Women Techmakers Sherbrooke IWD 2025

[An English version will follow]

GDG Cloud Sherbrooke est fier d'organiser l’événement spécial « The Women Techmakers Global Event Series Celebrating International Women's Day » qui a pour but de promouvoir le talent et la passion, accroître la visibilité de la communauté technologique sherbrookoise au Québec et honorer et donner du pouvoir aux femmes dans l’industrie technologique.

Pour connaître tout sur l'événement, regarder notre site web: https://gdg-cloud-sherbrooke-wtm.github.io/ et suivez-nous sur nos réseaux sociaux. Plus d'informations suivrons sous-peu!

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GDG Cloud Sherbrooke is proud to organize the special event "The Women Techmakers Global Event Series Celebrating International Women’s Day" which aims to promote talented and passionate women, increase the visibility of the Sherbrooke technology community in Quebec, and empower women in technology.

This year, our event is back to an in-person event!

To find out everything about the event, check out our website: https://gdg-cloud-sherbrooke-wtm.github.io/ and follow us on our social networks. More information will follow shortly!
CALENDAR (In progress).
Speaker 1. Anna Artiges.
Bio. Anna Artiges est une étudiante en thèse au doctorat en Bio Informatique au département d'Informatique de l'Université de Sherbrooke sous la direction du professeure Nadia TAHIRI, diplômée d'une Licence en Bio-Informatique, Statistiques et Modélisation et d'un Master en Bio-Informatique de l'Université Lyon 1.
Titre de la présentation. Développement d'une méthode d'appariement de duplicats dans les arbres phylogénétiques.
Description de la présentation. Les arbres phylogénétiques sont un moyen de représenter les liens de parentés entre différentes espèces mais aussi entre différents gènes. Plusieurs méthodes existent pour comparer des arbres d'espèces mais il est parfois plus compliqué de comparer des arbres de familles de gènes. En effet un gène (ou une séquence ADN) peut être présent en plusieurs copies au sein d'une même espèce. La comparaison devient d'autant plus compliquée si la correspondance des gènes n'est pas claire. Je présente les étapes du développement d'une méthode d'appariement des gènes dupliqués afin de pouvoir comparer des arbres phylogénétiques.

Speaker 2. Aleksandr Koshkarov.

Bio. Aleksandr Koshkarov is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Sherbrooke, under the supervision of Dr. Tahiri Nadia, with extensive experience in both AI and advanced data analysis across fields such as bioinformatics, ecology, agriculture, data-driven management, and sociology. He has led an AI department at a university, combining deep expertise in both fundamental and applied research. Aleksandr holds an MSc in Data Science from the University of Sheffield (UK) and has been actively engaged in data science since 2010.

Titre de la présentation. Agentic AI: Levels, Opportunities, and Use Cases.

Description de la présentation. This presentation explores Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI), a rapidly emerging field beyond traditional generative models, characterized by autonomy, proactive decision-making, and goal-oriented behaviors. Participants will learn about the essential concepts that distinguish agentic AI from generative AI tools like ChatGPT, understand the five progressive levels of AI agents, and discover how these intelligent agents operate. Practical frameworks will be highlighted with concrete examples. The talk will also highlight several specific use cases, particularly in higher education and research. Join us to explore how agentic AI is reshaping opportunities across industries and opening new frontiers in education and innovation.

Agenda

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Speakers

Anna Artiges - University of Sherbrooke (PhD student)

Anna Artiges une étudiante en thèse au doctorat en Bio Informatique au département d'Informatique de l'Université de Sherbrooke sous la direction du professeure Nadia TAHIRI, diplômée d'une Licence en Bio-Informatique, Statistiques et Modélisation et d'un Master en Bio-Informatique de l'Université Lyon 1.

Aleksandr Koshkarov - University of Sherbrooke (PhD (c))

Aleksandr is a PhD student at the University of Sherbrooke, Department of Information Technology. He has a Master of Science in Data Science degree (The University of Sheffield, UK) and conducts research in bioinformatics and machine learning. Aleksandr's professional interests include artificial intelligence, teaching, and No-code and Low-code technologies.

Hosted By

Nadia Tahiri, PhD, Organizer

Dr. Nadia Tahiri received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher working on QSAR/PBPK model prediction in environmental health sciences at the University of Montreal, Canada. She has received several awards and scholarships, author of scientific works that have been published in prestigious journals, conferences, and book chapters. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sherbrooke. Her research interests include bioinformatics, phylogenetic tree, phylogeography, clustering, classification, computational biology, supertree, and consensus tree. Nadia is also very involved in community initiatives that promote women in technology and make committee programs more inclusive (the right measures for equity, diversity, and inclusion) as a committee scientific, an active member of ACM Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing, an ambassador of Women Techmakers, and an organizer of GDG Montreal (collaboration)/GDG Cloud Sherbrooke (lead).

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