Events

Speaker:                Dr : Marin Soljacic, MIT

Date:                      Wednesday
Aug 12th, 2020

Time:                      12:00
noon to 13:00

Title of the talk:       Photonics:
a great testing-ground to develop new AI algorithms for science

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.

Date: Sept 24th, 2020

Time: 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM EDT

Speaker: Ken Coates, Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Topic: Technology-Enabled Indigenous and Remote Communities

Registration: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/238665 

Summary:

As the COVID-19 Pandemic demonstrated, almost all Indigenous and remote communities suffered from serious infrastructure deficits.  With limited or unreliable Internet, poor quality electricity, and weak health care services, these communities were uniquely vulnerable to the disease and the economic and social challenges that accompanied the pandemic.  But Canadians already knew that Indigenous and remote communities are poorly served and largely lift out of the so-called “innovation economy.”  It is time to develop a strategy for bringing technology-enabled opportunities to Indigenous and remote communities.  This webinar presents a model for digitally-enabled Indigenous and remote communities, explores the barriers to implementing this “inversion” of Canadian innovation and that contemplates strategies for addressing quality of life issues in collaboration with residents and local governments.

Biography:

Ken Coates is Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan. His work focuses on the development of strategies to promote 21st century well-being in small town, rural, Indigenous and remote Canada. Ken’s major project examines the potential contributions — and negative impacts — of emerging technologies on rural and remote communities.

For more information and speaking opportunity, please contact, Dr Kexing Liu, IEEE Canada Outreach and Partnership Committee Chair, kexing.liu@ieee.org

Date and Place: The event will be held online on September 26th and 27th, 2020.

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try” ~ John F. Kennedy

What?
New to Hackathons? Are you also interested in participating in IEEEXtreme 14.0? IEEE WIE Ottawa presents the first ever Mock Hackathon in Ottawa! Win Exciting Prizes and get experience with us. No need to think of an idea! The questions will be given to you. Our mentors will further help you to get a head start in your hackathon journey! This is a practice event just for you! Learn more about IEEEXtreme here-> https://ieeextreme.org/

When?
September 26th and 27th, 2020

Where?
The event is fully online including the mentorship*.

Agenda
September 26th, 2020
01:00 PM The opening ceremony

02:00 PM Commencement of Hackathon

05:00 PM Final Submission

September 27th, 2020
01:00 PM Results declaration webinar

01:30 PM Prize announcement

02:00 PM The closing ceremony

For More Details Visit: https://wie.ieeeottawa.ca/hack613-the-ottawa-hackathon/

Online Talk: From bees to Drones: Exploring bio-inspired machine vision applications for precision agriculture

Bees are used as vectors for pollination and transport of agricultural chemicals in outdoor agriculture and greenhouses. However, in certain situations the use of natural pollinators is problematic. Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could serve as an alternate pollination vector in such situations and perform other functions. A step towards the deployment of such a tool is to bring the ability to locate, classify, and analyze flowers aboard a drone.

More info and registration: https://wie.ieeeottawa.ca/event/from-bees-to-drones-exploring-bio-inspired-machine-vision-applications-for-precision-agriculture/.

A presentation by IEEE WIE Ottawa.