Grants and Contributions

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In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.

The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.

Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.

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$75,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI Assist Prototype - Meeting Genius

Agreement Number:

1024731

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Jun 16, 2025
Description:

Meeting Genius is a real-time meeting intelligence tool designed to enhance comprehension during complex discussions by identifying key terms and providing contextual insights. As a seamless passive assistant, Meeting Genius empowers users to stay informed and engaged, enabling more impactful contributions without interrupting the conversation. The project will focus on developing an NLP-driven MVP, integrating with platforms like Zoom and Google Meet, and expanding the NLP engine for industry-specific terminology. The tool targets professionals in sales, technical roles, and consulting who regularly encounter complex language and need immediate clarity.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – AI Assist
Location: Windsor, Ontario, CA N9A 5L2

$75,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI Assist: EIDA and Risk Analytics

Agreement Number:

1024772

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
Description:

The project will take a multi-model approach for natural language processing for unstructured data in safety with application to assign incidents a risk analysis.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Calgary, Alberta, CA T2P 3K2

$90,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

YEP (3) – Risk Assist MVP

Agreement Number:

1024776

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Nov 30, 2025
Description:

A project to develop an advanced, LLM-driven expert system designed to evaluate corporate risk against industry-standard certifications.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CA K1Z 7M4

$30,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

Youth - Researcher

Agreement Number:

1024791

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025
Description:

Youth Hire to assist Research and Development team

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Youth Employment Program
Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, CA V5G 4W3

$75,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI Assist: Onboarding acceleration

Agreement Number:

1024814

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to May 31, 2025
Description:

Automating and enhancing processes to streamline the onboarding of buildings and energy relevant assets by improving data collection and user experience for greater efficiency and effectiveness.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V6G 1B4

$25,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

IP Assist: Intellectual Property Strategy

Agreement Number:

1024913

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
Description:

The project will support development of intellectual property capacity within the firm.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: North York, Ontario, CA M3B 2R2

$49,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI Tools Pilots

Agreement Number:

1024965

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
Description:

The Project will support pilot testing of AI strategies, determine target architecture and quantitative technical objectives for implementation of an AI solution.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CA T6C 3K3

$71,600.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI Assist: Project IronInSight

Agreement Number:

1024971

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
Description:

The objective of this project is to connect IronSight application data to a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) to readily expose operational insights for internal and external stakeholders.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, CA T6B 3E5

$115,000.00

Dec 1, 2024

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI Assist: AIGenCI - AI Generative Configurable Interactivity

Agreement Number:

1024982

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Apr 30, 2025
Description:

The project focuses on VR interactions by groups and individuals with AIGenCI, a dynamic and configurable generative AI agentic intelligence scenario. Use cases include a live presenter brokering interaction for attendees and a facilitator guiding groups through a shared and interactive tabletop exercise. Technical innovations enable AIGenCI scenario interactions via VR user experiences in a web browser or desktop application, integrated through service interfaces to back-end cloud servers, to allow dynamic and interactive shared GenAI/VR experiences based on data, best-available research, and analytics.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Sherwood Park, Alberta, CA T8C 1B2

For-profit organization

Agreement:

AI model development for Lightning forecasting

Agreement Number:

1024997

Duration: from Dec 1, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
Description:

Integrate data sources that existed with application to cloud seeding, (weather data, radar, lightning detection, fire risk models, wildfire service priority areas for protection, etc.) into a model to predict and prioritize storm systems.

Develop intelligent prediction algorithms to guide staging and deployment of lightning suppression, maximizing asset utilization area of protection and efficacy.

Organization: National Research Council Canada
Program Name: Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V6C 0A3