On Wednesday, November 13, leaders and innovators from around the province attended the InnovateNB Awards at Delta Beausejour in Moncton. Awards and recognitions were given to New Brunswick’s top innovators across 11 categories:  

2024 InnovateNB Hall of Fame Inductees
Sandy Bird, Chris Newton, and Brian Flood (In Memoriam), Co-founders of Q1 Labs 

Productivity Improvement by Adopting Technology  
Winner: Crosby Foods Limited 

Emerging Innovator  

• Winner: Farough Motasemi – Anessa Biogas Software 

• Damilare Odumosu - CropMind

• Dr. Sarah Pakzad - Atlantic Memory Clinic
  

Most Innovative Product or Service  

• Winner: Anessa Biogas Software 

• C-Therm Technologies

• Dizolve 
  

Public Sector Award for Innovation  

• Winner: eVisitNB 

• Centre of Excellence for Digital Innovation 

• New Brunswick Department of Health
  

Economic Impact Through Innovation  

• Winner: The SmartEnergy Company 

• VidCruiter 

• Construction Association of New Brunswick
  

Most Innovative Startup   

• Winner: TrojAI 

• MedReddie 

• Profitual 
  

Diversity and Inclusion Champion  

• Winner: Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick 

• TRICOAST Education 

• Real World ABA 
  

Innovation in Academia and Research  

• Winner: Dr. Shelley Doucet, Centre for Research in Integrated Care, University of New Brunswick 

• Dr. Moulay Akhloufi, Perception, Robotics, and Intelligent Machines Laboratory, Université de Moncton 

• Dr. Ian Church, Ocean Mapping Group in the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick 
  

Innovation Champion  

• Winner: Dr. Jalila Jbilou 

• The Gaia Project 

• Innov, Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick 
  

Innovators to Watch  

• Pascale Michaud, AgroGene Solutions 

• Tricia Hayes, Loch Lomond Villa Foundation 

• Dr. Trevor Robin Hanson, University of New Brunswick 

• Cyndhi Nai-Omi Carrasco Delgado, Wow Creators 

• Rebecca McSheffery, Pond-Deshpande Centre 

• Dizolve Group Corporation

• Houlie Duque, HomeschoolToGo By GHP Scholastic Inc 

• Dr. Dodick Gasser, Innov - CCNB 

• Kara LeBlanc, MedReddie