The organizers of the annual Cyber Summit are seeking dynamic and innovative speakers from the education, government, startup, and community leadership space to submit proposals for presentation and/or workshop topics.
The Cyber Summit provides a unique opportunity to engage with like-minded technology leaders in Western Canada’s public and education spaces.
This year’s Summit theme is: Mission: Accessible
We welcome submissions that cover the following subject areas and topics, as well as other suggestions you may have:
Location Challenges
- Connectivity gaps and solutions
- Filling the technology skills pool /matching the supply and demand of skills
- Driving innovation in traditionally non-technical sectors
Breaking Down Barriers
- Technological solutions for visual, hearing, motor, or cognitive challenges
- Overcoming bias in tech hiring / schooling
- Organizational / community solutions for socio-economic difficulties
Building Computational Literacy / Digital Citizenship
- How organizations can prepare staff / consumers for coming tech disruptions
- Teaching computational thinking
- Building ethics and privacy policies into organizations’ foundations
- Cultural consequences / opportunities of connectivity
- The role of government in digital literacy
Timeline
Proposal Deadline:
August 23, 2019
Applicants Notified of Acceptance:
September 6, 2019
Cyber Summit Workshop Date:
October 28, 2019
Cyber Summit Dates:
October 29-30, 2019
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#cybersummit19
Growing Open Source
- Open source vs proprietary platforms
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Innovations / best practices in:
- Open textbooks
- Open API
- Open data
- Open journalism / academic papers
To apply to speak, please complete this submission form by August 16, 2019.