Events

Feb
20
Thu
Digital Marketing – Tools and Methodologies @ RA Centre
Feb 20 @ 19:30 – 21:00

Digital Marketing — Tools and Methodologies

Joint presentation IEEE Ottawa Section Consultants Network and IET Ottawa LN

Not your Grandmother’s Marketing – The impact of SaaS and AI

 Since Google’s arrival on the scene in the late 1990’s,
marketing took a turn to digital, never to look back again.  With the proliferation of technologies such
as Artificial Intelligence, and novel business models like
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), marketing tools and techniques continue to
rapidly evolve.  Our eyes glued to
screens of devices of all sizes, we are at the same time a willing victim and a
reluctant participant in the marketing dance in both our professional and
personal lives.  These combined bring a
huge democratization of marketing for businesses, allowing for successful
growth in the most unlikely locations.

Speaker: Dobrila Rancic Moogk

Dobrila is VP Marketing at Giatec Scientific, an IoT company
revolutionizing concrete testing.
Through her work in and with start-ups on strategic marketing, Dobrila’s
passion for accelerating commercialization of innovation results in significant
growth and scale-up.  This is combined
with her drive to lead her university students to stellar career starts by
passing on her cutting-edge SaaS marketing skills to the next generation of
business leaders.

 Over her 25 years’
experience in the high-tech industry spanning North America
and Europe, she held marketing and R&D leadership
positions with dynamic corporations such as Bell-Northern Research, LSI
Logic, and MOSAID, among others.  Dobrila
has a BSEE, as well as Master of Engineering, and MBA degrees from University
of Ottawa.

 She is a member of
the Board of Directors of Invest Ottawa and Bayview Yards, the Community Impact
Cabinet at United Way East Ontario,
past chair of Volunteer Ottawa, and past vice-chair of the Women in Engineering
and Computer Science at University of
Ottawa.

Mar
19
Thu
[CANCELLED] Seminar: Drone-assisted Mobile Edge Computing
Mar 19 @ 18:00 – 19:30

NOTE: This event as been cancelled due to COVID-19 precautions

Seminar presented by the IEEE Ottawa Section, Communications Society, Consumer Electronics Society, and
Broadcast Technology Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/CESoc/BTS), Instrumentation & Measurement
Society Chapter (IMS), Reliability Society and Power Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS), IEEE
Ottawa Educational Activities (EA) and Algonquin College IEEE Student Branch:

 

IEEE Ottawa Section is inviting all interested IEEE members and nonmembers to a distinguished Lecture:
Drone-assisted Mobile Edge Computing

By

Nirwan Ansari, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

 

DATE:

Thursday, March 19, 2020.

 

TIME:

Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

PLACE:

Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129, T-Building, School of Advanced Technology, Algonquin College,

1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa, ON Canada K2G 1V8.

 

PARKING:

Parking at Lots 8 and 9 after 5 p.m. is $5 flat rate, pay at a machine and display the ticket on your dashboard. Please respect restricted areas.

 

ADMISSION:

Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi.

 

MORE INFO:

Ottawa ComSoc/CESoc/BTS Chapter website.

 

Abstract:

In mobile access networks, different types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices (e.g., sensor nodes and smartphones) will generate vast traffic demands, thus dramatically increasing the traffic loads of their connected access nodes, especially in the 5G era. Mobile edge computing enables data collected by IoT devices to be stored in and processed by local fog nodes as well as allows IoT users to access IoT applications via these nodes at the same time. In this case, the communications latency critically affects the response time of IoT user requests. Owing to the dynamic distribution of IoT users, drone base station (DBS), which can be flexibly deployed over hotspot areas, can potentially improve the wireless latency of IoT users by mitigating the heavy traffic loads of macro BSs. Drone-based communications poses two major challenges: 1) DBS should be deployed in suitable areas with heavy traffic demands to serve more users; 2) traffic loads in the network should be allocated among macro BSs and DBSs to avoid instigating traffic congestions. Therefore, we propose a TrAffic Load balancing (TALL) scheme in such drone-assisted fog network to minimize the wireless latency of IoT users. In the scheme, we divide the problem into two sub-problems and design two algorithms to optimize the DBS placement and user association, respectively. Extensive simulations have been set up to validate the performance of TALL.

 

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Nirwan Ansari, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received his Ph.D. from Purdue University, MSEE from the University of Michigan, and BSEE (summa cum laude with a perfect GPA) from NJIT. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors.

He authored Green Mobile Networks: A Networking Perspective (Wiley-IEEE, 2017) with T. Han, and coauthored two other books. He has also (co-)authored more than 600 technical publications. He has guest-edited a number of special issues covering various emerging topics in communications and networking. He has served on the editorial/advisory board of over ten journals including as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. His current research focuses on green communications and networking, cloud computing, droneassisted networking, and various aspects of broadband networks. He was elected to serve in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Board of Governors as a member-at-large, has chaired some ComSoc technical and steering committees, is current Director of ComSoc Educational Services Board, has been serving in many committees such as the IEEE Fellow Committee, and has been actively organizing numerous IEEE International Conferences/Symposia/Workshops. He is frequently invited to deliver keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, tutorials, and invited talks. Some of his recognitions include several excellence in teaching awards, a few best paper awards, the NCE Excellence in Research Award, several ComSoc TC technical recognition awards, the NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Inventor of the Year Award, the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Award, the NCE 100 Medal, and designation as a COMSOC Distinguished Lecturer. He has also been granted more than 40 U.S. patents.

Apr
6
Mon
Discussion on possible COVID-19 response – IEEE-Ottawa SIG Humanitarian Technology
Apr 6 @ 16:30 – 18:00

​Dear Ottawa Section members,

the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level of urgency that needs an “all hands on deck” approach..If you are still waiting to play a role by contributing your academic, professional or personal skills to find technology-based solutions: please join us on a web call to organise a response:

Organiser: IEEE-Ottawa SIG on Humanitarian Technology
Date: Friday April 10

Time: 16h30

URL: Google Meet invitation

       https://meet.google.com/wep-xofb-uzo?authuser=1&hs=122

 

Tentative agenda:

(5min) Introductions

(15min) Sharing of IEEE-specific COVID-19 resources

(25min) Roundtable of local resources

(15min) Roundtable of known needs

(* min) Open discussion & wrap-up

Please RSVP by emailing: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org : this will enable us to prepare the agenda and round table with a number of participants in mind.

Apr
10
Fri
Web call to discuss possible COVID-19 response (IEEE Ottawa section)
Apr 10 @ 16:30 – 18:00

​Dear Ottawa Section members,

​​the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a level of urgency that needs an “all hands on deck” approach​. If you are still ​waiting to play a role by contributing your academic, professional or personal skills to find technology-based solutions: please join us on a web call to organise ​a response​:

Organiser: IEEE-Ottawa SIG on Humanitarian Technology

Date:         Friday April 10

Time: 16h30

URL: Google Meet invitation

​       https://meet.google.com/wep-xofb-uzo?authuser=1&hs=122​

Tentative agenda:

  1. (5min) Introductions
  2. (15min) Sharing of IEEE-specific COVID-19 resources
  3. (25min) Roundtable of local resources
  4. (15min) Roundtable of known needs
  5. (* min) Open discussion & wrap-up

Please RSVP by emailing: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org​ :​ this will enable us to prepare the agenda and round table with a number of participants in mind.

Sep
16
Wed
A Brief Introduction to IEEEXtreme and WIE HACK613
Sep 16 @ 17:00 – 18:00
A Brief Introduction to IEEEXtreme and WIE HACK613

Venue: Online

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-brief-introduction-to-ieeextreme-and-wie-hack613-tickets-119203981317

Event Contact Name Ragunath Anbarasu

Event Contact Email: https://wie.ieeeottawa.ca/contact-us/

IEEEXtreme is a worldwide Annual Hackathon, in which teams of IEEE student members participate against each other in a span of 24 hours to solve a set of programming problems. This year IEEEXtreme 14.0 is being held on October 24th. Ragunath Anbarasu, the web master and an active volunteer of IEEE WIE Ottawa has been selected as the Ambassador and Section Lead for the Ottawa region. In this session, he will walk through the IEEEXtreme competition and WIE HACK613, a mock hackathon IEEE WIE Ottawa is organizing as a practice for IEEEXtreme. Register Now! And learn more about the event!

Bio: Ragunath Anbarasu is currently doing his Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Specialization in Data Science at Carleton University. He as been the Web Master of IEEE WIE Ottawa for almost a year and is extremely active in volunteering activities related to IEEE. He has been coordinating with the organizers in hosting this years IEEEXtreme Programming Competition in their respective student branches and supporting Non-IEEE Student Branch Members to get exposure to the Hackathon. He will be extending his help to students looking for support and guidance with information related to IEEEXtreme and connect them to a professional member.

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