Events - 2019

Series Information:

• Thursday January 10 - 12:30-2:30 pm – IP 101 and Commercialization 
• Thursday  February 14 - 12:30-2:00 pm – IP Case Study
• Thursday  March 21 - 12:30-2:00 pm – Copyright and Software
• Thursday  April 11 - 12:30-2:00 pm – Trademarks
• Thursday May 16- 12:30-2:00 pm - What’s next?  Panel Discussion

Events are open to all UW faculty, staff, students and post docs. Registration is required for each event to ensure there is enough Pizza and Pop for all!

Workshop are presented by WatCo and supported by the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) and the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo.

Speaker: Dr. Karim Karim, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; CTO, KA Imaging

• CREATE students receive a 1 hour Design Training Module credit.

Please RSVP for this event. Please note that this event is only open to faculty, students and post docs.

Part 1-IP & Commercialization Workshop

Speakers:

• Eric Luvisotto, Technology Transfer Officer, WatCo
• Scott Inwood, Director, WatCo

Learning objectives:

• Basics of Intellectual Property (IP) and UWaterloo IP rights
• IP Litigators in Canada
• Case study, group work, Q&A

CREATE students receive a 6 hour Biomedical Commercialization Module credit.

Speaker: Dr. Lora Giangregorio, Professor, Kinesiology; Schlegel Research Chair in Mobility and Aging

• CREATE students receive a 1 hour Clinical Evaluations Module credit.

Please RSVP for this event. Please note that this event is only open to faculty, students and post docs.

Facilitator: Elisabeth Van Stam, Writing and Multimodal Communication Specialist, STEM Resource from the Writing and Communication Centre

Ethics in design and development: An overview

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Boger, Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo.

Dr. Boger’s research focuses on intelligent technologies for enhancing the safety, health, wellbeing, and independence of older adults and people with disabilities.

What you should know about launching a medical device technology start-up

Speaker: Dr. Aidin Taeb, Research Associate, CIARS, University of Waterloo.

Dr. Taeb will proivde a lab tour of CIARS following the presentation.

Please join the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB) and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) on Tuesday January 22, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Alessandro Olivo, Professor of Applied Physics with the Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at University College London (UCL) speaking on “Origins, state-of-the-art and application perspectives of incoherent x-ray phase contrast imaging methods” [Poster ]