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- October 3, 2019 Announcement Foresight & Ecocity World Summit Announce Participants For The Cleantech Challenge Program At The Ecocity World Summit Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and Ecocity World Summit announced today a list of participating companies for the launch of their Challenge Program at the Community Solutions Showcase during the Ecocity World Summit in Vancouver, BC. View Announcement
- October 1, 2019 Announcement Salmon Capital Of The World Announces Tech Competition Calling all innovative entrepreneurs with ideas that solve real problems for people and businesses. The City of Campbell River Economic Development and Campbell River Angel Group (CRAG) are launching four individual challenges with awards ranging from $45,000 to $100,000. View Announcement
- September 26, 2019 Announcement Foresight Cleantech Collaborates With Okanagan College & UBC Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre, Okanagan College and UBC Okanagan have established a new collaboration to create jobs and intellectual property, and grow the cleantech ecosystem in BC and Canada. View Announcement
- September 25, 2019 Article BC Cleantech Cluster Advisory Group One of the exciting things about the growing cleantech sector in British Columbia is the level of interest in the sector and the scope and strength of the leadership driving it. View Article
- September 23, 2019 Article “All Roads Lead To Canada” – Hydrogen In Motion & The Breakthrough Hydrogen Economy Grace Quan, CEO of Hydrogen in Motion, is on a mission to not only grow her company into a keystone business in the Canadian Hydrogen industry, but to build a lasting legacy and a new hydrogen economy in BC and across the country. View Article
- September 18, 2019 Article Cleantech Cluster - Updates, Insights & Upcoming Events The Cleantech Cluster Initiative is well underway, and we’re at that exciting phase in the project where a lot of seeds have been planted, the soil’s been tilled and the first sprouts are starting to peak out of the ground. View Article
- September 12, 2019 Announcement Foresight Awarded Contract To Deliver Vancouver Economic Commission’s Tech Deployment Network Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre today announced it has been awarded the contract to help develop and support the Vancouver Economic Commission’s Tech Deployment Network (TDN) through Foresight’s Cleantech Business Accelerator programs and services. View Announcement
- September 12, 2019 Announcement Foresight Partners With Ecocity World Summit To Solve Sustainability Challenges Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre announced today that it is partnering with Ecocity World Summit to host its Challenge Program as an exciting addition to the Ecocity World Summit happening in Vancouver Oct 7-11, 2019. View Announcement
- September 10, 2019 Announcement Foresight Partners With Spring Activator To Prepare Entrepreneurs For Investment & To Improve Access To Growth Capital Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre announced today that it is partnering with Spring Activator Inc to deliver an investment readiness training program on October 22nd and 24th, 2019 in Burnaby, BC. View Announcement
- September 9, 2019 Article From Hurricane Relief To Hollywood Blockbuster - The Rise Of (Clean) Portable Energy That was the situation facing many residents of North Carolina in September 2018 when a team from Portable Electric, a Vancouver-based solar power portable generator company, travelled there with 10 of their VOLTstack power stations and portable solar panels. View Article
- September 4, 2019 Announcement CMC Research Institutes and Foresight Partner To Accelerate Growing Opportunity For Carbon Capture and Conversion Technology Across Canada CMC Research Institutes (CMCRI) and Foresight Cleantech Accelerator are partnering to grow the carbon capture and conversion industry in Canada. View Announcement
- August 27, 2019 Article FP Innovations Autonomous Forklift Challenge Q&A Any organization is eligible to participate in the program so long as there are demonstrable benefits to developing and commercializing the innovation in Western Canada. View Article