Nucleate Canada: Partners Showcase
🗓️ 20 May 2025 | Nucleate Canada Presents: Partners Showcase
Join us for Nucleate Canada’s first-ever Activator Partners Showcase at Edmonton Unlimited — an afternoon spotlighting the Innovation partners supporting the future of biotech in Canada. Connect with the experts and teams from our Activator program, support their breakthrough ideas, and explore what’s next for Canada’s biotech ecosystem. This event is a great opportunity for academic trainees and early career professionals to learn about the supports and opportunities for building a biotech or working for an early-stage biotech.
Event Schedule
☕ 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Drinks & Light Bites
💡 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Welcome & Introductions
🎙️ 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Panel
Expert Perspectives: Opportunities and Challenges in Fueling Biotech Commercialization in Canada
Moderator: Julia Nanyi Zhao, PhD (Global Director, Activator Operations at Nucleate)
Panelists:
Sara Khosravi PhD (Associate Director, Innovation & Industry Alliances at Simon Fraser University and invention to Innovation)
Jarrod Ladouceur (Industrial Partnerships Officer at University of Toronto and Lab2Market Health)
Kari Gordon (Director, Program & People at Creative Destruction Lab)
✨ 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Partners Showcase and Office Hours
JLABS @ San Francisco | MNP Technology, Media & Telecommunications | Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation | STARTUP TNT | Lab2Market Health | invention to Innovation | Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Emerging and High Growth | Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute | Genome Alberta & BioNet | Front Row Ventures | UCEED | Pre-Amp Fellowship by Amplitude Ventures | Velocity Incubator |
💬 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Fireside Chat
Expert Perspectives: Incubating Biotech at early-stage
Moderator: Tiffany Linke-Boyko (Principal, Flying Fish Ventures)
Speaker:
John A. G. Dick (Senior Director of Founder Development, Velocity)
Chris A. Haskell (Head of JLABS San Francisco Region, Johnson & Johnson Innovation)
🗓️ 21 May 2025 | Nucleate Canada Presents - The Forum
The Forum is powered by our Nucleate Canada Supporters:
Platinum: MNP Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Applied Pharmaceutical Innovation, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. Emerging and High Growth, Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, JLABS @ Toronto
Gold: adMare BioInnovations, ERIN and Alberta Innovates, Edmonton Unlimited
Silver: Genome Alberta, Future Fields
We want to thank our HQ supporters for championing our open-access mission and empowering the next generation of biotech entrepreneurs!
Platinum: Eli Lilly and Company, Genentech, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, MilliporeSigma
Philanthropic Support: Lyda Hill Philanthropies
Preferred Partners: Pillar VC, Amino Collective, Excedr, Mercury, Brex, Fedsprout
In-Kind Support: AcademicLabs, Lens.org, SynBioBeta
About the Event Host
Nucleate is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders. With chapters spanning 41 geographic regions and participation from over 280 academic institutions, Nucleate sparks new intellectual communities and embeds emerging talent within a global biotech community. Through open-access educational programming, Nucleate helps democratize biotech innovation — removing barriers and helping founders concentrate on building transformational technologies.
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