For Presenters

Seminar speakers are Amii Fellows and their students, visitors, and colleagues, as well as industry speakers co-hosted by Technology Alberta. Use the "Speaker Request" button above to request a spot on the schedule.

The AI Seminar is a hybrid event. The in-person venue is in University Commons, and is also streamed on Zoom.

• Regular seminars are held in room 2-108, which has 1 projector screen, flat seating and a room capacity of around 50. 

• Amii Fellows seminars are held in the Alfred Sorenson Community Hall (room 2-350) which has 1 large screen and 100 seats. 

• The Zoom meeting is open to anyone with the link and password.

The audience has a range of backgrounds and levels of expertise, with both new students and subject matter experts attending. Both broader topical discussion and in-depth research in a particular area are welcome. The in-person attendance is usually around 50, with an additional 15 or 20 people joining virtually.

Seminars are advertised to multiple audiences in the week preceding the seminar:

• all University of Alberta employees, graduate students, and undergraduate students in UofA weekly digest emails

• the Faculty of Science and Department of Computing Science through event notification emails sent to their mailing lists

• the Slack community in the AI Seminar Updates channel

• subscribers of the weekly AI Seminar newsletter, which will also be sent to you to forward within your networks as appropriate

Your presentation will begin at noon, following a brief introduction by the coordinator and your supervisor or host. You should prepare a maximum of 45 minutes of material and leave 15 minutes for questions. The seminar is interactive, with the in-person audience and Zoom participants raising questions throughout. You may choose to answer clarifying questions as they come up, and leave deeper discussion for the end. The coordinator is available to monitor the Zoom chat if needed. Questions from the in-person audience should be repeated for the Zoom audience to hear, and questions in the Zoom chat should be read out for the in-person audience to hear.

At 11:30, we will set up and test the laptop, projector, microphone, and Zoom meeting. Please share your presentation with the coordinator ahead of time.

With your consent, the Zoom meeting will be recorded for Amii's YouTube channel, and will be edited and uploaded to YouTube in the week following the seminar. Any unpublished, proprietary, or private data should be left out of the presentation.

Bobby-Jo Miller, Amii Admin team, University of Alberta

Sheila Schoepp, PhD student, University of Alberta