The Post-COVID-19 Reboot Panel Series: Our virtual future

Charlotte Armstrong — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:03:46 +0000

The Post-COVID-19 Reboot Panel Series: Our virtual future Charlotte Armstrong Wed, 06/24/2020 - 11:03

COVID-19 has shaken the world, challenging societies and altering life as we know it. But from this crisis, opportunities have emerged calling us to action as we prepare to reboot from the COVID-19 lockdown.

In this series of 6 free, weekly, online panels, experts from the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ and representatives from some of Canada's leading companies will share their research, real-world expertise, and experience to help identify the risks and plot the future of adapting to this new normal. Learn how you can apply their research findings to the needs of your enterprise and your own aspirations. Together, let’s create the future.

Registration is required for each of the 6 panels
A WebEx link will be provided before the talk. Each webinar will feature a 60-minute, moderated panel, with 5 or 6 participants followed by an optional 30-minute Q&A (questions can be submitted through the web conference chat).

The Post-COVID-19 Reboot series is presented by University of ��ݮ��Ƶ Gateway for Enterprises to Discover Innovation (GEDI).

Panel #6 Rebooting with Research: Our virtual future

This third research-focused webinar considers what our virtual future may look like. What we have seen so far about our attempt to capitalize on virtual technology to manage through the crisis, the pros and cons of virtual connectivity, what weaknesses of virtual reality have been exposed, and how to reinvent the future.

Moderator: Neil Randall - Executive Director, The Games Institute; Chair, Council for Responsible Innovation and Technology

Expert panelists include:

Jennifer Boger - Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering; Schlegel Chair in Technology for Independent Living at the Research Institute for Aging
Aynur Kadir - Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Department of Communication Arts; Member, Games Institute
Michael Barnett-Cowan - Associate Professor, Kinesiology
Jim Wallace - Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems
Andrea Kerswill - Director, Innovation & Scotiabank FactoryU, Scotiabank
Ray Simonson - Co-founder and CEO, Glove Systems

The Post-COVID-19 Reboot series:

Visit our event page here to see past events. The recorded sessions will be posted to the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ YouTube channel as available, check back soon!

If you have any questions, please contact GEDI at GEDI.info@uwaterloo.ca.

The Post-COVID-19 Reboot Panel Series: Rebooting with Research: Viral detection and mitigation

Charlotte Armstrong — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 02:19:30 +0000

The Post-COVID-19 Reboot Panel Series: Rebooting with Research: Viral detection and mitigation Charlotte Armstrong Tue, 06/16/2020 - 22:19

Panel #5 Rebooting with Research: Viral detection and mitigation

This research-focused webinar looks at recently developed biotechnology to address COVID-19 and other health challenges. This includes vaccine development, improving screening with artificial intelligence (AI) as applied to imaging, using nanoscience to build better biosensors and imagers, and the world-wide COVID-19 collaborations in which the University is participating.

Moderator: Sushanta Mitra - Executive Director, ��ݮ��Ƶ Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN); Professor, Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering

Expert panelists include:

Karim Karim - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Executive Director, Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB); Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, KA Imaging
Shirley Tang - Professor, Chemistry; Associate Dean of Science, Research
Roderick Slavcev - Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy and Department of Chemistry; ��ݮ��Ƶ Centre for Microbial Research
Ryan Denomme - Founder and CEO, Nicoya Lifesciences
Alex Wong - Co-founder, Chief Scientist, DarwinAI; Associate Professor, Systems Design Engineering; Canada Research Chair in AI and Medical Imaging

What's next in our series?

Visit our event page here to see past events and to register for additional panel sessions:

Rebooting with Research series:

June 25 | Rebooting with research: Our virtual future (panel 6 of 6)

The recorded sessions will be posted to the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ YouTube channel as available, check back soon!

If you have any questions, please contact GEDI at GEDI.info@uwaterloo.ca.