Civic hacknight #395 - Community-based Research and AI (IN-PERSON)

*This is the in-person registration for this event. To attend virtually via Zoom, please RSVP here.

Topic: Community-based Research and AI

• The team from Concordia's Applied AI Institute will discuss artificial intelligence's impact on housing in Montreal and their efforts to conduct Community-Based Action Research on artificial intelligence in Canada.

Speakers: Fenwick McKelvey, Alex Megelas

• Fenwick is the co-director of Concordia's Applied AI Institute and an Associate professor in Communication Studies.
• Alex is the manager of research innovation and business development at Concordia University's Applied AI Institute, and a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at McGill University. He's an affiliate facilitator of the Centre for Community Organizations (COCo) and teaches at the Saint Paul University School of Conflict Studies.

Join us in person:

• We're meeting at the office of the Ontario Digital Service at 595 Bay St. Suite 1002. Take the elevator to the 10th floor.
• Enter using the doors on Bay St., just north of Dundas. A volunteer from Civic Tech Toronto will be waiting near the elevators on your right!

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

Code of Conduct:

• http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:

• https://link.civictech.ca/chat

Accessibility:

• We're exploring ways to make our hybrid hacknights more accessible. At the moment we provide video and audio of the presentation through Zoom and automated closed captioning.

About Us:

• Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

For more info:

• http://civictech.ca