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Patrons

Patrons are the backbone of the ASTech Foundation.

These organizations are seen as leaders in industry, education and government for their commitment to the advancement of science and technology in Alberta.

Through the generous contributions of these Patron organizations, the Foundation is able to carry out its mission of celebrating the accomplishments of the Alberta science and technology community. Each organization provides an annual financial contribution that helps sustain ASTech initiatives and fund supports the financial component of the ASTech Awards. In addition, each organization designates a senior representative to act on the ASTech Board of Directors.

Patron Brochure

ASTech Patrons:

Agrium is a leading agricultural retailer in the Americas and, a global producer and marketer of agricultural nutrients and industrial products. Agrium produces and markets three primary groups of nutrients: nitrogen, phosphate and potash as well as controlled release and micronutrient fertilizers. Agrium is proud to note that ESN, their premiere controlled release product, was created here in Alberta. Agrium’s strategy is to grow internationally through incremental expansions, acquisitions and, through the development and commercialization new products and services.

As an industry leader in agricultural products and services, Agrium is a strong participant in research and innovation.

Research and Innovation

IT HAPPENS HERE

Alberta Innovates is Alberta’s aligned research and innovation system consisting of the Alberta Research and Innovation Authority and four publicly funded corporations: Alberta Innovates – Bio Solutions; Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions; Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions and Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures. These five new dynamic agencies focus on taking outstanding research and ideas to the next level by creating products, services and processes that will address challenges faced by Albertans and people around the world.

Alberta Innovates salutes the scientists, researchers and innovators of Alberta who are making our province the place to invent, invest, collaborate, research and turn ideas into solutions for a better life.

AVAC is a unique investment company with considerable experience addressing the three key challenges for successful early-stage investing: garnering investor interest, attracting strong senior management, and building critical mass of like businesses. AVAC Brings capital to the table, but more importantly, we bring the skill sets necessary for the entrepreneurs to build successful businesses.

Bennett Jones is recognized by the LEXPERT®/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada as the leading law firm in Alberta in the field of intellectual property law and has the leading lawyers in Alberta in the fields of intellectual property law, biotechnology law, IT law and technology transactions. Our lawyers continue to be recognized as market leaders by distinguished international legal directories, such as LEXPERT®/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers and Partners and the LEXPERT-Thomson US Guide to Canada’s 100 Most Creative Lawyers and Woodward White’s The Best Lawyers in Canada.

Bio Alberta is the central voice and the organizing hub for life sciences in Alberta. We are a private, not-for-profit industry association with activities focused on the following areas: Advocacy; Industry Promotion and Marketing; Increasing access to human resources; Business development and networking opportunities. Alberta’s life science industry is a broad field of endeavours encompassing biotechnology, environmental science, medical technology, industrial bioproducts, agriculture biotechnology, bioinformatics, and natural health products.

BioAlberta is a proud patron of ASTech because the organization recognizes creators, innovators, and builders of Alberta’s future.

As the largest national volunteer-based organization in Canada, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation is dedicated exclusively to working collaboratively to fund, support and advocate for relevant and innovative research, early diagnosis and effective treatment, meaningful education and awareness programs and a positive quality of life for those living with breast cancer.

CREATING A FUTURE WITHOUT
BREAST CANCER.

Dow AgroSciences Canada is a research-based, agricultural sciences company with a diverse product portfolio including weed, insect, and disease management for crops, range and pasture, forestry and industrial vegetation management. The company also has significant investments in plant genetics and biotechnology platforms in canola and corn which focus on a range of input production traits and value-added quality traits. Established field research capabilities across Western and Eastern Canada include a canola breeding station and global trait research facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and a corn breeding station at St. Mary’s Ontario. Significant research and commercial development alliances in Canada include the National Research Council’s Plan Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon, and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

Dow AgroSciences Canada Inc. is an affiliate of Dow AgroSciences LLC, a $3.4-billion global company based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dow AgroSciences LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company. For more information visit www.dowagro.ca.

Dow AgroSciences looks at participation with ASTech as a key investment in the well-being of our community. Society is an enormous beneficiary of the outputs of science and technology, but often, these benefits are just taken for granted. ASTech inspires us to sit up and take notice, and afford us the opportunity to celebrate some of the astounding efforts and results that the technologists and scientists of our region are realizing every day.

CMG Reservoir Simulation Foundation (Foundation CMG) supports professors’ and students’ leading edge research in computer simulation and modelling flow of liquids and gases and bio-chemical reactions in the earth. Improving technology and reducing negative impacts: CO2 sequestration, oil and gas production, in-situ recovery and other processes with advanced 4D dynamic visualization. Exciting opportunities for engineers and scientists exploring CO2, oil and gas recovery, coalbed methane, in-situ oilsands, environment remediation and other technologies. Foundation CMG is an industry endowed not-for-profit organization and sponsors researchers and students in universities in Alberta and around the world.

Foundation CMG: Investing in ASTech to celebrate excellence, inspire research teams and expand awareness.

Fugro Data Solutions is part of the global Fugro group of companies and specializes in management of upstream oil and gas data. Fugro Data Solutions provides commercial software and consulting services for master data management systems, stores, copies, archives and outsources the management of petrotechnical data. Globally Fugro provides the people, equipment, expertise and technology that support the exploration, development, production and transportation of the world's natural resources. Fugro's organizational structure is decentralized and client-oriented, delivering a wide range of services in a variety of operating environments and conditions to clients in the oil and gas industry; construction industry; mining sector; and governments. Fugro delivers these services from a global network of offices and facilities with over 255 companies in 55 countries employing over 13,500 staff.

Fugro strives to achieve strong market positions based on (in-house) developed technologies, high-value services and a strong international or regional presence and provides its clients with the technical data and information required to design, construct and maintain structures and infrastructure in a safe, reliable and efficient manner.

The Government of Alberta works collaboratively to achieve its vision of an innovative and prosperous province where Albertans enjoy a high quality of life built on a healthy environment, a competitive economy and vibrant communities. To this end, the government is committed to making Alberta the most competitive jurisdiction in North America. Our ongoing support for science and technology will help Alberta maintain a leadership role in the global economy, and attract and develop world class researchers, learners, leaders and innovators. Through support for our world class post secondary education system, Campus Alberta, and the world class research and innovation efforts of Alberta Innovates, we will transform our economy. Our people are naturally entrepreneurial, and our great Alberta spirit will do the rest.

The Alberta government proudly celebrates outstanding achievement within Alberta’s science and technology community and supports the role of science and technology in our next generation economy.

KPMG is well qualified to serve the needs of technology companies. We have the necessary resources and in-depth experience to help producers of technology products and services succeed in today’s dynamic business environment. As an industry thought leader, we provide long-range vision, astute insights, and innovative professional service strategies to help leading companies stay at the top of their markets. Our role is to help businesses sustain their success by minimizing risk and transforming opportunities into clear and powerful results.

KPMG LLP is the Canadian member firm of KPMG International, the coordinating entity for a global network of professional services firms, providing audit, tax, and advisory services, with an industry focus. The aim of KPMG International member firms is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of their clients, people, and the capital markets. With nearly 94,000 people worldwide, member firms provide audit, tax, and advisory services from 717 cities in 148 countries.

KPMG chooses to continue our investment in ASTech to evidence our firm’s commitment to supporting and celebrating the many science and technology successes in Alberta.

NAIT is one of the preeminent institutes of technology in Canada, known for student success, with 134,000 alumni worldwide. With more accredited programs than any other similar institute in Canada, it provides real-world education in business, advanced technologies and skilled trades to more than 86,500 customers annually at 15 locations in Alberta and in 23 countries around the world.

NAIT also engages with business and industry in applied research and innovation and provides corporate training. The institution offers 1,650 programs and courses, with 6,000 graduates receiving degrees, applied degrees, diplomas, certificates or journeyman certification every year. A Top 35 employer in Alberta, the institute also has the largest diploma-granting business school in western Canada and offers a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration as well as Alberta's only Technology Management degree. It trains more apprentices than anyone in Canada, including 50 per cent of trades people in Alberta and 17 per cent nationally. NAIT is home to Canada's first commercial fuel cell, has a business incubator for inventors and entrepreneurs and accesses research grants through NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada). In addition, six new world-class centres for various technologies have been opened in the past five years and two more are in the works.

SAIT’s record-setting graduate employment rate of 97 per cent this year is a result of the polytechnic’s relationships with employers.
Faculty work with more than 150 external organizations and benefit from the guidance of 1,000 industry professionals on advisory committees.

The polytechnic’s seven Centres of Technology, many unique in Canada, were designed and built in association with employers.

SAIT’s Applied Research and Innovation Services is industry's point of contact for institutional expertise and resources for innovative projects—projects that enable the advancement and adoption of technology in industry.

SAIT Polytechnic excels in delivering relevant, skill-oriented education to more than 76,000 registrants annually. SAIT offers four applied degrees, 62 diploma and certificate programs, 33 apprenticeship trades and 2,000 continuing education and customized business and industry courses.

For more than 30 years, Syncrude has been responsibly producing crude oil from the oil sands of Alberta. And for 45 years, research and development have played a large role in shaping the company’s success; it now produces enough crude oil to meet 15% of Canada’s needs, is a major contributor to Alberta’s economy, and is poised for further growth that is executed in a sustainable way. Syncrude operates the oil sands industry’s only dedicated research and development centre, and, in the last five years alone, has spent more than $200 million to find new or improved ways to operate and reduce its impact on the environment. As well, Syncrude collaborates with many universities and research institutes, and is a founding member of the Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development.

TELUS Corporation is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country. We provide a wide range of wireline and wireless telecommunications products and services including data, Internet Protocol (IP), voice, video and entertainment services.
Our strategy is to unleash the power of the Internet to deliver the best solutions to Canadians at home, in the workplace and on the move.
We’ve recently undergone a remarkable transformation. In just seven short years, we’ve nearly tripled our enterprise value to $27 billion (Cdn) making TELUS one of the world’s best performing telecoms.

TRLabs is Canada's largest and most industry-invested information and communications technology (ICT) R&D consortium. TRLabs fast tracks innovation to market by working with its industry partners to discover, develop and commercialize technology. TRLabs is also working closely with universities and colleges to transform its traditional R&D agenda toward a market driven commercialization process starting with a market need and including business and technology assessments, applied research, proof of concept, prototyping and technology transfer. TRLabs allows students and graduates from all ICT related disciplines to work with local and global industry players who are interested in innovation. Applied Research, Development and Commercialization activity focuses on three themes: Digital Media; eHealth; and Strategic Sectors. TRLabs also pursues more creative innovation vehicles, which has resulted in Javelin - a Tech Comm and Entrepreneurship program that combines market driven technology ideas, talented recent graduates, and industry mentors to create technology companies.

The University of Alberta is the largest research institution in the province serving nearly 37,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate programs and 170 graduate programs. As one of Canada’s top universities for external funding, it received approximately $490 million in sponsored research in 2007-08. The University’s international reputation continues to grow with its leading-edge achievements such as “Edmonton Protocol” treatment for Type 1 diabetes; the pioneering work of the National Institute for Nanotechnology; and the world’s first antiviral treatment for hepatitis B. Since 1994, University researchers have reported more than 1,260 inventions, received 393 patents, generated more than $33 million in licensing and royalties revenue. The University (through TEC Edmonton) currently has 71 active spin-off companies. Our students learn from some of the brightest scholars in the country and the best teachers; the University of Alberta leads the country in the number of 3M Teaching Fellowships – Canada’s top award for undergraduate university teaching excellence. In 2007, twelve University of Alberta professors were named as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, which is the highest national academic honour for scholars, artists and scientists.

The University of Calgary reflects the community that created and supports it—dynamic, innovative and energetic. As one of Canada’s leading research universities, these qualities are at the heart of all we do. The U of C has significantly increased its research funding to $252.5 million, which ranks seventh in Canada, and is continuing to move ahead.

A leader in research, the University of Lethbridge is a place where world-renowned researchers collaborate amongst the disciplines to address issues of global concern and to provide applicable solutions. For example, in 2005, the United Nations (UN) named the University of Lethbridge the Canadian centre for its Water for Life decade (2005 to 2015) in recognition of the leadership role the institution has taken in water research. The University is also home to the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience – a world-class facility where Canada’s leading behavioural neuroscience group sheds new light on the brain and behaviour.

Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) invested more than $43 million towards 33 innovation projects across the West in 2009-10. This leveraged an additional $53 million from a variety of partners, including provincial and municipal governments, universities, research institutes, industry and not-for-profit organizations.

Western Economic Diversification Canada recognizes the ASTech Foundation as a supporter of Alberta’s growing innovation sector – contributing to a more competitive and diversified economy.