1. SDG Innovation Summer School – 5ᵗʰ Edition, 2024 – ESG, UQAM

🎯 Theme: Digital Transformation and Sustainable Innovation

The 2024 edition brought together students, researchers, industry professionals, and partners to discuss challenges in digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and sustainable technologies.

Program Highlights:

  • Student presentations before a jury and poster competition

  • “Digital Transformation Offensive (DTO)” competition with researchers and partners

  • Thematic workshops (scientific communication, Power BI, etc.)

  • Plenary lectures by industry and academic experts:

    • Excellence 5.0 – AI for Operational Excellence

    • Automated RFID for Stockout Management

    • Sustainable IT Awareness – Sopra Steria & Airbus

    • Low Emission Aviation – NRC

  • Visit to ESG UQAM’s IoT Laboratory

  • Breakfasts, lunches, and networking cocktail fostering exchanges

👉 Check the Programme École d’été.

2. SDG Innovation Summer School – 4ᵗʰ Edition, 2023 – CNIMI, UQTR

📍 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Campus – CNIMI, Drummondville
📅 June 13, 2023
🎯 Theme: Digital Transformation and Innovation – Industry 4.0

The 2023 edition brought together students, professors, and industrial and public partners from the SDG Innovation university network, as well as international delegates, to share advancements in digital transformation and innovation.

Event Highlights:

  • Student competition and CNIMI tours: teams explored smart manufacturing stations and co-created research project proposals

  • DTO (Digital Transformation Offensive) Forum: discussions on project progress with researchers and industrial partners

  • Conferences and experience sharing: innovation, ethics, sustainable development, and technological entrepreneurship

  • Scientific poster session: 25 students presented their work

  • Networking cocktail fostering interactions between students, professors, and experts

👉 Check the full program for the 2023 edition.

3. SDG Innovation Summer School – 3ʳᵈ Edition, 2022 – Université Laval

📅 June 8, 2022
🎯 Theme: Industry 4.0 and 5.0 – Innovation and Digital Transformation

The 2022 edition of the Student Forum brought together students, professors, and industry experts from the SDG Innovation network, providing a space for scientific exchange and peer-to-peer interactions.

Program Highlights:

  • Student presentations (15 minutes each) before a jury and peers, showcasing their research projects and scientific contributions

  • Thematic sessions led by experts to encourage discussions and knowledge sharing

  • Guest lectures:

    • François Léger, CEO of PMP Solutions – The importance of the “data scientist” in the data-driven world

    • Jeffrey Dungen, Co-founder and CEO of ReelyActive – The tale of the three bears, 4.0 and 5.0

  • Competitions and interactive exchanges on simulation projects, digital twins, AI, and supply chain transformation

  • Parallel workshops: collaborative innovation, process optimization, additive manufacturing, and smart logistics

  • Scientific poster session presented by students to share research results

  • Networking cocktail fostering interactions between participants and experts

👉 Check the full program for the 2022 edition

4. SDG Innovation Summer School – 2ⁿᵈ Edition, 2021 – ÉTS, integrated into the Acfas Congress

📍 Online – May 6, 2021
🎯 Theme: Digital Transformation – Innovation and Management

The 2021 edition, integrated into the 88ᵗʰ Acfas Congress, brought together researchers, professors, and industry experts to explore challenges of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 in manufacturing organizations.

Event Highlights:

  • Opening lectures and expert panels on future perspectives and strategies for implementing Industry 4.0

  • Oral presentations on SMEs and digital transformation, data preparation and usage, machine learning, and digital twins

  • Student competition: research videos and innovative solutions to business challenges

  • Workshops and panels on Lean 4.0 health and IoT solutions for manufacturing management

  • Awards ceremony for competition winners and official closing by Hany Moustapha (ÉTS)

👉 Check the full program for the 2021 edition.

5. SDG Innovation Summer School – 1ˢᵗ Edition, 2019 – ÉTS, Student House

📍 ÉTS Montréal – August 26–28, 2019
🎯 Theme: Industry 4.0 – The Fourth Industrial Revolution is Here. Get Ready!

The 2019 edition of the 4.0 Innovation Network Summer School brought together students, researchers, industry professionals, and decision-makers to explore the challenges and opportunities of Industry 4.0.

Program Highlights:

  • Lectures led by experts from academia and industry

  • Hands-on workshop on cyber-physical systems

  • Scientific poster competition and student booths

  • Visits to ÉTS research laboratories

  • Dinners and networking cocktails fostering exchanges and collaborations

Special Activity:
🚍 Industrial visit: Festo Didactic, Québec – August 29, 2019 (bus transportation included)

👉 Check the full program for the 2019 edition..