PROGRAM 2012
All events will be held at the London Hilton Hotel.
Schedule subject to change -- times are approximate.
Friday October 12, 2012
5:00 - 6:00pm: Registration and hotel check in
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Keynote: Communication and Professionalism in the Workplace
7:00 - 8:30 pm: Dinner
8:30 - ??? Socializing & coding to win prizes in the Morgan Stanley Programming Competition
Saturday October 13, 2012 (Please note that times are approximate -- schedule is still evolving!)
8:00 - 9:00: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15: Welcome
9:15 - 10:15: Keynote: Technology in Financial Services (TD Bank)
10:15 - 10:45: Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45: Technical Interviews Demystified (Morgan Stanley)
11:45 - 1:00: Lunch followed by Industrial/Career Fair
1:00 - 1:45: Tech talks
1:45 - 2:30: The IT Industry in an Instrumented, Interconnected and Intelligent World (IBM)
2:30 - 3:30: Poster Session/coffee break
3:30 - 4:30: Panel Session
4:30 - 5:00: Wrap up
Schedule subject to change -- times are approximate.
Friday October 12, 2012
5:00 - 6:00pm: Registration and hotel check in
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Keynote: Communication and Professionalism in the Workplace
7:00 - 8:30 pm: Dinner
8:30 - ??? Socializing & coding to win prizes in the Morgan Stanley Programming Competition
Saturday October 13, 2012 (Please note that times are approximate -- schedule is still evolving!)
8:00 - 9:00: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15: Welcome
9:15 - 10:15: Keynote: Technology in Financial Services (TD Bank)
10:15 - 10:45: Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45: Technical Interviews Demystified (Morgan Stanley)
11:45 - 1:00: Lunch followed by Industrial/Career Fair
1:00 - 1:45: Tech talks
1:45 - 2:30: The IT Industry in an Instrumented, Interconnected and Intelligent World (IBM)
2:30 - 3:30: Poster Session/coffee break
3:30 - 4:30: Panel Session
4:30 - 5:00: Wrap up
Technology in Financial Services
Challenging, intellectually interesting, and evolving.
Kelley Irwin
Vice President, Technology Solutions,
TD Bank Group
Kelley Irwin is Vice President, Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group. She leads a team of over 300 people in Canada (Toronto, Mississauga, London) and India (Bangalore, Chennai, and Pune) and manages an annual project development budget of $95 million. Her team includes employees and global delivery partners focused on application development and shared services to support Retail and Business customers of the bank. TD has more than 19 million customers worldwide and 82,000 employees. Prior to TD Bank, Kelley was Senior Vice President of Application Services at Symcor processing 200 million customer payments and 675 million statements annually. Before Symcor, Kelley was Vice President of Global IT Services at Sun Life Financial where she led technology teams across Canada and five countries in Asia.Kelley started her career as a developer, loves technology, and has expertise in building teams from the ground up focused on quality delivery and employee engagement.
Vice President, Technology Solutions,
TD Bank Group
Kelley Irwin is Vice President, Technology Solutions at TD Bank Group. She leads a team of over 300 people in Canada (Toronto, Mississauga, London) and India (Bangalore, Chennai, and Pune) and manages an annual project development budget of $95 million. Her team includes employees and global delivery partners focused on application development and shared services to support Retail and Business customers of the bank. TD has more than 19 million customers worldwide and 82,000 employees. Prior to TD Bank, Kelley was Senior Vice President of Application Services at Symcor processing 200 million customer payments and 675 million statements annually. Before Symcor, Kelley was Vice President of Global IT Services at Sun Life Financial where she led technology teams across Canada and five countries in Asia.Kelley started her career as a developer, loves technology, and has expertise in building teams from the ground up focused on quality delivery and employee engagement.
Technical Interviews Demystified
Sponsored Session: Morgan Stanley
Sometimes the excitement of getting an interview invitation is quickly followed by anxiety: What should I expect? How can I best demonstrate my technical expertise? What is the company looking for exactly? These questions and more will be answered at the Morgan Stanley Technology-led workshop “Technical Interviews Demystified”. Join us for an interactive presentation led by experienced recruiters and interviewers and learn all about succeeding at technical interviews. We will cover: examples of problem solving/ programming questions; on-campus and final round interviews (preparation, format and tips to succeed); assessing job offers and making decisions. Based on interest from the audience, we would also discuss technical resume writing through concrete examples.
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The Morgan Stanley Presentation Team
Nelly Vassileva is the Technology Campus Recruiting Manager at the firm’s Montreal office. She works extensively with local and global managers and has valuable insight on what developers are looking for when interviewing university students and graduates. Before joining Morgan Stanley Technology, Nelly worked at the Engineering Career Centre of McGill University, helping hundreds of students to get jobs in technology, telecommunications, and consulting. Nelly will be joined by several experienced interviewers from our office. Between us, we have conducted and analyzed hundreds of interviews with university candidates. We are eager to share our insights and help you succeed. |
Communication and Professionalism in the Workplace
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Catherine Mavriplis
NSERC Chair For Women In Science and Engineering (Ontario) Computing and Computer Science are notoriously male dominated fields but women are also very skilled in these disciplines. There is a huge potential for women to participate in these rapidly expanding customer-driven areas of development due to their excellent technical, social and communication skills. However, the subtleties of entrenched methods of communication in the workplace are hard to decipher and adopt for many entering women whose approaches may be quite different than those of their male counterparts. Companies express a desire for new approaches for innovation and encourage women's participation towards that end but traditional work and team interactions and traditional perceptions of success slow that progress. We will explore some common perceptions of successful communication in a professional setting, look at gender and cultural differences and provide some tips and examples through video analysis. |
Catherine Mavriplis holds a Honours Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, a Master's and Ph.D. in Aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the George Washington University (GW) in Washington DC from 1991 to 2005 and now at the University of Ottawa since 2008. She held a postdoctoral position in the Program for Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University from 1989 to 1991. She has also been a visiting scientist at ICASE (at the NASA Langley Research Center) and at CERCA (in Montreal) and a Program Director in Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the US National Science Foundation (NSF). From 2005 to 2008, she was a research fellow at the University of Oklahoma in the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) in association with NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). Dr. Mavriplis' research is in the area of computational fluid dynamics.
Dr. Mavriplis has been involved in promoting women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through the FORWARD in SEM project and the FORWARD to Professorship project, both funded by NSF. She also served as project director of a NSF ADVANCE PAID project at the University of Oklahoma. In Canada, she has worked with mid-career women's leadership development at Pratt & Whitney Canada and was recently appointed NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for the province of Ontario.
Dr. Mavriplis has been involved in promoting women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through the FORWARD in SEM project and the FORWARD to Professorship project, both funded by NSF. She also served as project director of a NSF ADVANCE PAID project at the University of Oklahoma. In Canada, she has worked with mid-career women's leadership development at Pratt & Whitney Canada and was recently appointed NSERC / Pratt & Whitney Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for the province of Ontario.
The IT Industry in an Instrumented, Interconnected and Intelligent World
Technology is changing and so is the IT industry. What are the latest trends? How are forward thinking companies and organizations embracing change and using technology to anticipate rather than react, to gain business and customer insight from the explosion of data, to connect and collaborate with employees, customers, and partners, to innovate while managing the cost and risk inherent in doing business? What does all of this mean to the roles that will be in high demand and the skills that will be required to succeed in the IT industry?
Judith Escott is the IBM Global Offering Manager for Banking and Financial Markets Software Group Solutions. She has been at IBM for over 24 years and has held a range of senior management positions in software development, channel enablement, Lab-based services, and now industry solutions development for the IBM Software Group. She has directed teams of technical professionals around the world developing products, developing business, delivering services and enablement programs, and integrating development teams and offerings from companies IBM has acquired. Judith is based at the IBM Canada Lab in Toronto.
Judith Escott is the IBM Global Offering Manager for Banking and Financial Markets Software Group Solutions. She has been at IBM for over 24 years and has held a range of senior management positions in software development, channel enablement, Lab-based services, and now industry solutions development for the IBM Software Group. She has directed teams of technical professionals around the world developing products, developing business, delivering services and enablement programs, and integrating development teams and offerings from companies IBM has acquired. Judith is based at the IBM Canada Lab in Toronto.