Modeling of Tsunamis and Tropical Cyclones: Contributions to Hazard Assessment and Disaster Management

Applying a UX Lens to Communications Strategies / Considérer les stratégies de communication dans la perspective de l’expérience d’utilisateur

Learning to Trust - How to do bigger, better social media / Apprendre à faire confiance – comment créer des messages sur les médias sociaux de meilleure qualité et plus percutants

“The Path to a Nobel Prize” 

The Intersectionality of Art in Inuit Nunangat

The importance of collaboration and openness in basic science and research publication

How science got women wrong

Becoming Better Allies Committed to Equity in UCSC Libraries

The Digital Transformation of UC

Emotion, discourse, and linguistic diversity: Emotions in grammar and discourse in northern Australia

Keynote Discussion with Dr. Latif Nasser

Process Science: Discovering New Ways to Do Things

An Innovative Platform for Virtual Underwater Experiences Targeting the Cultural and Tourism Industries

A View from The University of Manchester

Opening Plenary Session

Opening Plenary Session (60 minutes including Q&A)

Keynote

keynote

**Speaker:** Daphnee Nostrome  (Manager, Youth Digital Gateway, Service Canada)

**Description:** 

In this session, you will find out how to apply design best practices to reach audiences in an ever-changing digital landscape.  We will explore how two seemingly divergent fields – public relations and user experience design – can complement each other to deliver effective communications campaigns.

**Biography:**

Daphnée is a change agent with 20 years of experience driving the adoption of innovative digital practices. She has expertise in communications, content design, web product development and service design.

Daphnée is currently a Manager at the Youth Digital Gateway, Service Canada. Prior to that, she was Sr Manager, Content, at the Ontario Digital Service (ODS), where she led an intrepid team of content designers behind much of the province’s high-profile projects.

While at ODS, she also founded and led a training team behind an international, record-breaking boot camp crafted to help public servants design services with, not for people. Before joining the Ontario Digital Service, she was at the Ontario Arts Council, where she helped the organization become an early adopter of digital best practices.

Daphnée is recognized by Harvard Kennedy School of Government as part of the team behind the inaugural Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act, enshrining Internet-era user-centred work practices in law.

Past speaking engagements include GovConnect, NYCx Innovation Fellows program (Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer), Forward50, Haiti Tech Summit and Diversity in Digital Services (Canadian Digital Service).

### Bienvenue et session d'ouverture ###

**Conférencier principal : ** Daphnee Nostrome

**Description:**

Au cours de cet atelier, vous découvrirez comment mettre en œuvre les meilleures pratiques pour toucher votre public dans le contexte évolutif des médias numériques. Nous explorerons les différentes façons dont deux domaines en apparence divergents – les relations publiques et l’expérience utilisateur – peuvent se compléter pour mettre au point des campagnes de communications efficaces.

**Biographie:**

Daphnée est une agente de changement possédant plus de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’accélération de l’adoption de pratiques numériques innovantes. Son expertise s’étend des communications à la conception de services, en passant par la conception de contenu et l’élaboration de produits Web. 
Daphnée est actuellement gestionnaire de la Passerelle numérique jeunesse pour Service Canada. Auparavant, elle était directrice principale du contenu pour Services numériques de l’Ontario, où elle dirigeait une équipe intrépide de concepteurs de contenu à l’origine de la plupart des projets les plus médiatisés de la province. Son parcours chez Services numériques de l’Ontario est également marqué par la création et la direction d’une équipe de formation à l’origine d’un atelier de formation condensé conçu pour aider les fonctionnaires à concevoir des services avec, et non pour, les gens et dont la portée lui a valu une reconnaissance internationale. Avant de se joindre à Services numériques de l’Ontario, elle travaillait pour le compte du Conseil des arts de l’Ontario, où elle aidait les organisations à devenir des pionnières dans l’adoption des meilleures pratiques numériques.
Daphnée est reconnue par l’école d’administration publique Harvard Kennedy School of Government comme faisant partie de l’équipe à l’origine de la Loi pour des services simplifiés, accélérés et améliorés, qui inscrit dans la loi les pratiques de travail axées sur l’utilisateur à l’ère de l’Internet.
Parmi ses allocutions antérieures, citons GovConnect, le programme NYC[x] Innovation Fellows (bureau du maire du directeur de la technologie), Forward50, le sommet Tech d’Haïti et la diversité dans les services numériques (Service numérique canadien).

Opening Session and Keynote "Applying a UX Lens to Communications Strategies" / Considérer les stratégies de communication dans la perspective de l’expérience d’utilisateur

**Description:** 

Find out how Regina Public Library's social media became an international success story. Devin Pacholik has worked in media production and communications strategy for over a decade. His presentation will show you how to build a culture of trust in order to humanize your organization's social media, with techniques he learned working with brands like VICE, CBC and Apple Music. Devin will help make your channels pop while navigating small budgets and sometimes difficult corporate approval processes.  

**Speaker:** Devin Pacholik (Communications Consultant, Government of Saskatchewan)

**Biography:** Devin Pacholik is a writer, comedian, animator and filmmaker. If you don't recognize him, you may have seen his viral work, whether it's wearing giant funny pants (JNCO jeans) for VICE media, writing a hilarious ode to Olive Garden for CBC and much more. He was also the voice behind Regina Public Library, drawing international recognition from the likes of the Urban Library Council in Washington, DC.

### Bienvenue et session d'ouverture ###

**Conférencier principal:**  Devin Pacholik (Consultant en communications, Gouvernement de la Saskatchewan)

**Description:** 

Découvrez comment la plateforme de médias sociaux de la librairie publique de Regina est devenue un symbole de réussite internationale. Devin Pacholik possède plus d’une décennie d’expérience en production médiatique et en stratégie de communication. Sa présentation vous montrera comment établir une culture de confiance afin d’humaniser les médias sociaux de votre organisation à l’aide de techniques acquises auprès de marques comme VICE, CBC et Appel Music, pour lesquelles il a travaillé. Devin vous aidera à faire de vos canaux des comptes qui se démarquent tout en composant avec de modestes budgets et des processus d’approbation complexes au sein de l’entreprise. 

**Biographie:** Devin Pacholik est auteur, comédien, animateur et cinéaste. Si vous ne le reconnaissez pas, vous avez peut-être vu son travail à la portée virale, qu’il s’agisse de son apparition portant un drôle de pantalon géant (le jean JNCO) pour VICE media, de son ode hilarante à Olive Garden pour CBC et bien plus encore. Il a également été le porte-parole de la bibliothèque publique de Regina, s’attirant la reconnaissance internationale d’organismes comme la Urban Library Council de Washington, DC.

 Opening Session and Keynote “Learning to Trust - How to do bigger, better social media." / Apprendre à faire confiance – comment créer des messages sur les médias sociaux de meilleure qualité et plus percutants 

Keynote Speech on “The Path to a Nobel Prize” - Sir Richard Roberts

**Description:** 

Mitch will discuss his involvement in Inuit art and provide a glimpse of Inuit participation within it in a historic and contemporary context, exploring his personal and professional connections to it and how they can be utilized to support communities and their cultural and economic sovereignty.

**Keynote Speaker:** Mitch White (Senior Communications Lead, Creative Fire)

### Bienvenue et session d'ouverture ###

#### L'intersectionnalité de l'art dans l'Inuit Nunangat ####

**Conférencier principal :** Mitch White (responsable principal des communications, Creative Fire); 

Mitch discutera de son apport à l’art inuit et donnera un aperçu de la participation des Inuits dans ce domaine dans un contexte historique et contemporain. Il explorera également ses liens personnels et professionnels avec cet art et la manière dont cet attachement peut servir au soutien des communautés et à leur souveraineté culturelle et économique.



Welcoming and Opening Session “The Intersectionality of Art in Inuit Nunangat”

**Speaker: **Dr. Randy Schekman, Nobel Laureate, Professor of Biology, UC Berkeley 
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Bio: Dr. Randy Schekman is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He studied the enzymology of DNA replication as a graduate student with Arthur Kornberg at Stanford University. His current interest in cellular membranes developed during a postdoctoral period with S. J. Singer at the UC Diego. Among his awards are the Gairdner International Award, the Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with James Rothman and Thomas Südhof. He served as the Editor of the Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology and as Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the NAS and eLife. Beginning in 2018, Schekman has served as the Scientific Director of “Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Disease” a major philanthropic effort organized along with The Michael J. Fox Foundation to identify molecular and cellular mechanisms in the initiation and progression of Parkinson’s Disease (https://parkinsonsroadmap.org). 

Schekman’s laboratory investigates the mechanism of vesicular traffic in the secretory pathway in eukaryotic cells. Currently the lab investigates the mechanism of biogenesis of extracellular vesicles including how small RNAs are sorted for secretion in exosomes and the means by which these vesicles are internalized and function in target cells.

Keynote Speech: The importance of collaboration and openness in basic science and research publication.

**Speaker**: Angela Saini **Biography**: Angela Saini, bestselling author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and other books, will discuss the effect of sex and gender bias on scientific research, and how that bias influences social beliefs, in conversation with Curt Rice, Rector of the Norwegian University for Life Sciences and member of the genSET Leaders Panel that looked at the evidence of gender gaps and biases in science knowledge, and Elizabeth Pollitzer, Founder and Director of Portia (UK) and the Gender Summits and international expert on the consequences of ignoring sex/gender differences in scientific research.

How science got women wrong - Angela Saini

Presentation Themes: People--Support--Strategies

Speakers:  UC President Michael Drake, UCD Chancellor Gary May and UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman



Keynote: The Digital Transformation of UC

**Title:** Emotion, discourse, and linguistic diversity: Emotions in grammar and discourse in northern Australia
 
 **Session Chair:** Mégane Lesuisse
 
 **Presenter:** [Maïa Ponsonnet](https://underline.io/speakers/145869-maia-ponsonnet)
 
 **Abstract:** This presentation will draw on documentation work carried out with speakers of the Dalabon and Kriol languages of northern Australia since the mid-2000s. Dalabon is a severely endangered language of the Gunwinyguan family (non-Pama-Nyungan) (Evans, Merlan & Tukumba 2004). Kriol is an English-based creole spoken 20 to 30,000 people in the central north of Australia (Schultze-Berndt, Meakins & Angelo 2013). The descendants of Dalabon speakers have now adopted Kriol as their day-to-day language. 
 
In the first part of the talk, I will discuss the underpinnings and implications of attending to emotional language among the Dalabon-speaking communities. I will then dive into the specificities of emotional language in Dalabon, highlighting the prevalence of the linguistic embodiment of emotions (Ponsonnet 2014; Ponsonnet & Laginha in press); as well as a preference for discourse strategies based on avoidance when it comes to managing negative emotions (Rimé 2009). 
 
In the last part of the talk, I will consider Kriol, and whether the adoption of a new language may have influenced the way people talk about emotions (Woodbury 1998). One observation is that in terms of communication potential, Kriol speakers have developed means to talk about emotions in a very similar fashion as in Dalabon (Ponsonnet 2020). On the other hand, there is evidence that discourse practices evolve to accommodate less avoidant emotion-management strategies in emerging contexts (Rodriguez Louro & Collard 2021).

Keynote 3: M. Ponsonnet: Emotion, discourse, and linguistic diversity: Emotions in grammar and discourse in northern Australia

**Speaker:** Latif Nasser, NY Public Radio's Radiolab
 

**Bio:** Latif Nasser is co-host of the award-winning New York Public Radio show Radiolab, where he has done stories on everything from snowflake photography to space junk to a polar bear who liked to have sex with grizzly bears. In addition to his work in audio, Latif is the host and executive producer for the Netflix science documentary series, Connected. He has also given two TED talks, and written for the Boston Globe Ideas section. He got his PhD from Harvard's History of Science department in 2014. Although he was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, he now lives in Los Angeles.

Keynote lectures


**Welcome and Introduction of Speaker**  

Dr. Freddie Willis, Director, MOLSAMP Alliance, Assistance Vice President, STEM Initiatives, Harris Stowe State University

**Speaker**:

Dr. Harvey Hields, Associate Dean, Office for Student Success, Co-PI and Site Director, MOLSAMP, Washington University in St. Louis

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Dr. Harvey Fields is the Associate Dean for Student Success in the Office for Student Success at Washington University in St. Louis.  Harvey has broad experience in industry, academic and the community.  Dean Fields earned bachelor degrees in chemistry and in chemical engineering from Morehouse College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, respectively, as part of the Atlanta University Center Dual Degree Engineering Program.  After graduation, Dean Fields worked for the Procter and Gamble Company in various engineering and manufacturing management roles in various locations.  Dean Fields left Procter and Gamble and earned the PhD in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis.  Dean Fields has contributed to multiple initiatives focused on student academic supports and meaningful complementary and supplementary experiential activities.  Dean Fields is also active in the in the community, having served, and serving, on several civic boards and organizations.  Dean Fields' also served as pastor of a local church for twenty seven years.




**Welcome and Introduction of Speaker **

Dr. Freddie Willis, Director, MOLSAMP Alliance, Assistance Vice President, STEM Initiatives, Harris Stowe State University

**Speakers:**

Dean Jay Brockman, Notre Dame  

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Dr. Jay Brockman is the Director of the Notre Dame Center for Civic Innovation.  He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Notre Dame in 1992 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.  Prior to that, Brockman worked for Intel Corporation, where he spent a year-long assignment in the Philippines as part of the startup of a new product testing facility.  He is a co-founder of Lucata, Inc, a company with a patented architecture for big data analytics with offices in South Bend and New York.  He is the author of an introductory engineering textbook and has received several awards for his teaching.  He received the 2018 Grenville Clark award from Notre Dame, given to a faculty member whose voluntary activities advance the cause of peace and human rights.

Professor Ron Metoyer, Notre Dame

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Professor Ron Metoyer is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development at the University of Notre Dame.  Professor Metoyer earned his bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering at UCLA and his PhD in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Prior to joining the Notre Dame faculty, Professor Metoyer was a faculty member at Oregon State University.  Professor Metoyer's research interest is in supporting the visual exploration of large multivariate data sets with an emphasis on diversity analysis.  Professor Metoyer is a leader in the Broadening Participation in Computing community.

Social Sciences