Please join us at a workshop featuring an expert panel to be held at CASCON-Evoke
Date: November 24, 2021
Time: 12:30 to 2pm Eastern Time
Expert Panelists
Wendy Cukier is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, and Founder of the Diversity Institute at Ryerson University. She is the co-author of the bestseller, Innovation Nation: Canadian Leadership from Java to Jurassic Park and former VP of Research and Innovation and more than 200 articles on aspects of diversity, inclusion and innovation. Dr. Cukier is one of Canada’s leading experts in disruptive technologies, innovation processes, and diversity and inclusion. The Diversity Institute has also pioneered innovative projects such as the Advanced Digital and Professional Training program (ADaPT), the Women Entrepreneurship Hub and the Newcomer Entrepreneurship Hub. She also leads the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub and a program of research for the Future Skills Centre as well as the new Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Network (IIE-Net).
Arvind Gupta is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He is a Past President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC, and past CEO and Scientific Director of Mitacs Inc. Most recently, he helped found Palette Skills Inc – a Federal not-for-profit dedicated to creating transition pathways to the knowledge economy for professionals whose employment has been adversely impacted by automation. He has published extensively on theoretical computer science, computational genomics, and national innovation strategies.
Utpal Mangla is a VP and Senior Partner in IBM Services. He leads IBM’s TME Industry Center of Competency focussing on Artificial Intelligence, IoT, 5G EDGE, Hybrid Cloud, Robotics and Blockchain Innovations for clients worldwide. In his role as a senior executive in the business with P&L responsibility and thought leader in emerging technologies, Utpal’s mission is to fuel growth by building, selling and implementing differentiated competitive market solution offerings to delight our customers. Utpal is a regular speaker at industry forums, university leadership and business conferences globally, including GSMA MWC, THINK, TMForum, Salesforce Dreamforce, Cannes and CEM Telecoms. He is a regular contributor to white papers, industry blogs, external analyst reports, contributes to press and has multiple patents. Utpal is on the board of ATIS, committee member of SCTE and TMForum’s AI Advisory Board. He is also a member of IBM’s Industry Academy and 5G EDGE acceleration team.
Matthias Oschinski is Founder and CEO of Belongnomics. Matthias is an empirical economist with extensive experience in applied research and statistical analysis. Over the course of his career he has worked in academia, the not-for-profit sector, the private sector and in government. Passionate about generating positive social impact, his focus is on making research actionable to address the most pressing public policy challenges of our time. As a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Munk School for Global Affairs and Public Policy he also teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Rosalie Wyonch is a Senior Policy Analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute. Prior to joining the C.D. Howe Institute in 2016, she was a Research Analyst at the Ontario Ministry of Finance in the Office of Economic Policy. She has a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Waterloo, and has authored The Next Wave: Automation and Canada’s Labour Market and Future Shock? The Impact of Automation on Canada’s Labour Market (with M. Oschinski) – two key reports on the impact of automation on the Canadian Labour market
Workshop Goals
The adoption of the digital technologies by firms across large components of the Canadian economy has the potential to create significant disruption in the labour market and dramatically impact skill requirements for the labour force. To add to the increased uncertainty, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced previously unforeseen challenges to the adoption and further development of digital technologies- potentially altering the speed of diffusion and pace of technical change and the transition to the digital economy for organizations and workers. This shifting landscape will likely have both short run and long run impacts that will impact firms and workers alike. This workshop brings together expert panelists and audience members drawn from academia, government agencies and different industries to discuss how COVID-19 has affected the deployment and development of data science, and its impact on the Canadian workforce.
Organizers
Michelle Alexopoulos, Professor of Economics who is cross appointed to the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, a Bank of Canada Fellow and is the Deputy Vice President of the Canadian Economic Association.
Kelly Lyons, Professor in the Faculty of Information, cross appointed to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto
Aije Egwaikhide, Senior Data Scientist, Applied Statistician, and Educator in the IBM Developer Skills Network.
Register
Register here for CASCON-Evoke (it is free to attend). Online access details will be provided by CASCON-Evoke prior to the event.