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Canada is at a crossroads facing simultaneous crises in climate resilience, economic productivity, housing affordability and institutional effectiveness. Join Rik Logtenberg, Dirdctor of CanAdapt for an inspiring talk and interactive workshop demonstrating how complexity science, AI, and community-led systems thinking can accelerate CAnada's transition.

Startup 101 is an information session where recent grads in the health care field discuss their journey on how they turned their ideas into health tech ventures.

Calling all graduate students! Join us for an event featuring Jenike & Johanson, a globally recognized engineering firm specializing in the science of bulk material handling. Founded by Dr. Andrew Jenike, the company pioneered the field of bulk solids flow and storage. This employer information session is for students looking to land a full-time role.

This event will be held in E6 Room 4022.

J&J is looking for students interested in working across a variety of industries, including mining, geology, chemical science, pharmaceuticals, and sustainable energy. This event is targeted to all engineering students (mechanical, computer, chemical, etc.) as well as geologists and students in mining-related disciplines, but anybody is welcome!

The participants of the Shad Waterloo high school enrichment program are holding a public open house to share highlights of their experiences, including creative ideas they have come up with to tackle this year’s design project theme.

Shad is a STEAM summer enrichment experience for high school students from across Canada (and around the world!). During Shad, students develop skills such as understanding and solving problems, communicating effectively, thinking critically, and collaborating within teams through hands-on projects.

To learn more about the Shad program, please visit the Shad Canada website: https://www.shad.ca/

Haunting Melodies is an open mic night of dark, messy and truthful literature verses that go beyond words and dive into the depth of the human soul! We need poets and storytellers who are ready to unleash their grief, their rage, their heartbreak, their madness, their chaos, in a magnificent and ethereal combination of words or stories.

Join us to speak your truth on Friday, June 27th from 7:00 PM at Zanga studios. Doors open at 6:30 pm and no tickets sold at the door, passes available through eventbrite only. Contact yashika.vahi@gmail.com immediately for price waive-offs if required. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. We encourage all to wear vintage clothing and help us recreate an 18th century atmosphere.

Want to learn more about the Engineering Master’s and PhD programs offered at the University of Waterloo?

Join us for our in-person Graduate Studies Fair to have all your questions answered by Engineering faculty members, current grad students and admissions experts from each department!

The CareNext Collective is hosting a virtual event that shines a spotlight on the PREVENT Clinic – a pioneering initiative that challenges traditional care pathways and demonstrates what happens when practitioners coordinate across silos and intervene earlier to prevent cardiovascular disease.

Learn from the visionary team at Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) who brought the clinic to life, including practitioners, partners and the patients whose lives have been positively impacted by this preventative approach to care.

The CareNext Collective is virtual forum facilitated by the CareNext Coalition, a unique partnership between the University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Regional Health Network. The coalition is committed to bringing together clinicians, researchers and entrepreneurs to create more innovative and integrated heath care systems.

This event explores the personal journeys of startup founders, with a focus on Tim Lichti, co-founder and CEO of a robotics company. It delves into how he founded his company and the significant shift in perspective that took him from being an art student to developing an entrepreneurial mindset. The session highlights the challenges, turning points, and insights gained throughout his transition and startup journey.

Join Velocity for an evening session to hear from a founder about their experience launching a company as a student from the University of Waterloo. There will be lots of time for questions so come prepared!

Tim Lichti, Co-Founder & CEO

Tim is a Co-Founder & CEO of Swap Robotics, a Kitchener-Waterloo based company that is the category creator of a solar robotics platform. The Economist magazine predicts that solar will become the world's #1 electricity source by the 2030's & #1 energy source overall by the 2040's. Meanwhile, VC's are saying the biggest bottleneck to AI & prosperity over the next 10 years is the ability to add new electricity to the grid quickly. Swap is speeding the transition to clean, domestic energy through its solar robotics platform, which enables utility-scale solar sites to be built & maintained faster, cheaper & more reliably. Use-cases include robotic materials staging on solar sites, robotic panel laying & robotic vegetation management. Swap Robotics has raised over $20 million CAD in venture capital to-date, mostly from several of the biggest players in the solar industry who understand Swap's technology lead in the space. Tim has built four businesses from $0 to at least six figures of revenue each & been named one of The Globe & Mail's Top 12 Innovators at Work.

Breanne Jeethan The System is Broken

The System is Broken is a body of work based on the artist's experiences as a worker in the Emergency Department of a hospital. The series represents abstract scenes of the clinical workspace and is a response to the fast-paced, stressful environment that is rife with trauma, high emotions, and anguish. Working between the emergency room and her studio, the artist uses the symbiotic relationship between the two workplaces as a fuel to create her work. By manipulating and distorting found imagery created by various medical technologies, abnormalities in the imagery are created to signal the bureaucratic structures and power imbalances that undermine healthcare. The resulting series speaks to both the artist’s continuous navigating of her state of in-betweenness, but also to the overarching hierarchical nature of the medical system.

Breanne Jeethan (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and healthcare worker based in Mississauga/Toronto, Ontario. Her experience in graphic design has projected her practice in a mix of analog and digital printmaking. Her practice explores themes of the body, medicine, and trauma with the use of internal imagery like X-rays, ultrasound scans, and angiogram brain scans. She has displayed her work at Durham Art Gallery, Durham; Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto; Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto; and Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga. She is the recipient of the Sylvia Knight Award in Fine Arts (2025).