Lab2Market Validate Ontario 2026 Closing Ceremony
About Event
Join us as we celebrate the culmination of Lab2Market Validate 2026 and hear from a remarkable cohort of researchers and innovators as they present technologies addressing critical challenges in healthcare, sustainability, advanced manufacturing, energy, and the built environment.
The participating ventures have spent the program validating their technologies, engaging with customers and stakeholders, and refining their commercialization strategies. We invite you to learn about their innovations, ask questions, and celebrate their progress.
Schedule
12:00 pm – 12:15 pm | Welcome & Opening Remarks
12:15 pm – 2:00 pm | Venture Presentations
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Celebratory Remarks, Cohort Photo & Closing
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Networking
Presenters:
Manyou Sun – Faradix is developing a next-generation electrolyzer that uses heat to lower electricity consumption and reduce the cost of green hydrogen production; Manyou will discuss customer validation and the market potential for affordable green hydrogen.
Sara Abbasian – BIM-RISE uses Building Information Modeling (BIM) data to help construction stakeholders estimate, track, and optimize construction and demolition materials early in the project lifecycle, generating circular-economy insights that support waste reduction, material recovery, energy and emissions assessment, and pathways to deployment.
Mohammad Khoobani - Developing a home-based wearable solution designed to help individuals manage bunions. Mohammad will share customer discovery insights, early validation findings, and commercialization plans.
Kay McCallum – Building qorodi, a rapid, reliable, and accessible material emissions testing solution that empowers cultural heritage professionals to eliminate the silent risk of art damage in storage, display, and transit
Ali Abedinpour – Smart Lung Physio™ is a sensor-guided respiratory physiotherapy platform that helps standardize airway-clearance therapy for long-term care residents by improving treatment consistency, safety, and clinical decision-making; Ali will share key customer insights and the pathway toward adoption in long-term care.
Shreshth Saxena – SocialEyes is the first published framework for large-scale, multi-person eye tracking, enabling the study of human behaviour and cognition across diverse, real-world environments; Shreshth will present market validation findings and new customer sectors explored during the Lab2Market Internship.
Abdullah Bin Shams – Developing a scalable consumer health insights platform that uses cheek saliva swab to provide personalized information about Cancer risk, using circulating tumor DNA, for more than 50 cancer types, predict organ-of-origin, and deliver rapid, low-cost results; during L2M Validate, Abdullah will share his customer discovery findings and commercialization strategy for bringing this technology to market.
Phoebe Li – Creating a closed-loop vancomycin monitoring and dosing system that enables continuous antibiotic monitoring and automated dose adjustments; Phoebe will discuss market needs, clinical applications, and next steps toward commercialization.
Ehsan Tabesh – Developing a lithium-selective hydrogel that enables efficient and sustainable lithium recovery from battery waste and brines under ambient conditions; Ehsan will present commercialization opportunities within the battery recycling and critical minerals sectors.
Ryan Bruni –LumaClear is developing a next-generation surface coating for coronary artery stents using naturally occurring materials, advanced bioprinting, and AI-driven drug discovery; Ryan will present validation findings and opportunities within the cardiovascular medical device market.
Chau Mai – BioPolatis develops scalable, fully home-compostable bioplastics from food and agricultural waste to replace conventional single-use plastics in packaging, bags, and agricultural applications; Chau will present customer insights and commercialization opportunities for circular economy solutions.
Masoud Taherijam – Developing a multiscale simulation software platform that predicts the behaviour and integrity of advanced metal alloys used in nuclear reactors; Masoud will present his validation work with industry stakeholders and potential users.
Ameer Hamoodi – Fruit Fit is a Nintendo Switch-based exercise game that combines physical activity and cognitive training to help older adults improve cognitive health and wellbeing; Ameer will share validation findings and opportunities within the healthy aging market.
Ehsan Khoshbakhti – Ehsan Khoshbakhti is developing conductive recyclable 3D printing materials with built in EMI shielding and ESD protection for lightweight customizable and sustainable components used in electronics aerospace defense and advanced manufacturing.
Seyedaydin Jalali – Developing a patented 3D cell-sheet platform that accelerates therapeutic cell-sheet production and is positioned to support scalable, cost-effective regenerative treatments; Seyedaydin will discuss commercialization opportunities in advanced wound care and regenerative medicine.
Xiao Shang – Developing the Autonomous Additive Manufacturing System (AAMS), a machine learning-enabled metal 3D-printing platform that predicts and corrects defects in real time; Xiao will share customer discovery insights and commercialization opportunities in advanced manufacturing.
Akram Khalaji Olyaie – Developing sustainable water-filtration membranes made from laser-induced graphene oxide that efficiently remove heavy metals while reducing environmental impact and production costs; Akram will present market validation insights and applications for sustainable water treatment.