# Workshop to help you navigate the product development cycle

**URL:** <https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/t/workshop-to-help-you-navigate-the-product-development-cycle/45623>\
**Category:** Open Forum\
**Tags:** research-and-academia\
**Created:** [November 2, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/t/workshop-to-help-you-navigate-the-product-development-cycle/45623 "2026-11-02T18:17:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![michelle\_kienitzhend](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4bc9b0/32.png) [@michelle\_kienitzhend](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/u/michelle_kienitzhend)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/t/workshop-to-help-you-navigate-the-product-development-cycle/45623/1 "2026-11-02T18:17:42Z")

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Are you a rural early stage business looking for more support through the product developent cycle?

Our group, the[Food Innovation & Research Studio](https://www.georgebrown.ca/research-innovation/research-institutes/first/a2i-ecosystem-for-founders) (FIRSt) is an R&D group within George Brown College in Toronto, and we service companies nation-wide.

We’ve noticed early-stage companies struggling with the technical aspects of their product and we’ve created a workshop, [A2I Ecosystem for Founders,](https://www.georgebrown.ca/research-innovation/research-institutes/first/a2i-ecosystem-for-founders) to help companies be better prepared to navigate the product development cycle **and reduce the risk of launching a new food / beverage product**.

The workshop is FREE, and will prepare companies to work with a co-manufacturer or lab, or equip them to keep doing R&D themselves. And the best thing, it’s run by our Food Scientists and Chef, and includes mentorship / coaching time directly with them.

Right now, the workshop is only open to rural founders, those located outside of metropolis areas.

[https://www.georgebrown.ca/research-innovation/research-institutes/first/a2i-ecosystem-for-founders](https://www.georgebrown.ca/research-innovation/research-institutes/first/a2i-ecosystem-for-founders)

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**Author:** ![viola\_labi](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/user_avatar/yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/viola_labi/32/1296_2.png) [@viola\_labi](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/u/viola_labi)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://yodl.cfin-rcia.ca/t/workshop-to-help-you-navigate-the-product-development-cycle/45623/2 "2026-11-03T14:42:19Z")

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Hi Michelle. This is perfect for my company but we are in Toronto. WIll this be offered to those of us in Southern ,Ontario? All the best to the participants anyway.