BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Canada/Mountain BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:MST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190523T225727Z UID:48528565-5DF8-4BED-BE06-AB87FD28576A DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Mountain:20190506T100000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Mountain:20190506T170000 DESCRIPTION:THIS PANEL IS BEING HELD AS A SPECIAL TRACK OF THE IEEE CANADIA N CONFERENCE OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (CCECE 2019). CCECE RE GISTERED ATTENDEES CAN ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP FREE OF CHARGE.\n\nRegistratio n by May 3 IS MANDATORY to all attendees who are not registered to the CCE CE. Please get in touch with the event organizer if you missed the deadlin e and need to register at the door.\n\nREGISTRATION TO THIS WORKSHOP DOES NOT ENTITLE ATTENDANCE TO CONFERENCE EVENTS. The only conference events th e attendees of this workshop can attend are the Lunch on May 6 (noon) and Coffee Break (3PM) on May6.\n\nLunch and coffee break refreshments are inc luded. No other conference functions are included.\n\nThe workshop will be held at the Rutherford Room at the Sutton Place Hotel\, May 6\, 10am - 5p m.\n\nA full-day workshop is being held under the Humanitarian Activities Committee’s auspices. It will contain four panels addressing the followi ng United Nations goals:\n\nGoal 4: Quality education\n\nGoal 7: Affordabl e and clean energy\n\nGoal 9: Industry\, Innovation\, and Infrastructure\n \nGoal 11: Sustainable cities and communities\n\nGoal 13: Climate action\n \nGoal 17: Partnerships for the goals\n\nPanel #1: Education inclusion (10 am-11:40am).\n\nChair: Rossitza Marinova\n\nPanelists:\n\n-\n- Witold Kin sner\, Educational Activities Board\, IEEE\n- Rossitza Marinova\, Educato r\, Concordia University of Edmonton\n- Bob Gill\, Educator\, BCIT\n- Tess a Ryan\, Ph.D. Candidate and Engineer-In-Training\, EPCOR\, Edmonton\n- F uhua (Oscar) Lin\, Educator\, Athabasca University\n- Ravinder Shergill\, Industry\, TELUS\n\nThe “Education Inclusion” panel is a joint initiat ive of IEEE Region 7 Educational Activities Committee and Humanitarian Act ivities Committee. The panel objectives are to present and discuss differe nt visions of education – from the points of view of employers\, learner s\, and educators. The panel also covers the humanitarian aspect of educat ion.\n\nIndustries seek to hire individuals with specific skills. Employer s frequently work with educational institutions to assist students in obta ining necessary knowledge and skills for being successful in their work. E mployers can benefit if educational institutions can assist their employee s with certification and professional development.\n\nThe viewpoint of stu dents is also important. Young professionals face challenges in being prep ared for the right jobs. Employers and educators want them to be successfu l in their career. This can let them advance technology for the benefit of humanity. Hence\, they need education that helps them acquire the skills employers demand.\n\nWhat is the right education that can equip individual s with skills and knowledge to build the future with confidence? What will the future bring so that everyone could adapt to it? The panelists will t ry to share their vision and answer some questions the audience may have.\ n\nPanelists intend to present and discuss innovative teaching and learnin g approaches\, including the best online learning environments and the nex t generation of pedagogy for online and blended higher education.\n\nPanel #2: Mission Critical Communities and Clean Energy Adoption (1pm-2:00pm).\ n\nChair: Ahsan Upal\n\nPanelists:\n\n- Ryan Anderson\, Project Manager\, Remote Communities\, ATCO Electric\n- Dr. Alexandre Nassif\, Specialist En gineer\, ATCO Electric\n- Matthew Wright\, Senior Engineer\, Isolated Rene wables\, ATCO Electric\n\nThere have been strong drivers toward lessening diesel dependency in remote communities. These off-grid communities can be difficult to access\, and often face challenges with diesel supply. More importantly\, governments are striving to improve the environmental outloo k in these areas. Tying this need with associated high operational costs a nd fuel handling challenges\, alternative sources of energy and energy sto rage have emerged as a viable option to reduce diesel consumption. This pa per presents the experience of a Canadian electric utility in planning the application of utility scale photovoltaic generation and Battery Energy S torage Systems to supplement existing diesel generators in a remote isolat ed community in Alberta. Economic drivers and opportunities to partner wit h first nations have sparked stakeholder attention and positioned the proj ect as a national interest. Technical and economic studies were conducted to address all aspects of the project. These include forecasting load\, si zing and siting each alternative generation option\, customizing dispatch strategies\, and determining required spinning reserve from diesel generat ors through time-domain studies.\n\nPanel #3: The Role of AI in Humanity a nd Ethics (2 pm – 3:30 pm).\n\nChair: Graeme Vanderstar\n\nPanelists:\n\ n- Irene Cheng\, Scientific Director\, Program Director\, University of A lberta\n- Parisa Naraei\, Manager of Data Science\, Canadian Institute fo r Health Information\n- Tim Hannigan\, Assistant Professor\, University o f Alberta\n- Lianne M. Lefsrud\, Assitance Professor\, University of Albe rta\n\nThe remarkable achievements made in artificial intelligence (AI) ov er the past decade have fostered predictions from many pundits of a coming rapid technological advancement that will lead to a cultural and societal transformation of human civilization at large. With such grand prediction s come the opportunity to study how AI will advance humanitarian causes in many different fields\, however\, these predictions also forewarn of many ethical challenges that may come to the forefront as AI becomes a greater part of our lives. This panel will engage 4 highly qualified experts on t he topic of AI who will first brief the audience on precisely what AI is a nd what predictions they have for the technology in the next 10 years and who will then dive into a deeper analysis of the ethical challenges and hu manitarian opportunities that AI will present society in the years to come .\n\nBreak: 3:30pm – 3:45pm\n\nPanel #4: Introduction to Impact Assessme nt and Social Return on Investment (3:45 pm – 5:00pm).\n\nChair: Holly B rown\n\nPanelists:\n\n- Holly Schneider Brown\, Director\, Public Imperati ves and Corporate Development\, IEEE\n- Jineet Doshi\, IEEE\n\nThere has b een strong\, sustained interest in humanitarian activities in IEEE Region 7\, yielding a number of humanitarian and sustainable development projects . The IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) provides support by rai sing awareness\, conducting training\, offering funding opportunities\, an d facilitating collaboration and strategic partnerships. In 2019\, HAC is focused on providing tools to IEEE volunteers to assess the impact of proj ects. Impactassessment will enable project teams to question assumptions\, better determine good practices\, adapt\, improve\, and also be able to m ore effectively tell their project’s story in order to attract more supp ort. In this workshop\, attendees will learn about impact assessment\, foc using on Social Return on Investment (SROI) – the theory\, examples of S ROI assessments that are currently underway\, as well as hands-on exercise s.\n\nSutton Place Hotel\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, Canada\, T5J 3E9 LOCATION:Sutton Place Hotel\, Edmonton\, Alberta\, Canada\, T5J 3E9 ORGANIZER:nassif@gmail.com SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:Humanitarian Technology Workshop URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/198168 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>THIS PANEL IS BEING HELD AS A SPECIAL TRAC K OF THE IEEE CANADIAN CONFERENCE OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING ( CCECE 2019). CCECE REGISTERED ATTENDEES CAN ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP FREE OF C HARGE.</p>\n<p>Registration by May 3 IS MANDATORY to all attendees who are not registered to the CCECE. Please get in touch with the event organizer if you missed the deadline and need to register at the door.&nbsp\;</p>\n <p><strong>REGISTRATION TO THIS WORKSHOP DOES NOT ENTITLE ATTENDANCE TO CO NFERENCE EVENTS. The only conference events the attendees of this workshop can attend are the Lunch on May 6 (noon) and Coffee Break (3PM) on May6.< /strong></p>\n<p>Lunch and coffee break refreshments are included. No othe r conference functions are included.</p>\n<p>The workshop will be held at the Rutherford Room at the Sutton Place Hotel\, May 6\, 10am - 5pm.</p>\n< p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>A full-day workshop is being held under the Humanitarian Activities Committee&rsquo\;s auspices. It will contain four panels addre ssing the following United Nations goals:</p>\n<p>Goal 4: Quality educatio n</p>\n<p>Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy</p>\n<p>Goal 9: Industry\, I nnovation\, and Infrastructure</p>\n<p>Goal 11: Sustainable cities and com munities</p>\n<p>Goal 13: Climate action</p>\n<p>Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Panel #1: Education inclusion ( 10am-11:40am).</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Rossitza Marinova</strong>< /p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Wi told Kinsner\, Educational Activities Board\, IEEE</strong></li>\n<li><str ong> Rossitza Marinova\, Educator\, Concordia University of Edmonton</stro ng></li>\n<li><strong>Bob Gill\, Educator\, BCIT</strong></li>\n<li><stron g>Tessa Ryan\, Ph.D. Candidate and Engineer-In-Training\, EPCOR\, Edmonton </strong></li>\n<li><strong> Fuhua (Oscar) Lin\, Educator\, Athabasca Univ ersity</strong></li>\n<li><strong>Ravinder Shergill\, Industry\, TELUS</st rong></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The &ldquo\;Education Inclusion&rdquo\ ; panel is a joint initiative of IEEE Region 7 Educational Activities Comm ittee and Humanitarian Activities Committee. The panel objectives are to p resent and discuss different visions of education &ndash\; from the points of view of employers\, learners\, and educators. The panel also covers th e humanitarian aspect of education.</p>\n<p>Industries seek to hire indivi duals with specific skills. Employers frequently work with educational ins titutions to assist students in obtaining necessary knowledge and skills f or being successful in their work. Employers can benefit if educational in stitutions can assist their employees with certification and professional development.</p>\n<p>The viewpoint of students is also important. Young pr ofessionals face challenges in being prepared for the right jobs. Employer s and educators want them to be successful in their career. &nbsp\;This ca n let them advance technology for the benefit of humanity. Hence\, they ne ed education that helps them acquire the skills employers demand.</p>\n<p> What is the right education that can equip individuals with skills and kno wledge to build the future with confidence? What will the future bring so that everyone could adapt to it? The panelists will try to share their vis ion and answer some questions the audience may have.</p>\n<p>Panelists int end to present and discuss innovative teaching and learning approaches\, i ncluding the best online learning environments and the next generation of pedagogy for online and blended higher education.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p> <strong>Panel #2: Mission Critical Communities and Clean Energy Adoption ( 1pm-2:00pm).</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Ahsan Upal</strong></p>\n<p>< strong>Panelists:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ryan Anderson\, Project Manager\, Remote Communities\, ATCO Electric</strong></li>\n<li><strong>Dr . Alexandre Nassif\, Specialist Engineer\, ATCO Electric</strong></li>\n<l i><strong>Matthew Wright\, Senior Engineer\, Isolated Renewables\, ATCO El ectric</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>There have been strong drivers toward less ening diesel dependency in remote communities. These off-grid communities can be difficult to access\, and often face challenges with diesel supply. More importantly\, governments are striving to improve the environmental outlook in these areas. Tying this need with associated high operational c osts and fuel handling challenges\, alternative sources of energy and ener gy storage have emerged as a viable option to reduce diesel consumption. T his paper presents the experience of a Canadian electric utility in planni ng the application of utility scale photovoltaic generation and Battery En ergy Storage Systems to supplement existing diesel generators in a remote isolated community in Alberta. Economic drivers and opportunities to partn er with first nations have sparked stakeholder attention and positioned th e project as a national interest. Technical and economic studies were cond ucted to address all aspects of the project. These include forecasting loa d\, sizing and siting each alternative generation option\, customizing dis patch strategies\, and determining required spinning reserve from diesel g enerators through time-domain studies.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Pan el #3: The Role of AI in Humanity and Ethics (2 pm &ndash\; 3:30 pm).</str ong></p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Graeme Vanderstar</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Pan elists:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Irene Cheng\, Scientific Director \, Program Director\, University of Alberta</strong></li>\n<li><strong> Pa risa Naraei\, Manager of Data Science\, Canadian Institute for Health Info rmation</strong></li>\n<li><strong> Tim Hannigan\, Assistant Professor\, U niversity of Alberta</strong></li>\n<li><strong> Lianne M. Lefsrud\, Assit ance Professor\, University of Alberta</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>The remark able achievements made in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past decad e have fostered predictions from many pundits of a coming rapid technologi cal advancement that will lead to a cultural and societal transformation o f human civilization at large.&nbsp\; With such grand predictions come the opportunity to study how AI will advance humanitarian causes in many diff erent fields\, however\, these predictions also forewarn of many ethical c hallenges that may come to the forefront as AI becomes a greater part of o ur lives.&nbsp\; This panel will engage 4 highly qualified experts on the topic of AI who will first brief the audience on precisely what AI is and what predictions they have for the technology in the next 10 years and who will then dive into a deeper analysis of the ethical challenges and human itarian opportunities that AI will present society in the years to come.</ p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Break: 3:30pm &ndash\; 3:4 5pm</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Panel #4: In troduction to Impact Assessment and Social Return on Investment (3:45 pm & ndash\; 5:00pm).</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Chair: Holly Brown</strong></p>\ n<p><strong>Panelists:</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Holly Schneider Bro wn\, Director\, Public Imperatives and Corporate Development\, IEEE</stron g></li>\n<li><strong>Jineet Doshi\, IEEE</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<p>There ha s been strong\, sustained interest in humanitarian activities in IEEE Regi on 7\, yielding a number of humanitarian and sustainable development proje cts. The IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) provides support by raising awareness\, conducting training\, offering funding opportunities\, and facilitating collaboration and strategic partnerships. In 2019\, HAC is focused on providing tools to IEEE volunteers to&nbsp\;assess&nbsp\;the &nbsp\;impact&nbsp\;of projects.&nbsp\;Impactassessment&nbsp\;will enable project teams to question assumptions\, better determine good practices\, adapt\, improve\, and also be able to more effectively tell their project& rsquo\;s story in order to attract more support. In this workshop\, attend ees will learn about impact assessment\, focusing on Social Return on Inve stment (SROI) &ndash\; the theory\, examples of SROI assessments that are currently underway\, as well as hands-on exercises.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR