Full Name
Bruce Hardy
Job Title
CEO
Company
Myera Group
Speaker Bio
Mr. Hardy has been President of Function Four Ltd since its inception in 1996, and has grown the firm into an e-health innovation, research, and software development company. Function Four offers unique e-health case management software for prenatal and early childhood developmental programs. Function Four is an active collaborator in provincial and international applied research and university based academic projects. Function Four is recognized for its novel approach to combining technology, data collection, and analytics with complex human, social, nutritional and economic challenges.

Seeing firsthand the effect of food insecurity, food availability and the essential role nutrition plays in early childhood developmental disorders – Mr. Hardy established Myera Group. Its vision is to establish a more dynamically responsive link between health outcomes and a sustainable food production system.

Since 2012 Myera Group has been working on its vision to map community and individual health outcomes to a dynamic food production system. With the support of NSERC and MITACs funding, Myera is now leveraging Machine Learning and Ai, to accelerate the development of an “Agri-health” functional foods and nutraceuticals platform.

Aboriginal communities in rural Canada are highly vulnerable to the negative health and economic effects of food insecurity and the negative health consequences of nutritional imbalances that result from high-cost food with poor nutritional value. Resolving these issues in the future will require a greater understanding of the unique nutritional requirements and nutritional deficiencies within the food supply of these communities.

One of the primary solutions to these widespread community nutritional deficiencies will be the development and implementation of community-based sustainable food production systems that can be operated locally to meet local needs. Myera’s innovative food-production platform technology seeks to be the primary means to achieving that objective. This proprietary integrated fish and algae production facility seeks to bridge the gap between health outcomes and missing nutritional factors.
Bruce Hardy