Consulting Skills – A Primer for Experts and Beginners
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Description: All successful consultants share common characteristics, skills, and strengths. The IEEE presentation is intended to introduce aspiring consultants to the fundamentals of consulting to management, and to provide useful tips to those who have been in the business for some time now. Some of the topics that will be discussed are:

• Self assessment vis-à-vis what is required to become a successful consultant
• Types of consulting
• Who are your clients and how can you help them?
• How to present and sell recommendations?
• You vs. your brand
• Balancing your projects and personal life
• Incorporating your consulting business (or not)
• Assessing the competition and the role of partnerships
• How to set your consulting fees?
• Developing a winning proposal
• Case Study: Servicing the federal government

Speaker(s): Dr. Peter Liu, Professor, Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University

Date/Time: Feburary 6, 2015 12:00 – 13:00

Location: Tory Building Room 202, Carleton University

Parking: Paid parking available (P2 suggested)

Registration: Not required.

Organizer: James Green, SCE, Carleton University

Organized by: EMBS-Ottawa

Abstract:

At present, surgical residents develop required hands-on skills mainly through trials on animals, cadavers and patients. These training approaches, however, have obvious disadvantages: animals have different anatomies from humans; cadavers are unable to provide appropriate physiological responses; it is risky when students practice on patients. With recent advances in haptics, computer graphics and virtual reality, surgical simulators have great potential to overcome these problems. In this talk, the current development of surgical simulators will be reviewed. The main challenges and difficulties will be explained. In particular, we will focus on issues such as tissue modelling, visual feedback and haptic interaction.

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Event
From Innovation to Enterprise: Opportunities, Risks and the Evolution of Information Technologies

Speakers
John Duff, Director of Engineering at Shopify
Mike Abbott, Partner at Deloitte
Suzanne Rochford, Director of User Centered Design for TELUS Health

Date & Time
Wednesday, September 16
5:00 – 7:30 PM

Location
River Building, Atrium and Conference Rooms 2224–2228
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON

Parking
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Registration
Required, First-come First Serve
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Organizer &Contact info
Alexandra Leroux
alexandra.leroux@carleton.ca

Website URL

Abstract
Join for a special panel discussion on the evolution of information technologies. Hear from leaders of industry as they discuss the roles that information technologies play in the worlds of e-commerce, cyber-security, and healthcare. A reception will follow the speaker discussion