Entrepreneurs and industry leaders need to stay connected to drive new solutions in dynamic times. Together, we can help our region’s businesses navigate a new landscape as we look towards recovery after COVID-19. We want to ensure that our community has every opportunity to connect, learn and grow alongside other professionals in parallel roles; we’re…
Northern Commerce is seeking applications from local nonprofit organizations and charities to be the next Northern Cares Charitable Partner—an opportunity for deserving organizations to receive up to $150,000 of in-kind digital agency services. “Times like these have highlighted the importance of nonprofits and charities to have an online presence—since people are unable to attend events…
Addressing the call for action to support early-stage and high-growth startups, the federal government announced $250M in emergency funding through the National Research Council (NRC). The NRC IRAP Innovation Assistance Program aims to close a significant gap for businesses that were ineligible for existing relief programs, helping startups in the technology and innovation sectors sustain through the COVID-19…
It’s only been three weeks since Mona Lam-Deslippe turned on the news, to realize the overwhelming need for personal protective equipment. Every moment since then, she’s been running to address it for the sake of essential service workers, who to this day, remain on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Lam-Deslippe, who leads London-based…
London tech entrepreneur, Ryan Kelly, has developed an online platform amid the COVID-19 crisis to connect vulnerable individuals to local volunteers who can deliver supplies to their homes. Kelly is the founder of Ascend Applications and a GROW Accelerator alumnus whose software development startup has leveraged impressive AI-powered solutions to make the web more accessible…
As the coronavirus spreads, and individuals are urged to stay within their own environments, select businesses remain among the only spaces still open to the public. As a result, those workers deemed ‘essential’, shift to the front lines of a critical period in public health. This pandemic is evolving quickly; so too must the entrepreneurs…
Western University is supporting production of low-cost, substantively effective medical face shields that could be in hospitals for healthcare workers (HCW) within days if not hours. Face shields are vitally important to the global fight against COVID-19 as they extend the duration of surgical masks used by HCW interacting with at-risk patients and they also…
From closing campus doors to opening up online forums, academia has been running at top speed to shift to a new normal in the midst of a pandemic. With physical distancing practices in full effect, the classroom has gone virtual. This is familiar territory for Sarnia-based startup, Online & Digital Education Academy (ODEA), who has…
After Londoners add more than 180 of their favourite small businesses to supportlondonbusinesses.com in just a few days, local tech companies partner to provide brick & mortar stores with help transitioning offline sales online. Last week, rTraction launched supportlondonbusinesses.com with help from Benjamin Glauss, a local IT Consultant and Project manager. Supportlondonbusinesses.com is a website…
COVID-19 has forced Canadian healthcare to adapt at an unprecedented rate, creating an opportunity for new solutions and technologies to drive better crisis responses and outcomes. With innovators leading the dialogue, the haze is finally beginning to clear on the next steps to tackle the global coronavirus outbreak; out of the chaos, measured innovation emerges.…