Events
​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:Â 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.
​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:Â Â Â Â Â Friday April 10
Time: 16h30
URL:Â 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.
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.