The 2022 ADRIQ Innovation Awards were presented on November 17 at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, during the 32nd Innovation Awards Gala. This year’s Gala was hosted by Pascal Monette, President and CEO of ADRIQ. We thank Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator of Quebec and Executive Director of the Quebec Innovation Council, as well as Carl Baillargeon, Director of Marketing/Strategic Partnerships at ADRIQ, and Nancy Déziel, Chair of the ADRIQ Board of Directors, for co-hosting this 32nd edition.
As in previous years, the Gala was preceded by a cocktail reception where young winners of the Hydro-Québec Science Fair, university student clubs, and start-up companies showcased their projects. During the reception, we also had the pleasure of welcoming Mr. Pierre Fitzgibbon, Minister of Economy, Innovation and Energy. The 2022 Bernard-Landry Award, presented to Mr. Albert De Luca of Deloitte, was awarded by Ms. Pascale Déry, Member of the National Assembly for Repentigny and Minister of Higher Education.
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2022 Innovation Awards!
Individual Award
Presented by Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie
Albert De Luca, FCPA, FCA, Deloitte
From left to right: Nancy Déziel, Chair of the Board of Directors, ADRIQ | Pascale Déry, Member of the National Assembly for Repentigny and Minister of Higher Education | Albert De Luca (award recipient), Strategic Advisor, Deloitte | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Polytechnique Montréal and École de technologie supérieure
Kayla Salasidis, Herzliah High School
From left to right: Nancy Déziel, Chair of the Board of Directors, ADRIQ | Ghyslain Gagnon, Dean of Research, École de technologie supérieure | Kayla Salasidis (award recipient) | Annie Ross, Associate Director, Research and Innovation, Polytechnique Montréal | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Corporate Award
Presented by Réseau des CCTT
Two winners were selected for this category.
Biopterre en partenariat avec Les Solutions horticoles HerbiaEra
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | Award Winner | Marie Gagné, President and CEO, CCTT Network | Award Winner | Award Winner | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Solutions Novika en partenariat avec SBI – Fabricant de poêle international (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award winner | award winner | award winner | Marie Gagné, President and CEO, CCTT Network | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Axelys and Fonds de recherche du Québec
Two winners were selected for this category.
Starpax Biopharma | Polytechnique Montréal
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | Jesse Vincent-Herscovici, President and CEO, Axelys | award recipient | Annie Ross, Associate Director, Research and Innovation, Polytechnique Montréal | award recipient | Janice Bailey, Scientific Director, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Calogy Solutions | Université de Sherbrooke (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | Janice Bailey, Scientific Director, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies | award recipient | Jesse Vincent-Herscovici, President and CEO, Axelys | award recipient | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation
Consortium de recherche sur la pomme de terre du Québec en partenariat avec Innofibre, Agrinova, KEMITEK, UQTR et CÉPROCQ
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | Pierre Normand, Vice-President, External Relations and Communications, Canada Foundation for Innovation | Award recipients | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Université de Montréal and Fonds de recherche du Québec
Héros de chez nous
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Director General, Quebec Innovation Council | Janice Bailey, Scientific Director, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies | laureate | laureate | laureate | Yves Joanette, Associate Vice-Rector of Research, Université de Montréal | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by ADRIQ
Two winners were selected for this category.
Akinox
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award winners | Nancy Déziel, Chair of the Board of Directors, ADRIQ | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Flyscan (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | Nancy Déziel, Chair of the Board of Directors, ADRIQ | award recipient | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Université Concordia
Two winners were selected for this category.
LumIR Lasers
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award winner | award winner | Mourad Debbabi, Dean of the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
EHVA (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award winner | award winner | Mourad Debbabi, Dean of the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Médicaments novateurs Canada and BioQuébec
Two winners were selected for this category.
Laboratoire Innodal
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award recipient | Emmanuelle Toussaint, Executive Director, BioQuébec | Jean-Frédéric Lafontaine, Executive Director, Provincial Government Affairs, Innovative Medicines Canada | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Paperplane Therapeutics (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award recipient | Emmanuelle Toussaint, Executive Director, BioQuébec | Jean-Frédéric Lafontaine, Executive Director, Provincial Government Affairs, Innovative Medicines Canada | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Two winners were selected for this category.
Ferme D’Hiver
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Director General, Quebec Innovation Council | Pierre Dumouchel, Director of Technology Transfer, IVADO | award recipient | Françoys Labonté, Director General, Montreal Computer Research Centre | award recipient | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
BioTwin (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Director General, Quebec Innovation Council | Pierre Dumouchel, Director of Technology Transfer, IVADO | award recipient | Françoys Labonté, Director General, Montreal Computer Research Centre | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Investissement Québec and ENCQOR 5G
Point G Plaisirs Gourmands
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | Julien Bourque, Director, Strategies and Sustainable Development, Investissement Québec | award winner | Frédéric Tremblay, representative of Innovation ENCQOR | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
Presented by Regroupements sectoriels de recherche industrielle
CQRDA with Maadi Group, École de technologie supérieure and Université de Waterloo
From left to right: Sofiene Amira, Scientific Director, CQRDA | Alexandre de la Chevrotière, President, Maadi Group | Gilles Déry, CEO, CQRDA
CQDM with Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique and NMX Research and solutions
From left to right: Mathieu Paquette, CDQM | Sacha Larda, NMX | Diane Gosselin, CDQM | Alexandre Morizot, CQDM | Patricia Bouchard, NMX | Simon Woo, INRS | Sandra Constantin, CDQM
CRIAQ with GHGSat, INO and Polytechnique Montréal
From left to right: Geneviève Dion, CRIAQ | Alain Beaulieu, GHG Sat | Ettore Merlo, Polytechnique Montréal | Jonathan Lévesque, INO | Émilie Hamel, GHG Sat | Alice Zachary, CRIAQ
CRIBIQ with Université de Montréal and producteurs et productrices acéricoles du Québec
From left to right: Martine Haviernick, University of Montreal | laureate | laureate | Cristina Marques, CRIBIQ
CQRDA with Maadi Group, École de technologie supérieure and Université de Waterloo
From left to right: Sofiene Amira, Scientific Director, CQRDA | Alexandre de la Chevrotière, President, Maadi Group | Gilles Déry, CEO, CQRDA
InnovÉÉ with E-Smart Control, Deeplite, Polytechnique Montréal and École de technologie supérieure
From left to right: Thierry St-Cyr, Innovéé | Jean-Philippe Roberge, E-Smart | Raphaël Jean, E-Smart | Nick Romano, Deeplite | François Légaré, Innovéé
MEDTEQ with Spino Modulation, The Montreal Children’s Hospital, British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children and CHU Sainte-Justine
From left to right: Zohar Bassevitch, MHICC | Iris Leroux, MEDTEQ+ | Jenny Torchia, Spino Modulation | Isabelle Crick, MEDTEQ+ | Éric Gaudreau, Spino Modulation | Charles-Antoine Russell, MEDTEQ+
PRIMA Québec with Institut National de Recherche scientifique – Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, Université du Québec à Montréal and AEPONYX
From left to right: Cédrik Coia, R&D Lead, Aeponyx | Mickael Ménard, Professor, ÉTS | Mohamed Chaker, Professor, INRS | Marie Pierre Ippersiel, PRIMA Québec | Philippe Babin, CEO, Aeponyx | Frédéric Nabki, Professor, ÉTS | Damien Michel, Aeponyx
Prompt with Carré Technologies and TÉLUQ
From left to right: Jinny Plourde, Prompt | Neila Mezghani, TÉLUQ | Frédéric Bove, Prompt
Presented by Polytechnique Montréal and École de technologie supérieure
FlixBook
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award recipient | award recipient | Ghyslain Gagnon, Dean of Research, École de technologie supérieure | Annie Ross, Assistant Director, Research and Innovation, Polytechnique Montréal | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
The next generation at the 2022 Gala
Presented by Développement économique de l’agglomération de Longueuil
Our Innovation Awards Partners
Our Gold Partners
Our Bronze Partners
Presented by Réseau québécois en innovation sociale and Humanov-is
Two winners were selected for this category.
UTILE – Unité de travail pour l’implantation de logement étudiant
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award winner | award winner | award winner | Marie-Chantal Paquette, Director, Quebec Network for Social Innovation | Marie-Claude Lagacé, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Network for Social Innovation | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ
ROPPHL – Regroupement des organismes de promotion des personnes handicapées de Laval (Coup de coeur)
From left to right: Luc Sirois, Chief Innovator and Executive Director, Quebec Innovation Council | award winner | award winner | award winner | Marie-Chantal Paquette, Director, Quebec Network for Social Innovation | Marie-Claude Lagacé, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Quebec Network for Social Innovation | Pascal Monette, President and CEO, ADRIQ