Bio
Kyle Briggs is a physicist, a deep-tech entrepreneur and the Entrepreneur in Residence for the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa. He holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Ottawa and is the former CEO of Northern Nanopore Instruments, a company that operated at the interface of nanotechnology and biotechnology from 2020 to 2023 prior to its acquisition. He has won numerous awards for his research, including the CMC Douglas R. Colton Medal for his contributions in nanotechnology. Kyle is the author of CanInnovate, an innovation policy newsletter that seeks to shine a light on challenges to commercialization of emerging technologies and suggest practical policy changes through which they can be overcome. In service of this goal, he is also a co-author of the Simple Agreement for Innovation Licensing (SAIL) framework.