CS-CAN|INFO-CAN and Profound Impact Announce New Partnership Offering Research Impact to CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Members

This newly announced partnership provides an exciting benefit to the CS-CAN|INFO-CAN membership! Profound Impact is offering CS-CAN|INFO-CAN members a free evaluation of Research Impact, which uses advanced AI to match researchers with the best research funding opportunities in their field and helps find industry partners to support successful grant applications.

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Profound Impact is pleased to provide ORGANIZATION with the right to evaluate Research Impact, a Software as a Service product, for a period of ninety (90) days. This service will be provided at no charge during the evaluation period.

As part of the evaluation ORGANIZATION agrees to assign a Research Administrative Manager to 1) participate in a bi-weekly, thirty(30) minute meeting to share feedback about their use of Research Impact and to 2) complete a product survey at the end of the evaluation period. Profound Impact shall assist ORGANIZATION to support the evaluation by up to two (2) administrative staff and ten (10) researchers.

In order to support the evaluation, Profound Impact requires permission from ORGANIZATION to obtain the following publicly available information about each researcher from ORGANIZATION’S website and from other public sources on the Internet to create a researcher profile to prepopulate these profiles within Research Impact: i) First Name, (ii) Last Name, (iii) Faculty (iv) Program (v) Role (vi) Email Address (vii) Researcher Interests (viii) Publication History and (ix) Award History. Each researcher profile will be used by Research Impact to automatically generate key words to match each researcher with grant opportunities and industry partners.

ORGANIZATION agrees to provide the above information about each researcher and administrator via email to info@profoundimpact.com within two (2) weeks of the signature date of this document. Profound Impact shall obtain any and all public information about each researcher solely to create a researcher profile.

At the conclusion of the evaluation, ORGANIZATION will have the option to 1) continue to use the service with a paid subscription or 2) if ORGANIZATION chooses not to continue the service and at the ORGANIZATION’s instruction, Profound Impact shall delete all information about researchers and administrators described above, including all researcher grant matches, and shall provide written confirmation to ORGANIZATION within seven (7) business days.

In order to facilitate the evaluation of Research Impact, Profound Impact shall provide an online training session for ORGANIZATION research administrative staff.

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Profound Impact is pleased to provide you (the Researcher) with the right to evaluate Research Impact, a Software as a Service product, for a period of three hundred sixty-five (365) days. This service will be provided at no charge during the evaluation period. As part of the evaluation you agree to share feedback about your use of Research Impact by responding to a monthly email, and you expressly, give permission for Profound Impact to obtain the following publicly available information about you from public sources such as your curriculum vitae to create your profile within Research Impact including but not limited to the following: i) First Name, (ii) Last Name, (iii) Faculty, (iv) Program, (v) Role, (vi) Email Address, (vii) Your Research Interests, (viii) Publication History, (ix) Award History, and (x) Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). Your profile will be used by Research Impact to automatically generate key words to match you with grant opportunities and industry partners.

At the conclusion of the evaluation, you will have the option to 1) continue to use the service with a paid subscription or 2) if you choose not to continue the service and at the your instruction, Profound Impact shall delete all information about you described above, including all your grant matches, and shall provide written confirmation to you within seven (7) business days.

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I have read and agree to the terms and conditions including the Additional Terms and Conditions in the PDF document linked above.

Would you like to see Research Impact in action? You can view a video here or sign up for a live demonstration!

CS-CAN|INFO-CAN and Profound Impact partnered earlier this year to produce two webinars on researcher and industry collaboration. If you missed the live event, you can watch the videos here!

Profound Impact + CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Webinar – Industry Collaboration: Benefits and Challenges, March 24, 2023

Profound Impact + CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Webinar: Industry/Researcher Collaboration Best Practices and Tools for Success, April 20, 2023

CEO Message

More than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day on Saturday April 22.  This year’s Earth Day theme, Invest in Our Planet, is designed to encourage businesses, governments and citizens to invest in solutions that will support the protection of the environment.  Profound Impact is marking Earth Day with our Research Impact article on the evolution of the automobile industry in Canada over the last 120 years and how the federal and provincial governments, along with Canadian companies, are leading the way in investing in and developing innovative technology that is transforming the industry as it transitions to zero-emission vehicle production.  

In this issue, you’ll meet Flavio Volpe, President of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA).  Flavio was key in renegotiating the NAFTA agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico and is passionate about his work as an advocate of the automobile industry.  He tells us about Project Arrow – the prototype automobile that is a showcase for made-in-Canada technology to meet the federal government’s call for a Zero-Emissions future by 2050. I am honoured to be a member of the Project Arrow Advisory Committee and to have the opportunity to contribute to this impactful initiative.

This month’s Impact Story introduces Deborah Rosati, corporate director, entrepreneur, Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant and founder and CEO of Women Get On Board. Deborah works closely with the corporate governance community and is a powerful role model and mentor for women as she promotes and empowers women to join corporate, public sector and not-for-profit boards. I am excited to announce that Deborah is joining this month as Chair of Profound Impact’s Board of Directors.

We’re thrilled to announce that the Impactful Actions Awards, which recognize leaders from around the world who are making a profound impact in the global community, will accept nominations in two categories in 2023. Read more about the nomination procedures and timelines for the Young Leader and Lifetime Achievement categories here.

And finally, we hope you’ll check out the webinar on researcher/industry collaboration Profound Impact presented in partnership with CS-CAN|Info-Can in March, as well as the highlight demo video of our Research Impact product. We have another webinar coming up in April!

Happy Earth Month and thanks for connecting with us and the Profound Impact community!

Sherry Shannon-Vanstone

CS-CAN Two Part Webinar Series

Industry – Research Collaboration Webinars

Profound Impact is excited to announce our participation in two CS-CAN webinars for a discussion on new strategies for matching funding and researchers. The webinar series will run in two parts on March 24, 2023 and April 20, 2023. 

Webinar #1 – March 24, 2023 – View the recording here

Industry – Research Collaboration: Benefits and Challenges

Connections between industry, colleges and universities are vital as researchers seek industry partners for federally and provincially-funded research programs and industry looks to researchers for insight into long-term research directions as strategic development road maps are developed.

This webinar will discuss the benefits of collaboration to researchers, students and industry partners as well as the challenges in identifying potential partners and developing collaborative agreements.  

This webinar features:

  • Emily Gordon, Advisor, Business Development at Mitacs
  • Camelia Nunez, Manager of Operations at the Lazaridis Institute at Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Ig Kolenko, Executive Director at the Smart Manufacturing and Advanced Recycling Technologies (SMART) Centre at Conestoga College

Webinar #2 – April 20, 2023, 3:00 PM EST – View the recording here

Industry – Research Collaboration: Best Practices and Tools for Success

What makes an industry-researcher collaboration a success? 

Hear from the experts:

  • Vio Onut, Principal R&D Strategist at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) at IBM Canada and Adjunct Professor at University of Ottawa;
  • Jennifer Moles, Director, R&D Collaboration and Commercialization Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)
  • George Shaker, Principal Scientist and Head of Research at Spark Technology Labs (STL).
  • Brian Romansky of Profound Impact demonstrates the Research Impact matching tool.

You can view both webinars with this playlist on Youtube!