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The INO Board of Directors recently welcomed Mr. Daniel Cotnoir, an experienced software engineer who has notably held the position of Senior Director of AI Engineering at Google and is currently working as a Senior Consultant, still in artificial intelligence, at Google Cloud.

Quantino, the high-tech business incubator powered by INO, and the CHU de Québec-Université Laval (CHU) are teaming up to expand the regional offering in incubating companies developing technologies to prevent, diagnose, and treat various diseases – notably cancer and immune diseases – as well as to promote regenerative medicine and women’s health.

INO, the largest centre of expertise in industrial optics/ photonics in Canada, and the Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal (CRIM), a cutting-edge centre of expertise in applied artificial intelligence, have entered into a collaboration agreement to accelerate the implementation of artificial intelligence in business, particularly through the use of synthetic data.

Confiance IA – Quebec’s industrial consortium for the development of sustainable, ethical, secure, and responsible artificial intelligence – has mandated INO to promote the Confiance IA collaborative approach with technology companies in metropolitan Quebec. INO will therefore contribute to the implementation of collaborative R&D projects to develop trusted artificial intelligence by bringing together several experts who will develop solutions adopted by several industrial sectors in Quebec. 

Yesterday, Mouvement des accélérateurs d'innovation du Québec (MAIN) revealed the momentumPI service, which aims to offer intellectual property (I.P.) services to startups with high growth potential. INO and Quantino are pleased to obtain partner organization status for the deep tech sector.

As a tribute to its former president and CEO, who helped make the Quebec City region a prime location for research, bring about major changes in the regional economy, and encourage the establishment of numerous knowledge-based companies, INO has created the Jean-Guy Paquet Scholarship. This $50,000 scholarship is intended to enable a student to carry out an applied research project. Today, INO is proud to announce its first winner, Mr. Maxime Vaidis, a doctoral student in computer science who will carry out a project based on artificial intelligence and optics-photonics to increase the efficiency of forest harvesting and limit resource wastage.