Take the User's Perspective
Empathy is our starting point. We approach every challenge through the eyes of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and communities. By understanding their needs, motivations, and constraints, OpenLab creates solutions that are not only innovative—but intuitive and inclusive.
Innovate Responsibly
We design with intention—balancing creativity with care. Responsible innovation means considering the ethical, social, and long-term impacts of every solution we create. At OpenLab, we push boundaries while ensuring our work supports equity, protects privacy, and strengthens trust across the health ecosystem.
Next OpenHouse | 12-1PM on
Sep 8, 2026
Join us in person at 489 College Street, Suite 400, or online using the link below.
Sep 2026 | Siminovitch Creative Intelligence Lab
What if the people best equipped to help you solve your hardest, most stuck problem aren’t consultants, researchers, or coaches, but theatre artists? In September, we welcome Brian Loevner, founder of BLVE with over 30 years of experience as an arts leader, producer, and consultant, including leadership roles with The Second City and work with arts organizations across Canada and the United States.
Organizations across every sector describe the same stuck place: the issue is identified, the will exists, smart people are in the room, and yet something essential is missing. Alignment won’t hold. Competing perspectives calcify. The path forward stays just out of reach. More analysis rarely helps. What’s needed is a different kind of thinking entirely. The Siminovitch Prize honouree community includes rigorous creative problem-solvers. These are theatre creators recognized nationally for innovation and risk-taking, who have spent years working in uncertainty, holding competing truths, moving groups through resistance, and building shared understanding where none existed. They are not subject matter experts. That’s the point. They bring the ability to shape the conditions in which trust, insight, and new thinking can emerge. They make the abstract tangible and the entrenched movable.
All the World's a Lab
OpenLab believes that real innovation happens beyond the walls of traditional research spaces. Every community, clinic, home, and human experience becomes a living laboratory where insights emerge and ideas evolve. By observing how people truly live, work, and heal, we uncover opportunities that lead to meaningful, real-world change.
Collaborative by Design
At OpenLab, we know that meaningful change happens through partnership. We work hand-in-hand with hospitals, community organizations, academic institutions, and innovators who share our commitment to advancing health and societal wellbeing. Together, we co-create solutions that none of us could achieve alone.
