Speakers: Ann Hill Duin, Jason Tham, Jessica Campbell, Nupoor Ranade, Gustav Verhulsdonck, Daniel Hocutt & Isabel Pedersen The Fifteenth International Conference on Networked Learning (NLC2026) will take place from 6 to 8 May 2026. The conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium and will be hosted by FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute […]

Speakers: Erika Grogan-Graham, Tracy Byers Reid, Janette Hughes & Diana Petrarca The Fifteenth International Conference on Networked Learning (NLC2026) will take place from 6 to 8 May 2026. The conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium and will be hosted by FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute and d-teach – Online School and […]

Jessica Campbell, Katlynne Davis, Jialei Jiang (online), Nupoor Ranade (online), Mollie Stambler, Jason Tham, and Gustav Verhulsdonck are all presenting at the CPTSC 2025 Annual Conference + SIGDOC 2025, October 23–25, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Dr. Lesley Wilton is the keynote speaker at the 2025 Teaching With AI Conference. Rapidly evolving as a general-purpose technology, AI is increasingly enmeshed in formal and informal learning environments. Meaningfully integrating AI into teaching and learning requires understandings of what AI is, what it does and what pedagogies (including AI pedagogies) best benefit learners. […]

Isabel Pedersen will present at the annual conference of the Canadian Communication Association. Precision Neuroscience, Synchron, Neuralink, and Paradromics are racing to develop brain implants for many applications including therapeutic use, cognitive enhancement, and for general, ‘everyday’ communication. The Paradromics website, for example, claims “we will continue to expand the capabilities of our massively scalable […]

Isabel Pedersen presents: The goal to achieve novel AI systems has been ignited by an urgent commercial preoccupation with making emotionally engaged, empathetic AI assistants. The promise of empathy offers the alluring condition of being known by another, when someone simply “gets you.” Inventors work to embed the appearance of emotional signs in functional AI […]

Isabel Pedersen will present the Fourth Annual Stéfan Sinclair Lecture @ Concordia. She focuses on embodied computing, algorithmic culture, augmented reality, emergent media, and AI ethics. Her talk will be followed by a round-table chaired by Geoffrey Rockwell with three graduate students. The live event will take place at Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705, Concordia University, […]

Lesley Wilton presents at the Annual Independent School Summit 2024 in Toronto.

Isabel Pedersen, Delon Omrow, Shawna Longboat (Hamilton Regional Indian Centre), and Julius Kaka (The Global Initiative Network) will be presenting at the 24 hour Conference on Global Organized Crime 2024 (OC24).