Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Calling all alumni to come home and ‘change the world’
Entrepreneurship
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Startups compete for $130,000 in funding at the Velocity Fund Finals
Teams have three minutes to propose their solution to a problem and demonstrate the market opportunity and the team’s ability to succeed. Ten companies will compete for four prizes of $25,000. Judges will present one winner with an additional $10,000 for the top hardware pitch. Another 10 early-stage startups will compete for one of four awards of $5,000.
Companies competing for the Winter 2018 Velocity Fund $25K are:
Friday, March 9, 2018
How close are we to technology that can read your mind?
Mei Lin Chen
MASc Candidate, Faculty of Engineering
> Member, Bionics Lab, Department of Systems Design Engineering
> Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology
A Waterloo research team is developing technology that will one day predict what you want to do – before you do it – by reading your brain signals without invasive surgery.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Helping refugees and volunteers connect
JADE CHOY (BAFM '17)
Alumnus, Faculty of Arts
> Co-Founder, Epoch
> Velocity Garage
Six minutes.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Opinion: Canada's stake in the quantum race
Raymond LaFlamme, O.C.
Professor, Faculty of Science
> Institue for Quantum Computing
> Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis "John von Neumann" Chair in Quantum Information
> Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information
The quantum race will not be won by the first to develop a quantum computer.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Wearable tech that speeds healing from injuries
Alexa Roeper
Co-Founder, Penta Medical > Velocity Garage
Friday, March 9, 2018
How artificial intelligence is helping doctors diagnose cancer
ALEXANDER WONG (PhD ’10)
Faculty of Engineering
> Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
> Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging
> Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Friday, March 9, 2018
How a circuit board printer is accelerating innovation
Katarina Ilic (BASc ’13)
Alumnus, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science
> Co-Founder, Voltera Inc.
Our digital future is becoming faster, cheaper and easier to manufacture.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Meet the man protecting your secrets
David Jao
Professor, Faculty of Mathematics
> David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Cross-Appointed
> Chief Cryptographer, EvolutionQ Inc.
> Director, Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
Along with all the exuberance about the potential of future quantum computers, there are worries.
Friday, March 9, 2018
Artificial intelligence helps water utilities make decisions
Thouheed Abdul Gaffoor (MASc ’17)
Alumnus, Faculty of Engineering
> Co-Founder, Emagin
> Velocity Garage
In Canada, 2017 may have been a year of floods, but Thouheed Abdul Gaffoor still has his eye on the long-term, global picture: fresh water is a scarce resource, and it’s getting scarcer.