This event examines how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have turned family contact into a profit-driven system, drawing on Michigan’s groundbreaking “Right to Hug” litigation to challenge the erosion of in-person visits amid mounting pressures on due process. It situates this litigation within broader jail and prison policies across the United States that replace physical visits with costly, unreliable, and highly surveilled video calls.
Friday, March 13, 2026 13:00to14:30
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 13:00to14:00
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Mar. 17th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 13:00to14:00
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Mar. 24th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Saturday, March 28, 2026 10:00to15:00
Join us for an in‑depth conversation on the introduction of IRCAs in Quebec. Taking place on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at the Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (Room 100), McGill Faculty of Law, this Symposium will bring together lawyers, judges, mental health clinicians, professors, students, and community members to explore the role of IRCAs in advancing equity and fairness within the criminal legal system.
Saturday, March 28, 2026 10:00to15:00
Join us for an in depth conversation on the introduction of IRCAs in Quebec. Taking place on Saturday, March 28, 2026, at the Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (Room 100), McGill Faculty of Law, this Symposium will bring together lawyers, judges, mental health clinicians, professors, students, and community members to explore the role of IRCAs in advancing equity and fairness within the criminal legal system.
Details of the event
Saturday, March 28, 2026
10:00 – 15:00 (ET)
New Chancellor Day Hall
Maxwell Cohen Moot Court, Room 100
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 13:00to14:00
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Date: Mar. 31st, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 13:00to14:00
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Apr. 7th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Application Deadline: April 12, 2026, 11:59PM ET - Apply Here!
McGill graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems? Consider applying as a team to our Invention to Impact training program (I-to-I) to advance your research from lab to market!