Events

The "blood, sweat, tears, toil and triumphs" of commercializing technology

Marc Morin is the co-founder and CEO of Auvik Networks, creators of cloud-based software that makes it dramatically easier for IT managed service providers to monitor and manage their clients' IT networks. A serial entrepreneur, Marc has previously co-founded several successful companies, including PixStream (acquired by Cisco for USD$369 million) and Sandvine (Sold to Francisco Partners for CAD$582 million), and is a seed investor in a number of local tech companies.

Pop by the Mathematics 3 (M3) Atrium any time throughout the day and watch as the omnitruncated dodecaplex comes together. Piece-by-piece the 3D polytope model will be put together by Professor Benoit Charbonneau and student, staff, and faculty volunteers. At the end of the day it will rise up and be a permanent art installation in M3.

ASK ME ANYTHING!  Fireside chat with global entrepreneur, visionary, and tech leader Brice Nkengsa
 

We will be celebrating International Women’s Day with a movie screening at Princess Twin Cinema! Come out to watch Suffragette (2015). We're having a live panel before the show, free snacks and a chance to meet some awesome people. 

Event Schedule:

Where: Princess Twin Cinema,  46 King St N, Waterloo

7:45 pm – 8:00 pm – registration for the event

7:55 pm -  8:00 pm – doors open to theatre

8:00 pm – Welcome

8:05 pm – 8:40 pm – International Women’s Day Panel 

Panelists: 

Venture Capitalist, TEDx Speaker, and BMath '79, Nooruddin (Rudy) Karsan, is coming to UWaterloo for an ASK ME ANYTHING fireside chat with students.

In advance of the event, check out Rudy's TedX talk, How the future of work is not "jobs".

The Bridges Lecture Series will host Amelia Defalco (Medical Humanities) and India Morrison (Neuroscience) on March 27. They will provide an overview of how human social, emotional touch may have emerged from multiple brain mechanisms governing attachment and physical closeness between individuals. 

Experience the FINE/CS 383 Computational Digital Art Capstone Exhibition, where you will see interactive and digital works of art created by students from the University of Waterloo!