What the Barrett CTI Offers Partners

Impact on Industry

The Barrett CTI is more than just a building. It is a collaborative meeting place where inspiration, expertise, knowledge and enthusiasm all intersect to focus on solving challenges, developing ideas and bringing to life new, innovative ways of doing things. The Barrett CTI partners on game-changing innovations, research and projects. This collaborative work enables industry and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to pursue digital transformation and advanced manufacturing techniques, while protecting the environment with sustainable solutions. This is having a positive impact on various industry sectors and SMEs within Canada and internationally.

Humber Consistently Ranks Among Canada’s Top Research Colleges

Every year, Research InfoSource Inc. ranks Canada’s 50 research colleges, in addition to other rankings that help to highlight the strengths of Canada’s research environment. Humber is consistently named one of the top research colleges in Canada.

Humber is also one of the highest-ranked colleges for research partnerships, which bring together industry and community organizations, researchers, and students to collaborate on projects that use new or existing knowledge to solve real-world challenges with immediate practical applications. Project outcomes often lead to innovative products and services that benefit the economy and society.

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Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

One of the goals of the Barrett CTI is to reach out and work with SMEs to help them understand and success-fully compete in digital transformation environments. We have a wide scope of resources available to help SMEs transform their innovative ideas into process improvements, technological advancements and potential new sources of revenue.

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Empowering Businesses to Adapt and Accelerate

Innovative ideas often come from SMEs however, they don’t always have the resources or means to get their ideas off the ground. Whether it is a need for research and development, expertise in a particular field, facilities, access to capital or overcome difficulty with business challenges, the Barrett CTI has the resources to help. We have assisted over 65 SMEs develop their ideas into viable products or engage in research projects that help them develop innovative technologies.

As an innovation catalyst,
the Barrett CTI helps
businesses:

Access to multi-disciplinary teams.
Make connections to source grant funding and investment capital.
Training solutions for new technologies, up-skilling and professional development.
Access to various digital transformation technologies.
Access to state-of-the art equipment.
Prototyping labs.
Access to a supportive, low-risk environment to experiment with state-of-the-art technologies.
Provide unbiased evaluations of innovative ideas or new technologies.

Consortium

Guiding the Next Generation of Innovators.

From state of the art equipment to professional development
opportunities, Humber’s Advanced Manufacturing Skills
Consortium empower a unique experience at the Barrett CTI.

Consortium Members

Testimonials - What Our Partners Are Saying

“We have been working together with Humber for quite a few years and we are proud of this partnership. I see that we have two partners, two strong partners, getting together, working on closing the skills gap and providing the workforce of the future.” Thomas Lichtenberger, Former CEO, Festo Didactic

“These partnerships are more than just about one company or one specific field of expertise – they have a significant impact on the competitiveness and effectiveness of the entire workforce talent pool.” Tom Matrakoukas, Regional Director Higher Education, Cisco Systems

“It’s a proven Humber formula. Industry successfully solves their problems and advances their business through multi-level collaboration, incorporating the latest technologies, all at the Barrett CTI.” Paul Sesto, Education Sales Specialist, Javelin Technologies

“The most exciting thing about working with Humber is the ability to be part of this collaborative process that’s been put together through the Centres of Innovation.” Ed Manera, Vice President Of Sales, Kuka Robotics Canada

“There’s a huge need for higher skill sets in the workforce and getting to garner and develop that with Humber is going to be a huge step for us as we’re looking for new employees or students coming into the workforce.” Rainer Bickel, Vice President, SEW-EURODRIVE, USA

“This collaboration is vital and supports our vision to help customers embrace advanced manufacturing and reap the benefits of integrating a modern control system and the internet of things.” Mike Hutchings, Regional Vice President, Rockwell Automation

Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation

At the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation (Barrett CTI), students hone the skills they will need for the jobs of tomorrow, and businesses revolutionize their operations by experimenting with cutting-edge technologies. With advanced technology changing the way we work and live every day, the Barrett CTI brings together entrepreneurs, SMEs, established companies, students and faculty members to grow and prosper by developing human-centred, technology-enabled solutions for business and communities.

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