The Time zone for our program is Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Day 1 - Friday December 2, 2022
Day 2 - Saturday December 3, 2022
Day 3 - Sunday December 4, 2022
Day 1 - Friday December 2, 2022
| Time | Plenary Sessions | Session Chair & Zoom Link |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Opening Ceremony: Welcome Note – Anis Ben Arfi Rob Anderson , Director Region 7 Vincenzo Piuri , Region 8 Director-Elect Enrique Tejara , Director Region 9 | Anis Ben Arfi |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Keynote Speaker: Keith Brown “What’s New with Nuclear – A Canadian Perspective” | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Dr. Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh “Amrita School humanitarian technology mission” | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Prof. Wei-Jen Lee “Humanitarian Technology impact in Industry Applications” | |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | IEEE SA Panel “Enabling Technologies for Food Security and Sustainability” Rudi Schubert | Maria Palombini | Purva Rajkotia | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Keynote – Geoffrey Pegg & Tom Chervinsky “How TELUS is enabling remarkable human outcomes” | |
| 12:30 – 01:00 | Henry Louie “Kilowatts for Humanity” | |
| 01:00 – 01:30 | Adrian Chan “Technologies Enabling Accessibility” | |
| 01:30 – 02:00 | Aaron Cohen “Light Up the World initiatives” | |
| 02:00 – 03:00 | Panel SIGHT/HAC “IEEE SIGHT/IEEE HAC overview and example projects” Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan | Lwanga Herbert | Timothy Gitau | |
| 03:00 – 04:00 | Panel IEEE Canada Industry “Energy inclusion and Electrification on Indigenous Lands” Ahsan Upal | Nirupama Prakash Kumar | Abhi Chatterjee | Carla Lanyon Garrido | |
| 04:00 – 05:00 | Networking |
Day 2 - Saturday December 3, 2022
| Time | Plenary Sessions | Session Chair & Zoom Link |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Mark Buell “Indigenous Connectivity – Briding the Digital Divide” | |
| 09:30 – 12:00 | Technical Session – I Session Chairs: Dr. Hasan Farahneh | Dr. Dia Abu Nadi | |
| 09:30 A Bibliometric Analysis of Canadian Engineering Higher Education Institutions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Wendy Ruth de Gomez; Mahima Patel; Mary Wells; Christine Moresoli 09:45 Critically Conscious Engineers: Reforming Humanitarian Engineering for Gender Equality in Education Ruby Kantharajah | ||
| 10:00 Activities to Develop Computational Thinking Contextualized with COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study Icleia Santos; Elaine Cristina; Marcos Alexandre Castilho 10:15 Economic Growth Opportunities with Promotion of Financial Inclusion in Digital India Aniket Gupta; Shailesh Rastogi; Venkata Mrudula Bhimavarapu; Rahul Singh Gautam | ||
| 10:30 Introducing Electric Vehicles to Remote Indigenous Communities: Benefits, Barriers, and Future Prospects Aidan Dachuk; Akhtar Hussain; Petr Musilek 10:45 SDGs for the Assessment of Voluntourism Learning Experiences Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano; Pablo C Herrera | ||
| 11:00 The Moderating Roles of Consumer Profiles and Choice Determinants in the Energy Efficiency and Appliance Purchase Relationship in Ghana: Household Refrigerators Hubert Nsoh Zan; David Mensah Sackey; Essel Ben Hagan; Amevi Acakpovi; Kofi A. Agyarko 11:15 Ordinal Logistic Regression Analysis to Assess the Factors That Affect Financial Incentives of Person’s with Parkinson’s Disease Mavis Lilian Henriques; Debasis Patnaik; Somrat Dutta | ||
| 11:30 Decentralized Governance and Energy Carbon Footprint: Opportunity for Re-Empowering People? Pedro Naves Vasconcelos; Giuseppe S. Silva 11:45 A Two-Stage Based Strategy to Optimize Homeless Placement in Shelters Peash Ranjan Saha; Salimur Choudhury; Kai Salomaa | ||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Sameer Hajee “Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship” | |
| 01:00 – 04:00 | Technical Session – II Session Chairs: Dr. Xavier Fernando | Anitha S. Kumar | |
| 01:00 Dot-World: The Easy 2D and 3D Simulator to Enhance Education in Developing Countries Derek Fong; Charlotte Lew 01:15 Machine Learning for Global Food Security: A Concise Overview Thangarajah Akilan; Nusrat Jahan; Aparna R. Phalke | ||
| 01:30 Climate Change Combat and Disaster Management with Re.photos, the Web Portal for Rephotography Axel Schaffland; Julius Schöning; Oliver Vornberger; Gunther Heidemann 01:45 Data4Good: An Established Framework for Supporting Civil Society Organizations Omar Mohammed; Kris Manohar; Kimberley Gillette; Brandon Murphy; Patrick Hosein | ||
| 02:00 Deep Learning Approach for Data and Computing Efficient Disaster Mitigation in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Applications Jie Wei; Erik Blasch; Erika Ardiles-Cruz; Alex Aved; Philip Morrone 02:15 Multimodal Wearable Technology Approaches to Human Falls Edna Joydeth Avella-Rodríguez; José Miguel Ramírez; Esteban Rosero | ||
| 02:30 Smart Bag: Monitoring Food Transportation in Developing Countries Asanga Udugama; Anna Förster; Jens Dede; Eenesh Chavan; Victor Tsapi; Hans-Dietrich Haasis 02:45 A Smartphone App for Simple Soil Structure Analysis Paul Wachter; Julius Schöning; Jean Louis Kedieng Ebongue Fendji; Kathrin Deiglmayr | ||
| 03:00 SWood Wide Web Design. A Computational Model to Adapt the Cities Design with Mycorrhizal Networks Jose Luis Reategui 03:15 Volatility Integration of Gold and Copper with Foreign Exchange Rates Anmol Kalra; Abhishek Kumar Saxena; Shailesh Rastogi; Jagjeevan Kanoujiya; Rahul Singh Gautam | ||
| 03:30 SFinancial Inclusion and Their Impact on India’s Sustainable Development: Using Internet Subscribers as Moderator Rahul Singh Gautam; Aashi Rawal; Shailesh Rastogi 03:45 VWater Quality Probe Co-Design for Water Monitoring in Rural Communities in Colombia Darwin Dubay Rodriguez pinto; Alba Avila Bernal; Jaime Andres Perez Taborda; Cesar German Franco Rodriguez; Rodrigo Gomez Martinez | ||
| 04:00 – 04:30 | Networking |
Day 3 - Sunday December 4, 2022
| Time | Plenary Sessions | Session Chair & Zoom Link |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 10:00 | IEEE WIE Panel WIE in Humanitarian Technology Maike Luiken | Jenifer Castillo | Lucy Casacia | Wafaa Anani Fadwa Darwaish |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Justin Pezzin “Open Access: Improving Access with Open-Source Technology” | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Jason Tremblay “Canada Radio Amateur Emergency Response team” | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | David Whyte “IEEE Canadian Foundation – IEEE Engineering Projects in Community Service EPICS” | |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Stephanie Gillespie “IEEE Engineering Projects in Community Service EPICS” | |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Jawad Siddiqi “IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society – IEEE Smart Villages” | |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Abdullateef aliyu “IEEE Smart Villages” | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Play the videos from the video competition + award announcement | |
| 12:30 – 12:35 | Closing Remarks | Anis Ben Arfi Tom Murad – Region 7 Director-Elect Jenifer Castillo |