Agenda

WatITis 2026 Schedule
Time Stream 1 (STC 0060) Stream 2 (STC 0050) Stream 3 (STC 0040) Stream 4 STC (0020)

08:00 - 09:00AM

Check-In & Morning Coffee (STC 0801)

09:00 - 10:00AM

Keynote (STC 1012): Drawing the Map Together: How we find our way through change

Presenter: Chun Chih Chen, PhD, MEd, ACC, CPACC

10:00 - 10:20AM

Break

10:20 - 11:05AM

4 Sessions (45 min)

Principles and Practices of Vulnerability Management at UW

Presenter: Jordan Barnartt

Building useful AI solutions

Presenter: Pavol Chvala

What will your website look like in 2030?

Presenter: Joe Kwan

EdTech 2.0: A Framework for Educational Technologies at Waterloo

Presenter: Scott Anderson

11:05 - 11:10AM

Transition To Next Presentation 

11:10 - 11:55AM

4 Sessions (45 Min)

From Security Requirements to Security Tests: A Framework Integrating CIA, STRIDE, and OWASP Top 10

Presenter: Aleksandar Malinovic

Custom Copilot Agents in the Classroom

Presenters: James McCarthy & Mike Lackner

Chickadee: Building a Course Platform at Waterloo (with a Lot of Help)

Presenter: Jim Wallace

Can AI Reach its Bildung? (Bildung - Reaching One's potential)

Presenter: Edward Chrzanowski

12:00 - 1:00PM

Lunch (STC 0801)

Activity: Is My Fish A Phish.

Participants will catch a fish from the pond and then they are presented with a phishing email and asked to determine if it's a fishing email, how they can tell, what they would do and what they would not do. 

1:00 - 1:50PM

Keynote (STC 1012): AI security and privacy primer (a systemization of the issues — and the sad state of countermeasures)

Presenter: Florian Kerschbaum

1:50 - 2:00PM

Transition To Next Presentation 

2:00 - 2:50PM

3 Sessions (45 Min) & 3 Sessions (20 Min)

Building a Cyber Awareness Culture on Campus 

Presenters: Andriana Vanezi & Jordan Barnartt

WSPX - The WatSPEED Platform Experience (20 Min)

Presenter: Andrew Paling

Beyond just HPC

Presenter: John Morton

What I think AI is may be different from what it is

Presenter: Antonio Marques

Watching Learners Get Lost (So They Don’t Have To): What UX Testing Taught Us About Designing Online Courses (20 Min)

Presenters: Antonina Joukova & Mallory Gilmore

Developing KPIs for Website Redesign Using Google Analytics and Google Data Studio (20 Min)

Presenter: Jenny Hirst

2:50 - 3:00PM

Break

3:10 - 4:55PM

4 Sessions (45 min)

Microsoft Fabric Data Platform in 2026

Presenter: Sergey Bobkin

Optimizing for Answers: How to Structure and Write Content for AI Search

Presenter: Tyler Struyk

Should We Still Learn to Code?

Presenter: Edward Chrzanowski

Web-to-Print Software Replacement at Wilfrid Laurier University

Presenters: Stefanie MacKinnon & Ryan Doyle 

3:55 - 4:00PM

Transition 

4:00 - 5:00PM

Social (STC 0801)