The Canadian Electricity Association held its 125th Anniversary Celebration in Ottawa. The winners of the 2016 Sustainable ElectricTM Awards were announced at this event. Executive Directory of WISE, Prof. Jatin Nathwani, delivered a speech at the Event.
INTEG 10 is a seminar on interdisciplinary topics and integrative practices which are of special interest to Knowledge Integration students, faculty, and staff. This is the "living room" of the program; a place where the community comes together to share ideas and be inspired.
Each seminar features a workshop for KI students, or a guest speaker that is a public talk open to all students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the public. We encourage sparkling and lively discussion between speakers and audience members.
Executive Director, WISE, Prof. Jatin Nathwani, was invited as a guest speaker on Nov 4, 2016, where he delivered a talk on "Driving a Revolution in Affordable Energy for Humanity".
RCI Science is Canada's oldest scientific organization, and aims to connect people with science through accessible presentations known as RCI Talks. The focus of the RCI Talks is on making complex scientific topics accessible and engaging for the public.
Executive Directory, WISE, Prof. Jatin Nathwani was invited to deliver a public lecture on Oct 30, 2016 at the Royal Canadian Institute for Science, Toronto.
The Aboriginal Energy Challenge is a Forum that provides timely information on the most recent developments in the energy, economic development and legal sectors that are encouraging aboriginal participation in energy and economic development projects.
Sustainable Campus Initiatives presented the "ECOLOO Environmental Fair".
Key topics covered include: Fair Trade, Sustainable Food, Energy, Transportation, waste, and more!
The 2016 IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP 2016) was held October 16 to 19 at the Eaton Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Canada. The number of attendees was 248, including 18 walk-in registrants, a record for CEIDP. A total of 259 papers were accepted, an acceptance rate of about 80%. The contributions were from 27 countries, representing academia, government, and industry. CEIDP provided financial support to 20 research students, who presented their research and participated in discussions. The total number of registered students was 94.
The Development Impact Lab (DIL), headquartered at UC Berkeley and funded by USAID, has developed a new approach to innovation in the context of global development. The approach – called “Development Engineering (Dev Eng)”–merges advances in engineering with insights from the behavioural and social sciences. In addition to providing a robust, interdisciplinary framework for designing and testing new technologies in the field, DIL encourages researchers to build scale into the R&D process, from the beginning.
Yet the precise barriers to scale are often ill-defined. There are few generalizable mechanisms for scaling evidence-based interventions in emerging markets. To learn from ongoing efforts, DIL hosted their annual State of the Science conference on "The Science of Scaling".
The conference brought together academic researchers, development practitioners, technology developers, and investors to review the evidence on scaling successful anti-poverty innovations–particularly those developed at universities. Are there proven methods for technology transfer from universities to government agencies and non-governmental organizations? Why do some products and interventions scale quicker than others? What facilitates the adoption of new technologies by end-users? This event explored these questions and helped articulate a research agenda for the “Science of Scaling”.
The international character of this conference and exhibition brought together academia, practitioners, industry and development institutions with the aim of sharing experiences and the latest technology developments, learning from each other and networking.
The objective of the event was to :
The 10th Toronto Global Forum (TGF) took place from September 12–14, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. The forum's theme was "Leading in uncertain times".
Executive Director WISE, Dr. Jatin Nathwani participated in the event.
In consideration of his achievements in low-carbon development and reputation, Dr. Roydon Fraser was invited to the Taiyuan Energy Low-Carbon Development Forum 2016. Prof. Roydon Fraser, was invited to present his research relating to low-carbon energy development and the applications in the area of transportation. Prof. Fraser also presented the role and vision of WISE to help transform our energy future through partnership.
The forum was jointly sponsored by the People's Government of Shanxi Province, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China and National Energy Administration and was held from Sept 7th to 9th, 2016 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.