PARTNER: ACADEMIC PILLAR “Algonquin College’s partnership with Hub350 and participation in the academic pillar furthers our ability to provide increased value to our industry and community partners. Having a direct connection to Canada’s largest tech park allows us to contribute to the tech industry’s talent pipeline through both co-op and graduate hiring, while also ensuring our courses, corporate training programs, micro-credentials, and applied research offerings offer relevant solutions to the challenges faced by industry here in the National Capital Region.” — KRISTINE DAWSON, ASSOCIATE VICE-PRESIDENT, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND INNOVATION, ALGONQUIN COLLEGE
Industry, Investment and Academia The innovation ecosystem in Kanata North is a vibrant and growing network catalyzing market and social impacts of talent, new technology, products, and services. The three pillars of Industry, Investment, and Academia each contribute vital elements to this system as Hub350 is strategically designed to enhance the ecosystem and accelerate company growth by enabling collaborations between these pillars. At a time when we are all excited to connect in person once again, Hub350 is supporting reconnections, new connections and collaborations for a stronger tomorrow. Hub350’s mission to foster a vibrant culture of collaboration, where the talent of today and the talent of tomorrow can live, work, play, learn, and innovate, truly resonates with the members of its Academic Pillar. Since the launch of Hub350 a year ago, the inaugural members of the pillar –
“Carleton University has made the most of its collaborative space in Hub350 to connect talent at all levels with the innovations and opportunities in Kanata North. In addition to our outstanding coop program, hackathons and career events for our Carleton students, we are connecting with youth of all ages through our Generation Changemaker program for high school students and our new PD Day camps in Kanata, offered in partnership with Virtual Ventures and Carleton Ravens. Our space has also provided us with numerous opportunities for creative collisions between business leaders in the tech park and the next generation of innovators, through TECHNATA Hackathon, Entrepreneur Pitch Competitions and Executive Education. Watch this space for new initiatives to bring great minds together. We hope to CU@Kanata.” — DANA BROWN, DEAN AT SPROTT SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, CARLETON UNIVERSITY AND KNBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER
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