Join us for a Q&A talk with Fangjin Yang the Co-Founder and CEO of the hugely successful analytics company, Imply. Yang will share his experience in starting a company and how you can set yourself up for success and get your startup out of the garage.
Research suggests that openly queer blue-collar workers are among the most marginalized in the labour market. To understand the role of anti-queer hiring discrimination in Canada’s blue-collar sector, economist Dr. Maryam Dilmaghani (Saint Mary’s University) and queer health scholar Dr. Margaret Robinson (Dalhousie University) conducted an experiment.
This webinar will explore anti-oppression and ableism, from disability rights to disability justice as a way to fully support disabled colleagues and employees by identifying power dynamics and taking action today while mirroring what has happened in queer and trans communities in the past.
Building the best staff team starts from the beginning. Do your job postings demonstrate inclusivity? Are your interviews accessible? The first interaction employees and job-seekers have with a workplace is the hiring and recruitment process.
Join University of Waterloo expert in artificial intelligence, Professor Pascal Poupart, for a public talk in which he will describe the key technological advances in recent years which were behind, and ultimately facilitated, these breakthroughs. Coffee and tea will be provided.
From more than 100 applications, the final eight student-led teams pitch to a panel of judges in hopes of winning their share of $20,000 for their ambitious idea!
Our concert will feature ACE, The AcaBellas, The Musical InterDudes, The Unaccompanied Minors, The Water Boys, In Full Colour and other groups performing stunning sets with only the sounds of their voices. Invite your family and friends for a night of live music and wonderful entertainment!
WISE is pleased to announce a hybrid WISE Public Lecture with Faisal Kazi. Please join us in-person or on Zoom for a discussion on the future state of electricity demand in Canada and rethinking our energy systems and how we interact with them if we want to reach Canada’s goal to have a net zero grid by 2035.
The Showcase 2023 event is hosted in partnership with the Continuous Improvement (CI) area, Change Management Advisor (CMA), and the Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) community of practice (CoP).
UW Students Helping Seniors (SHS) is hosting a charity gala event to support the Alzheimer Society of Waterloo Wellington in collaboration with UW Brain Exercise Initiative (BEI), UW Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) Student Connection, UW Geriatric Pharmacy Club, and UW Futures in Rehabilitation Sciences.