Workshop

When to take money and when to pass on an offer, the basics of venture math and how to do it, and diving into the different available fundraising sources.

Effectively communicating about your startup is not an important thing, it’s THE most important thing. Learn more about the art of persuading team members, potential investors and everyone else – on and off stage.

Need a break from all those midterms? Come hang out with us at Velocity for a fun and creative workshop. We’ll be playing a game that’ll spark your creativity and help you come up with some awesome new business ideas. Let’s unleash your inner entrepreneur!

Elevate Your Winter Co-op Experience with Velocity! Get ready to enhance your problem-solving skills and adopt an innovative mindset at our exciting Co-op Innovation Challenge brought to you by Velocity and Co-operative Education. This hands-on event is open to all students from any faculty or program with a co-op component.

This workshop will focus on using technical tools, Covidence, to streamline the review process, as well as a reference manager, Zotero, to work with the search results from your structured review to generate in-cite citations and an automated bibliography.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

- Learn how to import and export bibliographic references from Covidence and Zotero

- Understand how to use Covidence and Zotero for teams and groups - Understand how to screen articles with Covidence using custom inclusion and exclusion criteria

- Learn how to build a basic data extraction template in Covidence for included studies

- Learn how to work with in-text citations in Microsoft Word, using Zotero

- Learn how to generate an automated bibliography using Zotero

Systematic and scoping reviews require a rigorous and reproducible search methodology. This workshop, a combination of presentation and interactive activities, outlines the expectations of a systematic search and provides practical experience in developing a search methodology which meets systematic standards.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

- Understand the characteristics of a “systematic” search

- Learn strategies to build, organize and construct a comprehensive search strategy in academic databases

- Learn a systematic approach to identify grey literature

- Understand the search documentation process and reporting standards

Would you like to learn more about scoping and systematic reviews and what steps are involved when conducting each of these review types? This workshop, a combination of presentation and interactive activities, discusses the methods of each review type, as well as how to decide which is best to use and more.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

- Explain the differences between a systematic review and scoping review

- Practice developing a clear research question for a review - Describe the importance of developing a protocol and identify its main components

- Develop eligibility criteria for a review

- Choose a review method that best suits the review goal and timeline

Are you passionate about making a difference in women’s health? Join us for an exciting innovation challenge and contribute to groundbreaking solutions! 

From October 28 to November 8, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with your peers to develop innovative solutions that address pressing issues in menopause, breast health, and gynecological health. 

GIS is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across campus. Join this one-hour session to learn how you can incorporate GIS in your research, coursework and thesis.

This workshop, a combination of presentation, demonstration, and question & answer session, will discuss what GIS is and how it relates to demographics, business intelligence, logistics and statistical analysis, and provide examples of analysis tools and how they relate to different research.

By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Understand how the usual datatypes and spatial datatypes are used together

• Learn the advantages of spatial components in datasets

• Understand the importance of projections

• Understand how the usual datatypes and spatial datatypes are used together Learn the advantages of spatial components in datasets
• Understand the importance of projections