“What the Cookhouse Labs sprint enabled for us was this: let’s just create a 10,000-foot problem statement and then work with a group to see what solution we come up with. If that solution resembles at all what we’re doing at Micruity, that’s a traction point and you’re on the right track. If it doesn’t, that’s a pivot point. Being a part of that session gave us a little bit more confidence as a very, very early stage company and confirmed that we were on the right track. Bringing together folks with different expertise and having them come up with a similar solution was very valuable.”

Trevor Gary
Founder of Micruity

“Many other professionals and I have had the privilege of working with the innovators at Cookhouse labs. The consulting opportunities, sprints, and Design Thinking sessions have brought in exponential learning to a highly robust and innovative program in Applied Technologies for Insurance here at HSB Canada. I wish Cookhouse Labs continued success and look forward to a lot more learning and excitement, which is part of the DNA of this co-creation space.”

Abhishek Gupta
Manager, IoT Business Development, HSB Canada

“After attending a couple of Cookhouse’s free Design Thinking trainings, we said, “This is an organization that really gets it”. Cookhouse promotes Design Thinking as an approach to product development, innovation, and generally meeting customers’ needs, but also promotes collaboration. There are some big, hefty challenges in our industry, and we don’t have to go at it alone. A Cookhouse Labs membership made a lot of sense because we wanted to partner with like-minded people to tackle some of these big challenges in a more collaborative way, and that’s what really inspired us to join.”

David Simmons
Managing Director at Argus Group’s Center of Excellence

“You don't have to be Steve Jobs to be an innovative individual. I have to upsell the support we got from Cookhouse Labs: the templates guided us in the right direction on how to develop and present our solution in the end, so thank you!”

Tommy Kim
Senior Actuarial Analyst Munich Re Company of Canada

“I enjoyed the multitude of ideas and the level of engagement. I also enjoyed seeing how the virtual setup worked and how everyone was able to collaborate, even though they were in different rooms!”

Bernd Scharrer
COO Operations/IT VHV Holding AG 

"First and foremost, Cookhouse Labs was an entryway into meeting a lot of parties within the Canadian insurance industry. We were introduced to senior leaders at MGAs and other insurance companies. We also got to participate in some interesting workshops with people that we deal with every day, like a workshop with underwriters to talk about the future of underwriting. It was interesting to get their point of view on how far we could push the envelope, where some of the constraints are, and why those constraints exist. It was very beneficial for us early on to have those sounding boards for some of our ideas to tell us how feasible they would be!" 

Laura McKay
Co-Founder of PolicyMe

"Diversity is one of the essential pillars of innovation. The Cookhouse Labs achieves this, among other things, through its international and intercultural approach. Since the founding of the Lab, our students from the Faculty of Computer Science and Business Information Systems at FHWS have repeatedly been able to gain valuable experience through our collaboration with the Lab, demonstrate their competence in international projects, and develop extraordinary concepts, prototypes and business models. Special thanks to the whole team from Cookhouse Labs."

Prof. Dr. Michael Muessig
University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS), Germany; Lecturer and Business Angel