Parallel Sessions (choose one)
2:00 - 2:50 PM Saturday October 22nd
2:00 - 2:50 PM Saturday October 22nd
Room |
Session Title |
Speaker |
International Ballroom A |
Women in Tech: Learning from industry leaders at Pivotree Learn from two industry leaders at Pivotree Inc., a digital commerce services provider. Pivotree helps retailers manage complex commerce platforms and provides ongoing support from strategic planning, product selection, deployment and hosting, to data and supply chain management. |
Patricia Vanderlaan Vice President, MS Services Delivery Shaunna Jackson Chief Information Security Officer & Vice President, Cyber Security Pivotree |
International Ballroom B |
Resume Building Workshop presented by RBC Join Early Talent recruiters from RBC to create the best version of your resume! We'll break down what hiring managers are looking for on your applications, how to summarize your technical skills, and what makes a resume stand out in the crowd. |
Karleigh Phipps & Sarah Balaban, Senior Recruiter, Early Talent Acquisition, RBC |
New York |
Emotion Sensitive Human Robot Interaction Emotion sensitive human robot interaction HRI can play an important role in the development of autonomous service robots, more importantly, ones in the security domain. The development of robots equipped with artificial intelligence that can use de-escalation strategies when conversations derail emotionally , creates HRI able to produce research on the human perception of these emotion sensitive social robots. |
Enas AlTarawneh York University |
Toronto |
Finding the “I” in Science Through this workshop, we hope to engage scientists and aspiring scientists in a thought-provoking discussion regarding important concepts within philosophy and history of science, with a focus on how scientific ideas are influenced and perceived by scientists themselves and the general public. Participants will be encouraged to self-reflect and assess their personal values through sharing stories and experiences that have led each of us to pursue our scientific careers and how we can strive to conduct ethical and responsible science. |
Cait Harrigan, Shanza Ayub University of Toronto |
Montreal |
Automated Hate Speech Detection, An Ethical and Human Rights Perspective In this workshop, we will present NLP research on automatic hate speech detection with a new focus on ethical challenges, organized around eight established ethical principles: privacy, accountability, safety and security, transparency and explain ability, fairness and non-discrimination, human control of technology, professional responsibility, and promotion of human values. In many cases, these principles relate not only to situational ethical codes, which may be context-dependent, but are in fact connected to universal human rights, such as the right to privacy, freedom from discrimination, and freedom of expression. This workshop will encourage participants to examine the broad social impacts of technology, and to bring ethical and human rights considerations to every stage of the application life-cycle, from task formulation and dataset design, to model training and evaluation, to application deployment. |
Kathleen Fraser & Isar Nejadgholi, Researchers National Research Council |
Ottawa |
Moderated by Mona Ali, Northeastern University, Vancouver Campus |