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Qmod is an Educational Technology platform that specializes in developing digital tools for students to connect with nature through the power of sustainable energy.

The platform includes the Qmod Energy Kit, developed to explore the science of energy in a hands-on and memorable way. The Energy Kit includes a variety of ways to generate your own electricity including, solar panels, generators and special electrodes that allow anyone to create their own batteries from natural sources. The main component of the Energy Kit is the Qmod Energy Block, an interactive battery that measures and stores electricity. Once fully charged the Energy Block can power all sorts of devices, from simple LEDs to our low power Code Block that connects the world of coding to potentials of sustainable energy.

Spur Innovations was incorporated at the end of 2013 with a vision to develop innovative controls products and solutions for transportation. Leveraging experience in vehicle controls and validation, the company is focused on product solutions which bridge the emerging technologies of the “connected car” and “autonomous driving” with Spur’s active vehicle controls. The new solutions can improve both vehicle safety and fuel economy creating an imperative for adoption by major fleet and retail customers.

Offshore Designs Ltd. enables shipping companies to clean their vessel hulls while transiting between ports. This reduces in-port scheduling constraints and allows operators to comply with local regulations. Maintaining a clean hull saves operators thousands of dollars in fuel costs, reduces emissions, and prevents the spread of invasive marine species. Our solution is a hull cleaning system that removes bio- fouling while a ship is under way.

Wave9 Technology Inc. employs sensors and artificial intelligence to allow oil production companies to mitigate risks of environmental contamination and monitor equipment maintenance. We offer the ability to reduce risk while simultaneously improving operational efficiency by prioritizing staff workflows, directing attention to problem areas, reducing waste, and shifting maintenance from a reactive to a predictive process.

Yourbrook Energy Systems Ltd. is a privately owned and operated Canadian firm based in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Incorporated in 2010, the Company has developed a unique method of effectively harnessing tidal energy available throughout the full range of tidal stream velocities. Yourbrook’s Tidal Technology for inshore waters is a large, low RPM, variable stroke pump driven by tidal currents to supply electrical turbines. The tidal generation prototype was constructed by inventor Laird Bateham, along with team members Dan Abbott and Alden Bateham.

Portable Electric’s VOLTstack power stations deliver reliable, instant power whenever and wherever you need it. The VOLTstack uses clean, renewable power – no fumes, no noise and no excessive costs. Simply flip a switch for silent, emissions-free portable power. No matter the need, the VOLTstack is revolutionizing the way we power our world. Capable of working alongside or replacing your gas/diesel generator, the VOLTstack generates valuable new opportunities. The VOLTstack increases revenue potential, reducing emissions, minimizing operating costs and zero noise.

Grown Here Farms embodies a pure, sustainable lifestyle in every stage of their cultivation practice. They believe in growing and producing delicious products naturally, using only what mother nature gave us. They believe that what goes into how a product is made or grown is just as important as what comes out. They believe in transparency in the supply chain – that you should know what is in your food, who grew it and how it was produced. And they believe that there is a reason grandma’s food tastes so much better than any other meal; it is the love that goes into it.

Love In, Love Out is their philosophy and they are fierce, scrappy, warrior goddesses about protecting the purity and the integrity of their mission, their products and processes. They will not compromise.

Privately held, entirely female owned and led, Grown Here Farms is proud to make positive impacts on the environment by growing fresh, pure food that reflects a conscious lifestyle. They don’t partake in conventional agricultural practices. No pesticides, no chemicals; products are planted biologically in the soil and grown in natural sunlight and water. All products have been infused with sound therapy, listening to high-vibrational frequencies, small-batch, hand-made.

Best of all, they are building the business sustainably, working towards a Net-Zero Carbon Footprint from seed-to-sale, as well as a business model of Planet – People – Profit, an ethical, triple bottom line that focuses on remaining accountable for community and environment. For quality, fresh, organic food that comes from conscious hands and uncompromising purity, for a healthier lifestyle that makes a difference.

Tesera does agile right. Tesera is faster and more specialized than generic development teams. Working with a well-defined process and a specific tool set, they can tackle even the most daunting development tasks. Alignment means a shared understanding of the project goals, consensus on identified constraints and a team focused on the destination. They identify objectives and select the resources and technology required. Work is completed by defining features and setting priorities for their weekly releases. They invest in design to cost effectively answer critical business questions. Prototyping allows them to test ideas, learn and quickly narrow in on the winners. They refine with their continuous integration (CI), clients see an evolving solution. There is no unveiling, no wait and see—their clients are engaged, they see and test as they build it.

Uses cloud-based optimization approaching the theoretical limits of separation desalination, water/wastewater treatment, and reuse processes are complex. Conventional hydraulic, deterministic models are computationally incapable of providing operational parameters that can discover the losses (entropy generation) in the sub-process and component interrelations. They use Machine Learning and other data-driven technologies, along with industry’s most advanced models, to provide optimization set-points unpredictable by conventional technologies and/or operators.

Adaptive Design:

Patent-pending system design for the membrane-based water desalination industry. Adaptive Desalination Technology (ADT) allows utilization of intelligent multistage process design with Artificially Intelligent operational support. Superior control enables plants to reach higher recoveries, treat waters of varying salinities, manage variable demand, and variable electricity prices – capitalizing on sophisticated process design made simple and efficient with AI support. Along with a flexible process design, ADT leverages heuristic machine intelligence with self-learning cleaning schedules and operational regimes. Such complexities have been difficult if not computationally impossible by hydraulic modeling tools.

Advanced Analytics:

Artificial Intelligence in the water infrastructure space allows for breakthrough improvements in process performance by identifying operating parameters, scheduling, correlations, and holistic actionable intelligence that is unpredictable by conventional tools. Advanced analytics allows operators, managers, and owners to reactively manage and improve their process, while proactively predicting and preventing unnecessary plant upsets and spikes in costs. Utilizing advanced data technologies and modeling methodologies, in addition to decades of domain expertise, we are able to comprehend and analyze operational data to provide actionable insights.

Hempcrete provides home purchasers, developers and communities who want to reduce their global footprint. They’ve replaced petro-chemicals with natural materials, and a fiber reinforced lightweight cement, for a near-zero footprint. The homes are a live, dynamic and energy efficient sanctuary, free of concerns like pests, water and fire damage. These homes are the basis for our sustainable communities, enabling members to lead more economically, socially and environmentally friendly lives, and thus contribute to society more fully. Their hemp villages will set a simple, durable solution which will demonstrate that it is possible to live in comfortably, ‘right sized’ homes and communities which are healthy for both the people who live in them and for the planet. They further believe that Hemp-based economies can create prosperity through a full eco-system and closed loop economy, through production of food, homes, clothing and jobs in a harmless and fun way.

Currently designing and making an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) called “AutoZig” for picking golf balls in outdoor environment. It’s battery operated, GPS-enabled, fully autonomous and can run 24×7 in any weather condition. It is designed for golf driving ranges to replace manually picking up golf balls. Golf-balls-picking work inLumo North America alone costs $300 million each year. Currently there is no commercialized product like ours in the market, which creates huge opportunity for AutoZig.

Such clean and integrated technology can also be applied to meet concrete demands in other industries, including golf course inspection and maintenance, agriculture field control, fighting forest fire and mining/oil/gas field management. We have developed AutoZig prototype, received IRAP grant, applied provisional patent and have local golf driving range agreed to test AutoZig and purchase when it’s ready for sale. We need further funding and network support to take our company to the next level.

FEED offer a complete range of products and services from front-end engineering through to detailed design/engineering, safety and control systems; the design team routinely works to a wide range of design codes including NFPA, CSA, ISA, API, and ASME standards. Their team of highly skilled professionals from multiple disciplines will utilize all aspects of technology (process, mechanical, piping, control systems and electrical) to implement projects from conceptual design to detailed engineering and commissioning.

Their design philosophy has four essential elements: reliability, efficiency, safety, and environmental protection. FEED has a well-organized project management system for ensuring the project is completed on time, on the budget, and meets or exceeds the client expectations. They have developed a comprehensive database system to facilitate the specification, purchasing, receiving and documentation of equipment. From feasibility studies and environmental compliance to detailed design, management, and construction, they bring together the talent and expertise necessary to deliver success.

Eco Eats vision is that everyone eats. They do this by connecting missed food donations to make the world a better place. They develop innovative solutions that’s practical in a light-hearted way to make someone smile. Their vision will always be the same but they will continue to shift and grow to meet the point where everyone eats.

Their app interfaces unique experiences for everyday people and charities to find the food we love. Eco Eats has designed their app to make the platform intuitive from lunch to grocery shoppers, charities and food businesses under the same belief they can keep food in communities.

Dynacircumotion has invented a motor that has benefits such as reduced energy consumption when compared with other motors on the market performing same duty, relatively lightweight, reduced cogging, runs cooler and has torque versus speed performance that is currently unheard of. Patents have been filed for the intellectual property with Canada, USA and the Patent Cooperation Treaty. A prototype has been constructed and tested to validate the claims. Dynacircumotion strongly believes in the technology and its potential to significantly impact various industries, such as electric vehicles, wind generation, wastewater systems, to name a few.

Avestec believes that oil & gas companies should be able to perform site inspections without sending people to dangerous heights and hazardous areas. By using robotics for tank inspection, it completely removes the possibility of injury while simultaneously decreasing cost and significantly decreasing the downtime resulting from manual inspection. Avestec uses visual inspection and UT measurement for skyron tethered drone provides visual inspection and ultrasonic thickness measurement for hazardous and confined spaces. They fulfill American Petroleum Institute (API) standards for inspection and maintenance of tanks, pressure vessels and equipment. Avestec increases safety through their drone technology as it prevents humans from entering confined and hard to reach spaces dramatically reducing over risk. They also reduce costs/downtime as less setup for inspection means less downtime and more money saved.

Nutrient pollution is the most widespread form of water pollution in the world today, and it is significantly threatening global health and food security.
Per year over 20 million metric tons of precious nutrients, phosphorus & nitrogen, with a fertilizer value over $15B leak to the environment from agricultural lands, untreated human waste flows and many other points.
We urgently need sustainable and affordable filtration solutions to stop the spread of damage and claim back the precious resources and lost profits.
With this mission in our minds, we have developed an exciting and innovative process to make affordable and efficient filters and filtering agents to address nutrient runoff on a global scale and decrease the cost of nutrient recovery process significantly.
Our patent-pending filters and filtering agents are produced using abundant, readily available waste materials and natural resources. They can capture and remove large amounts of phosphorus and nitrogen from waste flows generated by livestock agriculture (manure), croplands, wastewater, and sewage treatment facilities, food treatment and processing facilities, fish farms, mines, and other point and non-point sources. Removed nutrients can be used as a sustainable and concentrated fertilizer with or without after treatment.

Industry	Problems We Solve
Forestry	Innovations in forestry products, materials and sustainable processes for the industry.
Mining	Innovations in mining related to sustainable practices during the pre-mining, in process and post mining lifecycle.
Oil & Gas	Innovations to extract oil & gas more efficiently and effectively, with the evolution to sustainability top of mind.
Energy	Innovations relate to the most advanced ways to generate renewable energy including solar, wind, tidal and mobile power.
Waste Management	Innovations that optimize waste management practices including organics, plastics, fabrics and general waste.
Robotics	Innovations in robotics that directly impact all industry advancements towards a more sustainable future.
Transportation	Innovations in design, fuel sources and implementation that optimize transportation for consumers, businesses and industries.
Advanced Material	Innovations in advanced materials for manufacturing including but not limited to metals, textiles, plastics, biodegradables and packaging.
Manufacturing	Innovations that set new standards for manufacturing consumer and industrial goods with minimal environmental impact.
Water	Innovations that transform the management of water, from potable drinking water to large-scale water waste challenges.
Infratech	Innovations that assist communities to build highly-sustainable infrastructure systems.
Smart Buildings	Innovations that enhance building performance by reducing energy consumption, using better building materials, and monitoring total building performance.

Anaconda Systems Ltd. Local Organic Waste Management.

SHEV Labs Ltd. is a BC privately held nanotechnology company. The company utilizes its proprietary nanotechnology techniques to research and develop new medical devices in the fields of tissue engineering and rejuvenation.

At Prisym, we’ve been working to bring you visually appealing, highly integrated specialty solar products. Designed for North America, our SunPergolas are produced and tested on Vancouver Island, BC, pairing advanced solar technology with timber frame construction and joinery for a unique, modern look and feel for your outdoor space.

Synovus creates turnkey automated test systems such as Hardware In the Loop (HIL) powered by our Symplify™ and SBX™ platform to support R&D activities.

Loom offers breakthrough LED waveguide technology and novel technology-driven designs to residential and commercial markets, bringing beautiful, low-footprint human-centric lighting, offering superior efficacy, colour rendering and ergonomic light distribution. Loom is lighting the future of homes and offices with its energy-efficient intelligent lighting solutions offering a natural, human-centric light experience.

Loom incorporated in 2016 following two years of research and development concentrated on developing unique IP of LED waveguide lighting. Loom’s unique light is emitted directly from transparent, shade-like waveguides that are super efficient conductors and emitters of light, in designs that suit your taste.

Loom seeks to solve the inefficiencies of light bulbs – including poor efficacy, glare, dull colour rendering – all amounting to poor quality light. Loom makes colours pop, distributes light ergonomically and saves significant energy. Loom lighting works with existing internet-of-things technology over wifi and Bluetooth, giving you total control using your mobile device. Loom is a trademark of Loom Inc.

Ecoation Innovative Solutions is the developer of Crop Sense a wireless crop-health monitoring system that detects minute changes in crop health due to pests, diseases, malnutrition and undesirable environmental conditions before symptoms become visible to naked eyes. crop-sense will change the way growers produce and protect our food.

CryoLogistics Refrigeration Technologies Ltd. is developing an innovative non-electromechanical cryogenic shipping container for the cold-chain industry, using food-grade liquid carbon dioxide as a natural refrigerant. The device will be noiseless, independent of conventional power requirements and have a net-zero carbon footprint. The cold-chain industry transports high value temperature sensitive food and pharmaceutical products worldwide, generating over $200 billion in economic activity each year.

Acuva Technologies is developing a next generation Ultra Violet LED based water purification system that inactivates hardest to kill microbial contamination and produces safest drinking water. Our system operates on low battery, requires no maintenance, and has a long life and instant start with unlimited on and off capability.

These unique technology features offer advantage to existing markets as well as open up new markets that were not addressable with current technologies. We have developed fully functional prototypes and tested for microbial inactivation through third party labs. The system inactivates 99.99% microbes and meets NSF class-A guidelines for UV dose and microbial inactivation. We plan to market this system in recreational yachts and recreational vehicles markets in US and Canada to start with and expand in other geographies and markets as technology develops.

LFT Group Brands Ltd. is the brand owner of Live for Tomorrow, the award-winning line of environmentally-friendly household cleaning products. Utilizing plant and mineral-based ingredients, 100% essential oils for scented products and approximately 30% of water, rather than the industry norm of 80%, these premium products are packaged in aluminum and PCR HDPE providing consumers with compact refillable, reusable and recyclable options.

The reduced size and weight provides a greater ROI to retailers, reduces carbon offsets during transport and minimizes water usage. Made in BC, these non-toxic and highly concentrated products deliver effective results while being safe for individuals and the planet. Sold at various retailers and online.

Nanotis technology improves the efficiency and safety of energy harvested from the exponentially growing solar photovoltaic installations. This electronic technology is known as module-level power electronics (MLPE) and is over $500M market growing at over 30% YoY. Our solution addresses new US safety regulation and improves the bankability of solar projects by providing per PV module energy monitoring and energy harvesting optimization, all at an unprecedented small volume and lower cost compared to incumbents.

We are now testing our proof-of-concept prototypes and are in discussions with few potential clients and strategic partners. The two founders have over 50 years of experience in technology innovation, product development and managing technology companies. Funds sough are to be used to complete the development of a technology demonstrating product, conduct in-field testing and acquire initial customer/partners.

LC Technologies Inc is a battery engineering company formed in 2006 to commercialize the integration of advanced batteries and super capacitors into new applications. The company provides battery pack design and/or system engineering with the ability to assist from initial concept to complete product development. In addition, the company provides integration of batteries/supercapacitors with a variety of charging sources including diesel/electric, solar, wind and gravitational.

Since it’s inception, LC Technologies has been at the forefront of the development of new products AND markets providing battery pack design and integration to numerous OEMs. LC Technology president, Neil Simmonds, holds over 70 patents in the related fields.

Stem Shock is a programmable herbicide platform using RNA interference technology (RNAi). We design Stem Shock RNAs to pick out and kill individual weed species while leaving the environment unharmed. Each Stem Shock variant is programmed to kill a single (or a couple) weed species while ensuring no off-target damage. Stem Shock is a perfect solution to removing invasive weeds from parks, waterways, and other high biodiversity areas. It can be safely used on municipal lots and city parks as it is non-toxic.

In its final formulation Stem Shock will be compatible with commercial and home spray equipment.RNA interference technology uses special RNA molecules instead of small chemicals. In human health they are using RNAi to fight diseases such as hepatitis and cancer. RNA is safe, is present in every cell, and is even taken as a nutritional supplement. RNA breaks down rapidly in the environment

Reforus is a private company from Vancouver BC specializing in state of the art building technologies. For the past 7 years Reforus has focused on creating high performance composite panels from timber that would be considered worthless by loggers, mill owners, and developers. The founders of Reforus have over 40 years of “hands on” project development in the building industry. This experience has led to the creation of the BuildPanel building platform which dramatically reduces the costs of labour, materials, and project management allowing high quality temporary to permanent structures to be clicked together in hours using un-skilled labour.

BuildPanel is a modular system where structures can be assembled, modified, and disassembled with a simple change of components. By utilizing waste stream timber and eliminating many of the costs associated with traditional building methods, Reforus has developed a platform that can be used world-wide. BuildPanel structures have the durability and finish that consumers throughout North America desire, while being affordable to people around the world.

PROXXI is smart sensor that allows us to see electricity with software. We have built the first digital electric field sensor that can interpret voltage and distance. The first product we have built is the Proxxiband which is targeted at electrical workers. It notifies the wearer by vibration (haptic feedback) when they get too close to an electric current, and helps reinforce the limits of approach.

Targeted at utility workers and those in industry at risk of electrocution, it is a device that provides companies peace of mind and visibility through connected monitoring and insights into employee safety. Each year, over 2000 electric utility employees in North America are electrocuted, with thousands more exposed to this danger in other industries. Each of these incidences costs between $1-4 Million dollars in insurance expenses, resulting in $3 billion per year expense.

Currently, there are no ambient, connected, always-on devices used to detect electricity. Workers rely on process to de-energize and follow lockout procedures. PROXXI provides that fail safe backup to virtually eliminate the risk.

IMR Drywall Recycling exists to provide customers with a better way to recycle drywall.

IMR Drywall Recycling’s idea was conceived by one of three founders on a boat off Vancouver Island. Over the next five years they built a company together. Today, IMR is a British Columbia based Canadian company operating a drywall recycling facility in Surrey, BC. Constructed in 2013 and servicing Metro Vancouver and beyond, our material recovery facility separates and recovers gypsum from waste drywall. The recovered gypsum is processed and used in the manufacture of new construction materials.

Since initiating production in 2014, IMR has built a loyal customer base by focusing on serving our customers’ needs. Providing reliable services in a convenient location, IMR is a better way to recycle drywall.

Hydra Energy is a Vancouver-based startup that assists firms in lowering the cost and environmental impact of their commercial vehicle fleets. In exchange for a fixed-term fuel supply contract, Hydra Energy covers the cost of vehicle conversion to dual-fuel systems that can run on both hydrogen fuel (internal combustion, not fuel cells) and gasoline and sets up on-site refueling stations. Hydra Energy’s hydrogen-as-a-service solution is not only less expensive than gasoline and diesel fuel, but by reducing, if not eliminating, the use of hydrocarbon fuels, it allows its partners to conduct their operations in a more environmentally friendly manner.

Dark Vision is developing downhole imaging technologies that deliver high resolution images inside oil and gas wells. The technology is deployed downhole to provide oil and gas operator’s critical information on the status and integrity of their wells at various stages during a wells lifecycle. Armed with the right information, O&G operators can make quick and confident decisions that increase production, reduce cost and minimize the environmental impact of unconventional resource development.

Today, the oil and gas industry has a limited and outdated toolkit for collecting imaging information, as the traditional camera technologies, used in almost every industry, cannot see in wells due to the opaque fluids present. DarkVision’s technology has overcome this hurdle by being able to see through all wellbore fluids, including bitumen, drilling mud and frack fluids. The technology will see its initial deployments in Alberta wells in 2016.

Boydel’s WaterMiner water scrubbing technology consists of a globally patented or patent pending electrochemical device and process that has been under in house development and external validation over the previous 4.5 years. The proprietary Boydel EC wastewater treatment reactor is a two stage hybrid electrocoagulation – electrolysis design that has no plates, is self-cleaning, and employs a rotating cathode that drills down on the sacrificial anode; with a PLC managed adjustable gap control that insures optimum and minimal electrical consumption….. on the order of $50 per day at 1,000,000 lpd raw sewage treatment flows.

Bionic Power is a high tech startup focused on providing cost-effective and reliable energy to people whose lives or quality of life depend on portable power. At the core of the company is the patented bionic energy harvesting technology that TIME Magazine named one of the best inventions of 2008. This wearable technology uses principles similar to regenerative braking in hybrid cars to unobtrusively generate electricity from the natural motion of walking and then use it to charge a wide range of portable battery-powered devices.

BC Biocarbon‘s vision is to provide local energy security through the distribution of small to medium scale bio-refineries that directly offset fossil fuels by producing the desired carbon products from locally sourced biomass or recycled carbonaceous materials. Depending on market conditions, the system can be optimized to produce heat, char, pyrolysis liquids or a very clean fuel gas consisting of H2 and CO. These products can directly offset fossil fuels or can be further refined into a myriad of downstream products such as activated carbons, binders or synthetic fuels.

By using our technology to create a distributed source of renewable, carbon based electricity, fuels and other products from locally sourced biomass; we provide energy security, local jobs and large environmental benefits.

AYO Smart Home is a leader in sustainable, energy efficient and affordable housing for remote communities. We put people first to deliver highly livable housing with the comfort superior to conventional homes. Our materials are rigorously tested and are proven to have low environmental impacts with high quality and durability.

We don’t just build houses; we help grow communities collaboratively. The AYO Smart Home approach to create affordable housing for First Nations, low-income families, and seniors that is safe and durable while strengthening communities and respecting the needs of inhabitants.

AYO Smart Home brings an integrated system approach to designing and building homes that allows our highly efficient components, including the envelope, mechanical and electrical systems, clean power technologies, optimized controls, and interior to provide the highest efficiency possible all while maintaining affordability.

The AYO Smart Home provides solutions that mark a new era in housing.

Air Phaser is a patented, modular, new industry scale odor treatment system based on Non Thermal Plasma. It works on large volumes of odorous air from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), composting, biosolids, sewage treatment, manure, food, pet, fish, and animal feed manufacturing odor from drying, cooling and /or venting. The system can treat air volumes from 10 cubic feet of air per minute (CFM) to 1 million cfm and more, using only electricity by oxidizing and transforming odorous compounds to non-odorous forms. It is a Clean Tech, economical bio-filter, chemical scrubber or thermal oxidizer (burner) alternative.

The Clarity Project by Clir Renewables is a renewable energy asset management and reporting software that is creating a step change in the renewable power industry, particularly in wind energy, boosting operating performance and improving revenues.
-Provides world-class data integrity, analytics and reporting never before combined and implemented in one package.
-Provides intelligent analysis and recommendations to provide clarity on the asset operations and protect the long term health of the asset.
-Improves wind farm operations and thereby increases the expected annual wind farm revenues through additional electricity sales.

Boost is a Vancouver-based cleantech startup that provides municipal wastewater treatment plants and livestock farmers with a treatment process called IMPACT. This groundbreaking technology reduces the volume of sewage sludge and manure, saves operational costs and enables resource recovery from waste. It is an innovative physical chemical process that uses microwave irradiation in combination with an oxidant to heat the sludge and solubilize its solid portion. Our company works directly with the end users, by providing them with an initial design, customized to their specific needs. We partner with equipment suppliers and consulting engineers to build, install, and commission the units for each client.

AIS is committed to state-of-art research in Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) to solve industry challenges.

R&D is the backbone of our technological capabilities. We perform market studies to understand the bottlenecks and find ways to address them by using robotics systems. In this endeavor we collaborate with universities, governmental organizations and industry.

Ourtrack record is based on successful implementation of many industrial automation projects over the years overseas, where a combination of robotics and system integration have been used to simplify difficult manufacturing processes and substantially increase productivity, quality and safety.

Calmura Natural Wallsis developing a factory-produced high-performance wall system for residential builders of projects that want to have the least impact on the environment and the most benefit to the homeowners. The patent-pending system is based off a recyclable biocomposite panel with a matching infill that works in conjunction with standard wood framing practices. This completely renewable and recyclable system not only provides superior thermal insulation and manages indoor humidity levels, but also protects inhabitants from fire, mold, and pests.
Buildings account for over one-third of CO₂ emissions in North America. By locking biocarbon in the composite material, Calmura is creating a carbon-negative solution for buildings that can last for centuries, ultimately reducing landfill waste as well. Â The multi-functional biocomposite panel could additionally be used in floor, ceiling, basement and exterior insulation applications and carries a fully VOC-free, high indoor-air-quality and comfort benefit to inhabitants.

Skaha Remote Sensing is developing sensor technology that can measure soil moisture remotely over large areas. This technology is being used in agriculture where the sensor in mounted on a UAV and is used to map moisture of top soil over entire crop fields. This information is used by growers and agronomists to maximize crop yield and reduce water and energy usage. Existing soil moisture sensors provide only spot measurements of humidity in very localized areas, or can only be deployedÂ on bare fields without vegetation. Skaha\’s airborne remote sensor is not affected by vegetation and can quickly map soil moisture of an entire crop field with high resolution. Pilot projects to test this sensor were conducted in 2015 and are continuing in 2016, with other applications for this technology being explored as well.

ReCharged has created a unique social enterprise business model that allows us to provide cities with electric vehicle charging stations, at no cost, as a way to build out much needed infrastructure ahead of demand. By utilizing ReCharged’s platform, cities can generate more awareness around clean personal transportation, promote local businesses and events, while also receiving a share of advertising revenue. ReCharged has taken the traditional transit shelter advertising model and applied it to charging stations as a way to grow rapidly while giving back to the community, through ReCharged Eco-Venture fund, which will help kickstart more green initiatives.

Novarc Technologies is a leader in automation technology for pipe welding. Our patent pending proprietary technology is implemented in our premier Spool Welding Robot (SWR). SWR is specifically designed for pipe spool fabrication, small pressure vessel welding or similar 1G radial welding. Interactive user input, machine vision, adaptive control and collaborative robotic technologies are integrated in a single dedicated machine that produces fast, efficient and repeatable weld quality.

Neurio Technology, formerly Energy Aware, is the developer of a simple mass market technology that will accelerate the advent of the intelligent home by offering people peace of mind and helping them save energy. With one affordable device, we make all appliances smart and connected, allowing them to communicate with the homeowner.

www.aljadix.com is a seed stage venture commercializing renewable diesel from microalgae feedstock. Our process uses no land and no freshwater making it cost-effective and highly scalable. Our patented microalgae cultivation platform floats on the sea surface and is driven by freely available sunlight.The platform is fully-sealed and designed thermodynamically to capture a maximum of solar energy and carbon dioxide in the microalgae feedstock with a minimum of environmental impact. High-efficiency harvesting and hydrothermal liquefaction convert the biomass to renewable diesel and a co-product of chemically inert carbon hydrochar. The result is a breakthrough for cost-effective climate saving technology: highly-scalable carbon negative renewable diesel. Aljadix is competing in the $20m NRG COSIA Carbon XPrize http://carbon.xprize.org/teams/aljadix

SprayWerx Technologies, Inc. specializes in surface engineering manufacturing processes using thermal spray and laser technologies for wear and corrosion protection. SprayWerx has unique technologies and solutions and has built a worldwide network of collaboration partners who themselves are engaged in state of the art surface engineering technologies. This collaboration network allows SprayWerx to supply complete and cost effective surface engineering manufacturing solutions to end users. These solutions are applied to the high tech, clean energy, aerospace, shipbuilding and oil and gas industries, among others.

Recycle Now! Organics Enterprises LTD is a Vancouver based corporation that provides innovative solutions to recycling. By providing unique services, with an emphasis on client convenience, Recycle Now! Organics Enterprises LTD allows their partners to develop more effectively efficient sustainable movements.

Only 8% of plastics generated today will be recycled, yet the costs to haul, store, sort and process are enormous. Using patented microwave pyrolysis technology, Pyrowave places small, modular units directly onsite at both recyclers and producers of plastic waste. Pyrowave expands the range of recyclable materials, reduces logistics costs and produces higher value end products. Pyrowave cares about the environment. Its technology reduces waste landfilling, waste incineration and waste hauling via a net positive energy process.

NOMAD’s designers and engineers have certainly pushed the limits of small-space living. By incorporating innovative loft access, abundance of natural light, and varied ceiling heights, this tiny home feels truly bigger than its four walls. “We knew that a space this size could feel comfortable with enough thought. Our goal was to produce a liveable, efficient home with minimal impact on yard space and the environment”. 35 years of design and home-building experience provided the answers. NOMAD’s living room, kitchen, bathroom, stair, bedroom, and storage are all seamlessly integrated: access to the loft doubles as a kitchen, a window adds light to one area and a higher ceiling to another, a bathroom doubles as a shower, storage that can be used as seating, and so on. These features are not obvious at first glance, but all are essential to NOMAD’s livability.

NOMAD’s concept expanded significantly when it was engineered for home assembly and shipment worldwide. Following successful prototype engineering, developing, and testing, NOMAD is now in production in British Columbia, Canada.

Mavi is a Vancouver based company building community scale cross-flow hydrokinetic turbines. These turbines convert energy from tidal and river currents into clean and predictable power. Our initial product offering, the 20kW Mi1 Turbine, is undergoing field testing at the Canadian Hydrokinetic Test Centre prior to being integrated into an off-grid community. Mavi also provides expert engineering services to the Marine Aerospace and Renewable Energy sectors.

MTT Innovation Inc. is a pre-revenue, privately held hi-tech start-up in the field of imaging and display technology. With over 55 years of combined imaging experience and having been part of the development and commercialization process of the LED-TV with BrightSide and Dolby Labs, they are uniquely suited to bring innovative imaging solutions to market.

Instream Energy Systems is a pioneering developer of hydrokinetic systems and projects for near shore tidal and inland applications offering renewable energy that is predictable and reliable. The Company’s scalable vertical axis hydrokinetic turbines (VAHTs) efficiently convert the kinetic energy in moving water into cost-competitive, renewable electricity with minimal environmental impact. Instream both develops and deploys hydrokinetic turbines for the sale of electricity in multiple markets.

Intermetallica is an advanced material start-up aiming to disrupt conventional metals manufacturing which has remained unchanged for decades. Intermetallic Surface Alloys will enable improved product lifecycles for materials, which ultimately will lead to a sustainable impact.

GR Green Building Products Inc. has created the most eco-friendly roofing and siding option in the market from recycled plastic and waste limestone. Through a unique patented process that dramatically changes the material properties of the composite, GR Green up-cycles plastic bags and milk bottles through a cradle to cradle manufacturing standard into extremely useful building materials that can be nailed without breaking (ductile).

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