Category: News

  • Annual Report 2021 – 2022

    Annual Report 2021 – 2022

    And that brings us to the close of year two! The UBC Smart City team is excited to present our accomplishments of the past year. Read our annual report at the link below.

  • 1st Place at National ASCE Blue Sky Innovation Contest

    1st Place at National ASCE Blue Sky Innovation Contest

    We are excited to announce that our transportation team won first place 2021 National ASCE Blue Sky Innovation Contest! Our solution was presented at the ASCE Convention in October 2021. Congratulations to our team members Joshua, Aliya, Mohit, Valentina, Michelle, Thien, Ben, and Parsa!

  • Annual Report 2020-2021

    Our team has just wrapped the year and is proud to present our year in review. Please find the report embedded below. You may also find the report in our archives, and on social media!

  • 1st Place At Regional ASCE Ble Sky Innovation Contest

    1st Place At Regional ASCE Ble Sky Innovation Contest

    We are pleased to announce that our Transportation team has won first place at the ASCE’s Regional Blue Sky Innovation Contest hosted by Brigham Young University (BYU) at the Rocky Mountain Conference. Our team will be competing nationally in the United States at the ASCE Convention in October. Congratulations to our team members Joshua, Aliya,…

  • Executive Recruitment 2021-2022

    As our inaugural year as a student team winds down, we are looking towards the future and preparing for our sophomore year. This begins with recruitment for our 2021-2022 Executive Team. Do you want to apply information technology to urban design projects and attend some awesome competitions? Or do you want to help bridge the…

  • Guest Speaker

    Happy March everyone! This Sunday UBC Smart City was pleased to have Mr. Chris Sainsbury National Lead for Smart Cities at KPMG Canada come in and give us a wonderful presentation on smart cities in practice. Chris gave us multiple mini presentations on a range of ‘smart’ technologies that are transforming how we live and…

  • Happy New Year & Contest Updates

    Happy New Year! We at UBC Smart City would like to wish all a happy and wonderful 2021. With a new year comes new challenges and we are excited to provide an update on the two contests that we are currently participating in. The first contest is the World’s Challenge Challenge, hosted by the UBC…

  • Panelists at the Future of Infrastructure Conference

    Panelists at the Future of Infrastructure Conference

    Our team is pleased to have sent Parsa Shani and Ben Corbett as panelists to Infraday Pacific Northwest’s Future of Infrastructure conference where they sat down with local, regional, and national leaders in infrastructure to discuss emerging opportunities in both the public and private realms of infrastructure project delivery. Parsa and Ben were the most…

  • Results from MIT EnergyHack

    Results from MIT EnergyHack

    We are excited to announce that our Energy Team has won the “Most Out Of the Box” theme challenge and placing as the runner up in the ChargePoint challenge statement! They were 1 of 10 teams that competed in this specific challenge and the results can be found here. Our team competed between November 6…

  • Energy Team Selected to Compete in MIT EnergyHack

    Happy Halloween! Our Energy Team has applied and have been selected as one of the teams competing in MIT EnergyHack this year! The team, compromising of Fayaz Damani (Lead), Parsa Shani, Sophie Varabioff, and Mustafa Adil, will participate in the main hackathon event happening between November 6 to 8 where they will work to address…

  • Warm Welcome to Our New Members!

    Join us in welcoming our final new members to UBC Smart City! We have officially concluded recruitment for our inaugural year and are excited what is to come! The second round was just as competitive as the first, which made the selection process just as difficult, so we would like to thank all the applicants…

  • Translink Open Call for Innovation Submission

    Despite plummeting public transit ridership due to the global pandemic, transit continues to be an essential public service and is key for efficient movement of people and goods in cities around the world. However, low ridership is threatening the viability of this system, and solutions are needed fast. To restore public trust (and with it,…

  • Recruitment Update

    We would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who has shown interest in applying to be a part of the inaugural UBC Smart City team. Applications are now closed. The executives are now hard at work in reviewing the prospective candidates so be sure to keep an eye out for a decision…

  • Recruitment II & Trasurer Applications

    Can you already believe we are in September and that the new academic year will start next week? We are super excited to announce that our second round of recruitment for UBC Smart City is now live and that we are now accepting applications! We are still looking for more members to fill out our…

  • New Members

    Join us in welcoming our new members to UBC Smart City! We completed the interview process last week and were amazed by the dynamic range of candidates that had applied, which made the selection process very difficult as there were many qualified candidates. If you were not offered a spot, do not worry as we…

  • We’re Live!

    Welcome to UBC Smart City! We recently closed our first round of recruitment and are in the midst of interviewing candidates to add to our early-starters squad for the rest of summer. We were pleasantly surprised by both the volume and quality of applicants. We will be having another hiring round when the academic year…