons, and built it to become one of Ontario's premier recycling companies. One of Jack’s many accomplishments was his involvement in the creation and implementation of the "blue box" curbside recycling program, which is used today for curbside recycling in millions of homes around the world. For this achievement and many others, he received the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recycling Council of Ontario.

Jack Rosen’s wife Honey and his children Judy, Shelly, and Allan created the Jack Rosen Memorial Award to not only commemorate their late father but to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in Waterloo students, in hopes of finding innovative solutions to address environmental issues.