Co-sponsored by: VOLTA, IEEE Educational Activities Committee

This event is designed with the objective to provide Students and Young Professionals with an opportunity to network with industry, IEEE board members, and others. An important goal is to bring all stakeholders together to participate in a discussion about the need to adapt/evolve our current educational/academic system to the ever changing needs of the technical/industrial ecosystem.

Agenda:

Start with Meet-and-Greet: 5:30 pm – 6:30pm

Presentation by IEEE Educational Activities Committee, Canada (IEEE EAC): 6:30pm-7:30pm

Speaker I: Murray MacDonald

Title: Educational Activities Outreach with IEEE

Speaker II: Bob Gill

Title: I am teaching! Are you learning?

Speaker III: Witold Kinsner

Title: Do we need a new model for education?

Panel Discussion: Evolving Needs of the Tech Ecosystem

Time: 7:30pm – 8:30pm

Moderated by: Dirk Werle (Chair, IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section)

Confirmed Panelists: 

IEEE EAC Delegate: Dr. Witold Kinsner (Vice-Chair, IEEE EAC, Past IEEE Canada President & Professor, University of Manitoba)

Industry Delegate: Mike Morris (Chief Operating Officer, Natuel)

Academic Delegate: Dr. Jean-Francois Bousquet (Head of Department, Electrical & Computer Engg., Dalhousie University)

WIE & YP Delegate: Mahsa Bataghva Shahbaz (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Western Ontario)

WIE & Industry Delegate: Dr. Sue Molloy (President, Glas Ocean Electric)

RECEPTION & Networking: 8:30pm – 9:30pm

Location:
Room: Unit 100
Bldg: Maritime Centre Building
Volta
1505 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3J 3K5