Schedule

Attendees can eat provided breakfast and get registered/signed in

Welcoming attendees to the 2022 colloquium We will go over the expectations for the day, as well policies including code of conduct, masking, social media, and photography policies.

Vanessa Raquel Raponi, P.Eng., PMP is the Founder of EngiQueers Canada, a national non-profit advocating for equity, diversity and inclusion in the profession of engineering in Canada. She currently works as a Senior Product Development Engineer at Spin Master, a Canadian founded toy company making products like Etch A Sketch, Rubik's Cube, Paw Patrol and Kinetic Sand! Vanessa is excited to kick off this important QATCanSTEM conference, with a keynote that will share her journey in creating a national movement of queer inclusion, as well as how she personally found space for a queer woman of colour such as herself to thrive in STEM.

Presentations

Presentations

Veronica Merryfield (she/her) will lead a panel including folks from the 2SLGBTQIA+ STEM community with various perspectives on being out in STEM, and the advantages and disadvantages that that carries both personally and professionally.

2 Awards to Be Presented: - Best Poster Award (Undergraduate and Graduate Students Only) - Best Oral Award (Undergraduate and Graduate Students Only) These awards are sponsored by Science Atlantic

TENTATIVE: Glitter Bean (5896 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, NS B3H 3B8) - Take some downtime with your new friends and enjoy a hot chocolate at Halifax's Queer Cooperative Cafe or TBA