Community of Innovation Podcast

Welcome to Part 2 of our look at end user engagement. In Part 1, we heard from the CABHI experts on the basics of speaking with end users and customers when developing your innovation. In this episode we speak with two members of CABHI's Seniors Advisory Panel, and a team of innovators that worked with the panel on their CABHI-funded project. We ask hard hitting questions like, 'How'd that go for you?', and 'So, was your baby ugly?'. Listen in as we compare innovation theory to

Engaging end users is considered mandatory or irrelevant, depending on the style of innovator you speak with. Should you co-design your product in order to ensure you're addressing a real need? Or should you squeeze into a black turtleneck and invent the future others cannot yet see? As we hear in this episode of our podcast, the answers aren't mutually exclusive. And one way or another, the world is going to eventually tell you whether your "baby" is ugly or not. How and when should you

Your innovation is exciting, world changing, elegantly designed - but can you pay the rent? CABHI loves innovation, but the world doesn't have enough closets for all the great services and prototypes collecting dust because there wasn't a plan to pay for them. Financial sustainability is not easy, but the good news is that there isn't only one road to achieving it. Join us as we engage our special guest, who has found herself in the unexpected role of bootstrapping a promising clinical

This episode we visit a topic very close to our hearts: implementation and sustainability. At CABHI, putting novel solutions into actual practice is at the heart of how we define innovation. The long and complicated path to sustainable implementation remains a profound barrier to healthcare innovation. We sat down with two esteemed experts (real ‘K Stars’, if you will!) in the field of Knowledge Mobilization to talk about what they do and how they do it. Dr. Julia Moore (Senior Director at The

Our first episode focuses on the Ethics of Innovation, and features insights from Roshan Guna (Baycrest’s Manager of Research Ethics & Participation) and Fidelma Serediuk (Baycrest’s Manager and Professional Practice Chief, Physiotherapy; Manager, Sam & Ida Ross Memory Clinic). Fidelma is the local lead for the multi-site Motiview project, which is engaging older adults (many with dementia) in virtual cycling tours to destinations from around the world. In discussion with CABHI’s