Conference Program

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Time

Main Session

Friday, October 24, 2014, Location: Delta Guelph Hotel

4:00-5:30 PM

5:30-6:30 PM

6:30-8:00 PM

08:30 PM

Registration

Registration & Networking

Banquet: Keynote Speech and Dinner
Opening Speech: Mr. Han Dong, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training Colleges and Universities
Keynote Speaker: the Honorable Liz Sandals, Minister of Education

Socializing and Scratch programming Contest

Saturday, October 25, 2014, Location: University of Guelph

7:30-8:30AM


8:30-9:00am

9:00-10:00am

Registration and Breakfast
Location: Science Complex Atrium

Welcome Message: Dr. Serge  Desmarais, Acting Provost and  Vice-President
Location: Alex 200


Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bonnie Schmidt, Founder and President, Let’s Talk Science
Title: Nation Builders: a critical role for women in ICT
Location: Alex 200

Concurrent Session1

Concurrent Session2

Technology Challenge

10:00-10:45AM

10:45-11:00AM

11:00-11:45AM

11:45am-12:30pm

12:30-2:30PM

2:30-3:15PM

3:15-4:00PM

4:00-4:15PM

4:15- 5pm












5:00-5:30PM

Microsoft
Ms. Susan Ibach
Senior Technical Evangelist
Title: What's in the cloud for me?
Location: Alex 200


Break 1:
Location: Alex Building


CISCO
Speaker: Ms. Trina Alexson
Director, Advanced Services
Title: High Availability Networks
Location: Alex 200

IBM
Speaker: Ms. Kelly Ryan
Director of Development in B2B
Title: A Software Development Career 
Location: Alex 200

Poster Session, Lunch,
Career Fair
Location: Science Complex Atrium (SSC)

Morgan Stanley
Speaker: Ms. Dony Meng
Vice President, Technology & Data Center
Title: How to build high-quality software faster and cheaper
Location: Alex 200


Workshop 3 [3:15-4:15]:
How to Rock a Technical Interview
Speaker: Ms. Olya Irzak
Google Engineer
Location: Alex 200

Break 2
Location: Alex building

Panel Session (Location: Alex 200):
Moderator: Dr. Judi McCuaig,
University of Guelph
Panel:
Dr. Susan Brown, University of Guelph
Ms. Kelley Irwin, TD Bank
Ms. Carla Morawicz, Morgan Stanley
Ms. Dinah Davis, D2L
Ms. Kate Wilhelm

Closing

Workshop 1: Resume Writing
Moderators: Dr. Luiza Antonie & Ms. Laura Gatto
Location: SCC 1511



Break 1
Location: Alex Building


Palantir
Speaker: Ms. Aakriti Agarwal
Forward Deployed Engineer
Title: Work in Progress
Location: Thorn 1307


TD Bank
Speaker: Ms. Kelley Irwin
Vice President, Technology Solutions
Title: Creating Your List of 10
Location: Thorn 1307




Workshop 2 [1:30-2:30]:
Engineering,  Marketing and Women: A perfect match
Ms.Nathalie Vallieres. Liaison and
Communications Officer, U of Ottawa
Location: SSC 1511

 Roboti-can (10-11am)
Lego Mindstorms Robot programming







 
Pi-craft (11-12)
Raspbery Pi and Minecraft







Box Cameras (12-1:30pm)
Exploring the connection between computing and photography




Physical Computing with the Raspberry Pi (1:30-3:00pm)

RBC Technology & Operations
Speaker: Ms. Laurie Pezzente
Senior Vice President Technology Risk
Title: Technology Risk:   The hottest, in-demand career field!
Location: Alex 100










Break 2
Location: Alex building

Robot competition (3:00-4:00pm)
Maze and Freestyle