Events & Workshops
Events & Workshops
The event was MCed by Ann Siddiqui, Internal Vice President of Computing Student’s Society at Mount Royal University
Alan Fedoruk - Chair & Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computing of Mount Royal University
Dr. Alan Fedoruk is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computing at Mount Royal University. His research interests include AI, specifically cooperative multi-agent systems, the intersection of computing with society, in particular, the bias in algorithms, and privacy. Prior to joining MRU Alan spent many years in the IT field as a computer technician, a programmer, a system administrator, a database and data administrator, and an application development manager. He teaches databases and data mining and IT and society.
Ray DePaul - Director of Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University
Ray DePaul is the Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University. He has been a successful entrepreneur, selling his company to Intel, and was also a key member of the team that brought the iconic BlackBerry to the world. He is on the Board of Directors of Attabotics and Platform Calgary as well as several technology company advisory boards and is proud to be a mentor to many young entrepreneurs. Ray holds a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Yasaman Amannejad - Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computing of Mount Royal University
Dr. Yasaman Amannejad is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computing of Mount Royal University. She graduated from the Software Engineering program at University of Calgary. Yasaman's research interests are building and evaluating data-intensive solutions for cloud and edge computing. Prior to joining Mount Royal University, Yasaman has taught at SAIT and University of Calgary and has over 5 years of industry experience in different software engineering roles.
Sepideh Afkhami Goli - Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering in Southern Alberta Section
Dr. Sepideh received her PhD in software engineering from the University of Calgary. Her research was on autonomous vehicles and machine learning. She is currently a software scientist at CMG (Computer modelling group). She is also chair of IEEE Women in Engineering of Southern Alberta.
Presenter: Emily Knight, Entrepreneur Development Officer, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University
Bio - Emily is a Mount Royal University Alumni who joined the Institute’s team in 2017 during her final year of study. As a student at MRU, she focused her studies and extra-curricular involvement on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Today, she plays an integral role in fostering community and opportunities for innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers from across campus. Emily believes that entrepreneurship is a unique opportunity to explore curiosity and play, unlocking the bold child within each of us and ultimately leading to the words most impactful innovations. She is energized by the opportunity to help students develop their entrepreneurial mindset, leading them to exciting careers, new venture ideas and roles as changemakers in their communities. Emily holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with minors in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Resources:
The recording of the workshop is available here.
Presenter: Anna Nuhn from the Library of Mount Royal University
Description - Beginners Guide to Data Visualization: Communicating and Engaging with your Audience using Graphical Representations.
Telling a compelling story with data visualizations can be a very powerful tool for communication. However, it is important to first understand the basics. Participants will explore the following topics: what is data visualization, what they are used for, different types and when and how to use them in order to present data and more. Participants will also have an opportunity to explore and learn a dynamic visualization tool - Google Data Studio.
Resources:
The recording of the workshop is available here.
Presenter: John Brosz, Data Visualization Coordinator, University of Calgary's Taylor Family Digital Library
Bio - Dr. John Brosz is the Data Visualization Coordinator at the University of Calgary's Taylor Family Digital Library where he provides data visualization and research data management support, consultation, and training to scholars from a variety of areas across campus. John has a PhD in computer science where he was involved in research in the areas of information visualization, computer graphics, and human-computer interfaces.
Description - Data visualization is an important tool for researchers, assisting in both analysis and communication of results. The use of appropriate visualization techniques can greatly increase the ability to gain insight from and ease the communication of data. In this workshop, we present the basics on how to use Tableau, a tool capable of creating a wide variety of visualizations. Developed through PhD research at Stanford, Tableau (http://www.tableausoftware.com) supports of variety of data formats and through simple interactions allows fast exploration to find the visualization most suited to the data. Additionally, Tableau offers its desktop software free to post-secondary students. In this workshop we will explore the fundamentals of importing data and then using this software to create visualizations.
Instructions: Before the session please install the free trial of Tableau Desktop by going to tableau.com and clicking the orange "Try Now" link (found on the top-right corner of the webpage). This software is available for both Windows and Mac.
Resources:
Slides are available at Dr. Brosz's page at https://brosz.ca/slides/tableau/
The recording of the workshop is available here.
Presenter: Experts from Amazon AWS and Google Cloud will join us at these events.
Amazon APIs for machine learning - using AWS existing APIs (Jan. 18 at 4:30 - 5:45 PM) [Recording]
Amazon AWS SageMaker for building your own machine learning models (Jan. 20 at 4:30 - 6:00 PM) [Recording]
Google AutoML for building your own machine learning models (Jan. 22 at 4:00 - 5:00 PM) [Recording]
Followed by a hands-on workshop for limited participants of HackTogether. (Jan. 22 at 5:00 - 5:30 PM)
Presenter: Emily Knight, Entrepreneur Development Officer, Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University
Bio - Emily is a Mount Royal University Alumni who joined the Institute’s team in 2017 during her final year of study. As a student at MRU, she focused her studies and extra-curricular involvement on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Today, she plays an integral role in fostering community and opportunities for innovators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers from across campus. Emily believes that entrepreneurship is a unique opportunity to explore curiosity and play, unlocking the bold child within each of us and ultimately leading to the words most impactful innovations. She is energized by the opportunity to help students develop their entrepreneurial mindset, leading them to exciting careers, new venture ideas and roles as changemakers in their communities. Emily holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with minors in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Resources:
Video recording of the event is available at: https://youtu.be/Ea3hlqrEtOo