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The First Institute of Canadian Inventors (FICI) is the official representative of the IFIA
in Canada. FICI is running by Babak Khodaparast and it has more than 5 student chap-
ters, Canada wide with more than 900 members. Following is part of the FICI activities
since January 2019:
On March 17th the First Institute of Canadian Inventors with the sponsorship of
Ridout&Maybee LLP and Women in Tech Engineering of IEEE organized an Interna-
tional competition of Cleantech, high tech and smart cities at the Toronto Reference
Library, in Downtown Toronto. In this competition, applicants submitted their inven-
tions from different countries, including Canada and seven inventions, and startups
reached the final stage. Two startups had their pitch in front of juries, and the winner
won $5000 from Ridout&Maybee Law firm for their Intellectual Property with a special
award from FICI.

THE FIRST INSTITUTE OF

CANADIAN INVENTORS-

FICI REPORT IN 2019

The next competition of FICI will be in the winter 2021 in Toronto with more focus on
Canadian and International startups in the field of AI, Cleantech, tourism and smart
cities.
Babak Khodaparast, president of the First Institute of Canadian Inventors (FICI), par-
ticipated in the OCE 2019 on May 7th as the official representative of IFIA in Canada,
to increase awareness about IFIA and how this organization can support national and
international inventors.
Named Canada's Best Expo in 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and commending 14
years of strong, new thoughts, OCE's Revelation is Canada's chief development fea-
ture. It unites the best and most brilliant personalities in the industry, the scholarly
community, venture and government to grandstand driving edge innovations, best
practices, and research in the territories of vitality, fin-tech, cleantech, nature, pro-
pelled wellbeing, computerized media, data and correspondence advances and pro-
pelled fabricating. The yearly meeting and grandstand pulls more than 3,600 partici-
pants and more than 500 exhibitors
Revelation's 200,000-square-foot show floor highlights exhibitors from a wide scope

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