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BDR Technologies well received by US investors, now on to Banff!
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was well received at the Modern Engergy Forum this week in Denver . BDR Techologies was recognized with first prize in the Rising Star Company presentations at the Modern Energy Investment Forum. This week BDR also presented at the Rice Alliance Energy and Clean Technology Venture Forum in Houston.
BDR Technologies is a uOttawa spin-off company built around bio-diesel reactor technology and intellectual property arising from Drs. Andre Tremblay and Marc Dube from the Faculty of Engineering. BDR Technoloigies and the original research have been supported by several government programs and by OTTN.
BDR will next be featured at the Banff Venture Forum, Canada’s premier company financing event Oct. 6 & 7th
BDR was featured in the news release issued by the Canadian Consulate General – Denver earlier this week.
Media Contact:
Jennifer Cook
Consulate General of Canada in Denver
Communications & Cultural Affairs Officer
303.626.0672 (phone) or 303.589.8782 (mobile)
jennifer.cook@international.gc.ca
For Immediate Release:
Sept. 13 – 15: Canadian Consulate Hosts Top-Tier Renewable Energy Companies during Colorado’s Modern Energy Investors Forum at The Ritz Carlton, Denver
DENVER—September 13, 2011—Investors, financial analysts and business leaders from the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region will have the opportunity to learn more about Canadian start-up companies specializing in innovative and cost-competitive renewable energy, clean technologies and sustainability services during the 2011 Modern Energy Investor Forum. The Forum takes place in Denver this week at The Ritz Carlton from Tuesday, Sept. 13, to Thursday, Sept. 15.
The Forum gathers top experts in the industry and brings them to Denver for discussions on ongoing development of technology transfer, market incentives, development projections and investment opportunities. Company representatives from start-ups—specializing in wind, solar, bio-fuels, geothermal, uranium/nuclear, hydro, clean technology and energy conservation—will also present investment opportunities at the Forum’s “Rising Star Panels”. According to Michelle Ashby, CEO of MINE LLC, which hosts the Forum, over $265 Billion will be invested in the modern energy sector by 2015 in the United State alone.
The Consulate General of Canada in Denver will host Canadian entrepreneurs from three top-tier start-up companies, who will pitch their potentially “game-changing” core business concepts during the Forum’s “Rising Star Panels” on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., and on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. In addition, Consulate trade specialists will help position Colorado as an ideal destination for Canadian firms to headquarter their U.S. operations, feature Canada’s capabilities in the renewable energy and clean-tech sectors, and facilitate partnering opportunities between Canadian and Colorado companies.
Canada’s “Rising Star Panel” Participants:
• Enovex (www.enovexcorp.com): Located in Port City, New Brunswick, Enovex is a start-up company that researches innovative applications and develops cost-effective and highly efficient systems for carbon capture, in order to help organizations reduce their environmental impact. For example, instead of storing carbon underground—a common but controversial tactic—Enovex is looking for other uses for the carbon, nitrogen and water it would sequester from coal power plants such as feeding the carbon to algae to create bio-fuel. Enovex also provides consulting services to help business leaders understand where they could improve on each aspect of the organization—and its impacts on people, profits and the planet—in order to develop a more sustainable business plan, allowing for more environmental accountability, more scalability and less performance issues. Scott Walton, President of Enovex, will participate on “Rising Star Panel I: Up & Coming Companies”, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at The Ritz Carlton, Denver.
• Green Power Labs Inc. (www.greenpowerlabs.com): Advanced solar power forecasting solutions are required to address the variability of solar power generation. Located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Green Power Labs’ SolarSatData™ is a state-of-the-art solar power forecasting technology and service for utility-scale and distributed solar PV generation facilities. SolarSatData™ provides customers with new incremental annual operational cost savings between $1.6 million and $2.6 million per 100 megawatts of installed solar PV. Dr. Alexandre Pavlovski, P.Eng., President & CEO, Green Power Labs Inc., will participate on “Rising Star Panel I: Up & Coming Companies”, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at The Ritz Carlton, Denver.
• BioDiesel Reactor (BDR) Technologies Inc. (www.bdrtechnologies.com): Located in Ottawa, Ontario, BDR’s propriety membrane reactor system produces high quality biodiesel that surpasses industry quality specifications and provides significant capital, operating and input cost savings to our customers. More specifically, this technology provides biodiesel producers with: a cost-effective solution to address the fuel filter plugging quality issues of biodiesel-diesel blends; improved processing margins; and flexibility to reduce input costs by utilizing low cost-FFA (free fatty acid) waste oils and next generation feedstocks (e.g. algae) without costly pre-treatment for FFAs or distillation of the final product. BDR’s technology can be used to retrofit existing, uneconomical and feedstock constrained production facilities as well as for new builds. Ken Lawless, President & CEO at BDR Technologies, will participate on “Rising Star Panel II: Up & Coming Companies”, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at The Ritz Carlton, Denver.
In addition, several Canadian experts in the renewable energy and clean-tech sectors will be participating at the Forum as guest speakers. These key experts include:
• Milfred Hammerbacher, President; Canadian Solar Solutions Inc
• Janice Larson, Director; Renewable Energy Department, BC Ministry of Energy and Mines
• Robert Peterman, Toronto Stock Exchange & TSX Venture Exchange; Head, Business Development – Technology
• Representative from Finavera Wind Energy
“As the number one energy provider and partner to the United States, Canada is committed to growing its renewable portfolio and making its energy production cleaner by increasing energy efficiency, expanding renewable energy production and reducing environmental impacts from conventional sources,” said Ladan Amirazizi, Acting Consul General of Canada at the Consulate in Denver. “In fact, with 8,500 firms which employ more than a quarter of a million people and generate nearly $2 billion in exports annually, our clean-tech sector is currently one of the main drivers of Canada’s overall economy. Canadian companies in the renewable energy sector are continuing to research and develop innovative and clean technologies poised to help North America meet its growing energy demands.”
Furthermore, Amirazizi explains that the Government of Canada has introduced a number of initiatives, including $1.5 billion invested to increase Canada’s energy supplies from renewable sources such as solar, tidal, hydro, wind, biomass and geothermal power, and roughly three-fourths of Canada’s electricity generation is non-GHG emitting.
Attendees at the Modern Energy Investors Forum who want to participate in this international partnering opportunity should contact Guillaume Parent, Trade Commissioner for the Consulate General of Canada in Denver, at (303) 718-4774 (mobile) or guillaume.parent@international.gc.ca. For more information about Canada’s capacity in each of these renewable energy sources, or for more information about the Government of Canada’s representation in the four-state Rocky Mountain region of Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming, visit the website at www.denver.gc.ca. For press inquiries regarding the Consulate General of Canada in Denver, contact Jennifer Cook, Communications Officer, at (303) 626-0672 or at jennifer.cook@international.gc.ca.
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OTTN at OCE Discovery 11
OTTN was well represented at OCE Discovery 11 event in Toronto May 18, 19 with our double booth located near one of the amphitheatres. Two spin-off companies (Simon Goulet and Isabella Steffensen from Therapeutic Monitoring Systems and Sheldon Stevens Privacy Analytics), one student in the business case competition (David Shapiro) and four OTTN staff attended. OCE Discovery 11 featured keynote presentations from leading innovators and entrepreneurs (David Thompson and Bill Buxton) and simultaneous sessions on all aspects of technology development and commercialization. Discovery is a showcase of leading-edge technologies, best practices and research from sectors such as health, manufacturing, digital media and cleantech, including energy, environment and water. According to OCE there were close to 2,500 attendees and more than 325 exhibitors. Joe Irvine and Simon Goulet (TMS) participated in a panel on Wednesday entitled ”Prospering from Ontario’s Technology Transfer Partnerships: An Industry Academic Perspective” and their presentations focused on the technology development requirements of innovation from a hospital (OHRI) based research perspective.
uOttawa at the Innovation and the Human Brain Symposium
Innovation and the Human Brain was a Leadership Summit jointly organized by IBM, the Public Policy Forum and Baycrest and held at IBM Canada’s Markham Software labs. This year the focus was on the human brain, and the science and innovation which is spurring Ontario to become a world leader in neuroscience. In addition to speakers from UWO, York, Baycrest, NSERC and the new Ontario Brain Institute, Dr Anthony Krantis, Director Centre for Research in BioPharmaceuticals and Biotechnology uOttawa and founder of OTTN spin-off company QBM Cell Sciences spoke about the cryopreserved neurons and global network for brain reconstruction. uOttawa was well represented with participants from the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering as well as from CCS and OTTN. Presentations are available at the Public Policy Forum website http://www.ppforum.ca/events/innovation-brain
10th Annual Re$earch Money Conference a Success
Research Money held its 10th Annual Conference entitled “Priming the Pump: The Role of Government Research Support in Business Innovation” in Ottawa May 11 and 12. Ron Freedman, Jeffrey Crelinsten and Mark Henderson put together a program highlighting the best in government-industry interaction and innovation policy with speakers and panelists from across Europe and Canada highlighting best practices and lessons learned. Some of the presentations are available at the Re$earch Money website.
OTTN/uOttawa at CAURA
OTTN participated as speakers/panellists at three sessions at the 40th Annual CAURA meeting held in Ottawa May 15-18. Sean Flanigan and Joe Irvine participated in the Research Contracts II workshop on Sunday (along with Morag Cowell, NRC and Session Chair Neil Campbell, U Calgary) and spoke about the lessons we can learn from the Lambert UK agreements. Sean outlined the use of one of the Lambert template agreements in the SME4SME program and participated in the mock negotiation session.
Sean Flanigan also participated in the Engaging Industry panel session on Monday, outlining how the SME4SME program helped to engage new companies to work with uOttawa/OTTN. Joe Irvine was a panellist in a Tuesday session entitled “Where Do Your Adjuncts Come From?” with Elizabeth White, NRC and Dr. Subash Sad, NRC and a uOttawa adjunct professor.
This program included many panelists and more registrants from uOttawa and was for CAURA a record setting attendance with over 500 registrants. Our cool and rainy weather meant most registrants stayed in the sessions rather than enjoying the tulips or other tourist attractions.
OCRI Awards Feature uOttawa Researchers and Students
Last night the 2011 OCRI Awards were held with over 500 attendees from industry and the research and education communities. A complete list of winners can be found here.
From uOttawa, notable among the winners were OCRI Researcher of the Year Dr. Ben Tsang Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa in recognition of his research in the area of diagnosis and treatment of female infertility, ovarian cancer and pregnancy complications. Dr. Stephany Bennett (Faculty of Medicine, uOttawa) was also a finalist for the award. (more…)
RTTO et PARTEQ créent un nouveau réseau pour commercialiser l’innovation dans l’est de l’Ontario
Les universités et instituts de recherche de l’est de l’Ontario, y compris leurs bureaux de valorisation de la recherche, unissent leurs efforts pour accroître la capacité d’innovation dans la région.
Au sein du nouveau Réseau pour la valorisation de la recherche de la Rideau (Rideau Commercialization Network), les experts du RTTO (Réseau de transfert de technologie d’Ottawa) et de PARTEQ offriront savoir-faire et ressources pour commercialiser les découvertes émanant du milieu universitaire de l’est de l’Ontario et ainsi augmenter leur impact.
Le nouveau réseau a reçu 1 million de dollars dans le cadre du programme de partenariat de transfert de technologie des Centres d’excellence de l’Ontario. Les fonds serviront à l’embauche de personnel ainsi qu’à des projets d’infrastructure et de démonstration de principe. (more…)
OTTN and PARTEQ create the Rideau Commercialization Network to bring Eastern Ontario innovations to market
Eastern Ontario’s universities and research institutes and their research commercialization offices are joining forces to grow the region’s innovation capacity.
Working together as the Rideau Commercialization Network, research commercialization experts at OTTN (the Ottawa Technology Transfer Network) and PARTEQ aim to increase the impact of innovations from Eastern Ontario’s academic research base by sharing their expertise and resources to advance these discoveries towards the market.
The new Rideau Commercialization Network was awarded $1 million from the Ontario Centres of Excellence Technology Transfer Partnership (OCE-TTP) program for staffing, infrastructure and Proof-of-Principle (PoP) project funding. (more…)
uOttawa Spin-off company (BDR Technologies) named a Top Innovator by youngStartup Ventures
BDR Technologies Named a Top Innovator -Award Recognizes Cutting Edge Private Companies Driving the Future of Innovation
BIODIESEL REACTOR (BDR) TECHNOLOGIES announced today that it has been selected to present as one of 70 Top Innovators at the annual New England Venture Summit by youngStartup Ventures. The list of privately held companies recognizes those that play a leading role in innovation for the Technology, Life Sciences and Clean-tech sectors.
As one of the Top Innovators chosen, Ken Lawless, CEO of BDR Technologies, will present the company at the exclusive 2010 New England Venture Summit on December 15th at the Hilton Boston Dedham, where a select group of over 400 entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate developers will gather to be the first to meet this next wave of leading edge companies. For more information on the summit see: http://www.youngstartup.com/newengland2010/overview.php
BDR Technologies Inc. is an Ottawa-based clean energy company that provides innovative process solutions for the global biodiesel industry. BDR’s novel membrane reactor generates high quality biodiesel, exceeding industry standards (and the more stringent standards demanded by big oil), at significantly reduced capital and operating costs, without the need for costly downstream distillation of the final product. The technology was developed at the University of Ottawa and has been licensed exclusively to BDR. A four million litre per year demonstration plant is in development and is projected to be commissioned in late 2011.
uOttawa Researcher, Cognivue and NSERC Engage partnership featured on BDC site
Dr. Robert Laganiere is working with Cognivue Corporation as part of an NSERC Engage grant which links companies with technical problems with university expertise.
An excerpt from the story follows:
Robert Laganière isn’t a professional driver. But since September (2010), this computer science professor’s job description has included taking a car out for a spin. “I’m having fun making lane changes,” Laganière says with a chuckle from his office at the University of Ottawa. Laganière is working on a project that could one day prevent car accidents. It could also become an important source of revenue for a local high-tech firm, CogniVue Corporation.
With video that Laganière’s collects on his road trips, his team at U. of O.’s VIVA lab is working to improve a CogniVue algorithm. It allows a camera to detect the car’s position and sound a warning when it moves into a neighbouring lane. And that, hopefully, will lead to products that automakers are looking for.
“Driver awareness technology is our primary target market,” says Tina Jeffrey, Product Marketing Engineer at the Gatineau, Quebec’s CogniVue. This is the first time that Laganière has joined forces with CogniVue, a company that develops Image Cognition Processors and software for use in devices that require real-time image and video analytics. Their partnership is benefiting from a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
The full story is available at http://www.bdc.ca/EN/advice_centre/articles/Pages/building_partnerships_between_business_and_universities.aspx
