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:20170312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZNAME:EDT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
DTSTART:20160313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZNAME:EDT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
DTSTART:20140309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
DTSTART:20161106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
DTSTART:20151101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
DTSTART:20131103T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b09c5b
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T170000
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T183000
URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/critical-tech-talk-black-media-philosophy-and-beyond-armond
SUMMARY:Critical Tech Talk: Black Media Philosophy and Beyond with Armond R
 .\nTowns
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Much of the contemporary research on race in communication medi
 a\nstudies begins with media representations. However\, for this talk\,\nA
 rmond R. Towns will focus on the relationship between the modern\nresearch
  university\, race\, and the development of communication and\nmedia studi
 es in the early and mid-twentieth century\, with a focus\nspecifically on 
 US and Canadian communication and media studies. Like\nthe modern universi
 ty\, the discipline of communication and media\nstudies\, Towns argues\, h
 as a difficulty with understanding non-Western\nlife. This talk is a begin
 ning conversation on how to push toward new\nforms of understanding humani
 ty beyond Western life. The topic of who\ncounts as human is crucial in a 
 context where big tech aims to control\nthe future of so-called humanity a
 nd the AI race closes the gap\nbetween human and machine communications.\n
 \nThis is a hybrid in-person and virtual event. Following the talk\,\nther
 e will be a short reception for in-person attendees at the Science\nTeachi
 ng Complex (STC) Room 0050.
DTSTAMP:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b0ab47
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T130000
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230925T140000
URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/black-virtuality-ade-games-communities-workshop-and-speaker
SUMMARY:Black Virtuality - ADE for Games Communities Workshop and Speaker\n
 Series
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Across digital media\, Black people are portrayed in ways that 
 are\nderogatory\, inaccurate\, stereotypical\, demeaning\, and otherwise\n
 harmful. And Black culture is often depersonalized and extracted from\nBla
 ck bodies. Through projects like ‘Ye or Nay? and the Open-Source\nAfro H
 air Library\, artist A.M. Darke reimagines the construction and\nconsumpti
 on of Black bodies in virtual space\, discussing critical\napproaches to p
 ortraying Blackness in games and virtual space.
DTSTAMP:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b0b5e1
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T110000
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T123000
URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/panel-emerging-voices-black-game-studies-ade-games
SUMMARY:Panel on Emerging Voices in Black Game Studies - ADE for Games\nCom
 munities Workshop and Speaker Series
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:The following events are lectures\, panels and workshops hosted
  by a\nvariety of researchers across the globe\, discussing themes related
  to\ndecolonization\, equity\, accessibility and diversity in games and ga
 me\ncommunities. Times are EST/EDT\; they are tentative and may be subject
 \nto change. _Event registration details to come._\n\nThis panel highlight
 s emerging scholars in Black games studies.\nPanelists will present recent
  and/or ongoing work\, sharing a glimpse\nof the emerging research questio
 ns animating the field. 
DTSTAMP:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b0bd97
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:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b0c9c2
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170621T180000
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170621T180000
URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/truth-and-reconciliation-community-dialogues
LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1
  Canada
SUMMARY:Truth and Reconciliation Community Dialogues
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:UNCOMFORTABLE IS OK: HOW TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION SHAPES US ALL
 \n\nJoin us\, on National Aboriginal Day\, for insight into the Indigenous
 \nexperience and learn how community education provides opportunity for\np
 ositive impact.
DTSTAMP:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b0d366
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160711T000000
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160716T000000
URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/mcmaster-stratford-shakespeare-seminar-series
LOCATION:DMS - Stratford Campus 125 St. Patrick Street Stratford ON N5A 0C1
  Canada
SUMMARY:McMaster Stratford Shakespeare Seminar Series
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:McMaster Stratford Shakespeare Seminar Series
DTSTAMP:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:69f52c2b0dd8d
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20140919T130000
SEQUENCE:0
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20140919T140000
URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/stratford-school-of-interaction-design-and-busines
 s/events/my-ux-internship-experience-amazon
LOCATION:REAP 1440 King Street North St. Jacobs ON N0B 2N0 Canada
SUMMARY:My UX Internship Experience at Amazon!
CLASS:PUBLIC
DTSTAMP:20260501T224147Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR