Time
STARTING

Day 1 (Sunday, May 31, 2015)

11:00 AM

Registration

Exhibits & Networking

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

Working Together – Closed Session

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

Workshop-1
Building Ethical Electronics – How to design out corruption, conflict, labor and humanitarian abuses in electronics?
By Le Marie Thompson, Founder at Nettadonna, LLC

3:30 PM

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

Time
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Day 2 (Monday, June 1, 2015) 

8:00 AM

Morning
Starter

Registration

8:15 AM

8:30 AM

Oral
Paper Session-1

Oral
Paper Session-2

Oral
Paper Session-3

8:45 AM

9:00 AM

9:15 AM

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

10:00 AM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Keynote
IEEE Interests in Humanitarian Initiatives
By Michael Lightner, Associate Vice President, University of Colorado.

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

Panel
Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT)

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Lunch

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

Panel-STRAT24
Take Two

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

Tutorial-1
Energy for Remote Communities

Tutorial-2 Engineering Ethics

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Panel
The Use of Technology in the Canadian Forces Humanitarian Assistance Operation

Workshop-2
Intelligent Communities – The Next Transformation of the Urban Landscape By Peter MacKinnon, University of Ottawa and Barry Gander, Co-Founder i-Canada  

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

5:00 PM

IEEE Young Professionals Ice Breaker Activities
(This event is free and open to the public and students)

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

5:45 PM

6:00 PM

OPENING CEREMONY
Keynote
By Mark Williamson,  Director General of the Center for Security Science, DRDC, Canada

6:15 PM

6:30 PM

6:45 PM

7:00 PM

7:15 PM

7:30 PM

7:45 PM

8:00 PM

8:15 PM

Time
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Day 3 (Tuesday, June 2, 2015) 

8:00 AM

Morning Starter

Registration

8:15 AM

8:30 AM

Oral
Paper Session-4

Oral
Paper Session-5

Oral
Paper Session-6

8:45 AM

9:00 AM

9:15 AM

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

10:00 AM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Keynote/Panel
Perspectives on Enabling Resiliency
By Lori MacDonald, Ian Burton, and Jean-Philippe Tizi

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Lunch

Panel
Women in Engineering

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

Panel
Remote Sensing for Humanitarian Applications

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

Workshop-3
Intelligent Resilience
By Alexander Hay, Southern Harbour and University of Toronto and Nick Martyn, Founder and CEO at RiskLogik

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Workshop-4  Community Engagement Workshop

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

5:00 PM

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

Exhibits & Networking

5:45 PM

6:00 PM

Conference Banquet Keynote
By Mark Williamson, Director General of the Center for Security Science, DRDC, Canada and
Paul Cadario, Distinguished Senior Fellow in Global Engineering, University of Toronto and former Senior Manager at the World Bank.
(11th Parallel Design Competition: 11thparallel.ieee.ca)

6:15 PM

6:30 PM

6:45 PM

7:00 PM

7:15 PM

7:30 PM

7:45 PM

8:00 PM

8:15 PM

Time
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Day 4 (Wednesday, June 3, 2015) 

8:00 AM

Morning Starter

Registration

8:15 AM

8:30 AM

Oral
Paper Session-7

Oral
Paper Session-8

Oral
Paper Session-9

8:45 AM

9:00 AM

9:15 AM

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

10:00 AM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Keynote
Globalization in Engineering
By S. K. Ramesh, Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

Keynote
The Internet of Everything
By Willa Black, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility, Cisco Canada

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Lunch

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

Panel
Communication Technologies for Disaster Response and Humanitarian Action

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

Workshop-5 Teacher In-Service Program (TISP)

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

Workshop-6 iLUV (ieee Lights Up a Village)

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

Time
STARTING

Day 5 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)

8:00 AM

Registration

Morning Starter

8:15 AM

8:30 AM

Oral
Paper Session-10

Oral
Paper Session-11

8:45 AM

9:00 AM

9:15 AM

9:30 AM

9:45 AM

10:00 AM

Exhibits & Networking, Coffee Break

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Keynote
Lighting the Developing World
By Dave Irvine-Halliday, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

SIGHT  Workshop-1 Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technologies
Improving the Quality of Life for Humanity

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Lunch

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

SIGHT Workshop -2

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

A Call for Action and Closing Remarks

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

2:30 PM