The partners working with KMDI are an important part of reaching the institute's research and outreach mandates beyond its home campus. Partners provide an opportunity for collaborations across the wider community and equally, partners are able to make new connections expanding their own networks. They support the success and communication of new research initiatives by giving researchers and students means to share ideas, educate, learn and engage.

• Interactive Ontario (IO) is a not-for-profit industry trade organization committed to the growth of the Ontario interactive digital content industry. To this end IO is an industry advocate within Ontario and nationally as a founding member of the Canadian Interactive Alliance /Alliance interactive canadienne (CIAIC).

• University of Western Ontario - Laboratory for Humanistic Fabrication Professor William J. Turkel has a new research program exploring ways to build historical interpretations into physical devices and environments. This work is backward looking, in the sense that it engages with the histories of measurement, materials science and machine tools. It is also very present-minded as it is being approached as a form of critical technical practice, building on new developments in ubiquitous / pervasive computing and desktop fabrication. 

• Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) - The Mobile Experience Innovation Centre is a public-private consortium engaging leaders in mobile research, design and innovation. Funded by the OMDC through the Entertainment and Creative Clusters Partnerships Fund, the MEIC includes 6 academic institutions and over 30 organizations from across the mobile industry, and is led by the Ontario College of Art & Design.

• Brock University

• Three S Productions home of BunnyEars.tv

• Aesthetec Studio Inc. creates engaging interactive experiences. From museums to art galleries, exhibit booths to innovative products, they find creative solutions to user interaction and technological problems. Beyond just being the "technical" guru, they use experience to address usability, aesthetic, and operability issues to make sure that the project looks as good and works as well as imagined.

• marblemedia Interactive Inc. is a content creation company at the forefront of television and new media production, devoted to telling stories that entertain and engage audiences across all platforms. The company was co-founded in 2001 by Executive Producers Mark Bishop and Matt Hornburg. marblemedia boasts an award-winning interactive division, which creates new media initiatives for all of its projects, and also offers new media production services to other producers.

• Torch Partnership Inc. is Michael Anton Dila and Robin Uchida. Located in Toronto, we are a consulting firm that uses design methods to grapple with business problems. The official blog:             Torch is Wicked.

• Emerging Methods is involved with many projects in the field of technology, interactive media and cultural design, expanding into the fields of financial banking, healthcare & wellness, education and architecture. As an entity they are focused on facilitating and showcasing collaborative work from diverse fields and they extend Creative Direction, Production and Strategic Consulting services in all areas of Design & Innovation: new media, entertainment, art, architecture, science, healthcare/wellness, financial, cultural, technological... Emerging methods works to dive deep into research, develop awareness, design experiences and produce venues for global experiences and collaboration.