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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:BLEND - Business + Design Conference
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Join us in March 2026 for BLEND: Business + Design\, a conferen
 ce\ndesigned for professionals and students. Hear from designers\, leaders
 \,\nand innovators who share real stories and actionable strategies for\nt
 urning work into purpose\, leading through change\, and building\nmeaningf
 ul careers. With inspiring talks and hands-on workshops\, BLEND\nequips yo
 u with practical skills you can apply immediately. Connect\nwith a communi
 ty that values courage\, optimism\, and growth.
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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/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
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LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1
  Canada
SUMMARY:10 Year Celebration of the Stratford School of Interaction Design a
 nd\nBusiness
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:10 Year Celebration of the Stratford School of Interaction Desi
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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
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SUMMARY:BLEND 2022: Virtual Design and Business Conference
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce that BLEND 2022 [https://www.blendco
 nf.co/]\nis happening virtually on March 12-13! 
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
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SUMMARY:Based on a True Story: FINE 201 Exhibition
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"There’s a magical moment in a design studio when it hums wi
 th\nactivity\, a creative flow that’s infectious. Late September\, I\nwa
 lked into FINE 201 after a coffee break and found students sprawled\nacros
 s their desks\, the floor\, and the hall—every work surface\ncovered wit
 h cardboard\, X-Acto knives\, tape\, and paint.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
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SUMMARY:uXperience | Design for Good Micro-Conference
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:DESIGN IS THE CORNERSTONE OF TECHNOLOGY. We can solve problems\
 ,\nfulfill our needs\, shape our world\, and change the future through\nde
 sign.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/filling-gaps-opportunities-black-entrepreneurs-southwestern
SUMMARY:Filling the Gaps: Opportunities for Black Entrepreneurs in\nSouthwe
 stern Ontario
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:This Community Dialogue event is proudly presented in partnersh
 ip with\nthe Stratford Public Library. 
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