Brainstorming program ideas
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Dr. Dawn Hall & I at our proof-of-concept event
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• 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
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Once a month, medical students from the University of Ottawa would teach about the human body on stage.
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We even had a group of high school students share their amazing robot!
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Blood type testing!
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Marc Lepage
President and CEO of Genome Canada
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Vardit Ravitsky
Full Professor at the Bioethics Program, University of Montreal
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David Usher and Dr. Pablo Samuel Castro, Software Developer at Google Brain performing the song they wrote with the help of AI
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The music was a fan favourite!
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David Usher and Dr. Joelle Pineau, Managing Director of Facebook AI Research and Professor at McGill University's School of Computer Science
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Dr. Castro discussing his passions
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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.