XPRIZE Canada Foundation champions bold, incentive-driven innovation nationwide. As the charitable engine behind Canada's XPRIZE ecosystem, we back breakthrough competitions and the teams who compete in them — and power the national infrastructure, including the XPRIZE Canada Hub, that turns ambition into real-world impact.
XPRIZE Canada Hub
The XPRIZE Canada Hub — the world's first national XPRIZE Hub — is Canada's structured pathway from challenge discovery to real-world deployment.
Hosted at the University of Calgary, the Hub recruits and supports Canadian teams competing in global XPRIZE challenges, connecting them to partners and validation environments, and helping them scale from competition to adoption. Whether you are ready to compete, partner, or contribute your expertise — your path starts here.
Empowering Canadian Innovators
The new XPRIZE Hub at the University of Calgary
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Learn more about the XPRIZE Canada hub at the University of Calgary
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Global Hubs
To accomplish XPRIZE’s mission to create a world of equitable abundance, we need collaboration and participation from the entire world. After 30 years of successful impact, and engaging 174 countries, we are, for the first time, establishing physical hubs in strategic locations across the globe to further strengthen our presence, encourage participation from local communities, and build partnerships toward our shared mission.
Each regional XPRIZE hub acts as a national and regional focal point for XPRIZE to create awareness about our mission and specific competitions, to attract innovators to participate in these competitions, and attract and activate a local ecosystem of partners. These partners in turn support local and regional teams on their journey toward building solutions and scaling toward global impact.
Featured challenge
XPRIZE Wildfire
Canada's forests, communities, and emergency responders face some of the world's most intense wildfire conditions.
The XPRIZE Wildfire competition challenges teams to develop technologies that detect, monitor, and suppress wildfires more effectively than any existing system. The next phase will require partners, test environments, and pathways to adoption—areas where Canada can play a leading role.
Other challenges
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$5 MillionActive XPRIZE Quantum ApplicationsGoogle Quantum AI
Deep Tech + Exploration
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$119 MillionActive XPRIZE Water ScarcityMohamed bin Zayed Water Initiative
Food + Water + Waste
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$101 MillionActive XPRIZE HealthspanHEVOLUTION | SOLVE FSHD
Health
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$11 MillionActive XPRIZE WildfirePG&E | Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
Energy + Climate + Nature
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FUNDRAISINGFuture XPRIZE Accelerate Learning
Learning + Society
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FUNDRAISINGFuture Adaptive Plants
Food + Water + Waste
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FUNDRAISINGFuture XPRIZE Critical Minerals
Energy + Climate + Nature
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FUNDRAISINGFuture XPRIZE Ovarian Health
Health
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Founding partners
Global hubs are funded and made possible by the generous support of visionary founding members in each country, who help us establish a physical presence via supporting dedicated teams whose mission is to build and engage the communities in each country and region with Global XPRIZE programs.
The XPRIZE Canada Hub is made possible by the University of Calgary, Alberta Technology and Innovation, and the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund.
XPRIZE Hub Canada Team
The XPRIZE Canada Hub team connects Canadian innovators to global XPRIZE opportunities, partners, and expertise. Together, we're building pathways that help bold ideas move from competition to real-world impact.
