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Building a startup, venture, or applied project often means making decisions with incomplete information. This practical working session will help participants identify real market signals before spending months on the wrong customer, pricing, message, or channel.

The session is designed for students, graduate students, founders, startup operators, and project builders interested in entrepreneurship, innovation, commercialization, and applied decision-making. Participants will learn how to recognize common decision traps, separate real market signals from polite feedback, and think more clearly about what to test before building, selling, or scaling further.

The session is led by Vivian Wang, an MBET graduate student at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business and founder of Growth Partner AI, which was recently recognized as part of Scale Up Canada’s Waterloo 50.

Join us in Waterloo for Ignite STEM Networking, where bright minds connect and spark new ideas in person! IGNITE is more than just a networking event—it’s a movement. Whether you’re looking to advance your career, share your expertise, or be part of a community creating real change, this is the place to be.

IGNITE Networking Night provides a valuable opportunity for students—particularly those exploring career pathways or seeking

employment—to:

• Build professional connections

• Engage with industry professionals

• Learn about diverse career pathway

SCWIST, in partnership with NextGenMen, invites participants to join Allies in Action: Engaging Men and Boys for Safer STEM Workplaces, a full-day, in-person workshop in Waterloo designed to mobilize men, boys, and gender-diverse participants as active allies in preventing and responding to gender-based violence (GBV) in STEM. The workshop moves beyond awareness to action, providing practical tools and strategies for participants to foster safer and more inclusive environments within their organizations and communities.

Alumni, students, employers, industry partners, media, and members of the general public are invited to join us in the Pearl Sullivan Engineering Building (formerly Engineering 7) for the Capstone Design Symposium.

Watch as 12 outstanding Capstone teams compete for over $100k in prizes. These teams were shortlisted from over 50 entries representing most programs in the Faculty of Engineering. The Esch Awards support creative and entrepreneurial students in the pursuit of research and development and its commercialization for the benefit of Canada.

Got a technical interview coming up? Join us for a lively session with insider tips from a D2L recruiter and senior developer, plus two upper year co-op students who've been through it and know what works.

RoboHub and ESG Partners will be hosting a panel on Harnessing Robotics & AI For Climate Solutions, which aims to explore how robotics and AI can be applied to climate solutions and how a climate lens can be applied to existing robotics work in areas like healthcare to address climate threats. This event is taking place during CCWX 2025, which runs from November 24 to November 30th.

Faculty of Engineering Research Colloquium by Professor Michael Detamore on Paste-like Biomaterials for Traumatic Brain Injury and Cartilage Repair

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Reza Najafi, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University and head of the Hydroclimate Extremes and Climate Change Lab (HydroClimEX Lab), co-director of the Centre for Multihazard Risk and Resilience (CMRR), will present Compound flood and drought hazards in a changing climate: Implications for risk and resilience.

This event is in person in DC 1302 with a networking lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl).

Faculty of Engineering Research Colloquium by Professor Ranganathan Sitaram on Precision Neuromodulation and Real-time Multimodal Brain Imaging