We’re wrapping up Innovation Week in Saskatchewan in a big way!
Innovation Saskatchewan is renewing support for Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE)—Saskatchewan’s only Technology Access Centre.
DICE works with industry partners to improve productivity, safety and competitiveness, while giving students and researchers hands-on experience with advanced digital solutions.
From AI to robotics, DICE is helping Saskatchewan companies compete on a national and global stage.
Read the full announcement at the News link in our bio.
#SKResearch #GreatIdeasGrowHere #Innovation #AppliedResearch #DigitalInnovation
Canadian Innovation Week wraps today, and we’re closing by highlighting the foundation Labs4 was built on: Canada’s colleges and polytechnics.
Canada produces world-class research. Too often, the challenge is moving that research into practical use, market-ready products and ventures that can grow.
That is where colleges and polytechnics have a distinct advantage.
They are built for the space between discovery and market. They work close to industry, respond quickly to real-world needs, mobilize technical expertise and student talent, and test ideas in applied settings where products can be refined, validated and improved.
They prototype. They iterate. They help founders pivot when the evidence points in a new direction. And because they are deeply connected to their regional economies, they understand the industries, communities and market needs around them.
Labs4 brings that capacity together at national scale.
Follow the momentum beyond Canadian Innovation Week. Visit our news page for more Labs4 stories, then sign up for our e-news to stay updated on upcoming opportunities, success stories and events.
https://labs4.ca/news/
Thank you to every innovator, Hub team, partner and supporter who shared their work with us during Canadian Innovation Week.
Labs4 acknowledges the support from Lab to Market funding administered by @nserc_crsng@sshrc_crsh and @cihr_irsc
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Across Canada, Indigenous innovators are building ventures rooted in community, culture and self-determination.
For Canadian Innovation Week, Labs4 is celebrating the Indigenous Entrepreneurship Hubs helping make that work possible: @mittohnee at @rrcpolytech , pawâcikêwikamik at @siitlive and @flint_hub at United College - @uofwaterloo .
These Indigenous-led Hubs offer innovation and entrepreneurship support that is locally grounded and shaped by Indigenous knowledge, relationships and priorities.
Founders receive mentorship from Indigenous entrepreneurs, Elders and Knowledge Keepers, along with culturally grounded curriculum, peer circles, business planning, coaching and practical supports such as micro-grants. Just as important, they are supported to build in ways that honour who they are, where they come from and the communities they serve.
Together, these stories point to what Indigenous-led innovation makes possible: stronger communities, founders building with purpose and a shared commitment to lifting each other up.
Read more:
“We Know What Works”: https://labs4.ca/we-know-what-works/
“We Lift Each Other Up”: https://labs4.ca/we-lift-each-other-up/
Labs4 acknowledges the support from Lab to Market funding administered by @nserc_crsng@sshrc_crsh and @cihr_irsc
#CIW26 #Labs4 #IndigenousInnovation #IndigenousEntrepreneurship #IndigenousBusinessVisual
Hey 2026 grads! 🎓
It’s officially time to meet your MC for Saskatchewan Polytechnic Convocation 2026! ✨
Please welcome Sandy Howe, Associate Vice President of Student Services! We’re excited to have Sandy guiding us through this year’s celebrations as we honour the incredible achievements of our graduates.
Good weather, lots of smiles, and plenty of air horn honking 🚛☀️📣
Creative Truck Performance had an awesome time attending the 2026 REDIC “Try a Career” event in Balgonie as part of the Saskatchewan Trucking Association booth!
With over 3,800 students attending, it was great connecting with so many young people interested in trades, transportation, and the future of the trucking industry. We showcased our truck H-20 with the Guardian Hydrogen Diesel System and talked about how innovative technology is helping reduce emissions and improve efficiency in heavy-duty transportation.
A huge thank you to the Regina District Industry Education Council for organizing such an incredible event. We’re proud to work alongside the STA in helping shape the future of trucking in Saskatchewan!
From your very first day of classes to your final steps across the Convocation stage - we are so proud of you!
Your hard work, dedication, and perseverance have brought you to this moment, and we can’t wait to celebrate everything you’ve accomplished. 👏✨🎓
Happy National Nursing Week! 💙
This week, we’re celebrating our nursing students and alumni who show up with skill, compassion and calm in the moments that matter most.
Thank you for the long shifts, the dedication, the advocacy, and the care you bring to patients and families every single day.
🎥 Watch the video to see the power of nurses who are transforming health.
#NationalNursingWeek #NursingWeek2026 #ThePowerofNurses #CNA2026 #Nurses2026
Meet Xuan Vinh Vu, member of the 2025-26 Saskatchewan Post-Secondary Student Council! 👇
Xuan is a second-year artificial intelligence and data analytics student at @saskpolytech . Xuan joined the council to lend a voice to international students and create a more inclusive environment where all students can succeed.
“My favorite part of my post-secondary experience has been meeting people from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds.”
Fun fact: Xuan is bilingual, speaking both English and French.
Learn more about the student council at saskatchewan.ca/student-council.
#skstudents #MeettheSPSC #studentcouncil
It’s Canadian Innovation Week, and today we’re celebrating the people doing the work: the innovators.
Meet Labs4’s Winter 2026 Technology Readiness Level-Up cohort: researcher-entrepreneurs from across the country who spent four months in applied research environments, doing the technical work that moves an innovation closer to market through prototype development, testing and validation.
This cohort tells the Canadian innovation story in microcosm. Health technology. Accessibility and mobility. Climate and sustainability. AI and data.
Agriculture and biotech. Different problems, different communities, all of them connected to the same nationally coordinated engine.
That’s “Local Roots, Global Reach” in practice: Canadian innovators, Canadian research, Canadian-built solutions ready to compete anywhere.
Meet our innovators and find out more: https://labs4.ca/levelling-up-labs4s-second-trl-cohort-moves-34-research-ventures-closer-to-market/
Labs4 acknowledges the support from Lab to Market funding administered by @nserc_crsng@sshrc_crsh and @cihr_irsc . TRL is supported by @mitacs .
#CIW26 #Labs4 #InnovatorsInMotion #TRL
FREE GIVEAWAY!!!!!
Hey Regina folks! It’s that exciting time of the year again. Graduation season!Your loved one survived assignments, exams, group projects, and probably a few emotional breakdowns too. So why not gift them something special?
I’m giving away FREE graduation photography sessions to 2 lucky winners! 🎉
Here’s how to enter:
• Tag your favorite graduate in the comments.
• Follow this page
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Bonus entry if you share this post to your story. Entries close May 30th & winners announced in the first week of June.
Blurry phone pictures from your uncle just aren’t enough for graduation day.
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#graduation
#universityofregina
#saskpolytech
May 11 – 15 is National Nursing Week, a chance to celebrate nursing education in Saskatchewan! 🩺
The province continues to expand opportunities for #skstudents to study nursing. In 2026-27, students will have access to 26 new nurse practitioner training seats through @usask , @uofreginaofficial and @saskpolytech .
Learn more about nursing education at saskatchewan.ca/hhr-train.
#NursingWeek2026 #HHR #NursingWeek
Canadian Innovation Week starts today, and there’s plenty to celebrate.
This year’s theme, Local Roots, Global Reach, captures something essential about Canadian innovation: strong ideas often begin close to home, in a Manitoba lab, a Nova Scotia workshop or a Québec CCTT, before reaching industries, markets and communities far beyond their starting point.
That is where Labs4 comes in.
Labs4 brings together 40 post-secondary institutions, 11 Regional and Indigenous Entrepreneurship Hubs and 24 Technology Access Centres through one nationally coordinated, locally delivered commercialization initiative.
Each Hub is rooted in the region it serves. Together, they form a Canada-wide engine helping move research closer to market.
Why does this matter?
Canada has world-class research, but too many promising ideas still face barriers on the path to commercialization. Labs4 helps remove those barriers so researchers and founders can turn knowledge into ventures, jobs, partnerships and real-world impact.
Labs4 embeds participants in applied research environments with experts who understand their industries, their communities and their innovators.
All week, we’ll celebrate the founders, researchers and partnerships turning Canadian research into Canadian impact, and Canadian innovation into global reach.
Learn more: labs4.ca
Labs4 acknowledges the support from Lab to Market funding administered by @nserc_crsng in collaboration with @sshrc_crsh and @cihr_irsc
#CIW26 #CanadianInnovation #Labs4
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