Community Ideation Jam 2025

With the success of the CIJ 2025 event, CECE is open to the Community Ideation Jam event becoming an annual event for the UFV community and looks to introduce interesting themes for students through partnership with internal and external community partners.

Community Ideation Jam 2025

During National Career Month in November 2025, CECE hosted the second UFV Community Ideation Jam, a work-integrated learning event held on November 10 and 12 during Fall Reading Break. The event, themed Changemaking with AI, in partnership with Tristan Taylor (UFV Alumnus and founder of the Canadian Advancement Institute for Artificial Intelligence) and the UFV Alumni Association, is a timely celebration that drew upon the 4 pillars of the Changemaking principles at UFV, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the UFV AI Principles. The event brought together 28 students from various disciplines for a 48-hour challenge that explored how AI can address a need of a current or future opportunity in our community.

This year we extended from 24 to 48-hour challenge and invited the UFV community and public to meet and greet students directly about their ideations. See event highlights here from the Flickr album and our LinkedIn thank you recap.

Thank You

• To our guest speakers on Day 1
  • Martha Dow (UFV Director, Community Health and Social Innovation Hub)
  • Jennifer Martel (UFV Manager, Sustainability)
  • Katie Tuck (UFV Chief Information Officer, Information and Technology Services)
  • Omer Waqar (UFV Assistant Professor, Program Development Chair, School of Computing)
  • El Wong (ACC, CPIC, PROSCI Change Management Practitioner)
• To our panelists on Day 2
  • Tristan Taylor (UFV Alumnus, Founder of CAIAI)
  • Derek Froese (UFV Alumnus, Founder of CAIAI)
  • Whitney Fordham (UFV Director, Alumni Relations)
  • Katie Tuck (UFV Chief Information Officer, Information and Technology Services)
  • Kyle Baillie (UFV Associate Vice Presidents, Students)

Student Ideations 2025

Are you a UFV faculty, staff, employer, or community partner interested in connecting to the students who came up with these ideations? Contact CECE and we can connect you to the students to learn more about their projects!

First Place

AgriVerse

A co-owned AI ecosystem connecting small farms and Indigenous communities that merges real-time farm data with Indigenous ecological knowledge

Meriem Lmoubariki, Amarnoor, Simar Saini

Second Place

Predictive Housing

AI matching of applicants to housing types for inclusive allocation

Aaron Anderson, Jordan Hilderman, Thomas Ware

Third Place

Transforming Adoptive Pathways in BC

AI-powered pre-eligibility assistant to address youth experiencing long wait times for permanent homes by providing education and matching prospective parent

Vidhi Sharma, Samiksha

Rest of Student Ideations 2025

Context AI

A unified context layer for AI interoperability that helps various AI tools understand users consistently across all platforms

Akshit Jindal, Bhavik Wadhwa, Vaibhav Datta, Nishant

UFV-ONE

AI-driven, consent-first, embedded student companion designed to unify disparate university systems into a single actionable interface

Udbhav Verma, Ayushman Gaguly, Rahool Saran, Sadhik Preet Singh

GoodBite – AI Nutrition Assistant

Conversational AI-powered web application designed to address food security challenges through real-time feedback from community

Xuan Vinh Nguyen, Balkar, Yahya Chebab, Ngan Phan

StoryThread AI

Human-in-the-loop system that uses AI to instigate, support, and preserve Elder-youth conversations

Amrita Sood, Garv Singh Saini

Nourish UFV

Conceptual idea of AI widget for meal suggestions and health feedback for a smart, sustainable, and inclusive food and health transformation at UFV

Aastha Anand, Rachel Gupta, Angelina Joseph

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