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The GDBA celebrates 20 years of innovation and inclusion
Oct 30, 2019
In January 1999 the internet looked very different to the slick, multimedia environment we are used to today. Dial-up modems were still common and websites were far more basic. Google had launched only the year before, and sites that dominate web usage today like Facebook or YouTube were still several years away from their inception. Instead, the biggest sites of the day were names that are now steeped in nostalgia, like AOL, Geocities, Netscape and more »More...
SFU Beedie’s unique orientation experience aims to help increase success for its new students
Sep 19, 2019
In early September, Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business hyped up 300 of its students at a pep rally as they broke up into teams and faced off against one another in a unique cross-campus competition at SFU’s Burnaby Campus. The pep rally and cross-campus competition is a part of SFU Beedie Launch—a three-day orientation program designed to help ensure student success at the university. The new students, coming directly from high school, learned more »More...
SFU Beedie entrepreneurship programs to expand with federal funding support
Jul 26, 2019
Two key SFU initiatives, one focusing on entrepreneurship and another advancing clean technology research, will benefit from nearly $3 million in federal funding from Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD). Coast Capital Savings Venture Connection is receiving more than $1.9 million to expand its youth entrepreneurship program to underrepresented faculties, and engage with industries so that student innovators can work to solve industry challenges in key areas, such as health, sustainability, and creative technologies. The funds more »More...
Aspiring entrepreneurs in high school can now get a head start on earning university credits
Jun 28, 2019
Youth Entrepreneurship Leadership Launchpad (YELL) Canada has teamed up with Simon Fraser University (SFU)’s Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship (CIE) to develop and deliver a unique initiative for aspiring entrepreneurs in high school looking to get a head start with their SFU education. Students graduating from YELL with a B or higher will receive high school credit and are eligible to apply for SFU university credit. This collaborative initiative is a Canadian first that gives university more »More...
Tech e@SFU start-up wins third place in global sustainability competition
Jun 18, 2019
The SFU student founders of technology start-up Novion have won third place in the global Enzen Hackathon after competing against more than 650 companies. The three-phase hackathon sought solutions for tackling worldwide energy, water and environmental challenges. Novion grew out of the Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU program (Tech e@SFU), where John Nguyen, who is graduating from SFU’s Beedie School of Busines, Devpreet Bhullar, who graduates this month from mechatronic systems engineering, and mechatronic alumnus Refayet Siam teamed more »More...
SFU Beedie students victorious at Oxford competition
Jun 12, 2019
A multidisciplinary team of SFU business and environment undergrads extinguished their global competition to take first place in the finals of the global Map the System competition held at Oxford University on June 9. This is the third consecutive year that an SFU team has made it to the top three in the final round in the U.K. The competition challenges students to explore societal and environmental change through a research lens. Team Inferno comprises more »More...
Trail-blazing innovation in clean tech sparks start-up
Jun 10, 2019
Growing up in Metro Vancouver, Ben Britton dreamed of one day starting his own business. But he never imagined he would realize his dream by making a breakthrough in renewable energy while working on his SFU PhD project. This month Britton, the co-founder and chief strategy officer of start-up Ionomr Innovations Inc., graduates with a PhD in chemistry and a wealth of experience in business commercialization garnered during his SFU journey. Ionomr, a clean-tech, advanced more »More...
SFU Beedie prof leads the way in revitalization project for a once vibrant Vancouver neighbourhood
May 6, 2019
Hogan’s Alley Society, an initiative co-chaired by SFU Beedie professor June Francis, is working with the City of Vancouver, PHS Community Services Society and B.C. Housing to help bring a temporary housing project with culturally relevant programming to a once vibrant neighbourhood in Vancouver. For decades starting in the 1920’s, in what was then known as Hogan’s Alley, centered between Prior and Union and Main and Jackson, was a cultural hub for Vancouver’s Black community. more »More...
Beedie MBA alumni take top prize at SFU’s largest entrepreneurship competition
Apr 30, 2019
A start-up that uses drone technology to make geospatial data more accessible has won SFU’s largest entrepreneurship competition. Spexi GeoSpatial emerged from a slate of promising early-stage SFU entrepreneurs to win SFU’s eighth annual Coast Capital Savings Venture Prize competition, claiming the title of ‘top venture’ and taking home a cash and in-kind prize package worth $35,000. The start-up aims to empower organizations by using drone technology to deliver aerial intelligence at scale. The firm’s more »More...
SFU Beedie students among Surrey’s Top 25 Under 25 for 2019
Apr 29, 2019
SFU’s Beedie School of Business was once again well represented at the Surrey Board of Trade’s annual Top 25 Under 25 Awards for 2019, with eight SFU Beedie students or alumni appearing on the list. The award winners were honoured at an event, held on April 24, celebrating remarkable initiatives taken by young people in Surrey, who are 25 years of age or younger. The 25 winners were chosen based upon their business or community more »More...