{ "generated": "2026-08-26", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "source": "https://github.com/EthanCratchley/SFU-techmap", "counts": { "total": 212, "startups": 50, "funding": 15, "programs": 10, "clubs": 20, "labs": 92, "events": 25, "studentAlumni": 14, "research": 7 }, "startups": [ { "name": "9Teese", "one_liner": "A proximity social app for seeing who is nearby and open to talk, and browsing local posts.", "vertical": "consumer", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/9teese/id6766099324", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/9teese/id6766099324" ], "source_note": "Filed against the App Store listing because the company publishes no website: no DNS records exist for 9teese.com, .ca, .io or the spelled-out variants. The listing names the developer and shows the app is used at SFU, but the SFU mentions on it are user reviews rather than a statement by the developer, so they evidence adoption on campus and not a founder tie. The founder tie itself is asserted by the maintainer from direct knowledge." }, { "name": "A&K Robotics", "one_liner": "A&K Robotics has developed a navigation system that transforms manually operated industrial machines into self-driving robots", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.aandkrobotics.com", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/ak-robotics/", "https://www.aandkrobotics.com" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-04-22. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "ADG Tech", "one_liner": "ADG Tech Solutions Inc. operates in the digital transformation and technology consulting space", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://adgonline.ca/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/adg-tech/", "https://adgonline.ca/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-07-31. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Alectos Therapeutics", "one_liner": "Discovery and preclinical development of small-molecule therapeutics for neurological disease.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://www.alectos.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.bctechnology.com/news/2010/8/19/SFU-Spin-Off-Targets-Alzheimers-with-Merck-Partnership.cfm", "https://alectos.com/alectos-content/index.php/company/" ], "source_note": "Co-founded by David Vocadlo, professor in SFU chemistry and molecular biology and biochemistry; the technology builds on work by him and his graduate students. The SFU News item on the Merck partnership now returns 403, so this is filed against a mirror of it plus the company own company page. Liveness is the thinnest of the included set: the newest date on its own site is March 2025." }, { "name": "Avo", "one_liner": "Deploys AI agents that monitor, analyse, and trade crypto markets continuously.", "vertical": "web3", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2024, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://www.avo.so/", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://frontrow.ventures/companies/", "https://www.avo.so/" ], "source_note": "The SFU tie is sourced rather than asserted, which it was not when this entry was first added. Front Row Ventures, a student venture fund that invests only where a founding team member is an enrolled student, names Avo in its portfolio as founded 2024 by Anjali Dhaliwal, Souren Khetcho and Nikita Oleckho, attributes it to Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, and links avo.so. That is a public page establishing both the founder tie and the student status the affiliation records. Note for future passes that this is a different company from the several other firms trading as Avo, none of which has an SFU connection." }, { "name": "Bionic Power", "one_liner": "Lower-body smart orthoses; its Agilik device assists people with knee-related gait deficiencies.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2006, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://www.bionic-power.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty/andy-hoffer.html", "https://www.bionic-power.com" ], "source_note": "Founded by a team including SFU biomedical physiology and kinesiology faculty. The tie is real but thinner than the other spinouts here: SFU own page uses the phrase SFU spin-off for two other companies by the same founder and not for this one, the company site names no founders and never mentions SFU, and sources disagree on whether it was founded in 2006 or 2007. Liveness is borderline: the newest item on its own site is October 2024. The company merged with Agilik in 2021 and moved from energy harvesting to gait assistance, so older descriptions of it are out of date." }, { "name": "BryoSphere Biotechnologies", "one_liner": "BryoSphere Biotechnologies uses moss plants and biotechnology techniques to synthesize rare, plant-derived specialty compounds", "vertical": "synbio", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://bryosphere.ca/home", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/bryosphere-biotechnologies/", "https://bryosphere.ca/home" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-07-21. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Building-Bloc Systems Inc.", "one_liner": "Transforming Canadian and global healthcare supply chains Building Bloc microfactories supply essential medical devices, consumables, and", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://building-bloc.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/building-bloc/", "https://building-bloc.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-05-06. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Curava", "one_liner": "Surfaces alerts, anomalies, and next steps across advertising accounts in one place.", "vertical": "enterprise_saas", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://curava.ca", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://curava.ca" ], "source_note": "The weakest founder tie in this section, and recorded that way rather than smoothed over. A co-founder is identifiable as an SFU computing science student from his own GitHub bio, SFU coursework, and an archived profile naming SFU. What is missing is a single page naming both Curava and SFU: the company site links neither founder profile, and the other co-founder has no SFU evidence at all. Included because the founder tie itself is sourced; a reader should know the join between founder and company is inference." }, { "name": "DaoAI", "one_liner": "Every day, products of different sizes, shapes or materials are being processed, but the traditional automation technology for bin picking", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.daoai.ca/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/dao-ai/", "https://www.daoai.ca/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-02-26. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Eureka DevSecOps", "one_liner": "Eureka DevSecOps transforms application security from chaos into clarity", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.eurekadevsecops.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/eureka-devsecops/", "https://www.eurekadevsecops.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-03-19. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Fusion Genomics", "one_liner": "Fusion Genomics is a molecular diagnostics company focused on transforming infectious disease through advanced genomic technologies", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.fusiongenomics.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/fusion-genomics/", "https://www.fusiongenomics.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-12-09. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "hannahHR", "one_liner": "hannahHR is a Canadian AI-powered HR support platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses streamline people operations and improve", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.hannahhr.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/hannahhr/", "https://www.hannahhr.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-08-18. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Human in Motion Robotics", "one_liner": "XoMotion, a self-balancing lower-limb exoskeleton that lets people with mobility impairments stand and walk unaided.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "series_a", "founded_year": 2016, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://humaninmotion.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2023/11/xomotion-created-by-sfu-researchers-to-be-world-s-most-advanced-.html", "https://humaninmotion.com" ], "source_note": "Founded by Siamak Arzanpour and Edward Park, both professors in SFU School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering; the company own site records that early prototypes were built at SFU before it formed. Liveness: CES 2025 award, first commercial sale, and an IEEE Spectrum cover story in June 2025. The series A rests on third-party reporting rather than a company page." }, { "name": "INETCO Systems Ltd.", "one_liner": "INETCO is a global provider of real-time payment fraud detection and prevention solutions, as well as cybersecurity solutions, for the", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.inetco.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/inetco-systems-ltd/", "https://www.inetco.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-02-26. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Internet Backyard", "one_liner": "Building financial infrastructure for the compute economy.", "vertical": "fintech", "stage": "pre_seed", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "alumni_founded", "website": "https://www.internetbackyard.com", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/internet-backyard", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://betakit.com/she-tried-to-build-vancouvers-y-combinator-why-did-she-leave-to-build-a-us-startup-instead/", "https://www.internetbackyard.com" ], "source_note": "Co-founded by Mai Trinh, an SFU undergraduate graduate, per a report that states it directly. Liveness: a 4.5 million dollar raise announced in December 2025 and a live site. The company relocated from Vancouver to San Francisco in late 2025; the criteria in SPEC.md 5.1 turn on the founder tie rather than location, so it is included and the move is recorded here." }, { "name": "Ionomr Innovations", "one_liner": "Advanced ion-exchange membranes and polymers for hydrogen production and carbon-neutral technologies.", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "series_a", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://ionomr.com", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2024/04/sfu-professor-and-alumnus-win-governor-general-s-innovation-awar.html", "https://ionomr.com" ], "source_note": "Co-founded by Steven Holdcroft, SFU chemistry professor, whose group is listed separately in the labs section, and Ben Britton, an SFU alumnus who did his PhD in that lab. Both faculty and alumni ties are defensible; faculty spinout is the better-evidenced because SFU own page anchors the technology in Holdcroft group. Britton may have still been a PhD student at formation, which would make this student-founded, but the page carrying that could not be fetched, so it is left unset rather than guessed. Liveness is the weakest of the verified set: own press releases stop in June 2025." }, { "name": "Kinitics Automation", "one_liner": "Based in Vancouver, Canada, Kinitics Automation has its origins firmly entrenched in the automotive and power-generation sectors", "vertical": "hardware", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://kiniticsautomation.com/about-us/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/kinitics-automation/", "https://kiniticsautomation.com/about-us/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-02-04. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "LōD Technologies Inc.", "one_liner": "LōD Technologies is a Vancouver-based technology company focused on serving today’s most demanding sectors: energy, compute and artificial", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://lod.io/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/lod-technologies-inc/", "https://lod.io/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-09-08. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver. Link check flagged this: page never mentions \"LōD Technologies Inc.\"." }, { "name": "Lungpacer Medical", "one_liner": "The AeroPace neurostimulation system restores independent breathing and helps wean patients off ventilators by pacing the diaphragm.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2009, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://lungpacer.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty/andy-hoffer.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2025/08/lungpacer-medical-from-university-invention-to-lifesaving-innovation.html", "https://lungpacer.com" ], "source_note": "Founded in May 2009 by Andy Hoffer, SFU professor of biomedical physiology and kinesiology; SFU own faculty page calls it an SFU spin-off in those words. Liveness: FDA premarket approval in December 2024 and a CMS payment approval in the FY2026 rule." }, { "name": "Menuro", "one_liner": "A done-for-you growth system for quick-service restaurants, covering branded apps and marketing.", "vertical": "enterprise_saas", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2025, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://menuro.io/", "linkedin": "https://ca.linkedin.com/company/menuro-restaurant-technologies", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://menuro.io/" ], "source_note": "The SFU tie is asserted by the maintainer from direct knowledge and is not stated on any public page. The company names no founder anywhere that could be fetched, its about page redirects to the homepage, and the site carries no mention of SFU, so there is no education record available to check." }, { "name": "MetaOptima Technology", "one_liner": "DermEngine skin analytics software and the MoleScope smartphone dermoscope for intelligent dermatology.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "alumni_founded", "website": "https://www.metaoptima.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Sadeghi", "https://www.metaoptima.com" ], "source_note": "Co-founded by Maryam Sadeghi, who holds a PhD in computing science from SFU in medical image analysis and received an SFU Dean Convocation Medal. SFU has a directly relevant alumni story about the company but it returned 401 and could not be read, so this is filed against a secondary source and the company site. Liveness: a product blog post dated January 2026." }, { "name": "Moment Energy", "one_liner": "Battery energy storage for commercial and industrial customers, built from repurposed electric-vehicle batteries.", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "growth", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "alumni_founded", "website": "https://www.momentenergy.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/news-events/news/2026/07/fas-alumni-startup-moment-energy-opens-world-s-largest-ev-batter.html", "https://www.momentenergy.com" ], "source_note": "Founded by four graduates of SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences. SFU own wording is graduates rather than students, so student-founded is recorded false; reports that the founders met in a Chang Institute capstone as students would support otherwise but were not on a page that could be fetched. Liveness: opened its first megafactory in June 2026. Also a member company of SFU VentureLabs, but the alumni tie is the stronger and is what is recorded." }, { "name": "MVMTLAB", "one_liner": "MVMTLAB NEXUS is a research engine for human performance optimization based on the principle of somatic engineering", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.mvmtlab.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/mvmtlab/", "https://www.mvmtlab.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-09-02. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "NANOSentinel", "one_liner": "NANOSentinel is a B2B Platform as a Service Company", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://nanosentinel.ca/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/nanosentinel/", "https://nanosentinel.ca/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-08-26. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "NellaDerm Therapeutics", "one_liner": "NellaDerm Therapeutics is a pioneering health-tech company advancing the treatment of skin inflammation through the synergistic power of", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.nelladerm.com", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/nelladerm-therapeutics/", "https://www.nelladerm.com" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-11-17. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "NeuroCatch", "one_liner": "The NeuroCatch Platform measures cognitive brain function objectively at the point of care in about six minutes.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://www.neurocatch.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/engineering/faculty-and-staff/faculty/ryan_darcy.html", "https://www.neurocatch.com/about/" ], "source_note": "Co-founded by Ryan D Arcy, listed as a current professor in SFU School of Engineering Science. No SFU page names the company, so the tie is a chain: SFU lists him as faculty and the company names him as co-founder. He is dual-appointed at SFU and UBC, so the SFU tie is real but not exclusive. Entered in place of its parent HealthTech Connex, whose site answers 200 while serving only a maintenance placeholder." }, { "name": "Novem Digital", "one_liner": "Novem Digital is a software platform that helps institutional real estate owners predict and prevent building failures before they happen", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.novemdigital.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/novem-digital/", "https://www.novemdigital.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-04-13. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "NZ Technologies Inc.", "one_liner": "NZ Technologies Inc. (NZTech) is a Vancouver-based technology innovation company advancing Human-Machine Interaction through intuitive", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.nztech.ca/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/nz_technologies/", "https://www.nztech.ca/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-01-23. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Otis Dynamics", "one_liner": "A hardware-first robotics startup building dexterous humanoid systems for retail operations.", "vertical": "hardware", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2026, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://otisdynamics.ca/", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/otis-dynamics/", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://otisdynamics.ca/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/otis-dynamics/" ], "source_note": "The company own team page labels its five people founders and leads, and every one lists an SFU major: mechatronic systems engineering, computing science, political science. The site is a single-page app, so that team data is in its script bundle rather than the HTML. Liveness: posts within the last month and a domain registered in May 2026. Its FAQ answers yes to whether it is hiring; that is research rather than a form submission, so the hiring flag stays false." }, { "name": "Photonic Inc.", "one_liner": "Commercial-scale quantum computers and quantum networks built on silicon spin qubits linked by telecom photons.", "vertical": "deep_tech", "stage": "growth", "founded_year": 2016, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "faculty_spinout", "website": "https://photonic.com", "student_founded": false, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2026/06/sfu-s-innovation-ecosystem-drives-spinoff-success.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/news-events/news/2025/Photonic-UK-Investment.html", "https://photonic.com" ], "source_note": "Founded by Stephanie Simmons, associate professor in SFU Physics and principal investigator of the Silicon Quantum Technology Lab, which is listed separately in the labs section. SFU names it a spinoff and quotes her on SFU policy letting creators retain IP. Liveness: own newsroom item dated 2026-08-25." }, { "name": "PhyCo Technologies", "one_liner": "Marine biotechnology company farming seaweed and manufacturing compostable plastics in partnership with Indigenous Nations.", "vertical": "synbio", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2022, "campus_zone": "surrey", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://www.phyco.ca/", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/phyco-technologies-inc/", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2023/04/sfu-student-startup-turns-seaweed-into-bioplastic.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/startups/Current.html", "https://www.phyco.ca/" ], "source_note": "SFU News describes it as co-founded by an SFU biology graduate student who also did her undergraduate degree at SFU. Confirmed in the Chang Institute current incubator cohort, which is why the zone is Surrey. Liveness: a grant announced in August 2026 and a post within the fortnight. Its roughly 500,000 dollars raised is explicitly non-dilutive, so no stage is claimed." }, { "name": "ProveIt", "one_liner": "Helps companies evaluate real technical skills through practical, role-based assessments.", "vertical": "enterprise_saas", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2025, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://proveit.me/", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/proveithq", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://proveit.me/" ], "source_note": "The SFU tie is asserted by the maintainer from direct knowledge of the company and is not stated on any public page: proveit.me and its about, team and company pages carry no mention of SFU, and no founder is named on the site. A prior research pass found an SFU computing science undergraduate listing ProveIt among his projects rather than his experience, which is a contributor signal and not a founder one. Recorded so a reader can see exactly what backs it; a public page naming a founder would settle it." }, { "name": "QuantPillar", "one_liner": "At QuantPillar we replace the manual grind of disconnected legacy systems and spreadsheets with a predictive engine that connects your raw", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://quantpillar.com", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/quantpillar/", "https://quantpillar.com" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-11-18. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Riipen", "one_liner": "Riipen is a work-based learning platform helping educators, organizations, and learners collaborate on real industry projects to bridge the", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.riipen.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/riipen-2/", "https://www.riipen.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-08-18. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Shift Coastal Technologies", "one_liner": "We build autonomous systems for maritime operations", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://shiftcoastaltechnologies.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/shift-coastal-technologies/", "https://shiftcoastaltechnologies.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-06-02. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Sigen AI", "one_liner": "Sigen AI is a Vancouver-based company unlocking the hidden value of video footage through privacy-preserving AI", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://sigen.ai/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/sigen-ai/", "https://sigen.ai/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-04-15. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Simmunome", "one_liner": "A generative AI platform combining mechanistic modelling and machine learning to simulate drug target efficacy and safety.", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "founded_year": 2022, "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://www.simmunome.com/", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://frontrow.ventures/companies/", "https://www.simmunome.com/" ], "source_note": "Found through the Front Row Ventures portfolio, which names it as founded in 2022 by Armstrong Murira and Nardin Nakhla and attributes it to Simon Fraser University and McGill. Front Row invests only where a founding team member is an enrolled student, which is what carries the student-founded value. Liveness: the company site responds and describes a current product." }, { "name": "SISA Energy", "one_liner": "SISA Energy is the only collaborative platform that combines human-made and automated solutions with data-driven insights, intelligent", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://sisa.energy/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/sisa-energy/", "https://sisa.energy/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-01-15. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "SkyScouter", "one_liner": "SkyScouter is a Port Coquitlam-based company redefining long-endurance drone operations through hybrid gas-electric power", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://skyscouter.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/skyscouter/", "https://skyscouter.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-04-28. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Snapy", "one_liner": "Helps consignment and second-hand stores get discovered by locals on Google, Google Shopping, and AI assistants.", "vertical": "enterprise_saas", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://snapy.pro", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://snapy.pro" ], "source_note": "The founder own portfolio states he is a computing science and geography student at SFU expecting to graduate in 2027. He is linked to Snapy through a customer named on both his CV and the company site rather than by a page naming both directly, so the tie is a two-step chain and is recorded as such. Liveness: blog posts in June and July 2026." }, { "name": "Spexi Geospatial", "one_liner": "Aerial footage with the press of a button", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://spexigeo.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/spexi-geospatial/", "https://spexigeo.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-09-02. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver. Link check flagged this: redirected to https://www.spexi.com/." }, { "name": "Subvision Robotics", "one_liner": "Building ZIMA, a hull-climbing subsea rover designed to prevent early-stage biofouling on commercial ship hulls.", "vertical": "hardware", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://subvision.ca/", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/subvision-engineering/", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://subvision.ca/", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/subvision-engineering/" ], "source_note": "A James Dyson Award 2026 entry names the creator and gives Simon Fraser University as the institution. Its own contributors page records 5,500 dollars from the SFU School of Engineering Science for 2024 to 2025 student project development, a prize from SFU Opportunity Fest, and Chang Institute incubator backing; the registered address is SFU Burnaby, which is why the zone is a campus faculty rather than off-campus. Founding year is left unset because sources conflict between 2023 and March 2024 and its own site states none." }, { "name": "ThisFish Inc.", "one_liner": "ThisFish Inc. is a software and artificial intelligence company whose mission is to improve the profitability and sustainability of the", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://this.fish/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/thisfish-inc/", "https://this.fish/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-02-26. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "TMed Technology", "one_liner": "TMed Technology is a Canadian MedTech company building an integrated precision sleep-health ecosystem that connects sleep diagnostics, PAP", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.tmedtechnology.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/tmed-technology/", "https://www.tmedtechnology.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-08-17. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Torus Biomedical Solutions Inc.", "one_liner": "Torus Biomedical has developed a ‘smart’ radiology technology that helps orthopedic surgeons effectively evaluate alignments during", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "http://www.torusbiomedical.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/torus-biomedical-solutions-inc/", "http://www.torusbiomedical.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-09-18. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "TP7 AI & Robotics", "one_liner": "TP7 AI & Robotics develops physical spatial AI-powered dual-arm mobile robotic solutions for dual-use applications in manufacturing and", "vertical": "ai_application", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://tp7.ai/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/tp7-ai-robotics/", "https://tp7.ai/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-08-26. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "ViewsML", "one_liner": "ViewsML is a digital health company revolutionizing spatial biology for translational research and companion diagnostics (CDx) using AI", "vertical": "health", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.viewsml.com/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/viewsml/", "https://www.viewsml.com/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2025-02-26. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver. Link check flagged this: page never mentions \"ViewsML\"." }, { "name": "WAAi", "one_liner": "WAAi helps real estate developers make faster, better decisions by connecting design, finance, regulatory, market, and carbon data into one", "vertical": "climate", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "accelerator", "website": "https://www.waai.ca/", "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/companies/waai/", "https://www.waai.ca/" ], "source_note": "In an SFU accelerator with no founder tie established, which is what the accelerator affiliation records and all it records. SFU VentureLabs states on its own site that it welcomes companies across BC, not just SFU-related startups, so membership is not evidence of a founder, alumni, or licensing tie. Liveness: the company site responds and the accelerator record was last edited 2026-07-02. Zone is off-campus because no company address was established; the accelerator itself is at SFU Vancouver." }, { "name": "Zeuron", "one_liner": "A non-invasive neural interface brand for games, learning, and wellbeing.", "vertical": "hardware", "stage": "unknown", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "sfu_affiliation": "student_founded", "website": "https://www.zeuron.io/", "student_founded": true, "hiring": false, "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.zeuron.io/" ], "source_note": "The SFU tie is asserted by the maintainer from direct knowledge. What is public is weaker and points elsewhere: the company displays an SFU Chang Institute logo in its own supporters strip, but it appears in none of SFU Chang current, Chang alumni, or VentureLabs listings, and its team is centred on Dalhousie University. A prior pass recommended against listing it on that basis, so the maintainer assertion is what carries this entry." } ], "funding": [ { "name": "BC Centre for Agritech Innovation Agritech Development Program", "type": "university_fund", "stage_focus": "Product development and market entry for farmers, producers, and small and medium enterprises in agritech.", "check_size": "Up to 250,000 dollars, matched: the applicant contributes 25,000 to 250,000 dollars cash against a total project budget of 50,000 to 500,000 dollars.", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/agritech-innovation/programs/agritech-development-program.html", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/agritech-innovation/programs/agritech-development-program.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/agritech-innovation/programs/agritech-development-program/who-can-apply.html" ], "source_note": "Based at SFU Burnaby. No deadline, intake, or rolling statement is published on either the programme or eligibility page, so the cadence is unknown." }, { "name": "Charles Chang Institute Idea Prize", "type": "student_fund", "stage_focus": "Idea and pre-seed: under one year of operations, under 5,000 dollars revenue, and under 25,000 dollars raised.", "check_size": "Five equity-free cash awards totalling 14,250 dollars: 5,000 top prize, 2,500 first runner up, 1,250 second runner up, 2,500 Thomas Kineshanko Memorial Entrepreneurial Prize, 2,500 Patrick Lougheed Alumni Founder Award.", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/idea-prize.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/idea-prize.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/new---publications/2026/IdeaPrize2026.html" ], "source_note": "Requires at least 25 percent of ownership held by a member of the SFU community. The 2026 finals were held 2026-03-31. This is the only student-facing venture prize found at SFU; its predecessor, the Coast Capital Venture Prize, is retired and its page returns 500." }, { "name": "CIHR Commercialization Projects", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Open to applicants across all areas of health research, moving findings toward commercial application.", "check_size": "Not published. The SFU Technology Licensing Office listing states no specific investment is allocated.", "website": "https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/50439.html", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators/funding-resources.html", "https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/50439.html" ], "source_note": "A federal programme, listed by SFU as a route open to its researchers. Biannual intakes in February or March and August or September. No amount is published, which the SFU listing states outright rather than omitting." }, { "name": "Front Row Ventures", "type": "student_fund", "stage_focus": "Pre-seed and first money in, for startups with at least one student on the founding team.", "check_size": "50,000 dollars through a SAFE.", "website": "https://frontrow.ventures/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://frontrow.ventures/", "https://frontrow.ventures/companies/", "https://frontrow.ventures/team/" ], "source_note": "Qualifies on an explicit student mandate: its own site states it invests where at least one founding team member is an enrolled student, and lists British Columbia among the provinces it is active in. Supporting rather than qualifying evidence: its portfolio names two SFU companies, Avo in 2024 and Simmunome in 2022, and six SFU students appear on its own team page including three BC investment associates. The 50,000 dollar figure is the fund own; third-party aggregators say 25,000, and only the fund own figure is used here. Its site returns 403 to a plain request and 200 to a browser, so a naive link check will call it dead." }, { "name": "Futurpreneur Canada", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Pre-seed to early stage, for founders aged 18 to 39.", "check_size": "Up to 25,000 dollars from Futurpreneur, or up to 75,000 dollars combined with a BDC co-loan of up to 50,000.", "website": "https://futurpreneur.ca/en/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://futurpreneur.ca/en/", "https://futurpreneur.ca/en/offering/core-startup/" ], "source_note": "A national startup lender whose eligibility is age-based rather than student-based: applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents aged 18 to 39, with no enrolment requirement. Most SFU student and recent-graduate founders fall inside that band, which is the basis for listing it. It publishes no borrower list, so SFU-specific investment cannot be shown." }, { "name": "Genome BC Pilot Innovation Fund", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Proof of concept through prototype or business development in genomics-related work.", "check_size": "Up to 250,000 dollars over up to 12 months.", "website": "https://www.genomebc.ca/funding", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators/funding-resources.html", "https://www.genomebc.ca/funding" ], "source_note": "A provincial funder, listed by SFU as a route open to its researchers, with an annual September intake. Filed against the funder general funding page because the specific Pilot Innovation Fund page SFU links returns 404, as do three other plausible paths for it. Whether the programme has been retired or merely moved could not be established, so the amount and cadence here come from SFU listing and should be re-checked before anyone relies on them." }, { "name": "Health Research BC Innovation to Commercialization", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Technology readiness level three to six at entry, for health research moving toward commercialization.", "check_size": "Phase I up to 150,000 dollars a year for up to two years; Phase II up to 75,000 dollars a year for up to two years.", "website": "https://www.healthresearchbc.ca/program/innovation-to-commercialization/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators/funding-resources.html", "https://www.healthresearchbc.ca/program/innovation-to-commercialization/" ], "source_note": "A provincial programme, listed by SFU as a route open to its researchers. Annual intake in January, but the SFU listing currently marks it closed for re-evaluation, so it is included as a real programme that is not presently open. The URL SFU lists redirects; the canonical address is used here." }, { "name": "Innovate BC Ignite", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Technology readiness level three to four and above, for research partnerships addressing industry problems.", "check_size": "Up to 300,000 dollars over up to three years.", "website": "https://www.innovatebc.ca/programs/ignite", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators/funding-resources.html", "https://www.innovatebc.ca/programs/ignite" ], "source_note": "A provincial programme, listed by SFU as a route open to its researchers. Annual intake in June." }, { "name": "Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Incorporated startups owned and managed by student or postdoctoral entrepreneurs and housed at an approved incubator.", "check_size": "Internships valued at 15,000 dollars each, 7,500 from Mitacs and 7,500 from the partner. Through SFU eGrad the Mitacs share is 6,500 dollars.", "website": "https://www.mitacs.ca/our-programs/accelerate-entrepreneur/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.mitacs.ca/our-programs/accelerate-entrepreneur/", "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/egrad.html", "https://www.mitacs.ca/about/" ], "source_note": "Qualifies on an explicit student mandate: open to undergraduate, graduate, college, and postdoctoral entrepreneurs. The SFU route is direct and current, with the Chang Institute eGrad page carrying a Mitacs Accelerate Entrepreneur section and stating the collaboration. The type is the least-wrong of the five available: Mitacs is a national not-for-profit funded by the federal government and every province rather than a government body itself, and no enum value describes that." }, { "name": "New Ventures BC Competition", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Pre-seed to seed, for British Columbia technology startups.", "check_size": "A share of roughly 250,000 dollars in cash and prizes.", "website": "https://www.newventuresbc.com/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.newventuresbc.com/", "https://www.newventuresbc.com/discover-sfus-programs-for-tech-entrepreneurs/" ], "source_note": "A province-wide competition, 26 years old, open to BC technology startups and therefore to SFU founders. New Ventures BC has published a page on SFU programmes for tech entrepreneurs, though it dates from 2018 and the SFU companies it names are of that vintage. No SFU attribution appears in the 2023 to 2025 winners, so the recent SFU record is not demonstrable from public information. It awards prizes rather than investing, which is why the type is government rather than vc." }, { "name": "NSERC Idea to Innovation", "type": "government", "stage_focus": "Market assessment, reduction to practice, and technology enhancement of university research toward commercialization.", "check_size": "By phase: up to 15,000 dollars market assessment; 20,000 Lab2Market pilot; 125,000 Phase I; 60,000 Phase Ib; 125,000 Phase IIa; 350,000 Phase IIb.", "website": "https://nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-opportunity/idea-innovation-grants", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators/funding-resources.html", "https://nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-opportunity/idea-innovation-grants" ], "source_note": "A federal programme, not an SFU one. Included because SFU Technology Licensing Office publishes it as a route open to SFU researchers, which is the SFU tie; the zone records that it is not an SFU site. The URL SFU lists redirects to canada.ca, and the canonical address is used here instead." }, { "name": "SFU Innovates Venture Fund", "type": "university_fund", "stage_focus": "Early-stage companies in life sciences, deep technology, and cleantech, from SFU researchers, students, and alumni.", "check_size": "Fund size 20M dollars: 7.5M from SFU matched by 7.5M from InBC for 15M initial capital, with a further 5M sought. Per-investment size not published.", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2026/05/sfu-launches--15m-fund-with-inbc-to-invest-in-spin-off-ventures-.html", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2026/05/sfu-launches--15m-fund-with-inbc-to-invest-in-spin-off-ventures-.html", "https://give.sfu.ca/where-to-give/funds/general/sfu-innovates-venture.html" ], "source_note": "Announced 2026-05-12 and has no site of its own, so this is filed against the SFU News story. No cheque size, ticket range, or ownership target is published anywhere, and no portfolio has been disclosed. Enquiries go to an SFU address." }, { "name": "VANTEC Angel Network", "type": "angel_group", "stage_focus": "Pre-seed to seed, for companies headquartered in British Columbia.", "check_size": "Varies. VANTEC publishes no cheque size: angels invest individually and amounts are not disclosed.", "website": "https://www.vantec.ca/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.vantec.ca/", "https://www.vantec.ca/apply-to-pitch" ], "source_note": "A regional angel group open to any BC-headquartered company, which is how an SFU founder reaches it. Its stated mandate is geographic rather than institutional, and it publishes no portfolio, so repeat investment in SFU ventures cannot be shown either way from public information. Listed as capital reachable from campus rather than as an SFU-mandated fund." }, { "name": "Volker IP Fund", "type": "university_fund", "stage_focus": "Pre-commercialization: the legal cost of pursuing patents or other IP protection on science-based innovation.", "check_size": "Up to 25,000 Canadian dollars, as a repayable award structured as a convertible debenture secured by a general security agreement, repayable in equity, cash, or a combination.", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/volker-ip-fund.html", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/volker-ip-fund.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators/funding-resources.html" ], "source_note": "Not filed against the URL on SFU own funding-resources page, which links sfu.ca/research/volker-ip-fund and returns 404. SFU canonical list of translational funding carries a broken link to SFU own fund." }, { "name": "WUTIF Capital", "type": "vc", "stage_focus": "Pre-seed to seed, in British Columbia ventures including those developed at the province universities.", "check_size": "50,000 to 300,000 dollars.", "website": "https://wutif.ca/", "campus_zone": "off_campus", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://wutif.ca/", "https://wutif.ca/index.php/portfolio/" ], "source_note": "Western Universities Technology Innovation Fund, a BC fund that states it backs ventures such as those developed at the province universities. Its published portfolio names four SFU-linked holdings: Actenum in 2004 and Bionic Power in 2007, both described on that page as SFU spin-offs, plus Human in Motion Robotics and Mesentech in 2019. None of its holdings dated 2023 or later names SFU, so the SFU record is real but historical. The cheque range is the maintainer figure and was not confirmed on the fund own pages." } ], "programs": [ { "name": "Charles Chang Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship", "type": "course_program", "cohort_based": false, "student_focused": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/courses/CertificateIE.html", "application_cadence": "Rolling: students declare the certificate rather than applying to an intake.", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/courses/CertificateIE.html" ], "source_note": "An interdisciplinary, self-paced academic credential accessible to undergraduates from every faculty. From Fall 2026 it requires three core courses, two electives, and a capstone." }, { "name": "Charles Chang Institute Incubator", "type": "incubator", "cohort_based": false, "student_focused": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/incubator.html", "application_cadence": "Rolling: applications received on a continuous basis, entry by invitation after the SPARK programme and an intake panel.", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/incubator.html" ], "source_note": "Formerly Coast Capital Venture Connection. Open to students, staff, faculty, and recent alumni from every faculty; four-month terms extendable up to three years or more. Equity is not published: the page states services are provided at no charge, which is a fee term and not an equity term, so this is recorded as unknown rather than inferred. Second office at the Charles Chang Innovation Centre in Vancouver." }, { "name": "Entrepreneurship Co-op", "type": "course_program", "cohort_based": true, "student_focused": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/ecoop.html", "application_cadence": "Three intakes a year: apply by 4 November for Spring, in February for Summer, and in June for Fall.", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/ecoop.html" ], "source_note": "Up to three places each semester, open to SFU students from any faculty, requiring a minimum of two days a week at the Surrey office. Pays a salary rather than investing capital, so it is filed here rather than as a funding source. Note that SFU own pages state that salary three different ways." }, { "name": "Entrepreneurship Graduate Internship", "type": "course_program", "cohort_based": true, "student_focused": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/egrad.html", "application_cadence": "Annual: reviewed each Spring semester, applications opening mid-January or earlier. The 2026 round is closed.", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/egrad.html" ], "source_note": "One internship a year, open to any SFU graduate student in any Master or PhD programme. Pays a salary rather than investing capital. A Mitacs route is described whose combined figure does not reconcile with the headline salary on the same page." }, { "name": "i2I Research and Innovation Institute", "type": "course_program", "cohort_based": true, "student_focused": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/i2i-research-innovation-institute.html", "application_cadence": "Annual per programme. 2026 deadlines: Commercialization Postdoc 23 February, Faculty Fellows 1 March, Skills Training 30 April early and 15 May final.", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/i2i-research-innovation-institute.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/i2i-research-innovation-institute/training.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/i2i-research-innovation-institute/about.html" ], "source_note": "Delivers Invention to Innovation entrepreneurial training. Audiences are graduate students, postdocs, and faculty rather than undergraduates. Based at SFU Burnaby, with no faculty-specific building, so the zone is the campus catch-all." }, { "name": "Perago by SFU VentureLabs", "type": "accelerator", "cohort_based": false, "student_focused": false, "website": "https://venturelabs.ca/programs-services/perago/", "application_cadence": "Rolling: year-round applications for qualifying startups.", "campus_zone": "vancouver", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/programs-services/perago/", "https://venturelabs.ca/programs-services/scaleup-program/" ], "source_note": "For deeptech and life-sciences ventures moving from seed to Series A. Publishes a fee of 400 dollars plus GST per month. Equity is not stated on the Perago page itself; VentureLabs states elsewhere that it does not take equity, but that claim is made about Scale Up, so it is not carried across here." }, { "name": "RADIUS SFU", "type": "nonprofit", "cohort_based": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/radius.html", "application_cadence": "No programme currently open: BUILD intake paused, Reimagine Health on pause, and two further programmes closed.", "campus_zone": "vancouver", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/radius.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/radius/about.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/radius/programs/equity-centred-accelerator/build/about.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/radius/programs/health-equity-action-lab.html" ], "source_note": "Self-described as a social innovation hub and consultancy. The organisation is active, with posts through 2026, but every programme it lists as current is closed to applicants. Student eligibility is unresolved between its own pages: the about page claims experiential learning programmes for SFU students, while no live programme page states SFU-student eligibility and BUILD criteria are community-based. Based at the Charles Chang Innovation Centre, 308 West Hastings Street." }, { "name": "SFU Technology Licensing Office", "type": "tech_transfer", "cohort_based": false, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing.html", "application_cadence": "Not published: a service office rather than a programme with intakes.", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/ip-policy.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/technology-licensing/creators.html" ], "source_note": "Equity is not published; the IP policy states revenue sharing instead, with creator-owned IP and a 50:50 split until direct costs are recovered, then 70:30 to the creator. Student eligibility is not stated as a rule. This office reports forming seven or more startups in the last twelve months and publishes none of their names." }, { "name": "SFU VentureLabs", "type": "accelerator", "takes_equity": false, "student_focused": false, "website": "https://venturelabs.ca/", "application_cadence": "Not published. The Scale Up programme page states applications are currently closed.", "campus_zone": "vancouver", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://venturelabs.ca/", "https://venturelabs.ca/programs-services/scaleup-program/" ], "source_note": "Equity sourced directly: the Scale Up page states VentureLabs does not take equity. Not student-focused, and not cohort-based as far as any page says: it runs a membership model and no page uses cohort, intake, or batch. Based at 555 West Hastings Street. Its member companies are not evidence of an SFU tie, which the site states outright." }, { "name": "Technology Entrepreneurship at SFU", "type": "course_program", "cohort_based": true, "student_focused": true, "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/courses/teche.html", "application_cadence": "One offering per term; registration through goSFU, with an interest form for students outside Mechatronic Systems Engineering.", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/courses/teche.html" ], "source_note": "A for-credit course, MSE 490, open to all SFU students across all faculties including graduate students. Offered Fall 2026 at SFU Surrey. Equity is not applicable to a course but is left unset rather than asserted false." } ], "clubs": [ { "name": "Ascension Robotics", "focus": "Open to anyone interested in robotics; runs a beginner VexU team and a RoboMaster team competing across North America.", "website": "https://ascensionrobomaster.com", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://ascensionrobomaster.com", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/917/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Live: site advertises the 2026 RoboMaster University League for Summer 2026 and records 2024 and 2025 placements. Renamed from SFU Robotics Club; the student union still lists the old name, and the club footer uses a third. Same organisation, confirmed by a shared Discord invite and contact address." }, { "name": "CaseIT", "focus": "Student team running an annual international undergraduate business case competition focused on information systems.", "website": "https://www.caseit.org/", "campus_zone": "business", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.caseit.org/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/533/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/beedie/news/2026/02/sfu-beedie-hosts-world-s-premier-mis-competition--caseit-2026.html" ], "source_note": "Live: CaseIT 2026 held 15-20 February 2026 in Vancouver, reported by SFU Beedie. Zone from the Beedie tie. No 2027 edition announced yet." }, { "name": "Developers and Systems Club", "focus": "A space for programmers of all backgrounds to learn and build together across web, backend, and game development.", "website": "https://linktr.ee/sfudns", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://linktr.ee/sfudns", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/912/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Live: executive application for Summer 2026 published on its link page. Zone from the Faculty of Applied Sciences listing. Not filed against sfudns.co, the site the student union lists, because that domain does not resolve." }, { "name": "Enactus SFU", "focus": "Entrepreneurship projects applying business and economic concepts to improve quality of life on campus and in the community.", "website": "https://www.enactussfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.enactussfu.ca/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/98/info" ], "source_note": "Newest dated content on its own site is a 2024 project; the carousel runs 2022 to 2024 and the only 2026 string is a template copyright line, which is not evidence. Included on the listing rather than on current activity. The student union lists a .com contact address while the site is .ca." }, { "name": "Game Developers Club", "focus": "Supports and teaches every part of game development through meetings, tutorials, and shared project resources.", "website": "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/134/info", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/134/info" ], "source_note": "Live: Discord guild SFU Game Dev Club measured at 1373 members, 260 online, 2026-08-25. No dated post found. Filed against the student-union page because the club publishes only a Discord invite." }, { "name": "Google Developer Student Club - SFU", "focus": "Workshops, tech talks, and competitions helping students across majors use modern technology on real problems.", "website": "https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-on-campus-simon-fraser-university-burnaby-canada/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://gdg.community.dev/gdg-on-campus-simon-fraser-university-burnaby-canada/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/878/info" ], "source_note": "Live: chapter events dated 2026-08-07, 2026-07-13 and 2026-04-07. Google renamed the programme, so the chapter is now GDG on Campus; the URL the student union lists returns 404." }, { "name": "NeuraXtension", "focus": "Neurotechnology in laboratory, medical, everyday, and business settings, through resources, workshops, and seminars.", "website": "https://sfuneuraxtension.pages.dev/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfuneuraxtension.pages.dev/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/919/info" ], "source_note": "No dated activity signal found as of 2026-08-25. The club publishes a real, built site, but neither the page nor its script bundle carries a date, term, event, or executive name, and no code repository was found. A live site is not evidence of a live club, so this entry rests on the listing rather than on activity." }, { "name": "Satellite Design Club", "focus": "Designs and builds satellites and their mission profiles for competitions and independent projects.", "website": "https://sfusat.org/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfusat.org/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/644/info", "https://github.com/jumiknows/sfusat_website" ], "source_note": "Live: site repository committed 2026-07-10, adding and removing a recruitment poster. Named three ways across its sources: Satellite Design Club, Satellite Design Team, SFU Satellite." }, { "name": "SFU Competitive Programming", "focus": "Practising and competing in competitive programming, building a team competitive in the Northwest region.", "website": "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/857/info", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/857/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Live: Discord guild CompProg SFU measured at 1440 members, 166 online, 2026-08-25. No dated post found, so liveness rests on that measurement. Filed against the student-union page because the club publishes no site of its own." }, { "name": "SFU Cybersecurity Club", "focus": "Workshops, capture-the-flag competitions, and collaborative projects in cybersecurity, with an emphasis on ethical practice.", "website": "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/932/info", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/932/info" ], "source_note": "No dated activity signal found as of 2026-08-25, and the club publishes no site or repository. The Discord invite printed in its own student-union mandate is invalid, returning an unknown-invite error. Filed against the student-union listing, which is the only public page establishing it." }, { "name": "SFU Mechanical Keyboards Club", "focus": "Meet-ups and workshops around building and customising mechanical keyboards.", "website": "https://linktr.ee/sfumk", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://linktr.ee/sfumk", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/837/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Live: Discord guild SFU MechKeys measured at 563 members, 126 online, 2026-08-25. No dated post found. Zone from the Faculty of Applied Sciences listing." }, { "name": "SFU OS Development", "focus": "Students collaborating on open source projects for practical experience, guided by the open source community.", "website": "https://sfuosdev.com/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfuosdev.com/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/867/info", "https://github.com/sfuosdev" ], "source_note": "Live: github.com/sfuosdev Email-Backend pushed 2026-05-25. Named three ways across its own sources: SFU OS Development, SFU OS Dev Club, SFU Open Source Dev Club." }, { "name": "SFU Robot Soccer", "focus": "Builds autonomous soccer robots for RoboCup, with hands-on robotics, artificial intelligence, and team engineering.", "website": "https://linktr.ee/sfurs", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://linktr.ee/sfurs", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/721/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Most recent dated signal is a Summer 2026 co-lead recruitment form, which has since closed to responses. Deliberately not filed against either domain the directories list: sfurobotsoccer.com resolves but every request times out, and sfuskynet.ca on the faculty page has lapsed and now serves an online casino. Zone from the Faculty of Applied Sciences listing." }, { "name": "SFU Surge", "focus": "Community for students in tech: conferences, talks, hackathons, workshops, and software built for SFU students.", "website": "https://sfusurge.com", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfusurge.com", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/831/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html", "https://www.stormhacks.com/" ], "source_note": "Live: github.com/sfusurge hacker-portal pushed 2026-08-25; StormHacks 2026 advertised for 3-4 October 2026. Zone from the Faculty of Applied Sciences listing. The Discord invite on the FAS page is expired." }, { "name": "STEM Fellowship", "focus": "Student chapter of a national non-profit engaging future leaders and innovators across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.", "website": "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/839/info", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/839/info" ], "source_note": "No dated activity signal found for the SFU chapter as of 2026-08-25. The national organisation at stemfellowship.org is active and dated, but its events are national and its chapters page returns 404, so nothing there establishes current SFU activity. Filed against the student-union listing, which is what establishes the chapter exists." }, { "name": "Team Astra", "focus": "Student-led engineering club designing and building an unmanned aircraft to compete in competitions across Canada.", "website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamastra", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamastra" ], "source_note": "Live: newest post 2026-05-14, recruiting SFU students. Zone from the page listing the club in Surrey. Filed against LinkedIn because the club publishes no website; teamastra.ca returns 404 and it appears in none of the three club directories." }, { "name": "Team Phantom: SFU Formula SAE Electric", "focus": "Designs, builds, and races an electric Formula SAE car, giving students hands-on mechanical, electrical, and software work.", "website": "https://www.sfuformulasae.ca/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfuformulasae.ca/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/675/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Live: current site registered 2026-01-14 and describes the team as at Iteration 0 on SFU first all-electric car. A superseded site at teamphantom.ca is still linked by the engineering student society and still names a 2022 competition; both return 200." }, { "name": "Women in Clean Tech", "focus": "Connects students in STEM and runs clean technology initiatives and projects for members.", "website": "https://womenincleantech.framer.website/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://womenincleantech.framer.website/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/833/info" ], "source_note": "Live: its own site carries a publish stamp of 2026-08-10. Zone from the site stating the club is based at SFU Surrey." }, { "name": "Women In Engineering", "focus": "Outreach, mentorship, networking, and company tours for women in engineering, including a technical design sub-team.", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/clubs/wie.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/clubs/wie.html", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/255/info", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/study/student-life/clubs-student-societies.html" ], "source_note": "Live: its SFU-hosted page advertises weekly Summer 2026 meetings and carries a page-updated stamp of 2026-07-08." }, { "name": "Women in STEM", "focus": "Supportive environment across STEM fields, connecting students through outreach, panels, and networking.", "website": "https://sfuwstem.github.io/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfuwstem.github.io/", "https://go.sfss.ca/clubs/634/info", "https://github.com/sfuwstem/sfuwstem.github.io" ], "source_note": "Live: site repository committed 2026-06-11, updating executive profiles. The rendered executive list carries no year, so the commit is the dated evidence rather than the page." } ], "labs": [ { "name": "3D Language & Generation Group (3DLG)", "focus": "Connecting 3D environments with language; embodied AI, 3D scene understanding/generation", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://3dlg-hcvc.github.io/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://3dlg-hcvc.github.io/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Adcock Group (Computational Math)", "focus": "Compressed sensing, deep-learning theory for scientific computing", "department": "Mathematics", "vertical": "other", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/math/people/faculty/adcockb.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/math/people/faculty/adcockb.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Additive Manufacturing Lab", "focus": "3D-printed electronics, eco-friendly/wood-based printed sensors, soft robotics materials", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/additive-manufacturing.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/additive-manufacturing.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Algorithms & Complexity Group (ACO)", "focus": "Complexity theory, CSP dichotomy, circuit complexity, quantum compilation, graph algorithms", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://aco.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://aco.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://aco.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Astrostatistics / ML (Stenning, Elliott)", "focus": "Bayesian ML", "department": "Statistics & Actuarial Sci", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Autonomous & Intelligent Systems Lab (AISL)", "focus": "Autonomous systems", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/~aisl/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/~aisl/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Bingham Group (Uncertainty Quantification)", "focus": "Statistics / UQ", "department": "Statistics & Actuarial Sci", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Brinkman Lab (Bioinformatics/Pathogenomics)", "focus": "Pathogen genomics, microbiome, public-health genomics; tools IslandViewer, PSORTb", "department": "MBB", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/mbb/people/faculty/fiona-brinkman.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/mbb/people/faculty/fiona-brinkman.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Centre for Infectious Disease Genomics & One Health", "focus": "Genomics / bioinformatics", "department": "Health Sciences / MBB", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/research/research-centres-labs.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/research/research-centres-labs.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2025." }, { "name": "CHART Lab — Health & Resilience Trajectories", "focus": "Population/mental-health trajectories, youth resilience, linked administrative data", "department": "Health Sciences", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/research/research-centres-labs.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/research/research-centres-labs.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2025." }, { "name": "CHATR Lab — Cities, Health & Active Transport", "focus": "Urban health data", "department": "Health Sciences", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/research/research-centres-labs.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/research/research-centres-labs.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2025." }, { "name": "Communication Networks Lab (CNL)", "focus": "Traffic modeling, BGP anomaly detection w/ ML, network topology", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/communication-networks.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/communication-networks.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Computational Geron-neuroscience Lab / Circle Innovation", "focus": "Digital health / aging-tech", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://circleinnovation.ca/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://circleinnovation.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://circleinnovation.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Computational Neuroscience (McIntosh, Doesburg)", "focus": "MEG/EEG imaging, neurodevelopment/autism, network neuroscience (TheVirtualBrain)", "department": "BPK / ImageTech", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Data & Dialogue Lab", "focus": "How people reason with data & viz; belief/uncertainty, dialogue-based data interfaces, misinformation", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://datadialogue.vercel.app/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://datadialogue.vercel.app/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://datadialogue.vercel.app. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Data Science Research Group", "focus": "Data science / DB", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://data.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://data.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://data.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Data-Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL)", "focus": "Database engines, transaction processing, modern hardware (NVM, multicore) for data systems", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://github.com/sfu-dis", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://github.com/sfu-dis" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/labs/data-intensive-systems-lab.html. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Database & Data Mining Lab (DDM)", "focus": "Data mining, recommender systems, social-network mining, biomedical data mining", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/labs/database-data-mining.html", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/labs/database-data-mining.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Delta Lab", "focus": "HCI", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://delta-lab-ai.github.io/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://delta-lab-ai.github.io/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/labs/delta-lab.html. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Discourse Processing Lab", "focus": "Sentiment/opinion mining, comment moderation (constructive vs toxic), misinformation detection, media gender-bias analytics", "department": "Linguistics (FASS)", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/", "campus_zone": "arts_social_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2025." }, { "name": "eBrain Lab", "focus": "Neurotech / mental health", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.ebrainlab.ca/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.ebrainlab.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.ebrainlab.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Energy & Materials Research Group (EMRG)", "focus": "Hybrid energy-economy simulation (CIMS model) for electricity, tech adoption & decarbonization; clean-transport behavior", "department": "Environment — REM", "vertical": "climate", "website": "http://www.sfu.ca/emrg.html", "campus_zone": "environment", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "http://www.sfu.ca/emrg.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/emrg/. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Engineering Geology & Resource Geotechnics (EGGRG)", "focus": "Landslide/rockslide/debris-flow mechanics, earthquake-triggered slope failures, real-time geohazard monitoring", "department": "Environment — Earth Sciences", "vertical": "climate", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/eggrg.html", "campus_zone": "environment", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/eggrg.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/eggrg/. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "FAISAL Lab — Imaging & Shape Analysis", "focus": "Brain morphometry (Alzheimer's), retinal OCT, body composition from CT/MRI", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/~mfbeg/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/~mfbeg/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2023." }, { "name": "Fuel Cell Research Lab (FCReL)", "focus": "PEM fuel cell durability, catalyst-coated membranes, X-ray tomography", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "climate", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fuel-cell-research-lab.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fuel-cell-research-lab.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "GrUVI — Graphics, Usability & Vision", "focus": "Geometric modeling, neural rendering, 3D reconstruction, generative 3D. One of Canada's strongest graphics/vision clusters", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "https://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "HCI / Software Learnability (SIAT assoc.)", "focus": "In-app contextual help, crowd support, software learnability", "department": "SIAT (FCAT) / Computing Science", "vertical": "synbio", "website": "https://hci.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://hci.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://hci.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Health GIS / Geospatial Big Data (Schuurman)", "focus": "Spatial epidemiology, trauma/injury surveillance, deprivation indices, place-based health metrics", "department": "Environment — Geography", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/gis/schuurman/", "campus_zone": "environment", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/gis/schuurman/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "HiAccel — Accelerated Computing", "focus": "FPGA/accelerator computing, HLS design automation, near-data acceleration", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "ai_infra", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/~zhenman/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/~zhenman/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Holdcroft Group (Electrochemical Polymers)", "focus": "Ion-conducting polymers/membranes for fuel cells & electrolyzers (H2 energy)", "department": "Chemistry", "vertical": "climate", "website": "https://holdcroftlab.com/", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://holdcroftlab.com/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Homeware Lab", "focus": "Everyday connected 'homeware' artifacts, personal data, memory and slow tech in the home", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "https://www.homewarelab.com/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.homewarelab.com/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://homewarelab.com. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "IMMR — Micromachine & Microfabrication", "focus": "MEMS sensors/actuators, DNA-processing devices, microfluidic pumps", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/immr.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/immr.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Information Visualization (SIAT assoc.)", "focus": "Data viz, physicalization, interaction with large data, viz for the public", "department": "SIAT (FCAT) / Computing Science", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/~sheelagh/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/~sheelagh/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Injury Prevention & Mobility Lab", "focus": "Falls & fall-injury in older adults; wearable sensors, protective tech (hip protectors, flooring)", "department": "BPK", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Intelligent Sensing Lab (ISL)", "focus": "MEMS/NEMS sensors, interface electronics, ML-based signal processing", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://sense.fas.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sense.fas.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "iSpace Research Lab", "focus": "Immersive spatial perception, VR locomotion/navigation, embodiment & biofeedback, telepresence", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "https://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://ispace.iat.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://ispace.iat.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "iViz Lab", "focus": "Generative AI / facial animation", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://ivizlab.org/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://ivizlab.org/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://ivizlab.org. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Lab for Alternative Energy Conversion (LAEC)", "focus": "Heat/mass transfer, sorption cooling, thermal management for fuel cells/batteries", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "synbio", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/laec-lab.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/laec-lab.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Libbrecht Lab (Computational Biology)", "focus": "ML / genomics", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://sites.google.com/view/libbrecht-lab", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sites.google.com/view/libbrecht-lab" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Locomotion Lab (Donelan)", "focus": "Biomechanics & energetics of locomotion; wearable robotics/exoskeletons, energy harvesting", "department": "BPK", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "LRV — Lab for Robotic Vision", "focus": "2D/3D vision + AI for medical/aerial imaging & autonomous nav (e.g. IVF embryo analysis)", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/robotic-vision.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/robotic-vision.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Machine Learning Group", "focus": "AI / ML", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://ml.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://ml.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://ml.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "MAGPIE — Math, Genomics & Prediction", "focus": "Math epidemiology, pathogen genomics/phylogenetics, infectious-disease prediction", "department": "Mathematics", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/magpie.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/magpie.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/magpie/. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2023." }, { "name": "Making Culture Lab", "focus": "Digital heritage / 3D & VR", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "https://www.makingculturelab.com/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.makingculturelab.com/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://makingculturelab.com. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "MARS — Multi-Agent Robotic Systems", "focus": "Safe multi-robot systems: reachability, safe RL, motion planning, HRI; drones & AVs", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://sfumars.com/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfumars.com/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://sfumars.com. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Medical Image Analysis Lab (MIAL)", "focus": "ML for medical image analysis: segmentation, diagnosis, surgical data science", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.medicalimageanalysis.com/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.medicalimageanalysis.com/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.medicalimageanalysis.com. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Metacreation Lab for Creative AI", "focus": "Generative / creative AI", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.metacreation.net/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.metacreation.net/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.metacreation.net. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Microinstrumentation Lab (MiL)", "focus": "MEMS / biomedical", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://mil.ensc.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://mil.ensc.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://mil.ensc.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "MIS / Operations & Predictive Analytics (OPA Lab)", "focus": "IT systems in organizations; operations & predictive analytics, supply-network optimization, applied analytics", "department": "Beedie — MIS / TOM", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/beedie/faculty-and-research/areas-of-research/management-information-systems.html", "campus_zone": "business", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/beedie/faculty-and-research/areas-of-research/management-information-systems.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Morin Lab (Cancer Genomics)", "focus": "Cancer genomics", "department": "MBB (joint BC Cancer/GSC)", "vertical": "synbio", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/mbb.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/mbb.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Moving Stories / somatic computing", "focus": "Movement / wearables", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/siat.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/siat.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Multimedia & Wireless Networking (NetSG)", "focus": "Multimedia streaming, cloud/edge computing, IoT, wireless networking", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://netsg.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://netsg.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://netsg.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Nanodevice Fabrication Group", "focus": "2D-material nanodevices, biosensors, optoelectronics", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/nanodevice-fabrication.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/nanodevice-fabrication.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Nanofabrication / Materials (Kavanagh)", "focus": "Semiconductor nanostructures, electron microscopy, thin-film/interface materials", "department": "Physics", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Natural Language Lab (NatLangLab)", "focus": "NLP / LLMs", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://natlang.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://natlang.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://natlang.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Neurokinesiology Lab (Hoffer)", "focus": "Neural control of movement; diaphragm/phrenic-nerve stimulation for respiratory support", "department": "BPK", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Neuromuscular Mechanics Lab (Wakeling)", "focus": "Muscle mechanics, ultrasound muscle imaging, computational movement modeling", "department": "BPK", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "health_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/bpk/about/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "NeuroSpine Lab", "focus": "Spinal cord/neurotrauma biomechanics; injury prevention, diagnosis, treatment devices", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/neurospine-lab.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/neurospine-lab.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Pacific Water Research Centre (PWRC)", "focus": "Water resources, water-energy nexus, sustainable-development policy", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng (aff.)", "vertical": "climate", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/pwrc.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/pwrc.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Pain Studies Lab / Chronic Pain Research Institute", "focus": "VR + biofeedback systems to manage chronic pain; interdisciplinary (medicine, neuro, design)", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://painstudieslab.com/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://painstudieslab.com/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://painstudieslab.com. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Parallel & Distributed Computing Lab (PDCL)", "focus": "Large-scale graph processing, distributed/parallel runtimes, incremental computation", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_infra", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/labs/parallel-distributed.html", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/labs/parallel-distributed.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Pecunia Research Group", "focus": "Eco-friendly printable semiconductors (lead-free perovskites, organics, CNTs) for PV, photodetectors, TFTs", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.pecuniaresearch.com/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.pecuniaresearch.com/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.pecuniaresearch.com. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Power & Energy Systems Research Group", "focus": "Power-systems optimization, DER integration, distribution-grid resilience, grid data analytics", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/power-and-energy-systems.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/power-and-energy-systems.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Product Design & Optimization Lab (PDOL)", "focus": "Design optimization, AI-based optimization, design automation, additive mfg, vehicle design", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/~gwa5/index.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/~gwa5/index.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2025." }, { "name": "Quantum Communications (Jennewein)", "focus": "QKD, satellite quantum communications (QEYSSat mission)", "department": "Physics", "vertical": "deep_tech", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Quantum Information Theory (Lau)", "focus": "Quantum theory", "department": "Physics", "vertical": "deep_tech", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Ramogida Group (Radiopharmaceuticals)", "focus": "Radiometal chelators & targeted radiopharmaceuticals (theranostics) for cancer", "department": "Chemistry (joint TRIUMF)", "vertical": "deep_tech", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chemistry/department/faculty-staff/profiles/research-faculty/cfr.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chemistry/department/faculty-staff/profiles/research-faculty/cfr.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "RAMP — Robotic Algorithms & Motion Planning", "focus": "Motion planning, sensor-based robotics, manipulators, autonomous systems", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/ramp-lab.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/ramp-lab.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Reconfigurable Computing Lab (RCL)", "focus": "FPGA/reconfigurable systems, non-traditional computer design, CAD tools", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/reconfigurable-computing.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/labs/reconfigurable-computing.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Remote Sensing / Agtech ML (Bing Lu)", "focus": "UAV multispectral/hyperspectral remote sensing for precision ag — crop yield, disease detection, flood/wetland monitoring", "department": "Environment — Geography", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/people/binglu/", "campus_zone": "environment", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/people/binglu/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "SARlab — Synthetic Aperture Radar Lab", "focus": "Space-based SAR/InSAR: permafrost, sea ice, maritime surveillance, infrastructure", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/sarlab/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/sarlab/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/sarlab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Security & Privacy (no umbrella name)", "focus": "Anonymity networks/traffic analysis; crypto-protocol implementation flaws; Bluetooth/wireless security", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~taowang/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~taowang/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2023." }, { "name": "SFU Multimedia Lab", "focus": "Multimedia signal processing, video compression, coding for machines (split DNN inference)", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "consumer", "website": "http://multimedia.fas.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "http://multimedia.fas.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from http://multimedia.fas.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "SFU Systems Group", "focus": "Computer architecture, OS/distributed systems, databases, graph analytics, program analysis/synthesis, SE", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://systems.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://systems.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://systems.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Sierra Wireless Mobile Comms Lab", "focus": "Antennas, propagation, MIMO, RF measurement (world-class antenna chambers)", "department": "Engineering Science", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/sierra-wireless-lab.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/sierra-wireless-lab.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Silicon Photonics / Colour Centres", "focus": "Quantum hardware", "department": "Physics", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Silicon Quantum Technology Lab", "focus": "Silicon spin qubits & telecom-photon interfaces for scalable quantum computing/networking", "department": "Physics", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/s_simmons.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/s_simmons.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "Spatial Analysis & Modeling Lab (SAM)", "focus": "Geosimulation / GIS", "department": "Environment — Geography", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/dragicevic/", "campus_zone": "environment", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/dragicevic/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Sports & Applied Statistics (Swartz)", "focus": "Sports analytics, Bayesian computation, applied statistics", "department": "Statistics & Actuarial Sci", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Statistical Genetics (Graham & McNeney)", "focus": "Statistical genetics/genomics, genetic epidemiology methods", "department": "Statistics & Actuarial Sci", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/stat-actsci/department/faculty/faculty-regular.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Superconductivity / μSR", "focus": "Unconventional superconductors, microwave spectroscopy, muon spin rotation (TRIUMF)", "department": "Physics", "vertical": "deep_tech", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/research/areas.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/physics/research/areas.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "T-FORCE — Thermo-Fluids for Clean Energy", "focus": "Turbomachinery, hydrogen catalytic combustion, waste-heat recovery, ML-assisted design, metal AM", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "http://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/t-force/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "http://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/t-force/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from http://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/t-force. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "TAI — Trustworthy AI Lab", "focus": "Certified robustness & trustworthiness of deep learning and generative AI", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://sfu-tai.github.io/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfu-tai.github.io/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Tangent Lab", "focus": "HCI / wearables", "department": "Computing Science", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://tangent.cs.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://tangent.cs.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://tangent.cs.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "TECI Lab (Tangible Embodied Child-Computer Interaction)", "focus": "Tangible/embodied & brain-computer interfaces for children; 'Mind-Full' neurofeedback self-regulation", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://antle.iat.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://antle.iat.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://antle.iat.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Unrau Lab (RNA World / Aptamers)", "focus": "RNA biology", "department": "MBB", "vertical": "health", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/mbb/research/featured-research/Peter-Unrau-lab-page.html", "campus_zone": "science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/mbb/research/featured-research/Peter-Unrau-lab-page.html" ], "source_note": "The lab own page is live but did not corroborate a fuller description, so the focus here is the research area only. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "Vehicle-Track Interaction Lab", "focus": "Wheel/rail contact mechanics, tribology, wear/fatigue, rail decarbonization", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/vehicle-track-interaction.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/vehicle-track-interaction.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "VESST — Vehicle & Engine Systems", "focus": "Net-zero transport: hydrogen/RNG engines, hybrid powertrains, optical combustion diagnostics", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/vesst.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/vesst.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2025." }, { "name": "VINCI — Visual & Interactive Computing Inst.", "focus": "Umbrella institute for graphics, vision, visualization, HCI, computational design/fabrication", "department": "Computing Science (umbrella)", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://vinci.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://vinci.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://vinci.sfu.ca. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "VVISE Lab", "focus": "3D user interfaces, immersive analytics, mid-air & spatial interaction, collaborative VR", "department": "SIAT (FCAT)", "vertical": "ai_application", "website": "https://vvise.iat.sfu.ca/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://vvise.iat.sfu.ca/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://vvise.iat.sfu.ca. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2026." }, { "name": "WearTech Labs (core facility)", "focus": "Wearable-tech dev: smart textiles, biosensing, soft mechatronics — shared prototyping", "department": "Mechatronic Systems Eng", "vertical": "hardware", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/research/researcher-resources/resources/weartech/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/research/researcher-resources/resources/weartech/" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Redirects from https://www.sfu.ca/research/researcher-resources/resources/weartech. Liveness: the page carries no date of any kind, so whether the group is currently active could not be established from it." }, { "name": "ΔE+ Research Group (Delta E+)", "focus": "Energy-land-water-climate-health nexus modeling; open-source policy modeling (OSeMOSYS)", "department": "Sustainable Energy Eng", "vertical": "infrastructure", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/delta-e.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/research/fas-research-labs/delta-e.html" ], "source_note": "Focus corroborated against the lab own page. Identified from a scouting sweep of SFU labs and then verified: the page was fetched, resolves, and names the lab. Liveness: the newest year appearing anywhere on the page is 2024." } ], "events": [ { "name": "CaseIT", "cadence": "Annually in February; the 2026 edition ran 15-20 February and was the 23rd", "format": "competition", "audience": "Undergraduate management information systems and business students from universities worldwide", "website": "https://www.caseit.org/", "campus_zone": "vancouver", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.caseit.org/", "https://www.caseit.org/history", "https://www.sfu.ca/beedie/news/2026/02/sfu-beedie-hosts-world-s-premier-mis-competition--caseit-2026.html" ], "source_note": "Hosted at the Beedie School of Business downtown campus, drawing 16 universities in 2026. The organising student team is listed separately in the clubs section; an entry appearing in two sections is expected, and names are unique per section rather than across the dataset." }, { "name": "Catalyst", "cadence": "Twice a year, in the spring and fall terms; each run is six to eight weeks", "format": "competition", "audience": "SFU students, staff, faculty, and alumni within two years, in teams with at least one SFU member", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/entrepreneurship-challenge.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/entrepreneurship-challenge.html" ], "source_note": "Four editions named on its own page: Spring 2025 with Enactus SFU and TransLink, Fall 2025 with SFU OS Development and Moment Energy, Spring 2026, and a Fall 2026 edition announced without dates. Cash prizes are confirmed but no amount is published." }, { "name": "Charles Chang Institute Idea Prize finals", "cadence": "Annually, with finals in March; the 2026 finals were 31 March", "format": "competition", "audience": "SFU students, staff, faculty, and alumni within two years of graduating, plus their co-founders", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/idea-prize.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/idea-prize.html" ], "source_note": "The pitch event behind the prize listed in the funding section. Preliminary pitch-offs are virtual and the finals are in person at Surrey." }, { "name": "Computing Science Distinguished Lecture Series", "cadence": "Roughly monthly during term", "format": "seminar", "audience": "Open to students, researchers, and people working in industry and education; admission free", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/seminars/distinguished-lecture-series.html", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/seminars/distinguished-lecture-series.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/seminars.html" ], "source_note": "Nine dated lectures listed from September 2024 to August 2026. The school does not state a cadence, so the monthly figure is read off the spacing of listed instances rather than quoted. Usually TASC1 9204 on Burnaby campus, sometimes the Big Data Hub or ASB." }, { "name": "Computing Science Industry Talks Series", "cadence": "Roughly monthly during term", "format": "seminar", "audience": "Open to the university community; some talks restricted to graduate students and faculty", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/seminars/industry-talks-series.html", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/seminars/industry-talks-series.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/research/seminars.html" ], "source_note": "Twelve dated talks from January 2025 to April 2026. As with the lecture series, the cadence is inferred from the spacing of instances rather than stated. Held in TASC 1 9204 on Burnaby campus." }, { "name": "Computing Science Student Society board game nights", "cadence": "Every other Friday during term", "format": "meetup", "audience": "Open social event for Computing Science students", "website": "https://sfucsss.org/events", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfucsss.org/events" ], "source_note": "The society books TASC 9204 on Burnaby campus and provides food. One of the few club events with a stated room." }, { "name": "Computing Science Student Society general meetings", "cadence": "Every two weeks during term", "format": "meetup", "audience": "Computing Science students and society members", "website": "https://sfucsss.org/events", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfucsss.org/events" ], "source_note": "Listed under the society own Regular Events heading. No room or campus is stated for the meeting itself." }, { "name": "Engineering Science Student Society general meetings", "cadence": "Bi-weekly during term, alternating with executive meetings", "format": "meetup", "audience": "Open to anyone; voting rights for students in engineering science majors, minors, or classes", "website": "https://www.esss.ca/meetings", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.esss.ca/meetings" ], "source_note": "Both the general and executive meeting times read TBD for Spring 2026 on the society own page. The society office address appears in every page footer, so it is not evidence of where meetings are held." }, { "name": "Fall Hacks", "cadence": "Annually in the fall term; the 2026 edition on 7 November is the sixth", "format": "hackathon", "audience": "SFU students, beginner-first, returning participants welcome", "website": "https://fall-hacks.sfucsss.org/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://fall-hacks.sfucsss.org/", "https://sfucsss.org/events" ], "source_note": "Run by the Computing Science Student Society as a 12-hour sprint. The site states 2026 is the sixth edition hosted at SFU. Sign-in at the Applied Science Building entrance on Burnaby campus." }, { "name": "ICPC North America Pacific Northwest Regional at SFU", "cadence": "Annually in November; SFU hosted the Canadian site in 2024 and 2025", "format": "competition", "audience": "University teams from across the region, eligible under ICPC rules", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/news-events/events/icpc/icpc-pacnw-sfu.html", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/fas/computing/news-events/events/icpc/icpc-pacnw-sfu.html", "https://pnw.na.icpc.global/2024-25/announcement/" ], "source_note": "SFU hosts a site of a regional contest rather than owning the event. Two consecutive years are established: UBC records its teams competing at SFU in November 2024, and SFU ran the November 2025 edition. The 2026 date is set but the site list is not published, so SFU is a repeat host rather than a confirmed 2026 one. Held in the Applied Science Building." }, { "name": "JourneyHacks", "cadence": "Annually in January or February; 10 January 2026 and 14 February 2025", "format": "hackathon", "audience": "Beginners; college and university students", "website": "https://journeyhacks.sfusurge.com/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://journeyhacks.sfusurge.com/", "https://journeyhacks2026.devpost.com", "https://journeyhacks-2025.devpost.com", "https://sfusurge.com" ], "source_note": "SFU Surge beginner-friendly counterpart to StormHacks. Edition pages for 2024, 2025 and 2026. Held on Burnaby campus." }, { "name": "Mountain Madness", "cadence": "Annually in the spring term; the 2026 edition ran 28 February to 1 March", "format": "hackathon", "audience": "Students of all skill levels, including first years", "website": "https://madness.sfucsss.org/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://madness.sfucsss.org/", "https://sfucsss.org/events", "https://csss-mountain-madness-2026.devpost.com" ], "source_note": "Run by the Computing Science Student Society as a 24-hour marathon. Edition pages resolve for 2018, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026; the run is established as recurring rather than unbroken. Registration in front of SSCC 9001 on Burnaby campus." }, { "name": "OpFair", "cadence": "Annually; the 2026 edition ran 25-26 March and the next is advertised for January 2027", "format": "career_fair", "audience": "All Faculty of Applied Sciences students", "website": "https://www.opfair.ca/", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.opfair.ca/", "https://www.esss.ca/annual-events", "https://www.sfu.ca/hire/career/fairs.html" ], "source_note": "Run by the Engineering Science Student Society, which calls it SFU largest tech-based career fair. Its own site states it has run since 1993, across 31 fairs. SFU recruitment-fairs page independently lists it as annual and tech-focused. The 2026 edition ran in the Academic Quadrangle." }, { "name": "Opportunity Fest", "cadence": "Annually in November", "format": "showcase", "audience": "Entrepreneurial-minded students across SFU; open to everyone", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/opportunity-fest.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/Programs/opportunity-fest.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/chang-institute/courses/teche.html" ], "source_note": "The Chang Institute calls it SFU largest showcase of student entrepreneurship projects. The 2025 edition was 25 November at the SFU Surrey Mezzanine; a 2026 November edition is referenced by the Fall 2026 entrepreneurship course but has no published date." }, { "name": "Pi Week", "cadence": "Annually, the week of 14 March", "format": "meetup", "audience": "SFU engineering students", "website": "https://www.esss.ca/annual-events", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.esss.ca/annual-events" ], "source_note": "Run by the Engineering Science Student Society. The society states the events each day of the week change every year, so the week recurs while its contents do not." }, { "name": "SFU Engineering Competition", "cadence": "Annually, roughly at the start of November", "format": "competition", "audience": "SFU engineering students", "website": "https://www.esss.ca/annual-events", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.esss.ca/annual-events" ], "source_note": "Run by the Engineering Science Student Society and described by it as the official qualifier for the Western Engineering Competition." }, { "name": "SFU OS Dev Club speaker series", "cadence": "Monthly during term", "format": "seminar", "audience": "Club members and students interested in open source", "website": "https://sfuosdev.com/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://sfuosdev.com/" ], "source_note": "Two consecutive monthly instances are documented, titled February and March speaker series, each with its own write-up. The year is not stated on either. Filed against the site root rather than its events page: sfuosdev.com/events is a client-side route that returns 404 to a direct request while rendering normally in a browser, so it is not a citable address." }, { "name": "SIAT end-of-term showcases", "cadence": "Every term, at the end of the fall, spring, and summer terms", "format": "showcase", "audience": "Open to the public; attendees playtest student projects and give feedback", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/siat/showcase.html", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/siat/showcase.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/siat/news-events/news/2024/11/siat-showcases.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/siat/showcase/fall-2025-project-showcase.html" ], "source_note": "A cluster of per-course showcases under one banner across a few weeks rather than a single dated event, held across Surrey campus rooms. Two in-person rounds are documented directly, Fall 2024 and Spring 2025; the term pages from Fall 2020 onward are project galleries and do not by themselves prove an in-person round each term. The linked page is the gallery, which is the durable address." }, { "name": "SparkJam", "cadence": "Recurs, but no page states a cadence; editions in 2025 and 2026", "format": "hackathon", "audience": "Students working in brand, interface, motion, prototyping, and pitching", "website": "https://www.sparkjam.design/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sparkjam.design/", "https://github.com/sfusurge/SparkJam26", "https://github.com/sfusurge/sparkjam" ], "source_note": "A two-week design sprint hosted by SFU Surge rather than a coding hackathon. Recurrence rests on artefacts rather than any statement: two separate deployments a year apart and two dated repositories. Neither a date, an eligibility rule, nor a venue is published anywhere reachable; the site is a client-rendered app whose HTML carries only metadata." }, { "name": "StormHacks", "cadence": "Annually in early October; editions in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026", "format": "hackathon", "audience": "Students, beginner friendly, in teams of one to four", "website": "https://www.stormhacks.com/", "campus_zone": "other", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.stormhacks.com/", "https://sfusurge.com", "https://stormhacks2025.devpost.com", "https://stormhacksoctober2024.devpost.com" ], "source_note": "SFU Surge calls it their flagship hackathon and its own site calls it West Canada largest. Five separate edition pages establish the run. The 2026 edition is 3-4 October on Burnaby campus; the 2023 edition was in May, so the October timing is recent rather than invariant." }, { "name": "SystemsFair", "cadence": "Annually in January; 14 January 2026 and 17 January 2025", "format": "career_fair", "audience": "Engineering students based on the Surrey campus: mechatronics, software systems, and sustainable energy", "website": "https://www.msess.ca/events/systemsfair-2026", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.msess.ca/events/systemsfair-2026", "https://www.msess.ca/events", "https://www.sfu.ca/hire/career/fairs.html" ], "source_note": "Run by the Mechatronic Systems Engineering Student Society with the software systems and sustainable energy societies. Corrected from Burnaby: it is a Surrey-campus fair. Not filed against systemsfair.ca, the address still surfacing in search results, which returns 404 from Wix." }, { "name": "Tech Fair", "cadence": "Annually in autumn; the 2026 edition is 4 November", "format": "career_fair", "audience": "Computing Science students", "website": "https://tech-fair.sfucsss.org/", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://tech-fair.sfucsss.org/", "https://sfucsss.org/events" ], "source_note": "Run by the Computing Science Student Society. Per-edition pages resolve for 2022, 2023 and 2024 alongside the live 2026 site, and the site states it has been growing since 2022. Held in the Applied Sciences Building on Burnaby campus." }, { "name": "Try/CATCH", "cadence": "Annually in the autumn; editions in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025", "format": "conference", "audience": "High school girls and non-binary students in grades 8 to 12", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/wics/events/try-catch.html", "campus_zone": "computing_science", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/wics/events/try-catch.html", "https://www.sfu.ca/wics/events.html" ], "source_note": "An outreach event organised every year by Women in Computing Science, per SFU own page. Held on Burnaby campus, the 2025 edition in the Applied Sciences Building. A claim that it dates to 2009 appears in search results but on no page that could be fetched, so it is not asserted here." }, { "name": "Women In Engineering weekly meetings", "cadence": "Weekly during term, Thursdays 8:00 to 8:30 PM", "format": "meetup", "audience": "Women In Engineering members and newcomers at SFU", "website": "https://www.sfu.ca/clubs/wie.html", "campus_zone": "applied_sciences", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://www.sfu.ca/clubs/wie.html" ], "source_note": "Cadence stated on the club own SFU-hosted page, which carries a page-updated stamp of 2026-07-08. Held on Discord rather than in a room, so the zone records the faculty rather than a location." }, { "name": "XHacks", "cadence": "Annually in late January; the 2026 edition ran 31 January to 1 February", "format": "hackathon", "audience": "Beginner hackers; the 2026 edition reported more than 200 participants", "website": "https://systemshacks.com/", "campus_zone": "surrey", "last_verified": "2026-08-25", "sources": [ "https://systemshacks.com/", "https://www.msess.ca/events" ], "source_note": "Formerly SystemsHacks, run by the Software Systems Student Society, which describes the 2026 edition as its tenth annual hackathon and a decade of the event. One SFU listing calls XHacks 2026 first-ever, which refers to the new 24-hour format rather than the event." } ] }