{Developing an AI-Driven Platform for Last Mile Delivery and Home Installation; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Quick Contractors, Tech Consultants Group, Genaire Transport, Canadian Tire;
This project will develop a software as a service AI platform that combines real-time data and artificial intelligence to optimize last-mile delivery and product installations for large Canadian retailers. This intelligent platform will have optimization capabilities that will synthesize existing and real-time data inputs including inventory availability, delivery carrier details, delivery location and contractor skill levels to improve the capacity planning and scheduling of over 5000+ contractors and delivery agents.
Total project budget: $1.98M / GIC funding: $0.65M
; null,HyperScale AI; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: BC Tech Association;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in BC Tech Association, based in Vancouver, to provide services and support required to accelerate the creation of globally competitive Canadian supply chain AI companies.
Total project budget: Up to $0.35M / GIC funding: Up to $0.35M
; null,Rapid distribution capacity of essential cargo; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: CargoM, The Montreal Port Authority, Montreal Gateway Terminal Partnership and Termont Montréal Inc.;
This project will optimize the sorting and prioritization of cargo ships entering the Port of Montreal to ensure the rapid distribution of essential goods across Canada, such as medical equipment and food products. Distribution networks are under stress, with the need to quickly deliver basic necessities in the health and food sectors.
Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.49M
; null,Amplify AI BC; Project location: Victoria, BC Project partners: Alacrity Canada;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Alacrity Canada, a not-for-profit accelerator that will be providing services and support to AI-focused firms based in B.C. Alacrity Canada aims to help build inbound investment and revenue both domestically and globally for AI driven companies. Their goal is to launch the first commercialization, marketing, and sales acceleration program for AI supply chain companies in Canada.
Total project budget: Up to $0.57 M / GIC funding: Up to $0.20M
; null,Co.Labs; Project location: Saskatoon, SK Project partners: Co.Labs;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Co.Labs based in Saskatoon. Co.Labs is designed to identify high-potential founders with a validated software- or hardware-based technology, and provide all the tools and contacts they need to raise investment, improve product-market fit, get the right team in place, and ultimately scale their respective companies to $1 million in annual recurring revenue. Co.Labs would use Scale AI support to establish a network of contacts and mentors in the AI research and supply chain/logistics spaces, then contract these individuals to work intensively with eligible early-stage entrepreneurs and teams at Co.Labs toward solving complex problems related to product development and commercialization.
Total project budget: $0.18M / GIC funding: $0M
; null,Supply Chain AI for Circular Manufacturing Feedstock Solution; Project location: Concord, ON Project partners: Macrodyne Technologies, ReGen Composites, Consultation & Technologies, Les Technologies MOOVAI, Institute Intelligence and Data (IID), Université Laval;
The projects key goal will be to develop an AI-based supply chain solution to source feedstock in the appropriate quantity, quality, and blend to allow for the circular manufacturing of virtually all types and blends of plastics.
Total project budget: $5.28M / GIC funding: $2.2M
; null,The DAL-IA; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Logibec, CHUM, Moov AI, Chair in Analytics and Logistics in Healthcare (HANALOG);
This project aims to develop a solution that prevents inventory run-out in hospitals through improved consumption forecasting of more than 50,000 essential products. The solution will also offer availability predictions regarding potentially delayed or incomplete orders. It will be incorporated into Logibec?s existing material resource management solution, already in use in more than 70% of healthcare facilities in Quebec.
Total project budget: $5.65M / GIC funding: $1.87M
This project aims to leverage AI technologies to redefine project partners quoting and order management experience for both their internal users and clients. The project will develop a decision support system to automate the logistics services quoting process. This system aims to better serve customers and facilitate interactions within the organization.
Total project budget: $2.49M / GIC funding: $0.96M
; null,AI integration within the supply chain ecosystem; Project location: Chambly, QC Project partners: Distribution JRV, Nuvoola, Idéo Concepts, AGD Express Verchères, Rio Tinto Fer et Titane, Université de Moncton, École de Technologie Supérieure de Montréal;
Distributions JRV are established experts in selling and distributing specialized equipment and services for the mining industry in Quebec and Labrador. Although equipped with modern systems, they are looking for ways to improve their demand forecasting and inventory replenishment to support their growing business. For this reason, JRV has developed a multiyear roadmap in collaboration with Nuvoola to help modernize various areas of their business, including demand forecasting and inventory replenishment decisions.
Total project budget: $5.36M / GIC funding: $2.15M
The project aims to develop an end-to-end supply chain platform for the automotive sunroof industry, using AI to significantly improve planning visibility, inventory levels, and labour productivity for supply chain participants.
Total project budget: $9.18M / GIC funding: $2.45M
; null,Revenue Management for Retail & Supply Chain through Artificial Intelligence; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: THE ALDO GROUP INC., IVADO Labs, Retailogists, ITL Group ;
The project aims to implement machine learning and operations research to streamline retail and supply chain processes. The goal is to create a system that optimizes order fulfillment and price markdowns, leveraging predictive analytics of demand and inventory levels. The innovative use of AI, the processing and analysis of the data, and the development of the algorithm will pave the way for broad-scale transformation and growth. Through this project, project partners are contributing to the elevation of Canada's status as a nexus for innovation in industry prognostics and predictive maintenance for supply chains and vehicles.
Total project budget: $14.48M / GIC funding: $2.91M
This intelligent dispatch project addresses the optimization of crane and operator dispatch on different contracts. With the help of artificial intelligence, Guay has developed a solution that allows it to address several issues in the dispatching of its personnel and equipment, in complex bids as well as in the prediction of service demand.
Total project budget: $8.56M / GIC funding: $2.93M
; null,New Intelligent planning tool for Shipyards; Project location: Montreal, Laval, Quebec City, QC and Halifax, NS and Mount Pearl, NL and Victoria, BC Project partners: Thales, Sodan, SimWell Consulting & Technologies, Genoa Design International, Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Laval, Dalhousie University, Seaspan Victoria Shipyards, Government of Quebec;
This project brings together specialists in technology and design, in addition to university researchers, to develop an innovative optimization solution for the planning of naval in-service support. Partners will be developing a new intelligent planning tool to help shipyards manage complex sets of constraints and adapt to unplanned events.
Total project budget: $2.43M / GIC funding: $0.89M
; null,Improve demand forecast accuracy ; Project location: Brampton, ON Project partners: Loblaw Companies Limited, Plotly, Government of Quebec;
This project will develop an AI tool to improve demand forecast accuracy, and by extension a large set of supply chain aspects affected by demand forecast accuracy (i.e. fulfillment, inventory, assortment, planograms), in order to optimally manage store supply and ensure the best possible shopping experience for consumers.
Total project budget: $1.65M / GIC funding: $0.65M
This project will expand Dialogue Technologies' free AI-powered assessment tool, ?Chloe for COVID-19?, to include infection risk assessments, question-answering capabilities and automated follow-ups.
Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.5M
; null,AI for Exploration and Development of Critical Raw Materials; Project location: Calgary, AB Project partners: Enersoft (GeologicAI), Kirkland Lake Gold, Casino Mining Corporation, Fireweed Zinc, Tech-X Resources, Yukon Geological Survey, Ontario Geological Survey;
This project will bring together Calgary-based technology SME Enersoft with several mining companies including heavyweights Rio Tinto and Agnico Eagle as well as relevant Government agencies, to develop ML models using new high-resolution multi-sensor machine vision rock scan data to allow for faster, more precise, and more cost-effective analysis of core samples.
Total project budget: $7.11M / GIC funding: $1.63M
; null,Intelligent Yield Optimization Platform for Agricultural Supply Chain ; Project location: Guelph, ON Project partners: Adastra, Johnny's Selected Seeds, Loblaw, Sun Gro Horticulture, University of Guelph, GoodLeaf Farms;
This project will enable the development of an intelligent platform that captures operational growth metrics/telemetry as well as image-based insights and links them to their impact on yield and quality.
This project will see the development of a platform that aims to accelerate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles by strengthening Canada's position as the innovation hub for Electric vehicle routing and charging scheduling. In collaboration with IVADO Labs, the Cléo platform will introduce an innovative AI model capable of autonomously learning and predicting future trips for electric vehicles, all while minimizing energy costs and alleviating strain on the electrical charging network. This project stands as a significant contribution to the pursuit of a more environmentally friendly and sustainable future in transportation.
Total project budget: $1.6M / GIC funding: $0.35M
; null,Intelligent digital assistance system; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: Careteam, FleetOps, Collingwood Neighborhood House, the Vancouver Foundation;
This project will aim to equip and enable community organizations, local stakeholders and volunteers to manage interventions, and share data through a digital platform in a coordinated manner. This is important because the support network for vulnerable people, including professional home services and caregiver interventions, is completely disrupted by the current crisis.
Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.5M
; null,AI for Energy Supply Chain Feedstock Optimization; Project location: Calgary, AB / Toronto, ON Project partners: Tidewater Midstream and Infrastructure Ltd., Validere Technologies Inc., NOVA Analytics, Queen?s University;
Together, project partners will be developing a data layer that consolidates and augments multiple data sources into a single source platform solution to make better operational, commercial, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) decisions. Specifically, this new AI technology will track and predict oil and gas supply chain feedstocks with aims to economics for supply chain participants and reducing environmental waste associated with inefficiencies. The tools being developed are not only useful in both day-to-day operations, but also in the strategic planning of product movements.
Total project budget: $3.57M / GIC funding: $1.21M
This project leverages predictive and prescriptive AI to allow stakeholders to experiment with new promotions and pricing approaches, involving selection and optimization. This approach provides opportunities for improvement, to maximize the impact of promotions, improve promotion planning, in turn providing more visibility and opportunities to suppliers, and providing a more tailored experience to customers.
Total project budget: $3.99M / GIC funding: $1.6M
; null,Farm to Market; Project location: Kitchener, ON Project partners: Local Line, Flanagan Foodservice, Ontario Fresh, Ontario Farmers Collective ;
This collaborative project will establish an innovative online platform that will significantly reduce distribution costs and enable access to new markets. The AI algorithms created will identify co-loads in advance, giving farmers an entirely new logistics model where ship dates are projected and synchronized months into the future.
Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.2M
; null,Improvement of radiation therapy through staff scheduling optimization; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Center, IVADO Labs, Southlake Regional Health Center, eSummit;
This project will develop an AI solution to address critical challenges in radiation therapist scheduling. Using the power of AI, the solution will comprise of workload and absence prediction, monthly optimization, and daily adjustments, all driven by historical data and advanced algorithms, creating resilient schedules while ensuring coverage at hospitals and reducing disruptions to staff and patients.
Total project budget: $1.65M / GIC funding: $1.2M
; null,AI-Driven Retail Sales and Demand Forecasting ; Project location: Valcourt, QC Project partners: Bombardier Recreational Products, IVADO Labs, Performance NC, Motor Sports World, Energy Power Sports;
This project will bolster Bombardier Recreational Products' supply-chain processes through improved forecasting of customer demand for its products. This forecasting should drive enhancements to the entire supply chain, from the procurement of parts and raw materials, to production and delivery to customers.
Total project budget: $4.35M / GIC funding: $1.64M
; null,Adaptive optimization of surgery schedules post COVID-19 peaks; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: McGill University Health Centre;
Forecasting and optimizing surgery schedules with a predictive and prescriptive decision support solution for the central operating room booking team, that will recommend a joint optimized schedule for all of MUHC surgeons while leveraging statistical models to account for constraints such as beds availability, overtime risk and shared resources. Additionally, a separate simulation-based tool will be developed to help MUHC as a strategic decision support system and guide longer horizon strategic decisions by leveraging statistical information on historical data and patient backlogs.
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in L-Spark Corp, an accelerator based in Ottawa. L-Spark offers services and support to startups in: Deep Technology, Startups focused on enterprise solutions with a heavy AI component, and startups focused helping SMEs use AI to automate customer attraction, retention and yield.
Total project budget: Up to $0.69M / GIC funding: Up to $0.50M
; null,Velocity; Project location: Kitchener, ON Project partners: Velocity Incubator;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada.The Cluster is investing in Velocity, the signature entrepreneurship program at the University of Waterloo. Velocity?s incubator program is for early-stage, pre-seed tech startups.
Total project budget: Up to $0.50M / GIC funding: Up to $0.50M
This project aims to support the demand, complexity and scale of satellite constellation production by optimizing MDA Corporation's supply chain operations. Project partners will be leveraging artifical intelligence to improve efficiency within the supply chain by reducing waste and optimizing inventory, manufacturing schedules and performance during the production of the satellites and their subsystems.
Total project budget: $5.73M / GIC funding: $1.54M
; null,Taking Flight: Optimization in the Airline Industry ; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Air Canada, Plotly, Government of Quebec;
This project will apply machine learning and optimization to the value chain in order to predict passenger no-shows, revenue, and competitor behavior, in turn leading to an enriched information feed and a better prediction of consumer demand.
Total project budget: $16.8M / GIC funding: $5.99M
; null,Staff Optimizer and Two-Way Product Recommender for e-Commerce; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Kognitive Tech Inc., Ivado labs, Roy Foss Motors Ltd., Cellcom Communications;
This project will integrate artifical intelligence to an existing e-commerce software suite in order to build strong personalization capabilities that are scalable for retailers more broadly. The tools developed as a result of this project will provide retailers with the ability to categorize their clients, score their likelihood of making a purchase, and prioritize incoming clients in real-time to better capture demand and optimize their store resources. The goal of this project is to ultimately grow retailer transaction conversion rates, or demand capture, while increasing supply chain efficiency.
Total project budget: $2.93M / GIC funding: $1.02M
; null,Intelligent structural steel design and estimating system; Project location: Boucherville, QC Project partners: Canam Group, Les Technologies MOOVAI, CICIEM (Concordia University), Read Jones Christoffersen, McIntosh Perry;
This project will standardize, digitize and automate the cost estimation process by leveraging the technological advances of our era to create an Intelligent Structural Steel Design and Estimating System
Total project budget: $2.76M / GIC funding: $1.07M
; null,Optimization of the distribution of diagnostic tests for COVID-19; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Roche;
This project will enable rapid response distribution capabilities for diagnostic tests that will benefit public health stakeholders, healthcare professionals and patients. This will be done by leveraging a robust forecasting model, and an allocation optimization engine that takes into account constraints in global supply, as well as national testing capacity and changing circumstances.
Total project budget: $0.5M / GIC funding: $0.5M
; null,AI for the Air Cargo Industry ; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Air Canada, OEC Group, Edgenda, Government of Quebec;
This project will adopt AI-powered solutions in order to enhance airline cargo operations and performance by optimizing asset utilization, forecasting shipments, and identifying errors.
Total project budget: $14.29M / GIC funding: $3.53M
; null,AI Solutions for a Home Care Staffing Crisis ; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: AlayaCare, CBI, IntegraCare, Polytechnique Montréal, Bien chez soi, Clinique GO, CIUSSS, Government of Quebec;
This project will see partners use an AI-informed software platform to give home healthcare agencies better planning and management tools to optimize and prepare the home care workforce to meet the growing demands of our aging population. By creating efficiencies in scheduling, time reporting, clinical documentation and patient monitoring, this innovative software will enable home care providers to deliver best-in-class services aimed at improving patient outcomes in Canada.
Total project budget: $1.84M / GIC funding: $0.61M
; null,Retail Supply Chain Platform; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Ravel by Cadillac Fairview, Coveo, Fintech Growth Syndicate, Adeptmind, Mackage, AlDO Group, Softmoc, Government of Quebec;
This project will have partners working together to create an AI-powered retail supply chain platform that will help Canadian export innovation. This platform will connect people, physical and virtual spaces, and data -enabling retailers to better predict customer demand, optimize inventory and deliver products faster.
Total project budget: $12.99M / GIC funding: $4.61M
; null,AI-driven Subcontractor, Labor and Equipment Management ; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: EllisDon Holdings Inc., Yeji Data Lab, Guild Electric Limited, Stephenson Rental Services, VR Mechanical Services;
The principal goal of this AI-centric initiative is to engineer a forward-thinking predictive tool for the construction supply chain. This project will enable subcontractors and other stakeholders to improve their performance by leveraging AI-driven construction software to optimize their cost management, resource allocation, and project scheduling, leading to increased efficiency and competitiveness in the market.
Total project budget: $4.62M / GIC funding: $1.68M
; null,Supply Chain Optimization Platform; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Adastra, Standard Building & Supplies, Taiga Building Products;
The project will improve retail customer experience by leveraging datasets that provide information related to historical purchase trends, seasonality, market variances, other customer purchase patterns. Adastra will commercialize the expertise developed and reusable technical components of the workflows that can be adapted/customized to other logistics and manufacturing clients, while Taiga will retain the business-specific context, trained models, and optimization model definitions/constraints.
Total project budget: $1.08M / GIC funding: $2.80M
; null,Data-driven project to unravel the coronavirus; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: MILA;
This project will take advantage of a new deep learning algorithm to exploit the capabilities of artificial intelligence in fundamental research and to transfer this knowledge into applied research to accelerate the interpretation of research data for effective antiviral molecules in the fight against COVID-19.
Total project budget: $0.25M / GIC funding: $0.13M
; null,COVsight: living COVID medical knowledge-Graph of PandemIA partnership; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), My Intelligent Machines;
This project will provide a new approach based on dynamic knowledge graphs to help keep clinicians and other frontline healthcare professionals up to date on the latest medical findings on COVID-19.
The projects key goal is to increase the overall basket profitability through increased revenue and margins while minimizing the costs of these supply chain activities by providing product recommendations that consider supply chain impacts.
Total project budget: $25.31M / GIC funding: $9.25M
This project is to improve purchasing and sales decisions across AMG?s supply chain to improve business performance. The proposed solution integrates with AMG?s existing technology solutions to provide better insights to decision-makers across the organization. This solution focuses on four key areas: Customer segmentation to improve sales forecasts, product development, and marketing across channels. Multi-channel rolling sales prediction for 2-year time horizon.
Total project budget: $2.35M / GIC funding: $0.75M
; null,Autonomous Procurement Pricing System; Project location: Cambridge, ON Project partners: ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc., Waterloo Analytics, Demtool Inc., University of Waterloo, OERP Canada ;
This project is leveraging AI technology to predict component pricing in the supply chain of industrial automation solutions. This consortium, led by ATS Corp., will work with AI consulting firm Waterloo Analytics to generate a new component pricing tool, analyzing custom 3D computer-aided design (CAD) parts to predict job pricing and improving supply chain workflows. This system will deliver higher accuracy into supplier costing, job forecasting, and streamlined vendor engagements.
Total project budget: $2.49M / GIC funding: $0.94M
; null,ventureLAB Accelerate AI (VAAI); Project location: Markham, ON Project partners: ventureLAB Innovation Centre ;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in the ventureLAB Innovation Centre based in Markham. ventureLAB?s Accelerate AI program (VAAI) supports growing and scaling Canadian AI hardware and software startups in the supply chain industry.
Total project budget: $0.62M / GIC funding: $0.25M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Techstars Montréal, a Montreal-based accelerator that will provide services and support to selected AI startups.
Total project budget: Up to $0.67M / GIC funding: Up to $0.07M
; null,Routeique AI-Enabled Warehouse Digital Twin; Project location: Calgary, AB Project partners: Routeique, Big Rock Brewery, Amii - Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute ;
This project will focus on orchestrating warehouse operations to maximize warehouse efficiency across three interconnected use cases; space use optimization, pick route optimization and sequencing, and demand forecasting and sensing.
Total project budget: $3.55M / GIC funding: $1.34M
; null,Digitization of coronavirus-specific clinical trials; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: The Montreal Heart Institute;
This project will explore a digital solution to speed up clinical trials for treatment protocols being used to tackle COVID-19. The institute is using a digital approach to trial subject monitoring requiring only a few follow-up calls or ?video? visits ? approved by Health Canada and the Food and Drug Administration.
Total project budget: $0.13M / GIC funding: $0.13M
; null,Supply Chain AI West; Project location: Edmonton, AB Project partners: Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII);
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) based in Edmonton. The AMII will empower startups and early-stage founders to incorporate AI and machine learning toward creating AI-powered supply chains through access to training and advertisement services.
Total project budget: Up to $0.77M / GIC funding: Up to $0.50M
This project will implement end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning-driven demand forecasting predictive models to increase process efficiencies, help improve forecast accuracy and unlock capacity in the business; ensuring improved service, optimum inventory and better production scheduling. By integrating internal and external demand data from all stores across nine major retail chains, the AI and machine learning-based solution will provide predictive analytics to adjust production for 95% of its goods.
Total project budget: $2.20M / GIC funding: $0.52M
; null,Emergency Dept AI-Enabled Virtual Triaging and Queue Management Application; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Humber River Health, Deloitte, Mackenzie Health, MEDITECH Collaborative (Queensway Carelton Hospital);
This project will use AI in the emergency department of the Humber River Hospital to forecast patient influx, analyze resource availability, and deploy real-time solutions to align resources effectively, all aimed at improving health navigation for patients and enhancing operational efficiency. This innovative approach will significantly reduce patient wait times, improve staff workflows, and elevate overall patient satisfaction.
Total project budget: $2.45M / GIC funding: $1.5M
; null,An AI-based prediction platform for driving supply chain efficiencies; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Fleet Complete, Pitstop, Sensata, NPL Canada, Superior Propane;
This project will result in a robust and scalable big data analytics solution to better manage the maintenance of commercial vehicle fleets with predictive analytics around components. Equipment downtime is a leading cause of supply chain and logistical inefficiencies. This technology will be able to provide advanced brake and tire prognostics to fleet owners and managers to significantly reduce downtime and, consequently, lower the cost of ownership of their mobile assets.
Total project budget: $3.51M / GIC funding: $0.88M
; null,Planogram optimization solution; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Canadian Tire, Spacefile International Corp;
This project will develop an AI solution that optimizes merchandise product lines by generating a customized planogram for each location, delivering solutions to effectively merchandise each Canadian Tire store through the use of real-time data optimizing operations based on customer behaviour patterns.
This project will develop predictive models around supply chain network risk. The AI solutions will allow SME users to understand better their supply chain risk through a single score.
Total project budget: $2.84M / GIC funding: $0.95M
; null,Development of an intelligent planning system for PPE; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), MUUTAA;
This project aims to provide the ability to proactively manage PPE through accurate forecasts of patient influx and the ability to optimize orders and stock.
Total project budget: $0.55M / GIC funding: $0.41M
; null,Industrial Video Analytics for Manufacturing Efficiency ; Project location: Oakville, ON Project partners: Pacefactory Inc., Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada, Dupont Sustainable Solutions, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, University of Quebec at Rimouski, University of Guelph, Premier Tech, Magna;
Project partners will work together to develop advanced video analytics solutions and processes to solve some of the costliest production problems in manufacturing. Industrial video analytics uses computer vision, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to study motion patterns of production processes and identify opportunities for improvement or help explain non-standard, unexpected losses of time or motion.
Total project budget: $2.88M / GIC funding: $0.9M
; null,Next AI - Toronto; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Next Canada;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. Scale AI is funding Next AI - Toronto, a global innovation hub for AI related venture creation and technology commercialization. Next AI identifies talented individuals and teams with ambitious ideas and provides them with the tools they need to compete.
Total project budget: Up to $1.65M / GIC funding: Up to $0.35M
; null,Sherbrooke AI Digital Twin; Project location: Sherbrooke, QC Project partners: Kruger Inc., Polytechnique Montreal, DataPerformers, Université Laval, The Boston Consulting Group, Osedea;
Using real-time data, the project will recreate Kruger's new manufacturing plant?s entire supply chain virtually, adding an integrated set of predictive and prescriptive AI capabilities. This will allow the improvement of key operations from supply through processing to client shipping in order to drive revenues, efficiency and agility.
Total project budget: $25.5M / GIC funding: $5.56M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) to support ventures applying AI along the supply chain, such as operational planning, sourcing, distribution, delivery and services across diverse industries from retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics.
Total project budget: Up to $2.10M / GIC funding: Up to $0.23M
; null,AI-guided tool to maintain safety and quality of cancer treatment; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Gray Oncology;
This project is developing an innovative AI solution that will provide capacity planning, online scheduling, metric forecasting and ultimately an action plan to maintain the standard of care through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Total project budget: $0.53M / GIC funding: $0.51M
; null,AloT Fulfilment; Project location: Calgary, AB / Brampton, ON Project partners: Attabotics, Intel of Canada Ltd., Microsoft, Canadian Tire, Amii, AltaML;
This project is exploring how applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to disruptive 3D automated storage and retrieval technology can lead to higher efficiencies such as reducing a company's warehouse needs and labour costs. By maximizing the number of items picked-up by the robot, orders will be gathered faster and more efficiently, further reducing the fulfillment cost for customers.
Total project budget: $7.03M / GIC funding: $2.52M
; null,Project Galactic; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Ravel by CF, Coveo Solutions Inc., Gensquared Inc., Konrad Group Inc., Matt and Nat SE, The Silver Mountain LTD, QE Home | Quilts Etc., Ann-Louise Jewellers Ltd.;
This project will give an edge to smaller Canadian retailers, empowering these SMEs to level the playing field of larger competitors through best-in-class product search and discoverability capabilities usually only attainable through major capex investments. This will allow their product catalogues to be searchable, their products to be found by consumers, and those products to be purchased in-store and online.
Total project budget: $5.33M / GIC funding: $1.13M
; null,An AI-powered NDT Platform for Weld Defect Detection and Classification; Project location: Scarborough, ON Project partners: InspecTech Analygas Group, Impact AI, QU Consultants, Royal Military College of Canada, TWB Company, Magna International;
This project will develop an AI-based model to reduce scrap and improve productivity for the midstream welding of steel tailor welded blanks. The AI-based solution will not only predict whether a defect is present, but also classify the type of defect present.
Total project budget: $2.06M / GIC funding: $0.69M
The goal of this project is to use predictive analytics models to enable a more proactive approach to aviation maintenance, limiting aircraft downtime and reducing ?Aircraft on Ground? (AOG) costs for aircraft, as well as providing unique state-of-the-art maintenance support to customers. Aircraft maintenance typically consists of scheduled activities at specific intervals and unscheduled activities when aircraft parts need repair.
Total project budget: $11.69M / GIC funding: $2.95M
; null,Next AI - Montreal; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: HEC Montréal - École des dirigeants, Next Canada;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Next AI - Montréal, an accelerator and founder development program for artificial intelligence-based ventures, delivered in Montreal. In partnership with HEC Montreal, Next AI - Montreal will identify early stage ideas and teams and provide them with the capital, mentorship, education and network to disrupt industries.
Total project budget: Up to $2.37M / GIC funding: Up to $0.40M
; null,Taking Flight: Optimization in the Airline Industry; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Air Canada, Plotly, Government of Quebec;
This project will apply machine learning and optimization to the value chain in order to predict passenger no-shows, revenue, and competitor behavior, in turn leading to an enriched information feed and a better prediction of consumer demand.
Total project budget: $16.8M / GIC funding: $5.99M
; null,Recommendation engine for ancillary upgrade system; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: plusgrade, Air Canada, Air Transat;
This project aims to elevate how airlines capture incremental revenues with the development of AI-based solutions such as virtual assistants. The result is intended to be positive customer experiences and clear returns on investments. With the introduction of a virtual assistant, airlines will be able to yield more potential revenues and, through a diversification of their revenue sources, the ability to generate ancillary revenue will increase the financial performance and stability of airlines.
Total project budget: $5.22M / GIC funding: $1.81M
This solution aims to create new models for detecting anomalies in grocery stores driven by transformations in human behaviour throughout the pandemic, causing everyday products to be out of stock, and to react more quickly and avoid shortages that would affect consumers? ability to find basic products in grocery stores and pharmacies.
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Ecofuel, an accelerator that provides services and support to startups specializing in clean technology, and the selection process for start-up participants is underway.
Total project budget: Up to $0.96 M / GIC funding: Up to $0.20M
This project is to improve purchasing and sales decisions across AMG?s supply chain to improve business performance. The proposed solution integrates with AMG?s existing technology solutions to provide better insights to decision-makers across the organization. This solution focuses on four key areas: Customer segmentation to improve sales forecasts, product development, and marketing across channels. Multi-channel rolling sales prediction for 2-year time horizon.
Total project budget: $2.35M / GIC funding: $0.75M
Project partners will be working together to optimize pricing based on consumer demand and behaviour. The solution will also integrate the responses of competitors and market conditions.
Total project budget: $5.68M / GIC funding: $0.91M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Le CAMP, based in Quebec City, to offer services and support for startups using technology to solve supply chain issues.
Total project budget: Up to $0.38M / GIC funding: Up to $0.18M
; null,AI-Driven Physician Scheduling Solution and Workflow Optimization; Project location: Surrey, BC Project partners: Fraser Health Authority, Deloitte, Burnaby Hospital, Eagle Ridge Hospital ;
Through this project, Fraser Health will harness the power of AI to forecast patient demand and optimize physician scheduling in the emergency and hospital medicine departments. These AI-driven initiatives are set to significantly improve operational efficiency, reduce patient wait times, enhance health outcomes, and cultivate a better working environment for staff. By integrating AI in these critical areas, Fraser Health will further solidify its position as an innovator and leader in healthcare, delivering on its commitment to excellent patient care and optimal service delivery.
Total project budget: $2.23M / GIC funding: $1.5M
; null,The DMZ - Supply AI Program; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Toronto Metropolitan University - The DMZ;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in The DMZ (Toronto Metropolitan University) based in Toronto. With a focus on AI-powered supply chains the DMZ is introducing a specialized remote program to support Canada?s entrepreneurs in the place they call home. The DMZ?s Supply AI program incubates and accelerates AI startups that are otherwise limited by geography, and works to increase Canada?s capacity to support the growth of AI ventures.
Total project budget: $2.3M / GIC funding: $0.4M
; null,Smart supply chain for the minerals and metals sector; Project location: Quebec, QC Project partners: Optel Group, Aluminium Association of Canada, Université Laval, Laserax, Lithion Recycling, SmartyfAI, Government of Quebec;
The project will enable a highly advanced AI algorithm to ensure full traceability of the supply chain for minerals and metals, from extraction to the end of the product life cycle. The traceability system makes it possible to guarantee the North American origin of the materials, which will reduce the processing time for exports at the border. From an environmental perspective, analyzing the data will facilitate the implementation of initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure that industry complies with the OECD guidelines on responsible sourcing.
Total project budget: $16.56M / GIC funding: $1.24M
; null,Developing the first patient-centric care management system for oncology; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: The Ottawa Hospital, Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Gray Oncology Solutions, The Jewish General Hospital, University Health Network, Programme Québécois de Cancérologie, Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de Laval, McGill University Health Centre, Southlake Regional Health Centre, CIUSSS de l?Estrie ? Sherbrooke, Canadian Cancer Society ;
This project focuses on developing, deploying, and evaluating software to address three key challenges in oncology: the stochastic nature of patient flow, the difficulty of proactive capacity planning and the coordination of multiple services that a single patient may require throughout their care trajectory.
Total project budget: $2.72M / GIC funding: $1.64M
; null,AI for customized packaging; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Nulogy Corporation, Mars Canada, Shenker Canada, Menasha, Lake City Foods, Linsey Foods, Alliance;
This project will see project partners leverage production and demand data for an AI platform that will allow for better supply chain planning and delivery. This AI-enhanced platform will also benefit other consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and suppliers by accelerating growth in this space.
Total project budget: $1.74M / GIC funding: $0.61M
; null,Optimizing and restarting hospital elective surgery and cancer cases; Project location: Etobicoke, ON Project partners: William Osler Health System, Seamless MD;
This project aims to utilize an artificial intelligence enabled digital patient pathway to optimize the restarting of medical procedures and surgeries in a COVID-19 environment.
Total project budget: $0.53M / GIC funding: $0.4M
; null,COVID-19 screening and virtual home visits; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: AlayaCare, Polytechnique Montréal and Bien Chez Soi;
This project will enhance the AlayaCare home health care platform to respond to immediate needs emerging because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will ensure that Canadians in need continue to receive home healthcare in the early, most critical stages of the pandemic, while protecting the health and safety of both patients and care providers. Partners will use the platform to provide a new virtual care offering up and running as soon as possible in order to mitigate cancelled homecare visits. Through this project, the platform will also offer the ability to create COVID screeners to collect symptom data and protect care workers and patients from exposure if any symptoms are present before a scheduled visit. The main objective of this is to virtually collect and analyze screener data to help to pinpoint hot zones of infection and identify high-risk individuals and areas.
Total project budget: $0.31M / GIC funding: $0.3M
; null,Reducing installation and repair times for telecommunication customers; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Bell Canada, Exfo, VuPoint Systems, Government of Quebec;
Project partners will employ AI models to assign technicians; optimizing field installation and repair processes. This will reduce the number and average time of visits, and ultimately improve the Canadian consumer experience.
Total project budget: $0.48M / GIC funding: $0.19M
; null,AI-enabled Quality Control and Predictive Maintenance for the PPE Supply Chain; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: CrossWing Solutions Inc., Cardinal Health, The Design Quantum, Big Nano Corporation, Shield Medical Products, York University, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Performance BioFilaments Inc., LifeCycle Revive;
The project will deliver a comprehensive quality control system that will leverage both artificial intelligence and machine learning through computer vision to increase quality standards and production outputs in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) with a focus on medical gown manufacturing. By significantly improving the quality control standards while meeting demand and reducing the need for manual intervention, this will create an increase in customer trust, production capacity, and shared intelligence for the entire supply chain.
Total project budget: $4.16M / GIC funding: $1.28M
The objective of this initiative is the deployment of an AI system specifically designed to enhance and streamline the logistics of the CIUSSS West-Central warehouse through precise demand forecasting.
Total project budget: $1.66M / GIC funding: $1.2M
; null,Port Logistics Optimization Tool; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Montreal Port Authority, Montreal Gateway Terminals Partnership, Canscan, EI Systems, Termont, Government of Quebec;
Project partners will work together to develop a data-driven approach to port logistics that will provide upstream visibility on the rail and marine supply chain to support decision-making at the tactical level through AI. The movement of containers through the Port of Montreal?s infrastructure is driven by complex information in the possession of numerous stakeholders. A better synchronization of all the elements of the supply chains is expected to bring substantial benefits to the entire gateway ecosystem.
Total project budget: $2.68M / GIC funding: $0.66M
This project is a route optimization platform for SME delivery businesses. Projects partners will reduce their fleet's mileage and fuel consumption by 20%~30%. This project, will use ML models to incorporate traffic into proprietary route optimization algorithm and leverage AI to make this routing platform more intelligent.
Total project budget: $2.44M / GIC funding: $0.97M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Holt Accelerator, a seed fintech investor based in Montreal. Holt tracks early stage fintechs globally and solicits the best ones and matches them with their Advisor network.
Total project budget: Up to $0.74M / GIC funding: Up to $ 0.04M
; null,AI-Powered Vehicle Operations Suite ; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: Canada Drives, Canadian Black Book, Infostrux Solutions, UBC Sauder School of Business, ProCogia ;
This project, through a combination of technology and empowered customer service enables consumers to shop, purchase, finance and sell vehicles entirely online.
Total project budget: $2.22M / GIC funding: $0.88M
; null,Momentum; Project location: Quebec City, QC Project partners: MAIN - Mouvement des accélérateurs d'innovation du Québec;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in the MAIN - Mouvement des accélerateurs d'innovation du Québec based in Quebéc. Through PMEit, MAIN aims to accelerate investments and increase the turnover and access to financing of the companies it supports. PMEit proposes an innovative management approach based on collaboration and the pooling of resources.
Total project budget: $0.14M / GIC funding: $0.12M
; null,Corporate Innovation Program for AI Supply Chain Startups; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: BCF Ventures;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. Through this project, the Cluster is investing in BCF Ventures to accelerate collaboration between AI-based Supply Chain start-ups and provide entrepreneur-centric advice that responds to the challenges of business development with corporations, legal due diligence, scalability and funding.
Total project budget: Up to $0.20M / GIC funding: Up to $0.20M
; null,Trade Promo Optimization; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Larus Technologies Corporation, Theory & Practice, SOSCIP (Smart Computing for Innovation), Unilever Canada, Federated Coop;
This projects main objective is to provide an end-to-end promotion optimization recommendation engine to help the consortium members increase their ability to accurately predict consumer reaction to pricing and promotions, creating seamless integration between suppliers, retailers and the analytics ecosystem.
Total project budget: $2.63M / GIC funding: $0.77M
; null,AI-based decision tool to forecast, optimize and allocate paramedic resources; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Urgences-santé, Airudi, McGill Clinical and Health Informatics, Emergency Medical Care Incorporated, Alberta Health Services ? Emergency Medical Services ;
This project will use machine learning-based modelling to better predict influxes of 9-1-1 calls and increase response times to medical emergencies. This solution will allow Urgences-Santé to be more efficient and agile in balancing supply and demand of resources, which will improve the delivery of care and increase patient well-being.
Total project budget: $2.34M / GIC funding: $1.2M
; null,Aircraft Parts Affinity Recommendation with AI; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Bombardier, IVADO Labs, Xennial Innovation;
This project will allow Bombardier to represent national capabilities in aerospace and AI and position them to share their non-competitive insights and knowledge with research organizations such as NERC. This could foster further improvement in the methodologies developed through research programs funded through the benefits generated by the present project's results.
Total project budget: $3.63M / GIC funding: $1.46M
; null,Adaptive AI Powering the Oil & Gas Supply Chain ; Project location: Montreal, QC and Calgary, AB Project partners: Stream Systems, IBM, Paramount Resources, NAL Resources, Trans Mountain, Drift Technological Solutions, Egistix Corporation, Government of Quebec;
Project partners will use simulation tools to create virtual reality replications of field operations to provide energy producers with a better understanding of the drivers and bottlenecks that affect the flow of assets through the oil and gas supply chain. This will allow producers to take appropriate actions before the revenue opportunity is lost or gained.
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Centech, a business incubator based in Montreal that offers services and support programs for start-ups. The program aims to accelerate AI adoption for SMEs and ensure that they are ready for AI implementation with pre-approvals from financial partners.
Total project budget: Up to $0.38M / GIC funding: Up to $0.10M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in the innovation hub Volta, based in Halifax. Volta will launch a program where eligible AI supply chain focused ventures are given additional access to programming and funding opportunities facilitated and administered by Volta.
Total project budget: Up to $0.18M / GIC funding: Up to $0.18M
This project aims to leverage AI technologies to redefine project partners quoting and order management experience for both their internal users and clients. The project will develop a decision support system to automate the logistics services quoting process. This system aims to better serve customers and facilitate interactions within the organization.
Total project budget: $0.96 / GIC funding: $2.49
; null,CTC - Promotion Optimization; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Canadian Tire Corporation, IVADO Labs, Shakudo;
This project will explore different ways of helping Canadian Tire Corporation find efficient ways to increase incremental sales and margin for all products, by applying AI-powered technologies in the promotional initiatives of the business. The proposed framework focuses on a foundational first use case that will use ML and AI to evaluate the performance of promotional plans for groups of products.
Total project budget: $8.03M / GIC funding: $3.49M
; null,AInception - Optimisation de la planification des urgences; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Moov AI, CIUSSS Estrie ;
This project aims to make the management of patient flow between emergency departments and care units more proactive and efficient by basing decisions on real data and objective, supported predictions. Two artificial intelligence models will be designed as part of this project.
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Centech, a business incubator based in Montreal that offers support programs for start-ups. The Centech Acceleration program is an intensive and structured 12-week program dedicated to technology ventures.
Total project budget: Up to $1.19M / GIC funding: Up to $0.35 M
; null,Plug and Play Supply Chain & Logistics; Project location: Mississauga, ON Project partners: Plug and Play Innovation Canada Inc., ;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Plug & Play Innovation Canada Inc. based in California. Plug and Play is an open innovation platform that will be connecting Canadian entrepreneurs with local businesses and industries. Greater Toronto is home to a growing hub of startups, which Plug and Play Canada is looking to identify, support, and accelerate through its vast global network of entrepreneurs, mentors, VCs, and corporate decision makers. Key focus areas of Plug and Play Canada include the fields of Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain & Logistics.
Total project budget: $1.12M / GIC funding: $0.18M
; null,Resilient Supply Chains through Well Maintained Transportation Systems; Project location: Richmond Hill, ON Project partners: Visual Defence Inc., The Regional Municipality of York, City of Windsor, Michel Gendreau, Keenline Innovation ;
In this project, Visual Defence has partnered with innovative Canadian municipalities to enhance different aspects of road maintenance programs and deliver even more impact through data driven decisions and results. With the support of ScaleAI, Visual Defence will work together with project partners to push the envelope further, helping our public sector partners to accomplish even more with their existing resources. This project is anticipated to reduce maintenance and operating costs for vehicles, reduce the incidence of collisions, improve traffic flow and supplies, and much more.
Total project budget: $2.27M / GIC funding: $0.88M
This project aims to develop a decision support system based on artificial Intelligence for the optimization of transport assets including a fleet of trucks, drivers, chassis and rails. Road transportation planning will allow Ray-Mont and its partners to reduce expenses, eliminate bottlenecks, reduce empty runs and improve asset utilization. In terms of rail transportation, the project is expected to minimize switch changes, car movements and operational delays related to rail management at Ray-Mont terminals and at its railway partners.
Total project budget: $1.83M / GIC funding: $0.46M
; null,Improving Save-On-Foods Supply Chain Through AI-Based Demand Forecasting; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: Save on Foods, D-Wave Systems, ThoughtsWin Systems, White Box Analytics, OpsGuru, Deloitte;
This project will build and integrate several AI solutions to develop a demand forecasting model with the overall goal of ensuring the right products are in the right place, at the right price for their customers. Additionally, an optimization algorithm will automate scheduling of ecommerce deliveries to improve productivity and align with customer demand.
Total project budget: $7.19M / GIC funding: $2.77M
; null,MaRS Supply Chain AI Project; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: MaRS Discovery District;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in MaRS Discovery District, based in Toronto, to provide services and support to build Canada?s next generation of high-growth supply chain AI companies.
Total project budget: Up to $0.50M / GIC funding: Up to $0.50M
; null,Tableau d?optimisation des ressources pour l?USIP (soins intensifs pédiatriques); Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: C.H. Universitaire Ste-Justine, IVADO Labs, Hôpital de Montréal pour Enfants ;
This project will develop a dashboard, based on AI, to help the pediatric care unit (PICU) of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre to optimize their staffing and other resources to accelerate admission and transfer of patients, thereby reducing delays in patient care (for example, lower surgery cancellation rates). This AI solution will make it possible to determine the workload of the unity in advance by predicting planned new admissions while limiting room transfers of patients already hospitalized in the PICU.
Total project budget: $1.79M / GIC funding: $1.2M
; null,Scale AI Québec; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Centre d'entreprises et d'innovation de Montréal (CEIM);
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Centre d?entreprises et d?innovation de Montreal (CEIM). CEIM provides services and support to Quebec startups at the pre-commercialization or commercial stage who are developing innovative products and services with AI that have supply chain applications.
Total project budget: Up to $0.58M / GIC funding: Up to $0.18M
; null,Intelligent forecasting for a more reliable supply chain; Project location: Quebec, QC Project partners: Distribution Pharmaplus, Groupe Horizon Santé, Pharmacie SM, CS et AP Inc, Sodan Conseillers TI, Thales Digital Solutions, Government of Quebec;
This project will offer a new way for the pharmaceutical industry to improve pharmacy inventory management, reduce shortages and increase revenue through an innovative cloud-based platform for the drug distribution chain.
Total project budget: $1.55M / GIC funding: $0.41M
; null,Patient clinical care pathway optimization; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: MCI OneHealth Technologies Inc., William Osler Health System, SeamlessMD, Khure Health, Polyclinic Family and Specialty Medicine Facility, Altima Dental Inc.;
Project partners will be working together to develop an AI solution that will optimize the patient care path between virtual, in-person and specialist visits. This solution will offer better care to MCI OneHealth patients by supporting a holistic model for more integrated, personalized and cost-efficient healthcare delivery.
Total project budget: $1.77M / GIC funding: $0.66M
; null,Production and Optimization of Rental Assets Stock and Transportation; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Simplex Equipment Rental, Mind in a box, CGI, Maya HTT, Équipements Mathieu, Construction Bugère;
The goal of this project is to increase the availability of products for its customers, in the right quantities and at the right locations, through the development of advanced technology capabilities for critical asset management that will strengthen its contribution to the enterprise supply chain through the following predictive and decision support approaches: Improving annual inventory planning and Estimation of optimal parameters for all shipments.
Total project budget: $2.67M / GIC funding: $1.04M
; null,Intelligent Platform for Automated Construction of Optimal and Localized Price and Promotion Plans; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Kinaxis, Rexall, Google, University of Guelph;
This project will use AI-driven workflow engines to automate promotional planning and demand forecasting capabilities for retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. This new technology will generate an entire promotional calendar, given the objectives, constraints, local consumer conditions and business rules on behalf of corporate planning teams in order to maximize profitability.
Total project budget: $2.81M / GIC funding: $1M
; null,Datapreneur; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Montreal (CEuMontreal);
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in the Entrepreneurship Center at the University of Montreal (CEuMontreal) to provide support and services to future entrepreneurs in AI and data science with the goal of transforming their ideas into concrete projects.
Total project budget: Up to $0.24M / GIC funding: Up to $0.05M
; null,Transportation Optimization; Project location: Varennes, QC Project partners: Kemira Water Solutions Canada Inc., Global Attributes;
This project will develop an AI solution that will focus on optimizing the transportation routes and minimizing costs for the pulp & paper, water treatment and oil & gas industries. AI will allow the solution to select the optimal combination of routes after an exhaustive evaluation of all possible options, including driving hours, material compatibility, opening hours and even construction along the way.
Total project budget: $2.32M / GIC funding: $0.93M
; null,Demand-Centric Vendor to Customer AI Supply Chain Model ; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: London Drugs, Theory and Practice Business Intelligence, Deloitte, Sanctuary Cognitive Systems, Atlantia Holdings;
This project will accelerate the integration of AI across London Drugs' supply chain ? from vendor through to consumer ? to yield intelligent forecasting capabilities, enhance productivity, and improve operational efficiency.
Total project budget: $13.81M / GIC funding: $3.02M
; null,Breakthrough AI and Machine Learning Models for Canadian Supply Chains ; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Plotly, Hydro-Québec, S&P Canada, Musashi Canada, Dex Clothing, Enhance Energy, RenoRun, BuildDirect, Xtract AI, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII), Government of Quebec;
Project partners will use a breakthrough AI and machine learning software to facilitate easier access and engagement with complex data collected to bring integrated solutions to supply chain issues. This software will be used to develop interactive data-driven web applications that decision-makers can easily access and analyze in order to draw actionable takeaways for their respective supply chains.
Total project budget: $5.66M / GIC funding: $1.42M
; null,Extending an Order?s Life Cycle Through AI; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Bell Business Markets (Bell Canada), Loblaws Group of Companies Inc., Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc., Inmind Technologies, Maxa AI Inc.;
This project aims to reduce installation time for new fiber optic connections by accelerating several steps in the supply chain with artificial intelligence solutions.
Total project budget: $2.39M / GIC funding: $0.62M
; null,Hospital Capacity Optimization; Project location: Brockville, ON Project partners: Brockville General Hospital, Polytechnique Montreal, SimWell Consulting & Technologies, Sodan Conseillers, Thales Canada, Université Laval;
This solution will focus on the operating room departments in hospitals and quickly offer a first web-based interactive dashboard for visualizing the current situation at the hospital and forecasting its evolution, followed by a resource management optimization capability adapted to the specific context of the hospital center and designed to be reusable in similar contexts. The priority use case identified focuses on the operating room scheduling problem, where AI-based optimization can bring significant cost savings, benefits to staff and to patients. Hospital centers will be able to better anticipate capability gaps, maintain patient care capacity during surges and minimize strain on caregivers.
Total project budget: $1.03M / GIC funding: $1M
; null,Precision Harvest; Project location: New Brunswick, Manitoba, Alberta Project partners: McCain Foods Group Inc., CP Farms Ltd., Perry Produce, Riverview Farms Corp, Swansfleet Alliance, IVADO, Resson, Fiddlehead Technology;
This project will be developing a break-through technology that will support farmers in crop management decision making. Project partners will be harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence to give farmers the tools to be more proactive about crop management while reducing the impacts of weather uncertainty. Specifically, the project will help potato growers in sequencing their fields for harvest against objective criteria such as canopy health and wet spots in order to maximize yield.
Total project budget: $1.85M / GIC funding: $0.71M
This project will launch a mentoring program targeted at developing a range of skills in high demand as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawn from leading entrepreneurs, economists, scientists, inventors, business leaders, and investors from around the world ? this mentorship program will help to rapidly transform technological innovations into useful products and services in the areas of public health and economic recovery.
This project aims to provide an integrated solution to support decision making across the spare parts sector of the aerospace industry. This new technology will enable intelligent maintenance forecasting, recommendation capabilities for new and used parts as well as an integrated inventory control system. This AI implementation will have lasting positive economic and operational results as the aerospace industry recovers from the impacts of the pandemic. Through this project, partners are accelerating supply chain efficiency to ensure customers have the parts and services they need to grow their businesses at a time where this is more important than ever.
Total project budget: $23.46M / GIC funding: $5.46M
This project will see project partners use AI models to better predict the demand for spare parts for aircraft maintenance. This will reduce the risk of supply shocks and will benefit suppliers and customers alike all along the supply chain.
This project will leverage SemiosBIO?s robust historical data set of in-canopy microclimate conditions to develop spatial weather forecasting tools designed to account for variability in a site?s crop and topographic characteristics. These new capabilities will provide a lower-cost entry level solution for smaller growers with more precise and granular weather predictions that are tailored to the in-canopy conditions of their farm, supporting more reliable decision-making.
Total project budget: $3.63M / GIC funding: $1.6M
; null,Optimizing Emergency Department Patient Prioritization; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Unity Health Toronto, Signal 1 inc., St Michael's Hospital, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Trillium Health Partners, Grand River Hospital ;
The collaborative project between Signal 1 and the hospital consortium will provide emergency department staff with a tool to better manage patient flow. The project will deploy real-time AI systems in a hospital emergency department to optimize scarce emergency department resources and accelerating patient discharge. Signal 1?s system uses patient charting data to predict the likelihood that a patient is disposition-ready.
Total project budget: $2.97M / GIC funding: $1.5M
; null,Optimization of radiation patients scheduling post-COVID 19 peak; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Center;
This project will leverage statistical modeling, machine learning and optimization techniques to optimize cancer care and radiotherapy scheduling logistics.
Total project budget: $1.5M / GIC funding: $1.5M
; null,Propel Virtual Accelerator; Project location: Saint John, New Brunswick Project partners: Propel ICT Inc.;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Propel ICT Inc., Atlantic Canada?s virtual accelerator for start-ups in the information and communications technology space. Propel ICT Inc. works directly with emerging businesses during the first 6 months to help with the development of their ventures.
Total project budget: Up to $1.63M / GIC funding: Up to $0.11M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Thales, based in Montreal. Run by Thales in cooperation with Centech, this program aims to accelerate startups by giving them guidance and access to Thales? expertise and technological platforms to co-build cutting-edge solutions.
Total project budget: $0.6M / GIC funding: $0.07M
; null,Predictive modelling and optimization algorithms in Home Care ; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: AlayaCare, CIUSSS Nord de l'ile, Bien Chez Soi, Polytechnique Montreal, Government of Quebec;
This project will use predictive modelling to provide a decision-support tool to healthcare professionals to improve patient care.
Total project budget: $1.74M / GIC funding: $0.64M
; null,Cognitive Supply Chain in Aerospace; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: CAE, GFI, Groupesag Laser/Jet d?eau, BMP Metals Inc, Avanade, Lixar, Createch, Government of Quebec;
Project partners will work together to optimize the aerospace supply chain and manufacturing processes, further develop capabilities to reduce production cycle times and improve product time to market.
Total project budget: $10.78M / GIC funding: $2.24M
; null,North of AI ? Learning and Business Accelerator; Project location: Whitehorse, YT Project partners: TechYukon;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in Tech Yukon, based in Whitehorse. The main areas of focus for this program is to promote and grow the local tech industry, provide skill development and training opportunities around AI and machine learning, support local tech entrepreneurs, and support other industries with supply chain challenges. Support will be provided to industry led projects aimed at fast-tracking the adoption and commercialization of AI for supply chains.
Total project budget: $0.35M / GIC funding: $0.06M
; null,Augmented Reality: A New Approach to Aerospace Defect Detection ; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Ova, Bombardier, Marine Royale Canadienne, Centre en imagerie numérique et médias interactifs (CiMMi), Government of Quebec;
This project will tackle a key supply chain issue of the aerospace industry: better and faster detection of defects to significantly speed up production pace. It uses augmented reality, combined with AI-powered computer vision to optimize the identification and repair of defective equipment, which in turn will lead to increased production.
Total project budget: $0.77M / GIC funding: $0.31M
; null,Healthcare 4.0: Geospatial Tool to Match Patient Demand with Caregiver Supply; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Deloitte LLP, MarkiTech Inc., Plotly Technologies In., Manifold Data Mining Inc.;
The project, with the development of three independent AI solutions, SE Health Care will overcome three interconnected barriers in its currently inefficient processes of resource planning and coordination. These AI solutions include: (i) patient demand forecasting, (ii) caregiver assignment to regional demand by optimizing regional workforce boundaries, and (ii) matching patients to qualified staff by automating and optimizing scheduling.
Total project budget: $6.04M / GIC funding: $1.78M
; null,AI-Powered Vehicle Operations Suite; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: Canada Drives, Canadian Black Book, Infostrux Solutions, UBC Sauder School of Business, ProCogia;
This project, through a combination of technology and empowered customer service enables consumers to shop, purchase, finance and sell vehicles entirely online.
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in FounderFuel, a mentor-driven accelerator, focusing on leadership development and growth to help early-stage startups make meaningful progress on the venture path during a 4-month intensive program.
Total project budget: Up to $0.48M / GIC funding: Up to $0.11M
; null,MDI x AI; Project location: Florenceville, NB Project partners: McCain Foods, The Boston Consulting Group, Fiddlehead Technology, Lemay.ai, Tribal Scale, Dalhousie University, Gaia Consulting, Ross Culberson Farms, Riverview Farms, Valley Farms, Killoween Farms;
This project will assist in propelling its market position in potato processing and packaging, McCain will be developing and deploying an integrated set of digital tools that connect its supply chain partners, from potato growers to finished goods at the customer level. These tools will be powered by AA/AI and will be leveraged throughout factories and in varying use cases to increase supply chain transparency, food quality and safety, and to enhance employee safety.
Total project budget: $35.88M / GIC funding: $8.46M
; null,Improving Price Efficiency through AI-based Pricing and Costing; Project location: Hartland, NB Project partners: Day & Ross, Deloitte Inc., MoovAI Technologies Inc., Gardewine Group Inc., Freightcom Inc.;
This project will implement AI solutions that will sift through all the data collected by Day & Ross (load optimization, shipment details, recent spot quote prices, customer segmentation, etc.) to generate quotes with dynamic margins that are tailored to the specific attributes of the request. This project will allow Day & Ross to deliver personalized experiences by providing more consistent and equitable prices for its customers. Day & Ross? pricing systems will be the main testbeds for the AI solutions; however, all partners will share in the benefits of growth, increased capabilities, knowledge, and reputational advantage.
Total project budget: $4.77M / GIC funding: $1.87M
; null,Improving the Supply Chain for Truck Maintenance; Project location: Calgary, AB and Toronto, ON Project partners: Trimac Transportations, Preteckt, McGill University, Bridgestone;
This project aims to design a suite of algorithms that can predict what would otherwise be unexpected truck breakdowns and their root causes. These algorithms will make use of data generated during normal truck operations, particularly related to the engine, brake and tire subsystems.
Total project budget: $5.03M / GIC funding: $1.43M
; null,ML Tool for Supply Policies ; Project location: Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC Project partners: Logistik Unicorp, InMind, SimWell, Ville de Montréal, Dristex, Polytechnique Montréal;
The project hopes to improve operations related to inventory and supply management.
Total project budget: $1.46M / GIC funding: $0.55M
; null,ML Tool for Supply Policies; Project location: Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC Project partners: Logistik Unicorp, InMind, SimWell, Ville de Montréal, Dristex, Polytechnique Montréal;
The project hopes to improve operations related to inventory and supply management.
Total project budget: $1.46M / GIC funding: $0.56M
; null,Increasing Efficiencies in the Multimodal Transport Industry; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Ray-Mont Logistics, SimWell Consulting & Technologies, Government of Quebec ;
Project partners will develop a solution for better planning of container movement, maximization of space and crane scheduling. This AI solution will manage uncertainties and variability to ultimately increase efficiency of Canadian exports and the attractiveness of Canadian products.
Total project budget: $3.16M / GIC funding: $1.26M
; null,Scaling and adoption for AI-based medtech ventures; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: MEDTEQ;
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in MEDTEQ based in Montreal. This is a support program for technology companies (AI, logistics, IT, 4.0) that are active in Canada?s health supply chains, and/or who can drive disruptive innovations therein. It is a flexible program, addressing the innovation, commercialization, legal and data management challenges, and adapting to each start-ups/SMEs? degree of maturity.
Total project budget: $0.18M / GIC funding: $0.18M
; null,AI to augment capabilities in early issue handling; Project location: Lévis, QC Project partners: BIM One, Les Technologies MOOVAI, Groupe Nexapp;
Leveraging proven AI methods, this project aims to provide digital tools to experts to maximize early design problem solving to avoid cost overruns and optimize planning and effort.
Total project budget: $2.61M / GIC funding: $0.91M
Scale AI's Acceleration program provides funding to accelerators and incubators to support the growth of AI startups and SMEs across Canada. The Cluster is investing in the accelerator at BCF Ventures, a Canadian-based Corporate Venture Capital firm based in Montreal. BCF Ventures will partner with the Founder Institute (based in Silicon Valley with chapters across the globe) to launch the stage accelerator program that provides the structure, mentor support, and global network of entrepreneurs needed to start an enduring company.
Total project budget: Up to $ 0.06M / GIC funding: Up to $0.06M
This project aims to support the demand, complexity and scale of satellite constellation production by optimizing MDA Corporation's supply chain operations. Project partners will be leveraging artifical intelligence to improve efficiency within the supply chain by reducing waste and optimizing inventory, manufacturing schedules and performance during the production of the satellites and their subsystems.
Total project budget: $5.73M / GIC funding: $1.54M
This project is a route optimization platform for SME delivery businesses. Projects partners will reduce their fleet's mileage and fuel consumption by 20%~30%. This project, will use ML models to incorporate traffic into proprietary route optimization algorithm and leverage AI to make this routing platform more intelligent.
Total project budget: $2.44M / GIC funding: $0.96M
; null,Canard Bleu; Project location: Toronto, ON Project partners: Flybits, TD Bank Group, CEVA Freight Canada Corp., mimik, Toronto Metropolitan University;
This project, endeavors to connect supply chain members through a central financial institution (TD), enabling members to optimize AI capabilities in supply chain visibility and collaboration without the need of sharing identifiable data, as privacy is key in this context. The project will demonstrate how the data portability protocol can be leveraged by a global logistics firm through a Supply Chain Finance (SCF) use case.
Total project budget: $9.25M / GIC funding: $2.06M
; null,Support for the decisions and planning of the workforce using AI; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Halifax Maritime Employers Association (HMEA), Montreal Port Authority, Maritime Employers Association, Port de Trois-Rivières, Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority, CargoM, British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA), Airudi, Prof. Foutse Khomh;
This project is looking for a new tool to optimize the constantly varying daily workload that depends on port traffic, and the quantity and type of cargo and merchandise. This project will allow for a shift from manual processes and Excel spreadsheets, which offer limited visibility and short-sighted consideration of operational cost optimizations, to AI solutions that allow for more accurate labor requirement estimates.
Total project budget: $3.1M / GIC funding: $1.24M
; null,Demand forecasting and real time monitoring in retail businesses; Project location: Vancouver, BC Project partners: FIND A.I, Pr Chi-Guhn Lee, Pacific West Commercial Corporation, Boathouse Apparel, Cook Culture Ltd, Bella Group, Plenty Apparel, Purdy?s, Northern Reflection;
This project will advance an industry-specific inventory and supply chain planning solution for retailers in the apparel, footwear and accessories space that ensures improved predictability of product demand and control of production. The goal of this solution is to reduce production waste and environmental impacts, while maximizing financial gains.
Total project budget: $4.46M / GIC funding: $1.08M
; null,Optimization of surgery patient throughput post-COVID-19 peak; Project location: Montreal, QC Project partners: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM);
This project is seeking to augment Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal's capabilities in forecasting and optimizing surgery schedules, while balancing the dynamic requirements of the pandemic, to increase the throughput of surgeries conducted on non-COVID-19 patients.