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Featured Event
April 7, 2026 | ICCIT Student Showcase
12:00pm–3:30pm | MN Grand Hall (MN 1190 & MN 1170), UTM
Don't miss the ICCIT Student Showcase, which will celebrate a year's worth of amazing work from our undergraduate students. If you would like to present your work at the showcase, sign up by March 17.
Upcoming Events
April 8, 2026 | DEM Case Competition
10:00am–4:00pm | CC 2150 & CC3150, UTM
Ready to put your digital enterprise and strategic thinking skills to the test? The DEM Case Competition is your opportunity to work in teams, tackle a real-world challenge, and present innovative solutions that combine technology, strategy, and responsible AI.
Any student in the DEM program can participate (registration has closed as of March 30). Members of the UTM community are warmly welcome to attend as part of the general audience and support the teams.
April 20, 2026 | Book Launch with Leopoldina Fortunati
5:00pm | 4th Floor, Faculty of Information, 140 St. George Street, St. George Campus
On April 20th, we will be hosting Leopoldina Fortunati at the Faculty of Information for the launch of her book,The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital. Released for the first time in its unabridged form (with historical notation and contemporary commentary), The Arcana of Reproduction is a foundational text and essential contribution to today’s discussions of social reproduction and the history of Italian feminism. This event is co-sponsored by the ICCIT, the Faculty of Information, the Digital Labour Working Group (Jackman Humanities Institute), and the Women and Gender Studies Institute.
Previous Events
January 8, 2026 | ICCIT Book Talk with Jeffrey Boase
4:00–5:30pm | VC212, Victoria College Building, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, St. George Campus
Join the ICCIT for a discussion with Professor Jeffrey Boase, whose book The Digital Bind: Constant Connectivity and the Reconfiguring of Family, Work, and Friendship was published by Oxford University Press this past March. Boase's book offers a comprehensive account of how the apps and devices that we use to navigate contemporary social life have become embedded into our lives and our relationships.
February 12, 2026 | Book Launch with Julie Chen and Alessandro Delfanti
7:00–8:30pm | 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto
Join us for the launch of Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry, a new book full of first-hand accounts from the tech sector’s resurgent labour movement. This book was authored by ICCIT professors Julie Chen and Alessandro Delfanti alongside other members of the Capacitor Collective, a research collective dedicated to digital worker inquiry and organization.
The book launch will discuss what lessons can be taken forward by activist-researchers, organizers, and workers alike and will be hosted by the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education and the Digital Labour Working Group at the University of Toronto. Chen and Delfanti will be joined by Enda Brophy (Simon Fraser University), Karmah Dudin (The Amazon Project), and Andrew Do (Tech Workers Coalition Canada).
February 27, 2026 | Slow Game Exhibition (with Nicholas Taylor)
10:00am–2:00pm | CDRS, UTM
This event examines the interrelation of slowness, play, and production. It will include a talk, featuring York University professor Nicholas Taylor, that will consider the relationality of 'slow' and how machines must speed up or overclock in order to produce the experience of slowness. It will also include an exhibition of student projects created for the slow game jam over the past month.
March 4–5 | Trip Out! Symposium
University of Toronto Mississauga and St. George
Join the ICCIT this March for Trip Out!, our third annual graduate-faculty research symposium. This year, invited scholars and ICCIT-affiliated graduate students will consider human relationships to technologies of altered perception. The symposium will be preceded by Curating Psychedelic Media, a discussion with Justin Jennings of the Royal Ontario Museum, including a screen tour of the museum's upcoming exhibition, Psychedelics.
March 18, 2026 | Career Centre Networking Series: Marketing & Communications
6:00pm–8:30pm | KN Rotunda, Kaneff Rotunda, UTM
Are you interested in pursuing a career in marketing and communications? Join us for a networking session featuring alumni from the CCIT, DEM, and TCS programs who now work in the industry. Come learn how to articulate your unique skills, explore different career trajectories, and build connections after graduating.
March 26, 2026 | UTM Research Excellence Celebration
12:00pm–3:15pm | 3rd Floor Atrium, New Science Building, UTM
We are delighted to welcome the community to the first-ever UTM Research Excellence Celebration, honouring the recipients of the 2024-25 Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award and UTM Annual Research Prizes. Come hear the recipients speak about their groundbreaking research, ask questions during the Q&A, and enjoy some refreshments and time with friends and colleagues at the reception.
This year, ICCIT Professor Julie Yujie Chen will be awarded a Research Prize in the Social Sciences for her impactful work on digital labour. She will be introduced by Brett Caraway, our acting director.