iCAN 2023 was held on August 26th, Virtually in Toronto, Canada
International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2023 Report
The 8th annual edition of the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2023 was held virtually in Toronto, Canada. This was the 3rd year in which the event was held virtually. The competition progressed in two stages: (1) The Preliminaries and (2) The Finals.
The Preliminaries: The Preliminaries was open for a 6-month period (January 15 – July 15) where applicants were required
to complete and submit their application forms by email. The preliminary was the initial stage for the applicants to qualify for the competition and further proceed to the Finals. All applications were reviewed by the Organizing Committee and jury Members to verify the legitimacy of presented entries (inventions, innovative products, scientific research projects, etc.) and to check if the nature of ideas met the qualification protocols for entering the competition. Once applications pass the initial checks, the ideas are then evaluated through word descriptions, images, and/or other external links and media sources.
For the 6-month period, the Organizing Committee and jury reviewed a total of 621 applications from 50 countries and qualified 491 applications to proceed to the Finals of which 246 applications competed in the Finals. The jury examined the written descriptions and visual data provided in the application forms to nominate the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Winners and to further proceed them to the Finals.
Any incomplete applications or proposals with unacceptable contents/themes of hazardous means were initially filtered out and disqualified from the Preliminaries. Applicants who failed to maintain consistent email communication with the iCAN Team (Management & Coordination of the Registrar) were also eliminated from the competition roster for holding a long-term incomplete status for their submissions.
The Finals: Applicants who have fulfilled the essential requirements of the Preliminaries were qualified to proceed to the Finals where they were asked to submit a video presentation of their nominated innovations for further examination and review by the Jury for the selection process of the Finals Award Winners. The Finals Awards featured the Grand Prize, Semi-Grand Prize, Best Invention Awards (Various Categories), Canadian Special Awards by the host organizations (ICO, TISIAS & Inventors Circle), and International Special Awards sponsored by official delegations allocated in iCAN 2023.
On August 26th, the following contents were uploaded on the official website for iCAN 2023 “The Finals”:
• iCAN 2023 “The Finals” Award Winners Announcement (by List)
• iCAN 2023 Keynote Speaker Presentation by Howard A. Lim (HOW Creative)
• iCAN 2023 “The Finals” Movie Showcase
• iCAN 2023 Official Catalogue Online
All video files submitted by the Finalists were examined to select the winners of the Finals Awards by the Organizing Committee and jury as well as the International Delegation Leaders. The videos were also utilized in creating the iCAN 2023 “The Finals” Movie as mixed footages. This year, the Finals featured our Main Keynote Speaker’s Presentation “How to Rise Far Above Your Competition”. The Catalogue provided the general and overall information of the event, congratulatory messages by the committee, partners, and international delegations followed by the directory of exhibits.
Summary
The main purpose of iCAN is to build a special platform to unite the creativity and innovation initiatives of Canadian inventors with the rest of the world by providing everyone with the golden opportunity to expand their international network, and business activities, promote their inventions, new products, and research projects while achieving a new milestone of winning iCAN Awards from Canada for the worldwide inventors’ beneficial gain of a unique international success.
The 8th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2022 organized by the Toronto International Society of Innovation and Advanced Skills (TISIAS), supported by the Innovation Initiative Co-operative Inc. “The Inventors’ Circle”, International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA), World Invention Intellectual Property Associations (WIIPA), and The Patent Invention Magazine were held virtually on August 26, 2023, in Toronto, Canada.
iCAN is the premier event of Canada for worldwide inventors which has shown continuous growth and improvement since its first edition in 2016 through 2022. The past 7 editions of iCAN from 2016~2022 featured participants from 95 countries from all continents around the world including North, Central and South Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania which redefined the event as the true global stage for merging worldwide creativity and innovation in the center of the multicultural mainstream of Toronto, Canada.
Participating Countries and Collaborating Organizations
Participating Countries: iCAN 2023 was entered by a total of 621 inventions from 50 countries and regions from around the world: North/South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. All applicants initially competed in the competition Preliminaries for the evaluation for Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Awards. Furthermore, the Organizing Committee and the Jury qualified 491 inventions to proceed to the Finals where the Finalists were examined for their additional submission of video presentations. In the Finals, the jury selected winners for the Grand Prize, Semi-Grand Prize, Best Invention Awards, and Special Awards.
