XPRIZE Canada Hub Activities
Keep up with Hub activities across Canada
Upcoming Events
XPRIZE Healthspan Watch Party - August 10
Join the XPRIZE Canada Hub for a watch party celebrating a huge moment in longevity science.
We're gathering at Last Best Brewery to watch the XPRIZE Healthspan Finalist Awards Ceremony live, as the Top 10 finalist teams are officially announced from a global field competing for $101 million to reverse aging by 10+ years.
This is a follow-up to our June 10 health symposium at Foothills Campus and a chance for our community of longevity enthusiasts, biotech professionals, and science advocates to come back together, catch up, and cheer on the innovators turning the promise of longevity science into clinical reality.
If you are unable to join us, we invite you to watch the livestream on the XPRIZE YouTube Channel: https://lnkd.in/gq7R9JPe
Funding Breakthrough Technologies Panel
The XPRIZE Canada Hub in partnership with Quantum City is hosting the XPRIZE Quantum Applications Team Summit in Calgary this August.
XPRIZE Quantum Applications is a $5M, three-year global competition challenging teams to develop quantum algorithms ready for deployment as hardware advances — tackling complex problems in health, climate, energy, and materials science. Twelve teams are currently competing (seven Phase I finalists plus five wildcard finalists), sharing $1M today and competing for the remaining $4M as they advance toward Phase II and a Spring 2027 announcement of winners.
As part of the Team Summit on August 21 from 9:00 - 11:00 am, the XPRIZE Canada Hub is hosting a panel discussion at Quantum City that will bring together perspectives across the full spectrum of funders to provide a practical view of how quantum technologies actually get funded.
Dedicated time for networking follows the panel — a chance to learn from and connect directly with the XPRIZE Quantum Applications teams and the broader Summit community.
If you are interested in attending this exclusive session, please register by August 14 at 9:00 am.
XPRIZE Canada Hub at Life Sciences Week
On Sept 23, join the XPRIZE Canada Hub for a panel session on Bold Ideas, Breakthrough Impact: Why Radical Innovation is Needed to Transform Health and Life Sciences as we bring together leaders from the worlds of challenge-based innovation, digital health, healthy aging research, and entrepreneurship to explore how transformative ideas become real-world impact.
Afterwards continue the conversation, this informal follow-up offers a direct opportunity to engage with the XPRIZE team, ask further questions, and explore what it takes to drive radical innovation in health and life sciences.
Past Activities
2026
XPRIZE Healthspan Judging Summit & XPRIZE Health Symposium
From June 10-12, the XPRIZE Healthspan judges and team were hosted by the XPRIZE Canada Hub at the University of Calgary for an insightful session and to determine the Top 10 Finalist Teams of the Milestone 2 award in the Healthspan competition.
Calgary Climate Week 2026
As part of Calgary Climate Week, the XPRIZE Canada Hub brought XPRIZE alum for a conversation on what it takes to build and scale climate solutions in today’s rapidly evolving global market. Jim Mann, UNDO Carbon (UK), Madison Savilow, Carbon Upcycling (Calgary), and Alex Ip, CERT Systems Inc (Toronto) alum from the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE and Carbon Removal XPRIZE, these founders have competed on the world stage and are now commercializing solutions with real market impact.
XPRIZE Global Brain Trust convenes in Montreal
The XPRIZE Canada Hub was able to bring the XPRIZE Global Brain Trust to McGill University to start the design of future competitions in Food, Water & Waste; Health, and Energy, Climate + Nature that will ignite breakthrough solutions.
Jim Mann, Founder and CEO of UNDO Carbon came to visit the University of Calgary and the XPRIZE Canada Hub. He talks about UNDO’s experience participating in the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition and the value of the process beyond the prize itself. UNDO Carbon was named one of four global winners in the final round of the $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, selected from more than 1,300 teams worldwide for its enhanced rock weathering approach to permanent carbon removal.
The XPRIZE Canada Hub was a marketing partner for Government Innovation Week Federal 2026 in Ottawa. Government Innovation Week Federal brings together Federal leaders to integrate Gov 3.0 innovations while safeguarding equity, privacy, and security—core priorities of the current government's mandate.
2025
Calgary Innovation Week
Sarah McCullough, National Hub Director of the XPRIZE Canada Hub at the University of Calgary chatted with Kristal Kaye, Interim CEO of CarbonCure, winner of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE - Natural Gas Track.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity Track A Team Summit
The XPRIZE Water Scarcity Track A Team Summit was hosted by the XPRIZE Canada Hub from August 18 to 20, 2025. The $119M XPRIZE Water Scarcity sponsored by the Mohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative is the largest prize purse in XPRIZE history.