Events

Join the Waterloo Climate Institute and Student Climate Council for a full day convention tackling all aspects of climate action. The dynamic schedule will include presentations, workshops, hands-on art installations, performances, and poster-sessions. The call for proposals is now OPEN! Submit proposals by February 9th. All student submissions welcome!

Map the System involves both primary and secondary interviewing to deeply understand a complex, systemic problem. Attend this workshop for tips and tricks when interviewing to understand a problem space.

How to effectively talk about your startup and persuade people to help you – when you’re not on a stage.

Quantum Sensing Workshop Application Velocity and Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) will be hosting the Quantum Sensing Workshop on Thursday, February 29, 2024, from 1-5 pm at RAC 1, 3003.

Application Deadline: Friday, February 23 at 9:00am.

Want to know what an entrepreneurship journey looks like? Need to find funding and unsure of where to start? Startup 101 will kickstart your business knowledge with our simple hour long (sometimes more) themed sessions. Hosted by founders for everyone. This session's focus is on how to find and use sources of funding that don’t dilute your equity.

This brand new 201 level workshop aims to equip staff, faculty, and graduate students with the knowledge and tools to become intentional allies, community members standing in solidarity, and empathetic advocates for change.

Join this Innovation Skills Workshop co-hosted by the Waterloo Climate Institute Climate Leaders’ program and GreenHouse Changemaker Labs to address climate change. In small groups, participants will explore the design thinking principles and will ideate solutions and recommendations for campus climate action!

On March 4, join your fellow Waterloo communicators, event planners and marketers at the half-day Accessibility Workshop. Learn from accessibility visionary and inclusion leader, Sean Crump who will discuss the imperative for us to create more accessible and welcoming experiences within our work. Following his talk, you will hear from your Waterloo peers who will offer hands-on tactics and resources as we learn and grow together in this space of improving and implementing accessible best practices. 

This one-hour mandatory Equitable Recruitment and Selection training supports faculty in helping them design equity-centered recruitment and selection practices while discussing accountability frameworks for equitable recruitment, selection, and retention.

Part 3 of a three-part workshop hosted by Ela Smith that journeys through First Nations, Inuit, and Metis relations with settlers.