EmergEx
Simulcorp
SAIT School for Advanced Digital Technology
Friday, April 17, 2026
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Irene Atrium, Stan Grad

Welcome to EmergEx.

Thank you for attending. Below, you can explore the full table list, speaker lineup, and project landing pages.

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To learn more about EmergEx, read below. Community Acknowledgement, speakers, and all table listings are included on this page.

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The Future of Spatial Computing and the Present

Our talk explores the reality of VR and AR and where these technologies can currently do today. We'll be going through a brief history of VR and XR, and highlighting where VR excels right now, where AR and MR show promise, and how they're being used in the real-world. We'll also...

Speakers: Mikael Ly, Jasprit Grewal
SE003
1:00 PM to 1:30 PMRoom MacDonald Hall
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TuningFork, our team's journey

Our presentation will outline our experiences in the Emerging Trends class. For Dat, he can highlight his issues(?) with Elliot and the discuss what limits of purely vibe coding. Temi, and Mark can discuss our team's journey from drones, to karaoke, and finally into TuningFork. W...

Speakers: Kiera Johnson, Dat Do-Nguyen, Temi Bankole, Mark Olidan
SE004
1:30 PM to 2:00 PMRoom MacDonald HallFeatured
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From Classroom to Commercial: Building Beneflow in the Real World

Viktor and Gabriel didn't come to SAIT with a blank slate. They arrived with a mission: to disrupt the Canadian group insurance space. From day one, they put every class to work in service of that goal. By the time they reached Capstone and Emerging Trends, the project choice was...

Speakers: Viktor Gerasimenko, Gabriel Antonelli
SE005
2:00 PM to 2:30 PMRoom MacDonald HallKeynote
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Innovation and Trends in Business

The topic will outline how innovation emerges from early concept phases and how leveraging cutting-edge trends drives the creation of new companies and tools.

Speakers: Trystan Keller
SE001
2:30 PM to 3:00 PMRoom MacDonald Hall
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Hydra Herder: The Intelligence Layer for Infrastructure

Our team has developed a comprehensive digital twin system for Bearspaw Dam that combines real-time monitoring, AI-powered predictions, and interactive 3D visualization. This platform integrates multiple data sources including structural sensors, water quality metrics, and histor...

Speakers: Sanbir Singh, Xujun Wang, Felix Gabriel Montanez, Jéssica Piza
SE002
3:00 PM to 3:30 PMRoom MacDonald Hall
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Learning Through Failure

We will be discussing our project and story. Our project is about AI imagery detection. We wanted to contribute a tool that was free of charge, that people could use to detect whether a certain image was AI generated or not. We initially intended to help people who were not famil...

Speakers: Sean Lee, Hans Cabanero, Noah Frank, Kyle Carlos
SE007
3:30 PM to 4:00 PMRoom MacDonald Hall
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Four Months Out

Four months out, still building. This talk is about two ideas that changed how I spend my time after graduation - and what I wish someone had told me on day one.

Speakers: Yue Zhou
SE006

The following booths and tables will be available.

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Featured Project
USB-Stored AI Desktop Assistant logo
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USB-Stored AI Desktop Assistant

An agentic LLM stored on a USB drive. Simply plug the drive into your computer and you have an assistant ready to help you with your daily projects, hobbies, or anything else. Nothing is stored on your computer, the LLM, user data, and UI are all on the USB....

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