Seminar

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Brian Liou, Co-Founder of Ralph, who will discuss "How to Negotiate and Choose the Right Job Offer".

We’re extremely excited to invite students to this year’s Global Spark Thought Leader Panel: Innovation in Global Health.

The panel will be held on March 6th at 11am EST, and will feature three phenomenal speakers:  Dr. Andrew Trister, Head of Digital Health Innovation at The Gates Foundation, Jim Larson, Managing Director & Partner and Expert on Global Health at BCG, and Maureen Lewis, the CEO of Aceso Global and the former Chief Economist of Human Development at the World Bank. The panel will be moderated by Natasha Walji, a Director at Google Canada and one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour "Challenging Workplace Norms for Better Roles & Opportunities".

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Steve Waters (BASc 1988), Director of Engineering and Special Projects at North Shore Water Reclamation District, who will discuss “Utilities of the Future”.

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Travis Ratnam (BASc ’06, Electrical Engineering), Co-Founder and CEO of Knowledgehook.

During this Office Hour, Travis Ratnam will talk about his journey creating and expanding Knowledgehook, including how he went from recent grad to co-founder and CEO. Join fellow alumni and students for this virtual office hour to hear Travis’ story, his lessons learned and his tips for entrepreneurs.

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour sponsored by Ten Thousand Coffees and RBC Future Launch: "Will Mentorship Get me a Job?".

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Paul Craven (BASc 1984, Systems Design Engineering), President of Responsive Brands, who will discuss “The Science Behind Selling: How One Engineer Went from Hating Sales to Loving Sales”.

What does it really mean to be a smart city or healthy city and are we even close to living sustainably in urban environments? Will the pandemic and rise of working from home affect how we design city life and civic spaces now and in the future? What does an age-friendly city look like over the next couple of decades? These timely questions and more will be addressed by a panel of alumni and academia experts as we examine where architecture and city design are headed in light of a great social upheaval. 

Against all odds, hundreds of millions of effective COVID-19 vaccines are now being shipped worldwide. The next enormous challenge on par with the development of these vaccines is the supply chain logistics required to get the many millions of doses from the factory to the billions of people who need it – safely and in a timely matter.  

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Bruce Matthews (BASc 1987, Systems Design Engineering), Executive Director at the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies who will discuss what's “Inside the World of Consulting Engineering”.