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Exploring the Science of Personal Creativity
Registration: FREE (Limited Seating)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exploring-the-science-of-personal-creativity-tickets-33246642603
Description: Drawing from current scientific research and evidence emerging from several domains of study, this 1.5 hour interactive workshop explores the psychology of creativity, your beliefs about what creativity is, and how exploring your personal creative spark can have a positive impact on your personal and professional development. Come and meet your creative side!
Workshop takeaways focus on specific tips that will empower you to:
• Learn about the science of creativity
• Develop your awareness to enable greater creativity (personally and professionally)
• Build on different tools, skills, and knowledge to unleash your creative side
About the Facilitator: Inez Dekker is a believer in life-long learning, development, and self-discovery. After running a family business for several years, she started university at the age of 39, earning a BA (Psychology), and an MA (Organizational Psychology), and also took courses in the PhD Management program, all from Queen’s University in Kingston. She taught university courses for eight years at the Queen’s School of Business, Athabasca University, and the Sprott School of Business, including the Psychology of Personality, Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Culture, Leadership, and more. For the past 10 years, Inez has been engaged in personnel research for the Canadian military. To satisfy her own need to express herself through original art and craftwork, she has explored a variety of mediums, such as hand weaving, clothing design, art quilting, gardening, digital art, and photography. She writes and performs original poetry, has competed at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and continues to be active in the Lanark County Live Poets’ Society (LiPS).
The IEEE Ottawa Section Professional Development Seminar Series (PDSS) is a program that helps engineers and other science-based professionals to develop their interpersonal skills for personal and professional growth.
The IEEE Algonquin College Student Branch (ACSB) is a co-organizer of this event.
IEEE Canada is a Supporting Partner of CPES2017, Canada’s premier conference and trade show exhibition for printable, flexible and wearable electronics (PE). In recognition of this partnership support, the CPES organizing committee is extending a special offer to IEEE members.
Date: May 24-26, 2017
Location: Centennial College, Toronto
Using the coupon code cpeia-partner2017b IEEE members can register for CPES at 15 per cent off the regular non-CPEIA member rate of $795 + HST. This represents a value of $119. The deadline to use this code and secure the discount is April 28, 2017.
This is a great opportunity to engage with the technology developers and integrators that are accelerating the growth and adoption of PE in various market verticals that are relevant to Canadian industry and technology clusters across the country.
Please note that this offer cannot be combined with the CPES2017 early bird registration rate or the student rate. It only applies to Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference. If you wish to attend the Master Classes or Mentoring & Financing Sessions on Day 3, you must pay the regular fee for those activities.
To register and take advantage of this discount, please visit
https://cpes2017.ca/registrati
What is CPES2017?
With 30+ speakers and over 200 participants from 120 organizations in attendance, CPES2017 is Canada’s premier meeting ground for technology developers, industrial companies and end-users to discuss how they can work together to manufacture and commercialize new products and applications. Academic researchers can showcase their research and discover how they can link it to market needs and opportunities. Day 1 of the program features Key Applications, while Day 2 is dedicated to Manufacturing. The optional Day 3 offers master classes, a financing session and mentoring.
Led by Jeremy Watson, President of the IET, this event will address many concerns about the missing”S” in the internet of things (IoT) “SECURITY and SAFETY”. IoT covers a wide spectrum of human endeavour and there are great concerns about safety, security and robustness of systems and networks that will enable this massive connected environment.
May 30th 2017 – 6:30 to 9:30 PM
To register, visit:Â https://www.eventbrite.com/e/b
Carleton University – Richcraft Hall
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
By Chris Allison
Senior Coordinator, GC2.0 Tools at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Abstract
Machine Learning, a method of teaching computers to learn and make predictions based on data without being explicitly programmed, is a core part of predictive analytics and key technologies like image recognition, self-driving cars, unsupervised data analytics and search / recommendation engines. Featured in more MOOC’s than you can shake a stick at, machine learning is taking off – and Python has one of the top ML ecosystems around! Chris Allison will present an introductory primer on machine learning using Python’s Scikit-Learn and Gensim. Code and examples included!
Speaker Bio
As a driven, passionate and creative leader and change agent, Chris Allison’s career, skills and experiences span across public service, private interests and personal goals. Chris’ goal is to reimagine and revitalize the public service – transforming it into an organization that can meet and exceed the needs and expectations of Canadians. Over the past 15 years Chris has worked on immigration enforcement, investigated war crimes, patrolled Toronto with the Toronto Police Service, conducted surveillance and counter smuggling activities with as an RCMP officer, participated in public relations duties in Japan, managed national security activities with the Canada Border Services Agency, developed legislation, regulations and policy on import, export and cross-border law enforcement operations, contributed to the re-writing of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, created and lead a community of passionate managers in Public Safety Canada, worked to improve the traveler experience with the CBSA and currently lead the Government of Canada’s enterprise social network and wiki – working to build a single, collaborative and high performing public service to better serve Canadians. Driven and imaginative, Chris has reverse mentored three Deputy Ministers on innovation and technology on the Deputy Minister Committee on Policy Innovation, reimagined and built new ways to improve the traveler experience and acted as a catalyst for change – driving innovation in policy thinking, service delivery, information management and collaboration. An avid Python developer, Chris has built web apps, event simulations, conducted social network analysis, graphed and analyzed social media, analyzed big data with Spark, built machine learning classifiers and used natural language analysis to directly improve his organizations. As per his Twitter bio, Chris is focused on GoC leadership, community, culture, creativity and innovation. He is a geek, gamer, Python developer and storyteller.
For more information, visit:Â http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/ottawa/lunchandlearn/
The IEEE Ottawa WiE Chapter Invites you to the Women in Photonics Panel.
A special session in the Photonics North 2017 conference.
Lunch is included
See more details at: Women in Photonics Flyer Final
