BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce1cf31 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231023T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231023T123000 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. DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce1f770 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220926T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220926T173000 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 DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce200e9 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230124T180000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230124T180000 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. DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce2168d DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220326T080000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220328T235900 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. DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce2203b DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20210320T000000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20210321T000000 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  DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce229ed DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201029T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201029T130000 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! DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce23447 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201020T110000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201020T114500 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. DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69f1ccce23e1e DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20181113T180000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20181113T180000 URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines s/events/living-digitally-today-and-tomorrow LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1 Canada SUMMARY:Living Digitally: Today and Tomorrow CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Our lives are increasingly dependent on the digital technologie s on\nwhich we find ourselves progressively dependent. Join faculty member s\nPhilip Boyle and Christine McWebb from the Stratford School of\nInterac tion Design and Business for a discussion on what it means to\nbe living i n an age of digital innovations – advances that both\nenhance and disrup t established ways of doing business\, scientific\nenterprise\, and everyd ay life.  We will explore key topics such as\nprivacy\, the generational divide\, and the benefits and challenges of\nusing online platforms to com municate. DTSTAMP:20260429T091806Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR