Dr. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher is the Canada Research Chair in Science, Health and Technology Communication and leading expert on how communication practices shape how people engage with scientific and technical subject matters.
Darren Harry Baine
Student, Faculty of Science
> Founder and president, The Young Eye Foundation
Iuliia Nesterova
PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts
Dr. Nada Basir
Professor, Faculty of Engineering
> Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business
The work world has been permanently transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Esteban Veintimilla is the CEO and co-founder of 1Mentor, a company using artificial intelligence to understand industry's evolving skills requirements. Veintimilla is also an advisor for students entering their first co-op work term at the University of Waterloo’s Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business.
Talent leads the way in shaping innovative ecosystems that grow local and global economies. We asked Veintimilla how we should develop talent to support resilient economies for the future.
Dr. Michele Mosca
Professor, Faculty of Mathematics
> Institute for Quantum Computing
> Co-founder and CEO, evolutionQ
Madison McBay (BSc ‘22)
Alum, Faculty of Health
> 2021 Co-op Student of the Year
Dr. Stanley Woo
Professor, Faculty of Science
> Director, School of Optometry and Vision Science
Dr. Catherine Burns is the Chair in Human Factors in Health Care Systems and leads the University of Waterloo’s health initiatives. She is an expert in human-centred approaches to the design and implementation of advanced health-care technologies.
Burns also heads Waterloo's Transformative Health Technologies initiative, a collaboration spanning all faculties and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. We asked her how we can redesign our health systems to create better patient outcomes and more equitable access to care.