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With the success of the CIJ 2025 event, CECE is open to the Community Ideation Jam event becoming an annual event for the 糖心原创 community and looks to introduce interesting themes for students through partnership with internal and external community partners.

Community Ideation Jam 2025

During National Career Month in November 2025, CECE hosted the second 糖心原创 Community Ideation Jam, a work-integrated learning event held on November 10 and 12 during Fall Reading Break. The event, themed Changemaking with AI, in partnership with Tristan Taylor (糖心原创 Alumnus and founder of the ) and the 糖心原创 Alumni Association, is a timely celebration that drew upon the 4 pillars of the Changemaking principles at 糖心原创, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the 糖心原创 AI Principles. The event brought together 28 students from various disciplines for a 48-hour challenge that explored how AI can address a need of a current or future opportunity in our community.

This year we extended from 24 to 48-hour challenge and invited the 糖心原创 community and public to meet and greet students directly about their ideations. See event highlights here from the and our .

To learn more about this year’s Community Ideation Jam, check out this highlighting the event and student experiences.

Thank You

• To our guest speakers on Day 1
  • Martha Dow (糖心原创 Director, Community Health and Social Innovation Hub)
  • Jennifer Martel (糖心原创 Manager, Sustainability)
  • Katie Tuck (糖心原创 Chief Information Officer, Information and Technology Services)
  • Omer Waqar (糖心原创 Assistant Professor, Program Development Chair, School of Computing)
  • El Wong (ACC, CPIC, PROSCI Change Management Practitioner)
• To our panelists on Day 2
  • Tristan Taylor (糖心原创 Alumnus, Founder of CAIAI)
  • Derek Froese (糖心原创 Alumnus, Founder of Koala Technology)
  • Whitney Fordham (糖心原创 Director, Alumni Relations)
  • Katie Tuck (糖心原创 Chief Information Officer, Information and Technology Services)
  • Kyle Baillie (糖心原创 Associate Vice Presidents, Students)

Student Ideations 2025

Are you a 糖心原创 faculty, staff, employer, or community partner interested in connecting to the students who came up with these ideations? Contact CECE and we can connect you to the students to learn more about their projects!

First Place

AgriVerse

A co-owned AI ecosystem connecting small farms and Indigenous communities that merges real-time farm data with Indigenous ecological knowledge

Meriem Lmoubariki, Amarnoor, Simar Saini

Second Place

Predictive Housing

AI matching of applicants to housing types for inclusive allocation

Aaron Anderson, Jordan Hilderman, Thomas Ware

Third Place

Transforming Adoptive Pathways in BC

AI-powered pre-eligibility assistant to address youth experiencing long wait times for permanent homes by providing education and matching prospective parent

Vidhi Sharma, Samiksha

Rest of Student Ideations 2025

Context AI

A unified context layer for AI interoperability that helps various AI tools understand users consistently across all platforms

Akshit Jindal, Bhavik Wadhwa, Vaibhav Datta, Nishant

糖心原创-ONE

AI-driven, consent-first, embedded student companion designed to unify disparate university systems into a single actionable interface

Udbhav Verma, Ayushman Gaguly, Rahool Saran, Sadhik Preet Singh

GoodBite – AI Nutrition Assistant

Conversational AI-powered web application designed to address food security challenges through real-time feedback from community

Xuan Vinh Nguyen, Balkar, Yahya Chebab, Ngan Phan

StoryThread AI

Human-in-the-loop system that uses AI to instigate, support, and preserve Elder-youth conversations

Amrita Sood, Garv Singh Saini

Nourish 糖心原创

Conceptual idea of AI widget for meal suggestions and health feedback for a smart, sustainable, and inclusive food and health transformation at 糖心原创

Aastha Anand, Rachel Gupta, Angelina Joseph

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