Panel featuring six GI members: "Rebooting with Research: Our virtual future"

Friday, June 19, 2020

Gateway for Enterprises to Discover Innovation (GEDI) presents the culmination of their 6-part event series,ÌýPost-COVID-19 Reboot...

"Rebooting with Research: Our virtual future" will take place June 25, 2020, at 1pm, featuring a fully-packed GI member panel. Dr. Neil Randall, Games Institute Executive Director and Chair of the Council for Responsible Innovation and Technology, moderates the event.

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,ÌýKinesiology 
  • Jim Wallace - Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems
  • Andrea Kerswill  - Director, Innovation & ,Ìý
  • Ray Simonson - Co-founder and CEO,Ìý

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Event Details

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 six free, weekly, online panels, experts from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ 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 À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµÂ 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.