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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/capstone-showcase-2025
LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1
  Canada
SUMMARY:2025 Capstone Showcase and Grad Send off
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Students will showcase their work and discuss their approach to
  the\n2025 Service Design Challenge\, an international competition focused
  on\nservice design for global issues. This year\, they collaborated with\
 nIBM mentors to create innovative products and services that support\nsust
 ainable development and equitable progress. Join us on April 4 to\nsee fir
 sthand the skills and knowledge our students have developed.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/mvp-challenge-0
LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1
  Canada
SUMMARY:MVP Challenge
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:A one-day design + business challenge for Grade 12 students\, h
 osted at\nthe Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
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LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1
  Canada
SUMMARY:MVP Challenge
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:CALLING ALL CREATIVE MINDS!\n\nWelcome to the MVP Challenge\, a
  one-day design + business challenge\nfor high school students\, hosted by
  the University of Waterloo\nStratford School of Interaction Design and B
 usiness.\n\nAre you passionate about design\, creativity\, and pushing bou
 ndaries?\nLook no further. Showcase your creative thinking and problem-sol
 ving\nskills as you work with a group to develop and pitch your next great
 \nidea.\n\nMinimum Viable Product - Your MVP is the thing that makes y
 our\nidea stand out!
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/building-equitable-and-sustainable-game-development
SUMMARY:Building Equitable and Sustainable Game Development Education -\nWo
 rkshop
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"Building Equitable and Sustainable Game Development Education
 \"\nWorkshop led by Kenzie Gordon (University of Alberta)\, Dr. Sean\nGoug
 las (University of Alberta)\, Dr. Alison Harvey (York\nUniversity)\, Vish
 al Sooknananl (Western University)\, Dr. Johanna\nWeststar (Western Unive
 rsity)\, and Dr. Jennifer Whitson (University\nof Waterloo). \n\n  With
  recent waves of layoffs\, high-profile workplace harassment\ncases\, and 
 a notoriously short career length for gender minorities and\npeople of col
 our\, the transition of new workers into the game industry\ninvolves navig
 ating a spate of barriers to equity and success that\nhave been understudi
 ed in academic research. The First Three Years is\nan ongoing longitudinal
  study of graduates of game programs in Canada\nand the United States\, fo
 llowing the journey of 207 students as they\nmove into the game industry. 
 In this workshop\, our research team will\nsummarise the primary challenge
 s students have identified in their\ngame programs. This summary includes 
 equity and diversity issues\ninherent in common curricular practices such 
 as the efficacy of\ncapstone courses and internships\, the inclusion of cr
 unch-like\npractices in the classroom\, the systematic failure to inform s
 tudents\nof actual workplace conditions\, and the mismatch between student
 \npreparation and industry hiring practices. Afterwards\, participants\nwi
 ll address whether/how these problems manifest in their own\ninstitutions\
 , and what solutions might improve equity outcomes for\nstudents seeking c
 areers in games.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/indigenous-speakers-series-jani-lauzon-and-kaitlyn-riordan
SUMMARY:Indigenous Speakers Series: Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Speakers Series: Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/ai-tsunami-where-will-it-take-us
LOCATION:Jobsite Brewing Co. 45 Cambria Street Stratford ON Canada
SUMMARY:The AI tsunami – Where will it take us?
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to Research Talks\, a public event and panel\n
 discussion featuring guest speakers Kesha Bodawala - P & P\nOptica\, E
 van Jones - Stitch Media\, and Sirisha Rambhatla and Will\nZhao - Uni
 versity of Waterloo.\n\nArtificial Intelligence (AI)\, the study of machin
 es and software that\nexhibit intelligence\, is transforming every aspect 
 of society\, from\nfinancial services\, technology\, healthcare\, manufact
 uring\, and more.\nAI is dependent on data\, that is\, AI uses data to mak
 e predictions so\nhumans can make data-driven decisions. With the explosio
 n of data over\nthe past two decades\, there is an AI tsunami on our thres
 hold. So\, we\nare left with the question\, “Where will AI take us?”\n
 \nCHALLENGE OF THE BOTS: EXPLORING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF CONTEXTUAL\nCONVER
 SATIONAL AI\n\nWill Zhao\n[https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-intera
 ction-design-and-business/people-profiles/will-zhao] is\nan Assistant Pro
 fessor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design\nand Business\n[http
 s://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-business/]\,\n
 University of Waterloo. He earned his Ph.D. from the French _Grande\nEcol
 e _EM Lyon Business school and pursued his postdoctoral research\nat Stan
 ford University. He is an interdisciplinary researcher\ninterested in stud
 ying innovation from organizational\, educational\,\nand engineering persp
 ectives\, particularly using multimodal methods\nthat draw on semiotics an
 d/or artificial intelligence techniques. His\nmost recent research on arti
 ficial intelligence has been published in\nleading journals such as _IEEE
  Transactions on Cybernetics._\n\nWHAT’S IN YOUR FOOD? ASSESSING THE QUA
 LITY OF FOOD PRODUCTS USING AI\n\nKesha Bodawala\n[https://ppo.ca/people-a
 t-ppo-kesha-bodawala-software-developer/] is\nthe Model Development Lead 
 at P&P Optica [https://ppo.ca/] (PPO)\,\nbased in Waterloo\, ON. At PPO\
 , she oversees the Machine Learning Team.\nShe works with the team to deve
 lop models to assess the quality of\nmeat products. Kesha has a Master's d
 egree in Electrical and Computer\nEngineering with a focus on machine lear
 ning and a Bachelor's degree\nin Electronics Engineering.\n\nINCORPORATING
  AI INTO STORYTELLING AND VIRTUAL REALITY\n\nEvan Jones [https://www.stitc
 h.media/team] is the founder of Stitch\nMedia [https://www.stitch.media/
 ]\, an interactive media production\nservices company which tells stories 
 using new technology and timeless\ntechniques. A two-time Emmy Award winn
 er\, Evan’s work combines web\,\nmobile and games with TV\, film\, radio
 \, and the real world. He has been\nrecognized as a 'Top 10 New Media Grou
 ndbreaker' by the Bell Fund and\nchosen as one of the ‘most innovative a
 nd influential minds in\nMcMaster history’ by his alma mater. His intera
 ctive documentary\nwork has won ‘Best in Electronic Culture’ at the UN
 ESCO World\nSummit and his experience with branded entertainment has won 
 ‘Best\nin Digital Marketing’ by the Digi Awards. Evan has guest lectur
 ed on\nthe art & business of interactive story internationally at the\nCan
 adian Film Centre\, the Australian Film\, Television & Radio School\nand t
 he University of Southern California. He has consulted for the\nSmithsonia
 n\, Greenpeace\, Microsoft\, Disney\, NBC\, Universal\,\nNickelodeon\, and
  20th Century Fox on the future of entertainment.\n\nAI AND THE FUTURE OF 
 HEALTHCARE\n\nSirisha Rambhatla\n[https://uwaterloo.ca/management-sciences
 /profile/srambhat] is an\nAssistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineeri
 ng at the University of\nWaterloo\, where she leads the Critical ML Lab as
  the director. Her\nresearch focusses on developing deep learning-based re
 liable\nartificial intelligence (AI) models for critical real-world decisi
 on\nmaking in surgery and healthcare\, covid spread\, climate change\, and
 \nintelligent manufacturing and aviation using spatiotemporal modelling\,\
 nrepresentation learning\, and explainable AI. Her inter-disciplinary\nwor
 k spans both theory and practice of machine learning (ML)\, has been\npubl
 ished at top ML venues such as NeurIPS\, ICLR\, KDD\, IJCAI\, AAAI\,\nand 
 clinical venues such as AMIA\, Surgery\, American Association for\nthe Stu
 dy of Liver Diseases. Recipient of the 2021 Merit Award for\nExcellence in
  Postdoctoral Research at the University of Southern\nCalifornia\, Dr. Ram
 bhatla received her Ph.D. (EE) from the University\nof Minnesota -- Twin C
 ities in 2019.\n\nPizza and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.\n\n
 Donations of non-perishable food items for the Salvation Army -\nStratford
  Food Bank will be accepted.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/uw-creators-collective-gallery-spectra
SUMMARY:UW Creator's Collective Gallery: Spectra
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"The Creator's Collective annual gallery\, Spectra\, is live n
 ow! For\nthose who may be unaware\, the Creator's Collective Gallery host
 s a\nyearly exhibition for artists to showcase their creative work or\nrec
 ent artistic activities. Given the uncertainties of Covid-19\, we\nwill be
  holding Spectra online through a VR museum curation platform\ncalled ArtS
 teps.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/unlock-virtual-student-gallery
SUMMARY:Unlock: A Virtual Student Gallery
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:There's no doubt that 2020 was a crazy and challenging year. A 
 large\nchunk of that year was spent in lockdown. The experience of being\n
 confined to our houses during a pandemic has led us to seek some sort\nof 
 escape. And for many students at the Stratford School of\nInteraction Desi
 gn and Business\, that escape was unlocked by art.\n 
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/how-prepare-and-what-expect-ux-interviews
LOCATION:Online Canada
SUMMARY:How to prepare and what to expect with UX interviews
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:KONRAD GROUP IS HOSTING THIS LIVE Q AND A.\n\nInterviewing as a
 n incoming grad can be daunting especially during the\nCOVID pandemic. Wha
 t makes an application stand out? What do you need\nto prepare? Hear from 
 designers who made their way through this\ntransition and are now transfor
 ming industries with design thinking.\nWe have advice for different types 
 of design interviews and will walk\nyou through how to navigate them effec
 tively. This talk is designed to\nprepare you for your job hunt and empowe
 r you to make the most of your\nopportunities!
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/lunch-and-learn-designing-diversity-live-q-and
LOCATION:Online Canada
SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn | Designing with Diversity Live Q and A
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:DESIGNING WITH DIVERSITY - HOW FOCUSING ON INCLUSION HELPED US 
 BECOME\nBETTER DESIGNERS\n\nAs members of the TELUS Service Design team\, 
 when we were given the\nopportunity to focus on retail accessibility\, we 
 were nervous and\nexcited. The experience of this project was transformati
 ve and pushed\nus to become better and more inclusive designers. The lesso
 ns learned\nand insights gained from this work have continued to inform ou
 r\napproach to design and evolved our practice.
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