In an increasingly bureaucratic and digitized world, how can artists survive while maintaining an artistic practice?

In this hands-on workshop, Kadija de Paula will share tools to navigate the overwhelming world of grants and open calls for emerging artists and creatives.

This is an in-person event with online delivery also offered. Refreshments will be served to those attending in-person. More information can be found on the registration page or the Culture's Compass website.

New members joining the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) are welcome to join an onboarding session the last Thursday of every month to learn more about CfE, and what it has to offer and ask any questions they might have.

New members joining the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) are welcome to join an onboarding session the last Thursday of every month to learn more about CfE, and what it has to offer and ask any questions they might have.

Pocketed will share their expertise on how to expedite the grant search and application process and increase your chances of funding success. Engage in a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where you can ask questions, understand the advantages and disadvantages of each funding option, and align your goals with the most suitable approach. 

The workshop will provide you with the tools to identify eligible funding opportunities for your business and the basics of grant funding and what you need to prepare a successful grant

New members joining the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) are welcome to join an onboarding session the last Thursday of every month to learn more about CfE, and what it has to offer and ask any questions they might have.

InStage is a cloud-based experiential learning tool designed to make it fun for students to build their career skills. Students can choose from a library of simulations including; job interviews, introducing themselves, presenting, business pitches. After each practice session students receive a detailed progress report that shows, rate of speech, filler words, and volume, and much more.

This event is a great opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs and individuals seeking guidance in their entrepreneurial endeavors. Our esteemed mentors, with their wealth of experience and expertise in various industries, are eager to share knowledge and provide valuable insights to navigate the challenging entrepreneurial landscape. Engage in meaningful discussions, gain valuable advice, and network with like-minded individuals.

Location: Humber Lakeshore Campus Room G105

The Barrett CTI and KUKA: KUKA Mobility - AMRs with Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday, June 7th | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Join us at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation for a practical demonstration of a mobile robot with an integrated arm and learn about its many benefits:

• Increased Productivity

• Operational control

• Ideal labor shortage solution

• Quality Maximization

• Real-time mapping

• Traceability

• Progressive investment

Today's manufacturers are searching for innovative solutions to challenging production problems to meet the ever-expanding demands of a cutthroat global marketplace. Many companies are now using mobile robots with or without an integrated robotic arm. Mobile robots combine the progress in artificial intelligence with physical robotics, which allows them to navigate their surroundings.

KUKA will help us to understand the next generation of Mobile Robots with Artificial intelligence.

Agenda::

11:00 am -12:00 noon - Introduction to Mobile Technology (With robotic arm)

12:00 noon - 12:30 pm - Break

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm - Practical demonstration with KUKA Robotics and AMR technology

Looking forward to seeing you at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation.

Join us at this packaging event on a journey through global packaging industry transformation.

Event highlights:

• Disruptor Innovators Showcase and On-Stage Presentation
• 5+ Hours of Valuable Networking Opportunities
• Tabletop Gallery
• More than 100 attendees, Limited Seating
• Global Access Online Post Event
• Includes Breakfast, Lunch, and Break Beverages

New members joining the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) are welcome to join an onboarding session the last Thursday of every month to learn more about CfE, and what it has to offer and ask any questions they might have.

Space Dreamers Day is an annual event to provide youth with engaging STEAM+ activities and inspire the next generation of space enthusiasts!

Space Dreamers Day will open new STEAM+ activities for kids of all ages
 
• Introduction to Space Video
• Postcards to Space Campaign through Club for the Future, Blue Origin
• Talk to Sharon Hagle, Blue Origin Astronaut and CEO, SpaceKids Global USA
• Tour of the Humber College Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation STEAM

New members joining the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) are welcome to join an onboarding session the last Thursday of every month to learn more about CfE, and what it has to offer and ask any questions they might have.

Why Choose Humber

Choosing a school that’s right for you is about a lot more than only checking your program’s eligibility requirements. It’s also about finding a place that feels welcoming, meeting new friends, building on your unique talents and being able to get the support you need, when you need it. It’s about bringing everything you are to something, with the confidence that you’ve made the right choice.

Open House is your chance to see what it's like to be a Humber student. We'll be hosting campus tours, showing off our lab spaces and giving you a chance to meet faculty representatives.

HUMBER ICT CAPSTONE PROJECT EXPO

Information and Communication Technology

You are invited to come and see what Humber’s Engineering Technology graduates in ICT are capable of, in solving real-world problems. Take a tour of Humber’s new Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation! Meet Humber’s students, faculty, and industry and community partners

Please RSVP by April 12th 2023.

2:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Drop in anytime)

Friday, April 14th, 2023

Location- Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation

The Barrett CTI and TriMech: 3D Scanning, Reverse Engineering & Metrology Workshop

Tuesday April 11th | 10:30 AM -12:00 PM

Join us at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation to discover 3D scanning with technical experts from industry partner TriMech (formerly Javelin Technologies):

Theme: How to effectively save time & money with 3D scanning

- Introduction to 3D scanning with examples that demonstrate real cases for effectively integrating scanning into a company’s workflow to help save time & money.

- Reverse engineering – capturing difficult geometry quickly and accurately to speed up your design process.

- Metrology – how to supplement your CMM and solve manufacturing problems more efficiently.

*There will be an optional tour of the Additive Manufacturing Lab at the end. Please feel free to join!

Looking forward to seeing you at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation.

Workshops

• Developing a Best Practice Model for Mental Health Crisis Care: A Community-Engaged Approach
  Leaders: Polly Ford-Jones, Sheryl Thompson & Danielle Pomerory (Humber faculty members)
• Highlighting the Indigenous Economy through the Power of Storytelling
  Leader: Audrey Wubbenhorst (Humber faculty member), James Henebry
• Policing and Community Partnerships: Learning From Each Other
  Leaders: Emma Smith (Humber faculty member), Doug Thomson (Humber faculty member)
• Ontario’s privatization of essential services: asset-based response options for non-profits
  Leader: Benjamin Miller (Ontario Nonprofit Network)

For more information, please visit: humber.ca/csi/events/conferences

New members joining the Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship (CfE) are welcome to join an onboarding session the last Thursday of every month to learn more about CfE, and what it has to offer and ask any questions they might have.

Wednesday March 22
12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Barrett CTI, North Campus

• New World of Work
  Leader: Jeremy Staples (Research Specialist, Humber’s Office of Research and Innovation)
• Community Based Participatory Research and Housing Affordability
  Leader: Salomeh Ahmadi (Humber faculty member)
• Policing and Community Partnerships: Learning From Each Other
  Leaders: Emma Smith (Humber faculty member), Doug Thomson (Humber faculty member)
• Aging in Place: Exploring Community Care Resource Needs
  Leaders: Alexa Christopoulos and Lisa Post (Humber students)
• TBA
  Community organization-led workshop

For more information, please visit: humber.ca/csi/events/conferences

The Health Innovation Challenge aims to explore new/innovative strategies that influence people’s health behaviours and knowledge for preventing or managing Diabetes. Student teams are cross-collaborating to determine innovative ways to better support our community with knowledge around diabetes disease management.

The Centre for Innovation in Health & Wellness at Humber College would like to invite all students, staff, faculty, and community partners to attend this event which includes:

• Team presentations which will be reviewed and judged by a panel of healthcare industry experts
• Awards for the top three winning teams
• Networking opportunities with various healthcare industry partners
• Lunch for all attendees

The Health Innovation Challenge is hosted by the Centre for Innovation in Health & Wellness in partnership with LAMP Community Health Centre, and in collaboration with Longo Centre for Entrepreneurship at Humber College.

Supporting organization: Experience Ventures

* This event is open only to students, staff, and faculty at Humber and Guelph-Humber and community partners who work in areas of Healthcare.

Workshops

• Engaging and Educating Young-Adult Cannabis 2.0 Consumers
  Leader: Daniel Bear (Humber faculty member)
• Community Agency Partnerships: Best Practices for the Creation of Healthy Communities
  Leader: Ann Wallington (Humber faculty member)
• New World of Work
  Leader: Jeremy Staples (Research Specialist, Humber’s Office of Research and Innovation)
• Families Turned Accidental Activists and Disrupters: Securing Employment for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
  Leader: Inés E. de Escallon, (Family Support Network for Employment)
• Sexual Assault and Police Reporting - What the Data Can & Can't Tell Us
  Leaders: Sevval Ogutcu and Izabella Dulinska (Humber students)

For more information, please visit: humber.ca/csi/events/conferences

COME & LEARN Cybersecurity from the Professionals

Topics to be discussed:

- Why cybersecurity is important?

- Trends in cybersecurity

- Cybersecurity technology consolidations

- Use of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in BIoT Security Technology

- BIoT Security Technology – Demo on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

Looking forward to seeing you at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation

The BARRETT CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION is hosting Humber Skills Mechatronics Qualifying Competition on Feb 17^th, 2023

Feel free to join us at the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation to see our students in action. Teams of students will race against the clock to build automated factories and production systems.

Students will demonstrate their skills in:

• Automation
• Mechanical build
• Electrical Wiring
• Troubleshooting
• Speed execution
• PLC programming
• Professional practices

MODULE 3: Managing the Financial Performance for Growing Companies

November 24 & December 1

• Enhance your internal accounting and performance review processes to collect valuable insight
• Look deeper into your business operations to analyze what is going well or not and identifying next steps for growth and efficiency
• Think about the CFO and finance manager roles and the value they create for business
• Get ready to attract fundraising and investment with high potential growth and proper due diligence

MODULE 3: Managing the Financial Performance for Growing Companies

November 24 & December 1

• Enhance your internal accounting and performance review processes to collect valuable insight
• Look deeper into your business operations to analyze what is going well or not and identifying next steps for growth and efficiency
• Think about the CFO and finance manager roles and the value they create for business
• Get ready to attract fundraising and investment with high potential growth and proper due diligence

MODULE 2: Planning for Early Stage Business

November 3, 10 & 17

• Explore revenue streams and how their structure aligns to your value proposition and business sustainability
• Build financial projections for your business for internal and external use that are geared towards growth
• Manage business relationships in good standing with Canada Revenue Agency, investors and other stakeholders
• Create internal systems for accounting and tax

MODULE 2: Planning for Early Stage Business

November 3, 10 & 17

• Explore revenue streams and how their structure aligns to your value proposition and business sustainability
• Build financial projections for your business for internal and external use that are geared towards growth
• Manage business relationships in good standing with Canada Revenue Agency, investors and other stakeholders
• Create internal systems for accounting and tax

MODULE 2: Planning for Early Stage Business

November 3, 10 & 17

• Explore revenue streams and how their structure aligns to your value proposition and business sustainability
• Build financial projections for your business for internal and external use that are geared towards growth
• Manage business relationships in good standing with Canada Revenue Agency, investors and other stakeholders
• Create internal systems for accounting and tax

In the Start My Business: Your Business Concept program, you'll learn what you need to make your idea clear to you and your customers, design and develop your first product(s), select the most fitting revenue sources and pricing, focus on the right customers, and define your company brand.

If this sounds or feels like what you need, you are ready for the Start My Business program!

All modules of the Bootcamp will be delivered online via Zoom.

Topic :Start My Business: Your Business Concept

Date: November 1st, 2022 – December 13th, 2022 (7 weeks)

Time: Tuesday’s 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Program Outline

MODULE 1: Your Big Idea and Your Plan to Start

MODULE 2: What Are You Selling - Developing Your Product Portfolio

MODULE 3: Deciding Your Revenue Model

MODULE 4: Knowing and Talking to Your Customers (Avatar/Personna)

MODULE 5: Your Competitors and Other Market Players

MODULE 6: Getting Ready to Face the World – Your Branding

MODULE 7: How Do I Make This Happen? Next Steps

MODULE 1: Building on your Personal Financial Health

October 13 & October 20

• Demystify the concepts and math behind things like debt and interest, investment opportunities, credit scores and more to increase your comfort level
• Understand the Canadian landscape for financial services and taxation and how these programs can impact or enhance your financial planning
• Plan your personal finances in a way that lines up with your lifestyles, personal goals and unique challenges

To mark the fourth anniversary of cannabis legalization in Canada, we invite you to attend our hybrid event, Innovations in Harm Reduction for Youth Cannabis Use. We will showcase Canadian cannabis research and education projects designed for and with youth. Five lightening presentations will share new developments in harm reduction, youth-led approaches, and how to be inclusive of the diverse needs of youth who use cannabis. This event will bring together youth experts, advocates, community organizations, and researchers from across the country. Come hear about what’s new and what’s next in youth cannabis use harm reduction!

The event will take place in-person at Humber College's Lakeshore Campus, and will also be simulcast online. Light refreshments will be served. Click here to register. 

MODULE 1: Building on your Personal Financial Health

October 13 & October 20

• Demystify the concepts and math behind things like debt and interest, investment opportunities, credit scores and more to increase your comfort level
• Understand the Canadian landscape for financial services and taxation and how these programs can impact or enhance your financial planning
• Plan your personal finances in a way that lines up with your lifestyles, personal goals and unique challenges

Join us to learn about the legal basics for early stage entrepreneurial ventures and the types of free services offered by the Osgoode Venture Capital Clinic for startups who are in the financing and equity structuring stages of growth.

What: Virtual Workshop: Legal Basics For Entrepreneurs-Osgoode Venture Capital Clinic

When: Tuesday, July 26,2022 at 12:00pm

Where:Online Via Zoom (Please register on Eventbrite) 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/legal-basics-for-entrepreneurs-osgoode-venture-capital-clinic-tickets-386967599507

Legal services offered by the OVC include:

• How can I optimize my business for a due diligence screen?
• What type of contracts do I need to prepare?
• How can I best set up ownership in order to reward employees?
• What are the proper incorporation procedures?
• How should I best negotiate this term sheet or financing round?
• How can I best structure and protect my stake in the business?

Join us at the Barrett CTI to cheer on our Electromechanical Engineering Technology students as they compete for a chance to participate in the 2022 Skills Ontario Provincial competition in Mechatronics!

The Humber Mechatronics Skills Qualifying Competition is taking place on Friday, March 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Magna Mechatronics Training Room on the 2nd floor of the Barrett CTI (CTI 210).

Hope to see you there!

Winners will advance to Skills Ontario Mechatronics Competition in May 2022.

The winners of Skills Ontario will advance to Skills Canada Mechatronics in June 2022 for the aim to represent Canada at the World stage in Shanghai.

Each Information Session will introduce participants to our Barrett CTI team, the objectives/purpose of the Barrett CTI, how to book activities & spaces in the building through our Resource Management System, learn about the equipment & technology we have and how to access it. This session is for all Humber faculty & staff. Each session can be attended either in-person or online.

Register here  

Join us for a limited time one-week series of free virtual webinars presented by Humber College's Advanced Manufacturing Skills Consortium. 

These free webinars are for employees from small to medium sized enterprises, Humber faculty, staff, and students, or anyone else who is interested in the webinar topics.

IT IS TIME TO RECOVER AND COME BACK EVEN STRONGER. 

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Time: 6:00 p.m. (Please note that Registration will open at 5:30 p.m.)

6:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. – Cocktail Reception
6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. – Special Presentation
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. – Self-Guided Tours

Location: Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation, 205 Humber College Blvd. Toronto, ON M9W 5L7

Parking: We have arranged for complimentary valet parking for the event. In order to access valet parking, please enter Humber College from entrance B on the map, Great Hawk Road (Mishi Kaykayk Meekina), previously called Silver Bell Lane, and drive past the bus loop towards Shipping and Receiving. Valet staff will direct you to pull your car over, and will provide you with a ticket for receiving your car upon your departure. Please see the attached map for details.

Checking In: You will be directed to registration upon entering the Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation. Please identify yourself by your last name at the registration desk.

Attire: Business Casual

Come Hungry! Food stations will be available and hors d’oeuvres will be passed throughout the evening.

If you are unable to attend, we ask that you please contact Raina Faza at raina.faza@humber.ca to send your regrets.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on April 10!