Welcome to Macdonald Campus grad students starting in the Fall 2025 term!聽
Graduate students newly admitted into a program in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Macdonald Campus)鈥痗an attend pre-arrival and orientation activities on both the downtown and Macdonald campuses.聽聽
These orientation events are for all new 黑料社 grad students.
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Sep. 10th, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
SESSION I: September 11, 2025, 10h00 - 11h30 | ONLINE
SESSION II: September 18, 2025, 10h00 - 11h30 | ONLINE
*Registration is required, please use 黑料社 credentials
All welcome | Both sessions mandatory for newly admitted Graduate Students
黑料社 graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems?聽Consider applying as a team to our聽Invention to Impact training program (I-to-I)聽to advance your research from lab to market!
黑料社 graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems?聽Consider applying as a team to our聽Invention to Impact training program (I-to-I)聽to advance your research from lab to market!
This is a program for 黑料社鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering research-based graduate students which aims to train and support the next generation of researchers to better understand the potential societal and commercial impact of their research and increase their entrepreneurial mindset and skills.
This is a program for 黑料社鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering research-based graduate students which aims to train and support the next generation of researchers to better understand the potential societal and commercial impact of their research and increase their entrepreneurial mindset and skills.
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Sep. 17th, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This event is part of a series of workshops, see the complete Fall 2025 schedule here!
SESSION I: September 11, 2025, 10h00 - 11h30 | ONLINE
SESSION II: September 18, 2025, 10h00 - 11h30 | ONLINE
*Registration is required, please use 黑料社 credentials
All welcome | Both sessions mandatory for newly admitted Graduate Students
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Sep. 24th, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at 黑料社 to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Date: Oct. 1st, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.聽
Date: Oct. 8th, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Oct. 22nd, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Oct. 28th, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Nov. 4th, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This event is part of a series of workshops, see the complete Fall 2025 schedule here!