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Let’s Talk Big DataMaking It Happen - Resources for Businesses

Ron Van HolstLenny Freilich

Ontario Centres of Excellence

@SOSCIP_research @OCEinnovation @ronvanholst

The Ontario Centres of Excellence is made possible through the financial support of the Province of Ontario

outline

What is OCE?@OCEinnovation

What is SOSCIP?@SOSCIP_research

What is OneEleven?@oneeleven_111

What is Compute Ontario?@computeontario

WHAT OCE DOES

Invests in Ontario’s tomorrow> Drives the development of Ontario’s economy by helping create new jobs,

products, services, technologies and businesses

> Leverages the full capacity of Ontario’s research institutions to help

technology-based companies commercialize research discoveries

> Provides unique perspective on industry challenges/needs

and relevant areas of research

> Leverages investments from industry

and other partners

> Offers tailored programs that are

responsive, flexible and adaptive

> Mentors and supports students entrepreneurs

with a promising business idea

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Industry Universities, Colleges & Research Hospitals

CAPITAL ENABLER

CONNECTOR

Academia

IndustryGovernment

• Support applied industry-academic

R&D and commercialization

projects

• Support youth entrepreneurship

• Advance innovation

agenda

• Drive economic

development outcomes

• Enable access to

advanced research

capabilities

• Enable access to

highly skilled talent

30 Business Development Professionals Province Wide

PERCENTAGE OF PROJECTS

BY SECTOR 2013/14

6

OUR IMPACT IN 2013/14

7

$145.8M

624

3,315

in follow-on investments

$30.7M in incremental client sales revenues

jobs created or sustained

Active research, commercialization

and talent projects

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

• Market Readiness Program

– Market Readiness (Customer

Creation)

– Market Readiness (Company

Building)

• AdvancingHealth Program

COMMERCIALIZATION

• Collaboration Voucher Program

– Voucher for Industry Association

R&D Challenge (VIA)

– Voucher for Innovation and

Productivity (VIP I & VIP II)

– Voucher for E-Business (VEB)

• Alberta-Ontario Innovation Program

• Connected Vehicle/Autonomous

Vehicle Research Program (CVAV)

• TalentEdge

– Internships

– Fellowships

• OCE/CQDM Explore Program

INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC R&D COLLABORATION

• On-Campus Entrepreneurship

Activities

• Campus Linked Accelerators

• SmartStart Seed Fund

• Entrepreneurship Fellowships

– Martin Walmsley Fellowships

– David McFadden Energy

Entrepreneur Challenge

• High School Competition

– Young Entrepreneurs, Make Your

Pitch

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

TRUSTED PARTNER

@SOSCIP_research

Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform

Public Private Partnership ww.soscip.org– Seven Ontario Universities and IBM

$20M funding – Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario

$15M funding– Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

>$175M contributions from IBM– Advanced hardware and software, expertise

Small to medium-sized enterprise engagement– Facilitated through Ontario Centres of Excellence

unprecedentedopportunity for business competitiveness

Canada’s fastest supercomputer– BIG applied research challenges

Canada’s first high throughput, high function data analytics cloud– Enterprise grade Big Data analytics tools

IBM research labs ‘Agile Computing’– Extreme acceleration for computationally intensive tasks

Collaborative research challenges– Academic and industrial researchers working together– Economic benefits to Ontario– Solving problems faced by modern societies globally– IBM expert support– IBM Academy guidance

big data & cloud computing

cardiology

Applying machine learning to ECG signals

– Never-before-seen data that will change the practice of cardiac medicine

@Analytics4Life

cities

Integrated Land Use, Transportation, Environment

“SimCity for real”

drug discovery@chematria

encryption

Privacy by Design

– Making healthcare data available for research

– Research into statistical operations onencrypted data

“the privacyproblem

is solved”

literature

Scientific Literature Mapping Engine

– NLP modules leverage supercomputer capacity to analyze millions of documents

@sciencescape

neuroimaging@DaleyMaths

personal health record

Wallet sized, complete medical record

• Secure, encrypted microchip

• Take control of your health data

Research commercialization:

• Health data consolidation

• Analytics

• Presentation@kelamedical

software

SW certification

– When software must not fail

– State space expansion

space

• SME managing theAlgonquin Radio Observatory

• Builds on Ontarioleadership in VLBI

• Developing capabilities important to the Square Kilometer Array program

@ThothTechnology

@ARO_Canada

@MarsRocksCA

water

Coupling hydrogeology and climate simulations

– Watershed management

– Mine remediation

wind

Harmonizing the natural and built environments– Tornado simulations for safer construction– Integrating numerical and physical simulations on a

massive scale@novusenv

“the CERN of wind”

OneEleven is a communityof the most promising and sophisticated

data-driven entrepreneursand is the home to some of

Toronto’s best technology startups.

OneEleven’s Visionis to position Toronto

as a world leader in the commercialization of research andentrepreneurship related to big data,

high performance and cloud computing,accelerating these emerging technologies

into the global marketplace.

@oneeleven_111

Compute OntarioCompute Ontario provides strategic oversight and coordination to Ontario’s high performance computing assets

Compute Ontario is developing a big data andhigh performance computing strategy to ensure that Ontario is at the cutting-edge of one of the most important technological platforms of the 21st century

@ComputeOntario

thank you @ronvanholst

@OCEinnovation@SOSCIP_research@oneeleven_111@computeontario

See more examples at www.soscip.org

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