About the Summit
Students, Outreach Champions, Engineering Faculty and Leaders, Industry Partners and Allies will gather to celebrate successes and encourage each other to chart a course towards greater inclusion in Engineering!
This year's ONWIE Summit and 20th anniversary celebration is taking place on November 20th and 21st, 2025 at McMaster University in Hamilton.
Visit the ONWIE Summit webpage to learn more about the summit, including the schedule.
This year, on Friday afternoon, there will be a student/industry session which includes:
- Talk: best practices for inclusive hiring
- Table discussions: what makes a company appealing to a diversity of students?
- Panel (or lightning talks?): Co-op/internship professionals sharing non-inclusive student issues (and success stories)
- Table discussions: inclusive practices in industry
- Lightning talks: student affinity club best practices
- Table discussions: supporting inclusive student activities
- Networking time!
Subsidized Tickets
Thanks to the generous donations made in memory of Jennifer Muller, University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Alumni, through her obituary, WiE is able to cover the cost of tickets and travel for 10 women-identifying or non-binary students at UW to attend the ONWIE Summit.
If you are interested in attending, please complete the application below by October 10th and indicate your availability to attend the full summit or just Friday afternoon.
Depending on the number of applications received, a random draw will be used to select the 10 students to attend. You will be notified by email if you are selected to attend.