Find out all about how WeaveSphere weaved together academia, industry, and all the streams relevant to you, including highlights on topics such as AI, education, and the developers and tech titans making waves in industry and academia.

The WeaveSphere tech conference wove together ideas about AI, FinTech, STEM education, innovation in Canada, and more. For three days this November, innovation, collaboration, and a whole lot of big ideas were shared among 'Weavers' during the WeaveSphere tech conference in Toronto.

The Developer 30 Under 30 is a recurring list that recognizes developers based in Canada. Launched in 2017, the initiative allows developers to apply or be nominated for the award. This year's judges included Shania Fu, assistant vice president for API platforms at Sun Life; Ashley Wright, founder a...

WeaveSphere powered by CASCON x EVOKE held its awards gala at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre on Wednesday night with a new award to recognize the top 20 technology leaders in the country.

WeaveSphere offers high school students of all backgrounds chances to access education pathways, scholarships, and funding opportunities available to students looking at STEM

How WeaveSphere aims to shatter stigmas and stereotypes on careers on STEM by communicating to high school students of all backgrounds.

There's something for everyone at WeaveSphere - speaker and keynote information has been released, including details on talks and relevant streams.

Our November edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter outlines the benefits for industry and technical leaders attending CASCON 2022 in Toronto. CASCON will help you meet your business goals, solve technical challenges, deepen your skills and knowledge, and recruit talent. All in one place.

Dr. William Barry's keynote will look at 'the good, the bad, and the ugly' of using AI to augment human teams.

How Dr. William Barry will discuss the ethical challenges raised by modern advanced AI first-hand at WeaveSphere 2022.

Sun Life's Alice Thomas on how the company's 50,000-strong team supports a global network of clients. with nimble, tech-forward solutions.

How Sun Life's transition to an agile approach has increased adapability, innovation, and development of company culture and diversity.

U of T's Gillian Hadfield and IBM's Marcel Mitran will keynote WeaveSphere 2022.

WeaveSphere 2022's keynote speakers hold outstanding qualifications in innovation and collaboration.

Our October edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter focuses on the student experience for CASCON 2022, exploring what events like the Main Stage Program, STEM day, and Education Day can do for graduate and undergraduate students. Don't forget to get your discounted student pass!

Lila Adamec on how Learn@IBM's 'complete curriculum solution' addresses skill gaps found in the industry.

How Lila Adamec and IBM Canada have worked with higher education to deliver 3,000 microcredentials since 2018.

Ali Hamdy, on the inspiring innovation that happens at WeaveSphere, and how he pursued innovation opportunities.

If you're an undergrad, it might feel intimidating walking into a big company like IBM Canada to share your ideas. For Ali Hamdy, the opportunity changed his life.

York University's Lassonde School of Engineering is the first in Canada to announce a work-integrated degree program. Learn more about how IBM and Lassonde are working together to cultivate flexible, inclusive, and equitable work environments from the ground up.

Marcellus Mindel shares how IBM's Enterprise Design Thinking and its WeaveSphere technology conference create new pathways to possibilities.

A lot of technology research today is about improving the means without asking the question about the ends. The head of IBM Canada's Centre for Advanced Studies is determined to fix that.

Steve Astorino on how IBM is democratizing artificial intelligence for organizations that want turn-key solutions.

IBM has a one-two punch when it comes to making AI accessible to everyone. The first is the IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform, and the second is WeaveSphere.

Our September edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter goes into detail on the technical program for CASCON 2022.

At its core, WeaveSphere weaves academics and industry to create "innovation that matters." This convergence is key to the conference's success.

With its "weaving together" of academia and industry, WeaveSphere remains the only event of its kind.

WeaveSphere is unique, as its name suggests, because it's a multi-day event where ideas and actions are actually woven together.

In a technology ecosystem where experienced talent is scattered across the country, WeaveSphere presents a unique opportunity where the doers of innovation all meet in one place.

WeaveSphere is one of Canada's largest technology events, bringing together founders, investors, developers, engineers, academics, researchers, scientists and industry leaders.

As one of the largest technology conferences in Canada, WeaveSphere is expected to attract more than 5,000 attendees, 200 speakers, and 150 startups.

This November, IBM and Evoke will host world-class leaders and researchers from a range of disciplines to share insight, ideas, and co-create technology for the future.

Our August edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter celebrates the completion of two of our Work-Integrated Learning programs and highlights testimonials from our Advanced Studies interns who will be completing their internships at the end of the month. In other news, don't forget to submit Worksh...

Our July edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter is a recap of CASTLE 2022, where we gathered our community of academic and industry leaders for a week of collaboration. We hope you enjoy reading about how CASTLE helps us to deliver innovation that matters. Be sure to check out the News and Upcom...

Our June edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter highlights CASCON 2022, and offers a sneak peek into the conference's many exciting features including technical talks, engaging workshops, research papers, and more. We hope to see you at CASCON 2022!

From May 2 - 6, CASTLE 2022 featured over ten informative sessions and engaging hands-on workshops, and gathered over 160 stakeholders of the Advanced Studies community together for an exciting week of exchanging knowledge, sharing feedback, and fostering cross-project collaboration. Project collabo...

The winning Project 1034 video exemplifies the IBM Center for Advanced Studies mission by delivering excellence in the demonstration of applied research, breaking barriers in understanding IBM technology, and exposing IBM communities to the potential of meaningful innovation. Employing unique animat...

Our May edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter features on CASCONxEVOKE 2022, taking place November 15 to 17, 2022 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Be sure to mark your calendar and save the date for the conference! We hope to see you all there!

Advanced Studies is continuously striving to accelerate product innovation within IBM. Click the button below to view the impact statements submitted by each research team describing why their projects matter. We are looking forward to another productive year in 2022 with 60 projects improving 58 p...

Our April edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter highlights our Work-integrated Learning (WIL) initiatives, including features on our Advanced Studies interns, the IBM Good Tech Scholars Program, the INSPIRE Program and the Sustainable Watershed Integrated Management Project. We hope you enjoy r...

The University of Ottawa and IBM have partnered up to launch a Cyber Range which will further enable state-of-the-art research and training in cybersecurity and cybersafety while facilitating collaboration between government, industry, and academia. The uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range will be the first of i...

The March edition of our Advanced Studies newsletter features research and development - including a glimpse into some of this year's continuing and new research projects. We hope you enjoy learning more about product innovation acceleration here at Advanced Studies!

Our second newsletter of the year features the education initiatives that allow students to address meaningful challenges and enhance their skill set. We hope you enjoy learning more about this topic!

2021 was yet another exciting and fruitful year for the Advanced Studies team. We continued to deliver positive impact for businesses and society through innovation, research and education. A big thank you to our collaborators for your support and involvement during 2021! The first edition of the Ad...

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor, Ladan Tahvildari, and her research team! Their video for Project #1061: Developing a Graduate Course Using Eclipse OMR, OpenJ9, OpenShift has been awarded the distinction 2021 Video of the Year by IBM CAS.

On October 28 2021, IBM and the University of Ottawa announced a multi-year partnership to build and operate a Cyber Range: a fully immersive, interactive, and experiential learning facility that will enable state-of-the-art research and training in cybersecurity and cyber safety. As part of the agr...

Earlier this month, IBM Canada and the University of Ottawa signed a multi-year partnership to build and operate a Cyber Range: a fully immersive, interactive, and experiential learning facility that will enable state-of-the-art research and training in cybersecurity and cyber safety. As part of the...

Microcredentials—short courses designed to quickly teach new skills or upgrade existing ones—have long been offered by colleges, but the pandemic seems to have kicked their popularity into high gear. “I don't think a week has gone by recently when I haven't heard of a college devel...

Joining the IT crowd has never been easier, thanks to a trio of micro-credentials offered by Red River College this fall to fill urgent workforce gaps in Manitoba's information technology sector. The new online courses are taught by experienced industry professionals and cover three skills - mobile ...

The winning video exemplifies the mission of IBM Center for Advanced Studies by delivering excellence in the demonstration of applied research, breaking barriers in understanding technology and exposing IBM communities to the potential of meaningful innovation. Employing unique animations, an enthu...

Carleton University and IBM Canada announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton's Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging digital careers such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data science.

Carleton University has signed a five-year agreement with IBM that will see the two organizations work together to train students for careers in cutting-edge fields such as AI, machine learning and data analytics.

Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan of the Faculty of Engineering, his doctoral student Emad Badawi, and Dr. Iosif Viorel Onut from IBM Canada's Centre for Advanced Studies team up with an international think tank to uncover cyber scams before they claim victims.

A new digital platform initiative led by UCalgary in collaboration with IBM pools together data from multiple sources - sensors, scientists, and citizens - to create an accessible information reservoir that will support improved watershed science, policy and management across Canada..

IBM Canada and the Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Mila, recently announced a collaboration to accelerate AI and machine learning workflows. This collaboration highlights the work IBM Canada Lab is doing to advance a key component of deep learning models known as hyperparameter opt...

Congratulations to Kristen Newbury from the University of Alberta for winning the 2020 Student of the Year award. IBM Advanced Studies presented the Student of the Year Award to a student who harvests and transfered results from advanced research to strategic products and initiatives during the CAS...

Congratulations to the University of Alberta CASCON award winners and nominees. During CxE 2020, IBM Advanced Studies presented the Student of the Year Award to a student who harvests and transfered results from advanced research to strategic products and initiatives. Additionally, IBM Advanced Stu...

Last week, students, professors, and IBMers involved in the Center for Advanced Studies research projects came together in an exciting week-long virtual event (May 11-15). CASTLE (Center for Advanced Studies Technical Link Event) aims to align all the current funded projects, foster cross-project c...

The University of Ottawa and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the launch of a uOttawa hub for cybersecurity and cyber safety. Together, IBM and the University will address critical government, public, and private sector needs for advanced cybersecurity, specializing in research, solutions, skills, an...

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) continues to make global headlines as one of the premier technology hubs anywhere in the world. There are many important technology conferences happening throughout the year in the GTA and November is no exception. A global leader in technology development, IBM is par...

The team was selected from a total of 48 projects from universities around the world, the team's winning project aims to create hardware and software solutions that accelerate the computation of core mathematical functions needed for applications from computer animation to machine learning.
...

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) announced $1.65 million in funding for the Dependable Internet-of-Things Applications (DITA) program, which will be led by Marin Litoiu, an associate professor at York University.
...

UNB's IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) - Atlantic has received a multi-million-dollar funding package to help deliver a new project that will improve and develop runtime software. The funding was awarded by the federal government through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the New Brunsw...

The TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award is presented annually to a team for outstanding and/or sustained contributions that stand as a model in the software engineering community of effective partnership between industry and universities. IBM CAS has initiated and sustained software engineering resear...

Find out all about how WeaveSphere weaved together academia, industry, and all the streams relevant to you, including highlights on topics such as AI, education, and the developers and tech titans making waves in industry and academia.

The WeaveSphere tech conference wove together ideas about AI, FinTech, STEM education, innovation in Canada, and more. For three days this November, innovation, collaboration, and a whole lot of big ideas were shared among 'Weavers' during the WeaveSphere tech conference in Toronto.

The Developer 30 Under 30 is a recurring list that recognizes developers based in Canada. Launched in 2017, the initiative allows developers to apply or be nominated for the award. This year's judges included Shania Fu, assistant vice president for API platforms at Sun Life; Ashley Wright, founder a...

WeaveSphere powered by CASCON x EVOKE held its awards gala at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre on Wednesday night with a new award to recognize the top 20 technology leaders in the country.

WeaveSphere offers high school students of all backgrounds chances to access education pathways, scholarships, and funding opportunities available to students looking at STEM

How WeaveSphere aims to shatter stigmas and stereotypes on careers on STEM by communicating to high school students of all backgrounds.

There's something for everyone at WeaveSphere - speaker and keynote information has been released, including details on talks and relevant streams.

Our November edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter outlines the benefits for industry and technical leaders attending CASCON 2022 in Toronto. CASCON will help you meet your business goals, solve technical challenges, deepen your skills and knowledge, and recruit talent. All in one place.

Dr. William Barry's keynote will look at 'the good, the bad, and the ugly' of using AI to augment human teams.

How Dr. William Barry will discuss the ethical challenges raised by modern advanced AI first-hand at WeaveSphere 2022.

Sun Life's Alice Thomas on how the company's 50,000-strong team supports a global network of clients. with nimble, tech-forward solutions.

How Sun Life's transition to an agile approach has increased adapability, innovation, and development of company culture and diversity.

U of T's Gillian Hadfield and IBM's Marcel Mitran will keynote WeaveSphere 2022.

WeaveSphere 2022's keynote speakers hold outstanding qualifications in innovation and collaboration.

Our October edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter focuses on the student experience for CASCON 2022, exploring what events like the Main Stage Program, STEM day, and Education Day can do for graduate and undergraduate students. Don't forget to get your discounted student pass!

Lila Adamec on how Learn@IBM's 'complete curriculum solution' addresses skill gaps found in the industry.

How Lila Adamec and IBM Canada have worked with higher education to deliver 3,000 microcredentials since 2018.

Ali Hamdy, on the inspiring innovation that happens at WeaveSphere, and how he pursued innovation opportunities.

If you're an undergrad, it might feel intimidating walking into a big company like IBM Canada to share your ideas. For Ali Hamdy, the opportunity changed his life.

York University's Lassonde School of Engineering is the first in Canada to announce a work-integrated degree program. Learn more about how IBM and Lassonde are working together to cultivate flexible, inclusive, and equitable work environments from the ground up.

Marcellus Mindel shares how IBM's Enterprise Design Thinking and its WeaveSphere technology conference create new pathways to possibilities.

A lot of technology research today is about improving the means without asking the question about the ends. The head of IBM Canada's Centre for Advanced Studies is determined to fix that.

Steve Astorino on how IBM is democratizing artificial intelligence for organizations that want turn-key solutions.

IBM has a one-two punch when it comes to making AI accessible to everyone. The first is the IBM Cloud Pak for Data platform, and the second is WeaveSphere.

Our September edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter goes into detail on the technical program for CASCON 2022.

At its core, WeaveSphere weaves academics and industry to create "innovation that matters." This convergence is key to the conference's success.

With its "weaving together" of academia and industry, WeaveSphere remains the only event of its kind.

WeaveSphere is unique, as its name suggests, because it's a multi-day event where ideas and actions are actually woven together.

In a technology ecosystem where experienced talent is scattered across the country, WeaveSphere presents a unique opportunity where the doers of innovation all meet in one place.

WeaveSphere is one of Canada's largest technology events, bringing together founders, investors, developers, engineers, academics, researchers, scientists and industry leaders.

As one of the largest technology conferences in Canada, WeaveSphere is expected to attract more than 5,000 attendees, 200 speakers, and 150 startups.

This November, IBM and Evoke will host world-class leaders and researchers from a range of disciplines to share insight, ideas, and co-create technology for the future.

Our August edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter celebrates the completion of two of our Work-Integrated Learning programs and highlights testimonials from our Advanced Studies interns who will be completing their internships at the end of the month. In other news, don't forget to submit Worksh...

Our July edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter is a recap of CASTLE 2022, where we gathered our community of academic and industry leaders for a week of collaboration. We hope you enjoy reading about how CASTLE helps us to deliver innovation that matters. Be sure to check out the News and Upcom...

Our June edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter highlights CASCON 2022, and offers a sneak peek into the conference's many exciting features including technical talks, engaging workshops, research papers, and more. We hope to see you at CASCON 2022!

The winning Project 1034 video exemplifies the IBM Center for Advanced Studies mission by delivering excellence in the demonstration of applied research, breaking barriers in understanding IBM technology, and exposing IBM communities to the potential of meaningful innovation. Employing unique animat...

Our May edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter features on CASCONxEVOKE 2022, taking place November 15 to 17, 2022 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Be sure to mark your calendar and save the date for the conference! We hope to see you all there!

Advanced Studies is continuously striving to accelerate product innovation within IBM. Click the button below to view the impact statements submitted by each research team describing why their projects matter. We are looking forward to another productive year in 2022 with 60 projects improving 58 p...

Our April edition of the Advanced Studies newsletter highlights our Work-integrated Learning (WIL) initiatives, including features on our Advanced Studies interns, the IBM Good Tech Scholars Program, the INSPIRE Program and the Sustainable Watershed Integrated Management Project. We hope you enjoy r...

The University of Ottawa and IBM have partnered up to launch a Cyber Range which will further enable state-of-the-art research and training in cybersecurity and cybersafety while facilitating collaboration between government, industry, and academia. The uOttawa-IBM Cyber Range will be the first of i...

The March edition of our Advanced Studies newsletter features research and development - including a glimpse into some of this year's continuing and new research projects. We hope you enjoy learning more about product innovation acceleration here at Advanced Studies!

Our second newsletter of the year features the education initiatives that allow students to address meaningful challenges and enhance their skill set. We hope you enjoy learning more about this topic!

2021 was yet another exciting and fruitful year for the Advanced Studies team. We continued to deliver positive impact for businesses and society through innovation, research and education. A big thank you to our collaborators for your support and involvement during 2021! The first edition of the Ad...

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor, Ladan Tahvildari, and her research team! Their video for Project #1061: Developing a Graduate Course Using Eclipse OMR, OpenJ9, OpenShift has been awarded the distinction 2021 Video of the Year by IBM CAS.

On October 28 2021, IBM and the University of Ottawa announced a multi-year partnership to build and operate a Cyber Range: a fully immersive, interactive, and experiential learning facility that will enable state-of-the-art research and training in cybersecurity and cyber safety. As part of the agr...

Microcredentials—short courses designed to quickly teach new skills or upgrade existing ones—have long been offered by colleges, but the pandemic seems to have kicked their popularity into high gear. “I don't think a week has gone by recently when I haven't heard of a college devel...

Joining the IT crowd has never been easier, thanks to a trio of micro-credentials offered by Red River College this fall to fill urgent workforce gaps in Manitoba's information technology sector. The new online courses are taught by experienced industry professionals and cover three skills - mobile ...

Carleton University and IBM Canada announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton's Institute for Data Science and equip students for essential jobs in emerging digital careers such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data science.

Carleton University has signed a five-year agreement with IBM that will see the two organizations work together to train students for careers in cutting-edge fields such as AI, machine learning and data analytics.

Professor Guy-Vincent Jourdan of the Faculty of Engineering, his doctoral student Emad Badawi, and Dr. Iosif Viorel Onut from IBM Canada's Centre for Advanced Studies team up with an international think tank to uncover cyber scams before they claim victims.

A new digital platform initiative led by UCalgary in collaboration with IBM pools together data from multiple sources - sensors, scientists, and citizens - to create an accessible information reservoir that will support improved watershed science, policy and management across Canada..

Congratulations to Kristen Newbury from the University of Alberta for winning the 2020 Student of the Year award. IBM Advanced Studies presented the Student of the Year Award to a student who harvests and transfered results from advanced research to strategic products and initiatives during the CAS...

Congratulations to the University of Alberta CASCON award winners and nominees. During CxE 2020, IBM Advanced Studies presented the Student of the Year Award to a student who harvests and transfered results from advanced research to strategic products and initiatives. Additionally, IBM Advanced Stu...

The University of Ottawa and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the launch of a uOttawa hub for cybersecurity and cyber safety. Together, IBM and the University will address critical government, public, and private sector needs for advanced cybersecurity, specializing in research, solutions, skills, an...

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) continues to make global headlines as one of the premier technology hubs anywhere in the world. There are many important technology conferences happening throughout the year in the GTA and November is no exception. A global leader in technology development, IBM is par...

The team was selected from a total of 48 projects from universities around the world, the team's winning project aims to create hardware and software solutions that accelerate the computation of core mathematical functions needed for applications from computer animation to machine learning.
...

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) announced $1.65 million in funding for the Dependable Internet-of-Things Applications (DITA) program, which will be led by Marin Litoiu, an associate professor at York University.
...

UNB's IBM Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) - Atlantic has received a multi-million-dollar funding package to help deliver a new project that will improve and develop runtime software. The funding was awarded by the federal government through the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the New Brunsw...

The TCSE Distinguished Synergy Award is presented annually to a team for outstanding and/or sustained contributions that stand as a model in the software engineering community of effective partnership between industry and universities. IBM CAS has initiated and sustained software engineering resear...

From May 2 - 6, CASTLE 2022 featured over ten informative sessions and engaging hands-on workshops, and gathered over 160 stakeholders of the Advanced Studies community together for an exciting week of exchanging knowledge, sharing feedback, and fostering cross-project collaboration. Project collabo...

Earlier this month, IBM Canada and the University of Ottawa signed a multi-year partnership to build and operate a Cyber Range: a fully immersive, interactive, and experiential learning facility that will enable state-of-the-art research and training in cybersecurity and cyber safety. As part of the...

The winning video exemplifies the mission of IBM Center for Advanced Studies by delivering excellence in the demonstration of applied research, breaking barriers in understanding technology and exposing IBM communities to the potential of meaningful innovation. Employing unique animations, an enthu...

IBM Canada and the Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Mila, recently announced a collaboration to accelerate AI and machine learning workflows. This collaboration highlights the work IBM Canada Lab is doing to advance a key component of deep learning models known as hyperparameter opt...

Last week, students, professors, and IBMers involved in the Center for Advanced Studies research projects came together in an exciting week-long virtual event (May 11-15). CASTLE (Center for Advanced Studies Technical Link Event) aims to align all the current funded projects, foster cross-project c...