IEEE Multi-Generation Networking Cocktail

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IEEE Concordia and IEEE Young Professionals invite you to their Multi-generation Networking Cocktail event. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as industry representative will be present to celebrate IEEE's work. The purpose of this event is to foster collaboration between the generation of students, young professionals and post-doctoral fellows coming from different disiplinary of the industryial and academia fields. The event is co-organized by IEEE Young Professionals Montreal and IEEE Concorida and sponsored by IEEE Montreal Section, ECA Concordia and GSA Concordia.

This is an amazing opportuinity to connect with people from the vast IEEE network.

Date : November 17, 2017
Time: 6PM - 10PM
Location: MB 6.105
Dress Code: Business Casual

Price: $5, includes admission and 2 drink tickets

Tickets are now available for sale at the ECA office (H-838)


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  • Date: 17 Nov 2017
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  • All times are (GMT-05:00) Canada/Eastern
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  • 1450 Guy St, Montreal
  • Montreal, Quebec
  • Canada H3H 0A1
  • Building: Concordia University John Molson building
  • Room Number: MB 6.105
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  • Co-sponsored by IEEE Young Professionals Montreal, IEEE Concordia Student Branch, IEEE Montreal Section, ECA Concordia and GSA Concordia

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Jonathan Ginter


Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur who spent 25 years building commercial B2B software for Fortune 500 companies before striking out on his own. He has been responsible for determining strategy, managing releases, working with sales, support and marketing to organize events, visit customers on-site, and build communities. Jonathan has been a mentor and coach for entrepreneurs over the last 2 years.


His area of expertise are business idea validation and competitive analysis; pitch decks (how to present your idea); defining target markets and revenue models; software architecture; managing remote teams and freelancers.


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Sergio A. Escobar


Sergio has a diversified investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Softwares, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. Sergio is a tech entrepreneur having experience with Aerospace, eCommerce and Mobile Payment startups. Deeply involved in the international entrepreneurial scene through his involvement as for entrepreneurial programs such as Startup Chile, Startup Peru, Startup Bootcamp FinTech London, MsB Tunisia, Kuwait National Fund, Techstars Startup Programs, Founder Institute and World Bank 'Tech Entrepreneurship Program for Innovation in the Caribbean'.


He has studied Dual education at Université Laval (Quebec city): engineering and business administration. Graduate studies overseas in investment projects and strategic planning.


At the moment he is Managing Director and Venture Pre-Seed Accelerator at the Founder Institute from 2013 till now. Before that he was Mentor at Techstars company for 5 years.

To mention some of his other achievements, we can mention: Multiple times entrepreneur having received an international award from the Junior Chamber International (TOYP Award 2006: Recognition in the Business/Entrepreuneur category), Successfully raised funds from Family Offices, Corporate Governance experience in Start-ups, Non-Profit Organizations and Government Councils.
 

 


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Shoukry I. Shams


Shoukry I. Shams received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and communications engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He received the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University, Montréal, Canada in 2016. He received the Faculty Certificate of Honor in 1999, The Distinction with Honor in 2004 from Cairo University. He received the Concordia University Recruitment Award in 2012 and Concordia University Accelerator Award in 2016. He received the Electrical and Computer Engineering Doctor of Philosophy Convocation Award in 2017.  This award is given annually, when merited, to the most deserving graduate from the Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy program in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.


From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a teaching and research assistant in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Cairo University. From 2006 to 2012, he joined the German University in Cairo as a teaching and research assistant. Afterwards, he was a teaching and research assistant with Concordia University from 2012 to 2016. Dr. Shams is currently working as a senior R&D engineer in Scientific Microwave Corporation (SMC). Meanwhile, he is nominated as an adjunct professor in ECE Department, Concordia University since June 2017.  His research interests include microwave reciprocal/nonreciprocal design and analysis, high power microwave subsystems, antenna design and material measurement.


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Sofiane Bounaffaa


Sofiane Bounaffaa graduated in 2012 from Telecom Lille (France) with a major in Telecommunication Networks Engineering. In 2014, he received his  Master’s degree from l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Telecommunication Networks under the supervision of Prof. François Gagnon, Professor of Electrical Engineering in ÉTS. His master project considered Ultra Electronics in collaboration with  TCS, an industrial partner in state-of-the-art military radios. He worked in Ultra Electronics since he graduated. Mr. Bounaffaa is the CEO of SineFilum, a  fast-growing startup that offers many wireless and RF engineering services which includes system design, radio propagation studies, drive/walk testing, interference identification and resolution, safety standard validation and R&D support.


 


 


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Negar Rostamzadeh is a Research Scientist at Element AI. Her areas of interests are Machine Learning (particularity deep learning approaches) applied to Multimedia problems (mainly video classification/detection, captioning and segmentation). Negar has received her bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Tehran. She started her Ph.D. at the Mhug (Multimedia and Human understanding) group, University of Trento, Italy. She worked as a research intern at the MMV (Multimedia and Vision) lab at the Queen Mary University of London, where she was supervised by Prof. Yiannis Patras. Negar spent more than 2 years of her Ph.D. at the MILA (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithm) lab under the supervision of Prof. Aaron Courville. She was a Research Intern in the Research and Machine Intelligence group at Google (Seattle) in summer 2016. After her Google internship, she came back to MILA to continue her research on Video Understanding under the supervision of Prof. Aaron Courville. She finished her Ph.D. in April 2017. She is currently working at Element AI as a Research Scientist. She was a co-founder of Women in Deep Learning (WiDL) workshop in 2016, organizer of Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop at NIPS 2017, Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop at CVPR 2017, and Women in Deep Learning workshop at MILA deep learning summer school 2017.

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