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  AI2Market
  
  Provides interdisciplinary training, blending AI with entrepreneurship, to equip early-stage founders who thrive in AI-driven enterprises.
  
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  Supports students in exploring entrepreneurship opportunities not based on research, reducing the risk of their ideas, and launching ventures.
  
  Lab2Market
  
  Supports masters, PhDs, postdocs and researchers to build an entrepreneurial skillset to commercialize their research.
  
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  Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
  
  Delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.
  
  Emera ideaHUB
  
  Equips founders building physical products to validate and de-risk their ideas from the concept stage to a manufacturing-ready product.
  
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  Learn more about Dal’s collaborative innovation spaces: Cultiv8, IDEA Makerspace, Pulse, ShiftKey Labs, and SURGE.
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  Join us for the second annual Dal Innovation Week September 19 – 26, 2025
  
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  Minister Solomon announces $8.5M for 40 AI projects to help Atlantic Canadian businesses grow
  March 27, 2026
  
  From startups to SMEs, this is about adoption — turning research into companies, and companies into growth. On March 3, 2026, the Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister...
  
  DAL INNOVATION WEEK EVENT | SEPT. 19-26, 2025
  
  Dal Innovation Week will showcase ventures and innovations springing up across campus and the dynamic network of programming and support offered in the university entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.
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People who help us succeed

Our mentors are at the top of their respective fields of research and enterprise. They have succeeded in innovation, but more importantly many have failed at some point, and have drawn from their experiences the invaluable lessons from which our students truly benefit.

Founder Council

Founder Council

Alex Gillis

Technology Lead, NACO Canada

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Andrew Ray

Co-Founder, pHathom

Bethany Deshpande

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Bethany Deshpande

Founder & CEO, SomaDetect

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Brent Walker

Co-Founder & President, Morrison Park Advisors

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Bruce MacDougall

Chair of the Board, MITACS; Principal Consultant, Burcot Park Inc

Founder Council

Catherine Love

Vice President, Centre for Probe Development and Commercialization

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Chris Cowper-Smith, PHD

Vice President, Kindred Home Care

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Chris Moyer

Founding Partner & President, Pelorus VC

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Crystal To (Thuy Duong To)

Innovation Expert, VIRAC

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Daryl Genge

President & CEO, Springboard Atlantic Inc

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David B. Merryman

Senior Program Specialist, Honeywell

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David Randell

Partner & Energy Team Lead, Stewart McKelvey