Welcome to AIMday™ Mobility 2022

Fast track solutions through industry-academic collaboration

Academic Industry Meeting Day, or AIMday™, is an internationally recognized opportunity to tackle questions around a central theme. This highly effective program enables university-based researchers and organizations to connect and bring world-class research to life. By matching organizations’ need for new knowledge with academic expertise, AIMday™ brings understanding and new perspectives to real-world problems.

Established in 2008 at Uppsala University, Sweden, AIMday™ has been implemented and refined by leading universities around the world.

Hosted by Queen’s University in collaboration with Toronto Metropolitan University and Hub350, AIMday™ Mobility will explore the future of mobility in its varied contexts – from advanced transportation to human health and beyond. The need to understand mobility trends and opportunities to utilize advanced technology to create viable mobility solutions is quickly mounting in order to reduce impacts on our environment, support next generation transportation modalities, have better outcomes for displaced communities, increase safety and security and enhance personal mobility including supporting those with impaired mobility.

Some example areas of interest for AIMday Mobility Questions include:

• Connected, Autonomous Systems
• Electrification/Electric Vehicles
• Fueling and charging infrastructure
• Vehicle-to-everything technology
• Green mobility
• Battery and power technologies
• Security
• Urban air mobility
• Sensors/systems inside next generation vehicles
• Mobility-as-a-service and/or Micro-mobility tech
• Human mobility – Personal: health, rehabilitation, exoskeleton tech/soldier supports, advanced mobility aids
• Human mobility – Urban strategy and policy: due to climate change, targeting better outcomes for migrants, refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, and other people on the move alongside the communities that host them)

LEARN ABOUT AIMDAY

Mobility 2022 Registration

• Free for all participants
• Organization registration: Open June 15 through September 7, 2022
  • Download: Guide for Organizations
  • Watch: AIMday Mobility Information Session for Organizations
  • Register your question(s) early to gain researcher interest!
• Researcher registration: Open September 9 through September 23, 2022
• AIMday™ Mobility: October 4, 2022   (Virtual Event)

ORGANIZATION REGISTRATION
RESEARCHER REGISTRATION

Hosts

Queen’s University has a long history of discovery and innovation that has shaped our knowledge and helped to address some of the world’s deepest mysteries and most pressing questions. Queen’s researchers have and continue making notable advances impacting numerous fields including applied artificial intelligence and analytics, ecological history and environmental change, clean energy technology, particle astrophysics, business, cancer research, and mental health. For more than 175 years, Queen’s has brought together and built synergies among leading researchers, scholars and innovators making a real and measured impact.

Toronto Metropolitan University is located in the heart of Toronto – one of the most dynamic, diverse urban centres in the world – and leverages the energy of its location to foster bold thinking, collaborative partnerships, innovation and entrepreneurship. Our scholarly, research and creative engagement is strengthened by a willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries, break down barriers, build alliances and take risks to advance inquiry, discovery, knowledge and creative works. Incubating local, national and international networks and communities of practice, Toronto Metropolitan researchers are generating and applying knowledge across a broad range of disciplines, fields, professions and private, public and non-profit sectors.

The University of Ottawa is among Canada’s top research universities. uOttawa benefits from its unique location in the heart of Nation’s Capital to promote dynamic research collaboration and leverage Ottawa’s government laboratories and policymakers. Its satellite campus in Kanata-North – Canada’s largest tech hub – drives innovative partnerships with the tech industry and healthcare innovators.  uOttawa researchers are world leaders in photonics, next generation networks, vascular and cardiovascular health, brain and mental health, the Francophonie, public policy and social justice. uOttawa is home to over 20 research centres and institutes and more than 25 core facilities cutting across faculties and disciplines. Research and innovation at uOttawa are founded on excellence, relevance and impact and is conducted in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Hub350 is the gateway to Canada’s largest technology hub and is purpose built to serve as an inclusive space for a variety of students, talent, investors, companies and creatives to collide. As a central gathering space and town hall in the heart of Kanata North, Hub350’s purpose is to attract industry, academic and financial institutions from across the country and around the world to coexist and collaborate with the 540+ technology companies located in Kanata North. Moreover, Hub350 Academic partners, including Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and Queen’s University will be participating in the event.

Contact us

For more information, or for support to develop your research question, please contact:

Shoma Sinha
Partnerships Development Officer, Queen’s Partnerships and Innovation
Queen’s University
shoma.sinha@queensu.ca

Lisa Leung
Manager, Collaborations, Programs and Initiatives
Toronto Metropolitan University
lisa.leung@ryerson.ca

Kyle Bournes
Business Development Manager – uOttawa Kanata North Campus
University of Ottawa
kbournes@uottawa.ca

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