Brainstorming program ideas

Dr. Dawn Hall & I at our proof-of-concept event

• Jill Heinerth - Explorer-In-Residence, The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
• Larkin Mosscrop Kee - Project Manager, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
• Isar Nejadgholi - Head of Machine Learning Research, IMRSV Data Labs
• Andrea Reid - Principal Investigator, Centre for Indigenous Fisheries
• Sebastian Hadjiantoniou - CEO, Incuvers

Once a month, medical students from the University of Ottawa would teach about the human body on stage.

We even had a group of high school students share their amazing robot!




Blood type testing!

Marc Lepage
President and CEO of Genome Canada

Vardit Ravitsky
Full Professor at the Bioethics Program, University of Montreal





David Usher and Dr. Pablo Samuel Castro, Software Developer at Google Brain performing the song they wrote with the help of AI

The music was a fan favourite!

David Usher and Dr. Joelle Pineau, Managing Director of Facebook AI Research and Professor at McGill University's School of Computer Science

Dr. Castro discussing his passions

An audience member live-sketched the whole event!
• Continue to build recurring partnerships to minimize the recruitment needed.
• Source more French presenters.
• Build the evening program with a nominal fee to ensure audience attendance.