IEEE Student branch and IEEE Windsor Section in collaboration with Google Developer Groups presents Innovate with AI Competition. What: Showcase your innovative solutions using AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud Technology Who: Teams of 2-4 undergraduate, graduate, and recent 2024/2025 graduates When: ● Proposals Due Online: October 5, 2025 ● In-Person Pitches @ UWindsor: November 7, 2025 ● Winners Announced @ DevFest: November 8, 2025 Prizes: ● 1st Place: $500 ● 2nd Place: $300 ● 3rd Place: $200 Windsor, Ontario, Canada

YOU'RE INVITED! Join the IEEE Queen's Branch in welcoming Dr. Jawad Siddiqui from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society to speak with students about new work in antennas for the space domain, as well as the opportunities available to students through the IEEE. All students are welcome! The talk will explore the evolving role of antenna technologies in modern space applications, with a particular focus on CubeSats and rocket platforms. It will discuss key challenges such as size constraints, thermal management, deployment mechanisms, and radiation effects, as well as emerging trends in adaptive, reconfigurable, and additive-manufactured antennas designed for the space environment. The presentation will also highlight opportunities for students and professionals to engage with the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), including the benefits of membership and participation in its SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) initiatives that apply antenna and propagation technologies for societal impact. The speaker will welcome questions from the audience. The seminar will end with an interactive discussion with the speaker about opportunities for students in the IEEE. These include best practices for achieving funding awards through the IEEE, with a focus on the AP-S. Co-sponsored by: Abedal Rahman Shehabi Speaker(s): Dr. Siddiqui Room: 314, Bldg: Walter Light Hall, 19 Union St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

[] IEEE Winnipeg Young Professionals are jointly hosting a workshop with UMIEEE. This one-hour workshop is designed for beginners who want to get started with Python programming which is one of the most popular and versatile programming languages today. Participants will gain hands-on experience with Python syntax, logic building, and simple program creation. Room: E2-125, Price Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T4W9

IEEE South Saskatchewan is hosting its networking and escape room event hosted at District 3 located at 2237 6th Ave., Regina, SK on November 5th, 2025 @ 7:30 PM. IEEE Members: Free to attend IEEE member can bring one guest free of cost non-IEEE Members: $15 Please register on vTools. Registration is mandatory. Cash can be collected at the event based on the availability. Please visit https://www.district3.ca/ to view the rooms. Please indicate your preference in the registration section. We have two rooms tentatively booked: The Cabin - There has been a series of kidnappings near a cabin. After locking your group up, the kidnapper leaves to find more trespassers. In trying to escape, you begin to learn more about who's cabin it is, who the enemy is, why he kidnapped you, and what he is trying to hide. The Interrogation Room - An investigation begins the day after an attempted heist at a museum. Despite being brought in for questioning as suspects, unease led to your attempted escape. Staying too long may lead to your arrest, or perhaps worse! Terms and Conditions: ARRIVAL * IN-PERSON ESCAPES: 2237 6th Avenue, corner with Lorne St, a few blocks north of downtown. There is plenty of free parking in the lots north and west of our blue building, as well as lots of street parking. * ARRIVAL IN-PERSON: Please arrive at least 10 minutes before your booked start time for payments and briefing. Check out our store's hundreds of toys, games, playing cards, books, & more, open 7 days a week. OTHER NOTES * PLAYERS: District 3's Escape Rooms' is best played by anyone ages 8 and above. There are no age restrictions. Strangers will not be added to your team. * DIFFICULTY: If this escape room ends up being too challenging, consider an easier room next time. Teams with none or lower experience should still get a good challenge from easier rooms, build experience. * MONITORING: Players will be monitored in-game to help us provide the intended immersive experience, and to promptly give hints upon request. In-game audio and video audio are never recorded. * SCARES: Most experiences have moments of suspense but are not scary at all. Rooms with intended jump scares are Arca Malum and 'Til Death Do Us Part (Lights Out). * SAFETY: Be cautious if anyone has any health conditions or injuries. Anyone under the influence impacting the safety and experience of other guests and/or staff may be asked to leave. 2237 6th Ave, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

This presentation brings a common awareness about the corporate data team that most organizations are establishing as they go through their enterprise transformation and modernization journey. The corporate data team, often referred to as the Data Office, serves as a critical function responsible for managing data quality, governance, and integration across disparate source systems providing accessibility to analytics and reporting for all business departments in the organization. This case study explores the history of how organizations typically handled data in the past and how technology as well as data practices have evolved to leverage data to become a critical element for an organization’s enterprise strategy. We will examine how the data team is structured, the impact of each of the key roles (such as data engineers and data scientists), how data is governed, and the data architecture that is supported by a centralized data team. The presentation also reviews the technical and organizational challenges faced by modern corporate data teams. This session should demonstrate why organizations have had to mature their data practices to accelerate business outcomes and efficiently manage data for strategic growth. Speaker(s): Mike Jacobson, Agenda: - Land Acknowledgement - Introduction of the Speaker - Talk on "Emergence of the Corporate Data Team" - Q&A - Refreshments Room: ED 388, Bldg: Education, University of Regina, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

In this industrial tour, SIEMENS President and CEO Mr. Faisal Kazi will be attending for the presentation for 30 minutes and there is chance of receiving an overview SIEMENS productions. It is free to join for everyone. Snack and Meal will also be provided Speaker(s): Faisal Bldg: SIEMENS, 1577 North Service Road East, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, L6H 0H6

As human-centric services continue to flourish in the 6G era, enabling seamless interaction between humans and digital systems requires more than traditional communication paradigms. Semantic communication (SemCom) has thus emerged as a critical enabler for the Human Digital Twin (HDT)—a virtual representation of individuals that reflects their cognitive, behavioral, and physiological states. By prioritizing the transmission of meaning rather than raw data, SemCom significantly enhances the efficiency and contextual relevance of HDT interactions. This presentation introduces several SemCom-driven HDT frameworks that integrate semantic encoding, representation alignment, and knowledge-grounded compression to enable personalized and context-aware communication. We detail the architectural integration of SemCom into HDT systems and emphasize core enabling technologies such as semantic integrity and privacy protection, semantics-aware transmission optimization, context-grounded semantic inference, cognitive-aware personalization, and generative intelligence integration. Through case studies, we demonstrate how SemCom empowers HDT to support adaptive, efficient, and meaningful services, particularly in domains such as healthcare and cognitive monitoring. Finally, we outline future research challenges and highlight the central role of SemCom in unlocking the full potential of HDT within intelligent human-centric systems. Speaker(s): Jun Cai, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/507886

This session provides a technical overview of tradeoffs in the use of precision, multi-lane millimeter-wave test fixtures for empirical characterization of 200G and 400G silicon SerDes. Measurement data from 67 GHz and 110 GHz channel emulators are analyzed, with emphasis on the impact of higher order modes in coaxial test cables relative to 200G and 400G Nyquist frequencies. For 224G SerDes, results demonstrate the ability to trade test cable loss at Nyquist against modal bandwidth, maintaining at least 20% BW margin. The discussion extends to candidate signaling strategies for 400G, evaluating whether these trends persist as modulation formats and channel requirements evolve. The findings inform the design and validation of next-generation serial PHYs, highlighting physical layer constraints and opportunities for advancing high-speed data center interconnects. Speaker(s): Andrew Josephson, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/505970

The world is nonlinear and linked. Small-gain theory is one of the most important tools to tackle fundamentally challenging control problems for interconnected linear and nonlinear systems. In this talk, I will first review early developments in nonlinear small-gain theorems and associated nonlinear control design and show how it served as a basic tool to unify numerous results in constructive nonlinear control. Then, I will present recent developments in network/cyclic small-gain theorems for complex large-scale nonlinear systems, with a special focus on event-triggered control and feedback optimization. Finally, I will discuss briefly how machine learning techniques can be invoked to relax the conservativeness of small-gain designs, that falls into the emerging area of learning-based control, a new direction in control theory. Speaker(s): Zhong-Ping Jiang, Room: SF B560, Bldg: SF B560, 172 St. George St.,, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5R 0A3

Creating a safe space after midterms for students to destress and prioritize mental and physical health. Join us in Roosters cafe to unwind and relax. Activities include: Painting Boardgames Music Chatting Face Masks Snacks Ottawa, Ontario, Canada