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Saturday, May 25, 2019 11:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Experience Part-Time MBET

Learn about the part-time Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program at the Conrad School

Part-time MBET class

On Saturday, May 25 2019 join us at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business for a two-hour and lunch-and-learn-style information session and experience the part-time MBET program for yourself. Get a taste of the MBET curriculum, meet MBET students, and faculty.

Sunday, May 26, 2019 8:00 am - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

EV Challenge

Event has been postponed to Sunday due to risk of thunderstorm.

Hosted by Waterloo Engineering, the Waterloo High School Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge encourages students to design and test their own electric car in an annual endurance competition

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Monday, May 27, 2019 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Sources Exhibition: On Interdisciplinarity

Dive deeper into the themes featured in the Sources exhibition with this interactive event:

Join us for a conversation with Linda Carson on interdisciplinarity and "standing on the shoulders of giants." this event will be a dialogue between our guest, visitors, and 4th year students from the School of Architecture.

Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:30 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Faculty Networking Event: Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Health in Aging and Disease

Events are open to industry, faculty and post docs - please register to attend to ensure there is enough pizza for everyone!

The goals of the events are to:

  • Support faculty research networking
  • Provide an opportunity to create teams to apply for major grants under a given theme

Format:

10:30 - Poster setup, coffee, networking

11:00 - Lab Ignite pitch presentations (3-5 minutes each)

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Unwrapped: Racial Bias Within Artificial Intelligence

Come out for an in-depth discussion of the issues of bias in AI 

As the capabilities of artificial intelligence continue to expand at an increasing rate, it becomes more prevalent in our everyday lives. We now rely on AI for not only for menial quantitative labour, but are also entrusting it with complex qualitative tasks in fields that hold significant impact over the lives of human beings.

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Part-Time Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Info Session

Part-time MBET class

The part-time Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program is a 3-year graduate business degree designed for individuals who want to develop the skills to lead change and launch new ideas while balancing full-time work.

Friday, June 14, 2019 10:00 am - Saturday, June 15, 2019 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

20-year Celebration of the Welding Specialization

All past and present members of the University of Waterloo Centre for Advanced Materials Joining are invited to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Welding Specialization program and the 10-year anniversary of the Centre for Advanced Materials Joining. Guest speakers will look back on the history of the Welding Specialization, CAMJ, recent achievements, and look to the future of welding in Canada.

Friday, June 14, 2019 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Design at Riverside Gallery

BRIDGE is excited to invite you to the Opening Reception for Common Waters. The event will begin at the Design at Riverside Gallery at 7:00 pm with Christine Lefebvre - Karonhya Katste leading an opening ceremony which will include a smudge and land acknowledgement, with a circle to follow. At 8 PM, the event will continue on to the BRIDGE Storefront for refreshments, live music, and opening words from the curation team.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CBB Symposium: Smart Aging and Rehabilitation Technologies (Netherlands and Canada)

Visitors: University of Twente, The Netherlands; University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Areas of focus: Smart Aging & Personalized EHealth Technologies; Rehab & Human Enhancement Technologies; Digital Society and High Tech Innovations; Value-based Healthcare.

Purpose

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Ethical AI - Separating the Fact from Fad

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The proliferation of AI has placed increased focus on the thorny topic of ethics: to what extent are engineers responsible for - and to what extent can they encode - the ethical behavior of the AI applications they design?