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Coopérathon Innovation Competition

By Jessica
While the world’s challenges are costly to nations and communities that are impacted, the drive for social impact through innovation has fueled successful health track Canadian startups like Mr Young (mryoung.co), a conversational companion with artificial intelligence that helps young people cope with anxiety and connect them with mental care professional. 
On the education track, Embrace The Life (http://embracethelifevr.com) is an interactive virtual reality to aid people in wheelchairs become familiar with new environments and increase autonomy, mobility and reinforce motivation, and improve their daily lives. Both of these applications were finalists in previous Coopérathon competition. 

Now in its third year, Coopérathon has already become the world's largest open innovation platform, a unique pre-incubation challenge, it brings together students, experts, mentors, strategists, developers, designers, socio-preneurs and partners to collaborate on projects that provide meaningful, concrete solutions to social issues. 

Participants gain access to workshops and mentorship at sites across Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Waterloo, Gatineau. Sherbooke, Quebec City, Levi, and Shawinigan (as well as in Italy and France), develop a product and the next great startup in 25 days, and win over $100,000 in prizes. 

https://youtu.be/JUVAo2nXNRU

If you are not sure yet and want to be inspired, the Kickoff night in the Montreal old port harbour at the Quay with keynotes speakers Yoshua Bengio, Element Ai co-founder, and Matthew Luhn, the creative storyteller behind The Simpsons and Pixar should do the trick!

Click below to participate: 
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/inscription-cooperathon-2018-canada-45204697467#tickets

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