The 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture explores shaping AI with Indigenous ethical frameworks, balancing innovation with traditional knowledge. As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our lives, urgent questions arise about whose knowledge systems shape its design and whose are excluded. The 2025 Ian P. Sharp Lecture brings together two distinguished speakers to explore […]

This interactive workshop introduces the basics of 3D design. Learn to plan a project, master the basics of 3D modelling using the free, web-based TinkerCad application, and personalize your design. Perfect for makers who want to design a digital file for creating customized physical objects, you will leave with an STL file ready for 3D […]

The Indigenous Diabetes Health Circle (IDHC) supports Indigenous wellness and diabetes prevention through holistic, culturally-rooted approaches. Dr. Jessica Pace is the Knowledge Program Manager at the IDHC. In this second webinar of the BRANCH Study Webinar Series, Jessica will share stories and examples related to IDHC's research involvement including meaningful partnerships, knowledge mobilization, IDHC's research […]

Join us at this online training/demo of the VPRI Dashboards, including ART (Tableau)! Dashboards access is required and is limited to staff in research roles at U of T.

The annual University of Toronto Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Days returns on May 26th and 27th, 2025. May 26th will highlight some of the excellent research done by the trainee community through the featured trainee talks and flash talks. This year’s talks include presentations by the latest cohort of our Future Leaders awardees: Patrick […]

An annual academic conference hosted by the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Absolutely Interdisciplinary convenes leading thinkers from a rich variety of fields to engage in conversations that encourage innovation and inspire new insights. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are evolving at an extraordinary pace, holding the potential to transform societies, economies, and systems […]

N(ArT)URE is a politically aware and ethically responsible research-creation project co-created with community partners and health researchers. Rooted in anti-oppressive critical research practices and framed in post-human theory, N(ArT)URE fosters spaces of safety, play, exploration, connections with the land, and knowledge production as a methodology for inclusion and inquiry. N(ArT)URE is a response to the […]

The widespread use of Generative AI has raised complex copyright issues related to the training data inputs and the outputs produced by GenAI tools, but Canada has not yet amended its copyright law in response. This event will explore those copyright issues, and possible solutions under consideration. Speaker: Dr. Jean Dryden,Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information, University […]

Collaborative, inclusive approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are at the forefront of an upcoming Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2025. This event will address practices for inclusive learning and more in a world using AI. As technology rapidly transforms how we live, work, and connect, how can we ensure equitable, transparent, and inclusive innovation? […]