The Institute for Management and Innovation is proud to offer events and programming to our community partners, students, staff, faculty, and members of the public. Review the events below, and please feel welcome to register! We look forward to having you with us.
For questions or clarification, please reach out to us at: imi@utoronto.ca.
Upcoming Events:
IMx Professional Development Program: Certificate in Governance & Ethics
Event style: Virtual
Dates: 1 half-day / week. February 8 – March 7, 2024.
This program will help you build the competencies needed to effectively navigate your compliance, governance, and risk management responsibilities. It will cover crucial topics using key cases to illustrate the practical aspects that managers, executives, and directors need to take into account to avoid disaster and gain stakeholder support.
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IMIx Professional Development Program: Certificate in Effective Management of People
Event style: Virtual
Dates: 2 full-day sessions & 2 half-day sessions, once a week. February 9 – March 1, 2024.
The skills and requirements of a successful individual contributor and those of a manager are vastly different. This program’s main goal is to bridge this gap and make the transition for first-time managers more seamless. This program will enable you to deliver lasting value across your career, your team, and your organization.
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ICUBE: Pitch with a Twist
Mach 6, 2024 @ 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Event Style: In Person, KN Rotunda
ICUBE at UTM and the International Education Centre are invite you to the fifth annual PITCH with a Twist — held to celebrate International Women’s Month and stand in support of innovation.
Here’s how it works: everyone pitching (and judging) at the competition is a woman-identified founder or expert. Join us for great business pitches, an awesome keynote, and some good eats.
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IMIx Professional Development Program: Certificate in Data Analytics
Event style: Virtual
Dates: One half-day / week. March 15 – April 26, 2024
(there is no class on March 29, 2024)
This program is designed to help professionals maximize the use of data analytics to perform their jobs more effectively.Participants will learn about the methods and techniques of data analytics, the problems inherent in big data analysis, and the potential of using software that learns or improves its analytical approach with minimal or no assistance. No statistical or technical background is required.
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IMIx Professional Development Program: Certificate in Strategy & Critical Thinking
Event style: Virtual
Dates: 90-minute introduction + 3 full-day sessions, once a week. March 21 – April 11, 2024
This program has been designed to help leaders and aspiring leaders sharpen their skills in strategic leadership and critical thinking. Attendees will learn pragmatic and practical approaches to strategic management and acquire tangible ideas, tools, and concepts that can be applied right away at the workplace.
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IMI BIGDataAIHUB: The 2024 Fighting Crime with Big Data & Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Illegal Wildlife Trade
Event style: In Person
Date: Saturday, March 23, 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
This year’s conference will address the Illegal Wildlife Trade, a USD $20 billion problem that is devastating wildlife and the environment, as well as funding organized crime, money laundering, and terrorism activities.
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Past Events:
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series
Census Data For Your Community
February 14, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
Event Style: Virtual
This session, presented by Paul Laffin from Statistics Canada, will provide you with a snapshot of the housing, household and overall demographic portrait from the 2021 Census of Population results.
ICUBE: Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) and Copyrights
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series
Accelerating precision medicine for Canadians through big data and artificial intelligence.
January 24, 2024 @ 12:00 pm
Event Style: Virtual
Precision medicine is a framework for cancer care that targets the unique genetic characteristics of each cancer patient's tumour. Explore new ways to collect, share and analyze clinical and genomic data with advanced AI in hopes to revolutionize cancer treatment for Canadians.
MMPA Online Sessions: Admissions
September 12, 2023 - January 29, 2024, weekly
Event Style: Virtual
U of T Mississauga’s MMPA program draws talented students from ANY undergraduate degree and provides an integrated, experiential learning environment; including paid co-op work terms, an MBA curriculum and an accredited CPA pathway. MMPA has become a leader in business AI and data analytics and prepares graduates for the changing world we live in. Learn more by attending a virtual information session.
2023 Events
ICUBE: Tax Season Special
February 15, 2023 @ 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Event Style: Virtual
Attend this Tax Season Special with a Chartered Accountant to learn about general reporting obligations as an entrepreneur. The session will follow a casual Q&A, conversational format. Pop into this virtual chat to have your inquires answered!
ICUBE: Sauga Pitch
February 16, 2023 @ 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Event Style: In Person - IDEA, 100 City Centre Dr. Mississauga, Ontario
Join us for Peel’s 2023 Flagship Startup Pitch Competition! Watch finalists compete for prize money, see examples of how the pitching process works, and understand what to expect from investors and interested parties. This partnered event is facilitated by ICUBE at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), Sheridan College’s EDGE Entrepreneurship Hub, and IDEA Mississauga, who are all delighted to support entrepreneurs’ innovative concepts.
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series – Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
February 16, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Event Style: Virtual
The way we leverage big data and AI continues to reshape the way work is done across all industries, and cybersecurity is no exception. Whether it be in threat prevention, hacker identification, or post-facto damage analysis, big data and machine learning techniques are becoming increasingly popular and pervasive in the ways cybersecurity and legal professionals approach tackling cyber incidents. In this seminar, join BLG’s Shane Morganstein (Associate, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Protection group) as he shares stories from the cybersecurity war room, and insights into how big data, machine learning, and AI are helping to transform how organizations respond to increasingly complex cyber incidents.
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BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series – Technology and the Law: Corporate Strategy and Intellectual Property Basics
March 1, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Event Style: Virtual
New advancements in technology constantly challenge the area of intellectual property law, including the onset of rights in digital assets like software and data. It is critical to ensure that intellectual property is properly protected, not only does it help a business stand out from a competitor, but it is no secret that many early-stage companies show strength with a well-managed IP portfolio, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyright. Join us for this interactive seminar co-presented by LaBarge Weinstein LLP’s Kyle Lavender, partner in the firm’s corporate group, and Laura Crimi, an associate in the firm’s technology group, where they will share their first-hand experience advising early-stage technology companies on the ins-and-outs of protecting intangible assets and navigating day-to-day corporate needs.
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ICUBE: Pitch with a Twist
March 8 @ 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Event Style: In Person
PITCH showcases innovation and entrepreneurship from University of Toronto and our greater community. Focusing on early-stage ventures, we bring together innovators from a variety of sectors to pitch their businesses for cash prizes and in-kind support.
BIGDataAIHUB: Quantum Computing: Overview and Applications in Finance
March 13, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Event Style: Virtual
An accessible overview of quantum computing highlighting recent advances in the industry will be given, with applied examples of how quantum algorithms can be used to solve applied problems in finance. In particular, a quantum machine learning framework to solve a credit scoring problem and a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve a portfolio optimization problem are demonstrated. The talk will also feature an interactive Q&A session to answer any questions the audience has about quantum computing in general and its current and near-term applications
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BIGDataAIHUB: Fighting Crime with Big Data Conference
March 25, 2023 @ 11:30 am - 5:00 pm
Event Style: In Person - UTM Campus
Global experts will be discussing the ways in which big data and artificial intelligence are being used to fight money laundering and human trafficking. An estimated USD $2 trillion in illegal funds is laundered every year around the globe.These funds represent the proceeds of crime. In the case of human trafficking, these crimes include sexual exploitation, forced labour (slavery), organ removal, sale of children and more.
Love + Sustainability: A Panel
Monday March 13th @ 9:00-10:30am
Event Style - In Person: UTM, KN 137
In memory of the loss of Professor Barbara Murck and Rose Mary Craig, we will be dedicating this year’s Sustainability Week to these two fierce advocates of both love and sustainability. As such, we will be opening Sustainability Week on Monday March 13th with a panel discussion on Love + Sustainability. Join Professors Shashi Kant, Stephen Scharper, Andrea Olive, and Blake Poland to discuss why both Love and Sustainability are two sides of the same coin.
All are welcome and light refreshments will be served.
Frontiers in the Economics of Markets and Organizations Workshop
May 12, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Event Style: In Person
This workshop invites a diverse group of world-renowned scholars to present cutting edge research to faculty and students from the University of Toronto and other academic institutions in the Toronto area. The objective of the workshop is to engage the local academic community with ideas at the frontier of economics and management research, which address the social, psychological, technological, and structural determinants of market response and market failure in our changing world.
More information here.
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series – GPT-4 Use Cases for Enterprise
May 18, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
Event Style: Virtual
Aaqib Azeem (VP, Strategy and Innovation at Wysdom) will introduce ChatGPT for the enterprise, and present three sample use cases of how companies today are tapping into this innovative technology to fast track chatbot development, and build more engaging virtual agent experiences for their customers.
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BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series – AI in Healthcare: A Canadian Context
June 7, 2023 @ 9:00 - 10:30 am
Event Style: Virtual
The rise of AI & its implications for the Canadian healthcare landscape are significant. With the rise of large language models like Chat GPT and concerns around safety and regulations, what can we come to expect in the Canadian context? How will this shift policy and ultimately delivery of care?
Members of CPA Ontario may receive CPD credits for attending the seminar.
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BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series – Prompt Engineering
June 22, 2023 @ 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Event Style: Virtual
Do you want to make GPT-3.5, and GPT-4 do cool things with just a few words? Then you need to learn prompt engineering, the skill of writing magic words that make these models happy. In this session, you will learn how to write prompts that work, how to avoid prompts that don't, and how to make your own chatbot that talks like a human (or an alien, or a cat, or whatever you want).
You will also get to play with the OpenAI API and see what these models can do. Join us for a fun and interactive session on prompt engineering, and become a wizard of words!
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BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series – Responsible AI
July 12, 2023 @ 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Event Style: Virtual
An accessible overview of quantum computing highlighting recent advances in the industry will be given, with applied examples of how quantum algorithms can be used to solve applied problems in finance. In particular, a quantum machine learning framework to solve a credit scoring problem and a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve a portfolio optimization problem are demonstrated. The talk will also feature an interactive Q&A session to answer any questions the audience has about quantum computing in general and its current and near-term applications.
Watch the on-demand recording
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series - Synthetic Data
September 20, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm via Zoom
Event Style: Virtual
Did you know that according to The State of Synthetic Data Survey by KDnuggets, 28% of AI practitioners say a lack of data access is the main reason for failed AI projects? Of the same cohort surveyed, over 80% report wanting to work with synthetic data and 72% plan to adopt invest in the next three years. In this presentation, we'll discuss the latest advancements in synthetic data, and why synthetic data is a key component in the future of AI. We'll also discuss Arima's contribution to the space and how the Synthetic Society has changed the field of consumer analytics.
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BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series - Housing is the number one issue in Mississauga: Telling the story through data
October 4, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm via Zoom
Event Style: Virtual
The City of Mississauga has always been compiling a robust data set on development and housing. But historically not much was done with it. This presentation will show how the city is making the data accessible to the public and the story it tells.
Join Jason Bevan for this timely discussion. Jason is the Director of City Planning Strategies for the City of Mississauga. He is responsible for planning and housing policy and data.
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STTPA Conference:
Sustainability: Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice and Action
October 11 - 13, 2023
Event Style: In Person
The Sustainability: Transdisciplinary Theory, Practice, and Action (STTPA) Conference engages transdisciplinary and intersectoral dialogue on the pressing issues, solutions, and actions for confronting the wicked problems and move towards greater sustainability. STTPA brings together voices of all stakeholders, such as academics, practitioners, policy makers, governments, Indigenous people, and civil society to create evidence-based and action-oriented agendas for transdisciplinary research, policy, practice, and action.
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series - How the OSC leverages data and collaboration for market integrity
October 25, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm via Zoom
Event Style: Virtual
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) works to protect investors, foster fair and efficient markets, and contribute to the stability of the financial system by monitoring compliance with rules governing the capital markets in Ontario. In this seminar, we will discuss the types of investigations the Enforcement Branch of the OSC works on, with real-life examples, the type of data we use and how we leverage that data to fulfill our mandate efficiently and effectively. We will also discuss how close collaboration between the forensic accountants and data scientists from the onset of an investigation is key and how technologies can assist in uncovering wrongdoing.
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MBiotech Admissions: Weekly Coffee Chat
Tuesdays, September 26 - November 21
Event Style: Virtual
If you are a prospective student, interested in our MBiotech Program, please join us for a Coffee Chat with the MBiotech Admission’s Team. The sessions are open on Zoom for one hour. You can join the session for the whole hour or just a few minutes. Register in September to reserve your spot, then join us online and ask your questions! All times are in Eastern Time.
IMI Grad Open House
November 18, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Event Style: In Person
Learn more about all of our professional graduate degrees.
Meet current students, staff & faculty, and tour our beautiful campus!
BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series - ESG Reporting
Scott Morrison, Partner, ESG and Sustainability, PwC Canada
November 22, 2023 @ 1:00 pm via Zoom
Organizations need to take cross functional approaches to address rising stakeholder expectations through investor-grade integrated financial and ESG reporting.
Through this session, you will be able to explore the maturity of the global marketplace with ESG reporting, including incoming ESG regulations. You will also learn about how ESG data, technology solutions and AI are becoming more and more common in our ways of working.
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BIGDataAIHUB: Seminar Series - AI in Climate Action: Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations
David Rolnick, McGill University
November 29, 2023 @ 12:00 pm via Zoom
AI can be a powerful tool in helping society reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate, from optimizing electrical grids to monitoring land cover and crop yield.
In this presentation, we will explore opportunities and challenges in AI-for-climate, as well as policy levers by which governments can facilitate such work. We will also consider ways that AI is contributing to climate change, and how to better align the use of AI overall with climate goals.