What UBC Cloud Innovation Centre does

The UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) is a public-private innovation hub established in January 2020 as a collaboration between the University of British Columbia and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is the first CIC of its kind in Canada. The centre operates a work-integrated learning model in which UBC students, AWS Solutions Architects, and UBC staff co-create cloud-based and AI-powered prototypes that address real-world challenges submitted by public sector, healthcare, education, and not-for-profit organizations through an Expression of Interest process. Each engagement typically runs 10-16 weeks, and every deliverable is published as an open-source repository on the UBC-CIC GitHub organization; since inception the centre has produced 60+ prototypes spanning healthcare, legal education, quantum research, environmental conservation, emergency services, and educational technology.

Technically, the CIC builds exclusively on AWS's full serverless stack, including AWS Amplify, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Bedrock (with Claude Sonnet 4.6, Cohere Embed v4, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore using Nova Sonic 2.0), Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for RAG pipelines, Amazon Chime for real-time communication, Amazon Transcribe with automatic PII redaction, Amazon Lex, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon QLDB blockchain, and AWS IoT Core. Core technical capabilities span retrieval-augmented generation, conversational AI, predictive analytics, computer vision (notably the L3-Net model for COVID-19 CT analysis trained on 18,384 axial CT slices from 670 series), multi-agent orchestration for quantum circuit generation, real-time voice AI, and predictive ML for clinical outcomes. Recent flagship outputs include the Patient Interaction Practice Tool (GENRx) for pharmacy education, the Legal AI Generative Organizer (LAIGO), the Specialization Explorer for BSc academic pathways, and a multi-agent framework for quantum materials research at the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute.

The CIC operates on a non-revenue model: AWS provides cloud infrastructure, technology access, and embedded personnel; UBC provides institutional resources, faculty expertise, and student talent through co-op, capstone, and work-integrated learning programs. No fees are charged to challenge sponsors, and the centre does not sell products or services commercially. Go-to-market is event-driven through Expression of Interest intake and recurring hackathons (Spring, Summer, Fall, Annual since 2024), complemented by a community-led model where UBC faculties, government agencies, healthcare providers, and Indigenous communities co-create challenges with student teams. Outreach is conducted via cic.ubc.ca, LinkedIn, GitHub, the publicly available CIC Playbook, and direct email engagement.

Name

UBC Cloud Innovation Centre

Legal name

University of British Columbia

Website

https://cic.ubc.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The UBC Cloud Innovation Centre is a public-private collaboration between the University of British Columbia and AWS that develops open-source cloud and AI prototypes through student-led work-integrated learning to address real-world challenges from public sector, healthcare, education, and not-for-profit organizations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Innovation Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Training (611420)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud-Native Development (Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices) (BPAEACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Cloud & DevOps Training (Cloud, Containers, CI/CD, SRE) (BPAEANAG), Cloud & DevOps Fundamentals (Cloud Basics, CI/CD Concepts) (EDAMACAM)

Keywords

• Cloud innovation services
• Generative AI development
• Open-source AI prototypes
• Public sector cloud solutions
• University technology partnership

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Non-revenue operational model: The UBC CIC is a public-private collaboration between the University of British Columbia and Amazon Web Services. It does not generate commercial revenue. AWS provides cloud infrastructure, technology access, and expertise; UBC provides institutional resources, faculty guidance, and student talent. Projects are delivered at no cost to challenge sponsors (public sector, not-for-profit, community organizations). Funding is sustained through the institutional partnership rather than service fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The UBC Cloud Innovation Centre co-creates open-source cloud and AI prototype solutions with public-sector, healthcare, education, Indigenous, and not-for-profit sponsors through 10-16-week student-led work-integrated learning projects, supplemented by capstone projects and an annual hackathon program. All deliverables are built on the AWS stack (including Amazon Bedrock, serverless services, Amazon Lex, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Chime, and AWS IoT) and published under open-source licenses on the UBC-CIC GitHub for community reuse at no charge to challenge sponsors.

Product overview

The UBC Cloud Innovation Centre (CIC) is a public-private innovation center between the University of British Columbia and Amazon Web Services (AWS), opened in January 2020 as Canada's first CIC. Rather than a single commercial product, the CIC produces a portfolio of open-source cloud and AI-powered prototypes developed through student work-integrated learning, addressing real-world challenges in healthcare, education, legal, research, environment, and public sector domains. The portfolio includes AI-enhanced educational tools (Patient Interaction Practice Tool/GENRx for pharmacy education, Specialization Explorer for academic pathways, AI Learning Assistant, Open Education AI Study Companion, Student Advising Assistant/AskCali), legal technology (Legal AI Generative Organizer/LAIGO, Legal Aid Tool), clinical decision support (AI-Powered Clinical Guideline Assistant, Heart Failure Patient Prognosticator, AI-Assisted Medical Image Segmentation, L3-Net COVID-19 CT diagnostics), quantum computing tools (A Multi-Agent Framework for Quantum Materials Research, AI-Powered Tool for Quantum Materials), research enablement (Research Data Insights Generator, Researcher Expertise Dashboard/Portal, Determining Course Flexibility from Syllabi), healthcare operations (Predicting Hospital Admissions – Halton Healthcare, Virtual Communication for Remote First Responders/STARS, Patient Dashboard for Optimizing Sedation, FHIR-Enabled Digital Questionnaire, Patient Interaction Practice Tool), environmental and conservation tools (NoiseTracker, Invasive Plants Identification, Commit2Act, The Sea Around Us In The Cloud, TapGives), and various data/cloud solutions (Modernizing Grant Analytics, Video Streaming Solution, Chatbot & Recommendation Engine, Document Smart Search, Vaccine Distribution Supply Chain). All prototypes are published open-source on the UBC-CIC GitHub for public reuse. The CIC also runs an annual hackathon program and accepts challenge proposals from the public and private sector.

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Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Patient Interaction Practice Tool for Health Education (PIPT / GENRx) AI-powered virtual-patient training platform built on AWS serverless architecture with Amazon Bedrock that lets health-professions students practice pharmacist–patient interactions through text or voice (Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Nova Sonic 2.0), receive rubric-based real-time feedback, and AI-generated debriefs; targets UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and is extensible to other health disciplines.
• Explore Your Future: Surface Academic Pathways via Conversational AI (Specialization Explorer) Serverless AI-powered web application on AWS Amplify using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and an RAG pipeline to guide UBC Faculty of Science students through conversational exploration and comparison of BSc specializations, with admin tools for knowledge-base management and analytics; delivered for UBC Faculty of Science.
• Legal AI Generative Organizer (LAIGO) Serverless AI-powered web application on AWS using Amazon Bedrock and LangChain that guides law advocates through Socratic intake, factual analysis, contrarian review, and policy context, with Amazon Transcribe audio upload and PII redaction, supervisor case review, and a Prompt Playground; built for clinical law students at UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law.
• Student Advising Assistant Around-the-clock LLM-powered conversational advisor built on Amazon Bedrock that answers UBC Faculty of Science advising inquiries from the Academic Calendar and other UBC sources, with optional AWS Alexa voice integration for hands-free access; targets UBC students and advisors.
• AI-Powered Clinical Guideline Assistant Generative AI prototype that helps UBC Department of Psychiatry clinicians retrieve and apply Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) clinical guidelines during patient visits for mood and anxiety disorders, with a pathway to scale to other clinical guideline use cases.
• AI Learning Assistant – The Non-Traditional Learning Tool AI-powered tutoring prototype for the UBC Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology that uses LLMs to identify learner knowledge gaps in any course and provide personalized conversational feedback for inclusive learning environments.
• Empathetic Communication Practice Tool Real-time voice-to-voice prototype that lets UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences students practice patient-communication skills with simulated patients supported by an AI-powered empathy coach for use in disciplines involving patient interaction.
• Virtual Assistant Tool: E-Comm Connect Real-time NLP and speech-to-text virtual assistant that processes non-emergency call audio and generates prioritized Standard Operating Procedure recommendations for E-Comm 9-1-1 police call takers to reduce cognitive load and expedite response.
• Open Education AI Study Companion AI-powered study platform built with BCcampus that lets instructors generate supplementary teaching materials from Open Educational Resources (OER) and lets students interact with that content through a chat interface to advance open education access in BC post-secondary institutions.
• Research Data Insights Generator AI-powered prototype for UBC Geography researchers that ingests uploaded research datasets and document corpora and exposes them through a chat interface for asking research questions and accessing contextual responses grounded in the underlying materials.
• A Multi-Agent Framework for Assisting Quantum Materials Research AI-powered web platform for UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute that automates quantum circuit generation from materials data using a multi-agent framework for Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) circuits and related quantum algorithms.
• AI-Powered Tool for Quantum Materials Interactive AI-powered platform for UBC Blusson Quantum Matter Institute providing centralized, user-friendly access to quantum materials science resources, built using AWS, AI, and quantum computing capabilities for material discovery and quantum applications.
• Document Smart Search AI-powered document search prototype for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) that enables conversational exploration of scientific and policy documents with AI-assistant filtering for efficient retrieval of relevant content.
• Predicting Hospital Admissions – Halton Healthcare AI-powered admissions forecasting tool for Halton Healthcare that uses predictive analytics to identify patients likely to require admission earlier, enabling efficient resource allocation and reduced Emergency Department boarding and patient wait times.
• Legal Aid Tool AI-powered legal support tool built with UBC Peter A. Allard School of Law that ingests user-entered case information and surfaces LLM-generated prompts, offering contextual support without giving direct answers to preserve critical legal-reasoning skills for students and legal professionals.
• AI-Assisted Medical Image Segmentation of At-Risk Organs in Cancer Patients Machine-learning model that automates annotation of head-and-neck organs in CT and MRI scans for cancer research and treatment planning, developed with Canadian-university researchers to replace manual annotation.
• L3-Net: Open Source AI Model for COVID-19 CT Diagnostics and Prognosis Open-source deep-learning AI model (L3-Net) developed with Vancouver General Hospital radiologists that analyzes lung CT scans to predict lung involvement ratio and absolute volume, supporting COVID-19 severity assessment and patient prognostication across multiple hospital sites.
• Heart Failure Patient Prognosticator Machine-learning models that enable cardiologists at Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care to predict heart-failure patient outcomes and inform treatment decisions to improve survival rates.
• Accelerating Computational Chemistry Research with the Cloud Cloud-based solution for UBC Computational Chemistry that migrates molecular simulation calculations to AWS serverless architecture for greater control, flexibility, and efficiency of complex chemistry workflows.
• Virtual Communication for Remote First Responders (STARS) Communication platform for Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) that connects rural and remote emergency responders with critical-care physicians via app and 1-800 number, scaling from voice-only to full video using the Amazon Chime SDK and a service-desk dashboard with mobile PWA support.
• Vaccine Distribution Supply Chain Prototype IoT and blockchain prototype developed with UBC Faculty of Applied Science and MCG that monitors vaccine batch temperature and GPS during distribution via embedded IoT sensors, a dashboard, and Amazon QLDB for immutable, cryptographically verifiable transaction records.
• Patient Dashboard for Optimizing Sedation Dashboard for BC Children's Hospital that consolidates patient information and medical data to support optimized sedation procedures for children and youth with behavioral complexity, surfacing essential data for upcoming procedures to authorized staff.
• Streamlining Faculty CVs: Elevating Faculty Experience AI-powered prototype for UBC Faculty of Medicine that helps academics and medical professionals gather, standardize, and format CV data to meet varied institutional and academic requirements across large faculty units.
• Harm Reduction Prototype for UBC Hein Lab that enables tracking and viewing of substance composition against a public database to inform harm reduction decision-making, supporting students and researchers with notifications to speed up drug-tracking processes.
• FHIR-Enabled Digital Questionnaire FHIR-compliant digital questionnaire for Basics for Health Society that enables healthcare professionals to record and track health-related social needs within electronic medical records, incorporating social determinants of health into patient-centred care.
• NoiseTracker Web Application Client application and cloud-native web platform for Raincoast Conservation Foundation that enables sharing and analysis of underwater sound-level data to address noise pollution impacting marine fauna communication and navigation, supporting conservation research and policy.
• Virtual Patient Interaction Practice Tool in Pharmacy Education Earlier-phase interactive platform developed with UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences that leverages generative AI to simulate patient-pharmacist interactions with adaptive scenarios, real-time feedback, and tailored guidance to enhance student interviewing techniques (predecessor to the full PIPT/GENRx system).
• Digital Learning Strategy AI Assistant Prototype to Support Educators AI-powered Digital Learning Strategy assistant for the BC Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills (PSFS) that provides context-specific guidance on digital learning to educators across BC's post-secondary education system using generative AI and LLMs.
• Parkinson's WoQ-19 Survey Application iOS research application for UBC Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre that collects medication-timing data via wearable sensors and advanced analysis to provide Parkinson's patients with personalized information on optimal medication timing and improved quality of life.
• Health Platform for People on the Autism Spectrum iOS app and web administrative application developed with 2m Foundation, First Place Global Leadership Institute, and Pacific Autism Family Network that enables care teams to collect, store, monitor, and access data on variables that trigger or precede seizures or meltdowns for individuals on the autism spectrum.
• Application to Assess Patients' Balance Level Web and mobile app for Providence Health Care that implements the Berg Balance Scale for structured balance assessment, enabling clinicians and patients to record, store, and access balance data for analytics and clinical recovery-plan development.
• Determining Course Flexibility from Syllabi Prototype for UBC Office of the Provost that uses semantic search to analyze course-flexibility characteristics across UBC syllabi from multiple faculties and supports systematic measurement of flexibility variations to inform academic policy.
• Video Streaming Solution Optimized recording and uploading platform for interviews, web assessment, patient assessment, and medical research that provides a simple, intuitive interface powered by Amazon Rekognition for automated content processing.
• Low-cost Transcription and Translation Tool (T2) Low-cost prototype that transcribes and translates audio data to help reporters extract relevant information from recordings in languages other than their primary language for multilingual content processing.
• EC2Ensemble: Multi-Regional EC2 Instance Launcher Multi-regional AWS EC2 instance launcher for the Pacific Chamber Music Academy that enables low-latency audio transmission via JackTrip open-source music technology for geographically distributed musicians to perform together.
• TapGives – Clean Water Subscription Service Clean water access service for We Make Impact that uses USSD technology on basic cellular phones to connect villagers in rural Kenya and Uganda to nearby water sites for nominal monthly fees without requiring smartphones or internet.
• Using the Cloud to Accelerate Machine Learning Models Cloud-based solution for UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering that enables storage, access, and processing of echocardiogram videos in AWS with scalability, security, and ease of access for ML model development on cardiac imaging data.
• Chatbot and Recommendation Engine Conversational AI chatbot for UBC course-requirement interpretation and academic advising, built on Amazon Lex, OpenSearch, and Step Functions, which conducts coherent conversations with students and provides answers from aggregated UBC resources with a feedback mechanism and admin dashboard.
• Empowering Nonprofits to Make Decisions for Good: Unlocking Census Data Data visualization tool for Imagine Canada that enables charities and non-profits to visualize Census Canada datasets in a user-friendly way to support evidence-based decision-making in the non-profit sector.
• Leveraging the Cloud to Improve Hospital Occupancy Planning Prediction algorithm for Trillium Health Partners Institute for Better Health that improves hospital-capacity forecasting and bed-supply matching with patient demand via cloud-based analytics for more efficient hospital operations.
• Invasive Plants Identification App iOS mobile app using machine learning for plant identification that helps community gardeners in British Columbia detect invasive species and address knowledge gaps about regional plant-naming conventions and invasiveness variations.
• Modernizing Institutional Grant Data Analytics using Cloud Services Cloud-based analytics platform for the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) that transforms grant-data accessibility into narrative and discoverability tools, enabling students and faculty to identify connections across educational initiatives.
• The Sea Around Us In The Cloud Cloud-based data platform for Sea Around Us that improves access to and analysis of marine-ecosystem datasets using Jupyter notebooks and AWS serverless architecture, with Phase 2 adding geospatial functionality and data filtering for broader research impact.
• UBC Okanagan: Student Connect Application Student engagement platform for UBC Okanagan (UBCO) that connects first-year students to activities, clubs, and campus news feeds tailored to their interests via data aggregation to support onboarding and community building.
• Digitizing Medical Forms Automation solution for IBD Centre of BC that enables data ingestion from dictated consultation letters through automated text extraction and structured data entry to improve digitization efficiency of clinical records.
• Commit2Act – App to Combat Climate Change Web and mobile application developed with TakingITGlobal that enables youth to submit, track, and visualize progress of environmentally-friendly actions for climate-change education and motivation toward sustainable lifestyles.
• Multi-Category Communications Manager: Uniting Federal Communications Centralized subscription-based communications platform for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) that unifies federal government communications, allowing users to subscribe to topics of interest and receive related newsletters via a single interface.
• Researcher Expertise Dashboard / Portal Centralized dashboard and portal for UBC Office of Vice-President, Research and Innovation that aggregates UBC and third-party researcher and grant data; Phase 3 aggregates publicly available STEAM research activity into a portal for identifying research-collaboration opportunities across UBC's 7,000+ researchers.
• Tapestry: A New Way to Connect Course Content Online learning platform using graph database architecture that enables collaborative content development through interconnected nodes for conceptual understanding, allowing students and instructors to navigate relationships among course materials.
• Ace It: The AI Study Assistant ECE capstone AI study assistant built on AWS serverless infrastructure and Amazon Bedrock that integrates with Canvas LMS via Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) to automatically sync course content and deliver personalized tutoring within students' course pages with instructor engagement analytics.
• AI-Enhanced Security Testing Platform (DAEST) Dynamic AI-Enhanced Security Testing (DAEST) capstone project for ECE that provides a user-friendly web application security-testing interface with AI-generated vulnerability reports and an assistance chatbot to make security testing accessible across expertise levels.
• Remote Sensing for Forest Fires (FireWatch) FireWatch capstone project for UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering that provides early prediction and detection of forest fires in British Columbia, enabling rapid firefighting response to protect at-risk communities and raise awareness of wildfire threats.
• LLM Question-Answer Repository Web application powered by a large language model that lets instructors upload course materials and enables students to receive personalized AI-generated responses to course-specific questions, saving time for both students and instructors.
• IoT People Counting Device (Raspberry PI) IoT capstone device using Raspberry PI for occupancy monitoring and people-counting in various spaces, capturing images to count individuals and convert data into actionable insights for smart resource management with emphasis on efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and data security.
• Innovation Connections – Knowledge Graph Knowledge graph capstone project for Faculty of Engineering that provides UBC CIC administrators with researcher-information search and discovery to enhance an existing CIC innovation project using graph database architecture.
• Remote Mobility Monitoring System Remote data collection solution for UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering that supplements metrics from synchronous meetings by enabling remote collection of mobility and engagement data for research and assessment purposes.
• People Density Meter: UBC Orchard Commons Residence IoT device using Raspberry PI for UBC Orchard Commons Residence that captures images, counts individuals, and converts occupancy data into actionable insights to support smart building resource management.
• Antimicrobial Dashboard Analytics dashboard for monitoring and visualizing antimicrobial usage and resistance patterns to support infection-control decisions and public-health surveillance.
• CIC Open-Source Project Portfolio (GitHub) Open-source project portfolio on the UBC-CIC GitHub organization containing code repositories for all CIC-developed prototypes including Specialization Explorer, Patient Interaction Practice Tool (PIPT), and Legal AI Generative Organizer (LAIGO), available for public reuse and deployment under open-source licenses.
• CIC Hackathon Program Recurring Spring, Summer, Fall, and annual hackathon program that hosts UBC student teams to build AI and cloud-powered prototypes around real community challenges using AWS services and generative AI, including the Spring 2026 GenAI Hackathon and Summer 2026 capacity (40 participants), since the inaugural 2024 event with 100-participant capacity.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60+ completed cloud and AI prototypes delivered to public sector and community organizations since January 2020
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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App detail

AI capability52 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, major, minor and core.

• UBC Faculty of ScienceflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2026Collaborated with the CIC to build the Specialization Explorer AI tool for BSc students. Faculty provided academic content, learning objectives, and domain expertise for the conversational AI platform that helps students explore and compare academic specializations.
• UBC Peter A. Allard School of LawflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026Three law educators (Jon Festinger KC, Nikos Harris KC, and Salima Samnani KC) co-created the Legal AI Generative Organizer with the CIC, providing legal reasoning frameworks and clinical education expertise to guide AI-assisted legal education tool development.
• UBC Department of PsychiatrymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025Research team collaborated with CIC to develop an AI tool helping clinicians efficiently access and use CANMAT clinical guidelines for mood and anxiety disorder treatment during patient consultations.
• BCcampusmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2025BCcampus partnered with the CIC to develop an AI-powered open education study companion that enables instructors to generate supplementary materials from open educational resources (OER) with AI-powered student chat interfaces.
• Halton HealthcaremajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2025Collaborated with the CIC to develop an AI-powered hospital admissions forecasting tool aimed at reducing Emergency Department boarding and improving patient wait times through predictive resource allocation.
• Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2025DFO collaborated with the CIC to develop an AI-powered document search prototype enabling efficient conversational exploration of the department's scientific and policy document collections.
• BC Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills (PSFS)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2025The Ministry partnered with the CIC to enhance the Digital Learning Strategy AI Assistant, using generative AI and LLMs to provide context-specific guidance on digital learning for BC's post-secondary educators.
• UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical SciencesflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2024Long-standing collaboration partner developing AI-powered pharmacy education tools including the Patient Interaction Practice Tool (GENRx). Faculty instructors (Fong Chan, Jamie Yuen) and Office of Educational Technology and Learning Designs provided clinical scenarios and pedagogical frameworks for AI patient simulation.
• Raincoast Conservation FoundationmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2024RCF partnered with the CIC to develop NoiseTracker, a client and cloud application for sharing underwater sound levels to support marine fauna conservation, particularly related to underwater noise pollution affecting communication and navigation of marine species.
• Health Platform Consortium (2m Foundation, First Place Global Leadership Institute, Pacific Autism Family Network)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2022A consortium of organizations supporting individuals on the autism spectrum collaborated with the CIC to develop an iOS app and web admin platform for collecting, storing, monitoring, and accessing biometric data related to seizure and meltdown triggers.
• TakingITGlobalminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2022TakingITGlobal collaborated with the CIC on Commit2Act, a web and mobile app enabling youth to submit, track, and visualize environmentally-friendly actions to educate and motivate sustainable lifestyle choices.
• STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 July 2021STARS partnered with the CIC to develop a remote emergency communication platform connecting rural first responders with critical care specialists via voice or video, powered by Amazon Chime, to reduce morbidity and mortality in pre-hospital emergencies.
• E-Comm 9-1-1majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2021E-Comm 9-1-1 partnered with the CIC to develop E-Comm Connect, a virtual assistant providing real-time SOP recommendations to police call takers handling non-emergency calls, reducing cognitive load and improving response accuracy.
• MCG (Start-up)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2021Montreal-based start-up MCG collaborated with UBC CIC and UBC Faculty of Applied Science to develop a vaccine distribution supply chain prototype demonstrating real-time temperature and GPS monitoring of vaccine shipments using AWS blockchain (QLDB).
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020AWS is the founding strategic partner of the UBC CIC. The collaboration provides the CIC with AWS cloud infrastructure, technology access (including Amazon Bedrock, serverless services, and generative AI), AWS professional mentorship for student teams, and global CIC Network connections. AWS Solutions Architects and Project Managers work alongside UBC staff to guide project development. The partnership enables all projects to be built on AWS technology at no cost to challenge sponsors.
• University of British Columbia (UBC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020UBC is the institutional host and co-founder of the CIC, providing the physical location (Vancouver campus), student talent pool (co-op, capstone, work-integrated learning programs), faculty expertise, and administrative infrastructure. UBC's Office of the Provost & Vice-President Academic houses the CIC.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

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Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/UBC-CIC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ubc-cic

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Profiles6 records

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