We hope you had a great time at Digitized 2012. A big thanks go to the guest speakers, workshop leaders, student volunteers and all the sponsors.
Some event photos are available on Flickr: Digitized 2012 Photos
DIGITIZED
Imagine.Create.Change.
Our biggest surprise: A VJing workshop by Carrie Gates.
Carrie Gates is a designer of websites, live video mixing performances, and interactive art experiences. For Digitized 2012, she is happy to be presenting a short introductory workshop to VJing (live video mixing) techniques and a brief demonstration of her custom brainwave controlled video mixing software.
Since the mid-1990s, Carrie has been performing as a VJ, DJ, and sound artist both locally and abroad, traveling regularly to present her live audiovisual performances and workshops. She also works as a Designer at the University of Saskatchewan and has published academic research on human-computer interaction. Her intimate involvement in the independent electronic music and media art communities across Canada and beyond for over 15 years has given her a broad range of unique influences and experiences to draw from in her work.
You can find more about Carrie on her personal website: www.vjcarriegates.com
All students registered for the Digital Media workshop will attend this workshop!
“You’re going to pay me to play on social media?” Don’t miss this fantastic presentation by Katrina German. We can’t wait to hear all the secrets!
Katrina is an online producer who specializes in social media and web content development. She plays online with websites, twitter, facebook, pinterest and others to connect her clients to the public in a fun and engaging way. She currently consults for Paddock Wood Brewery, Yorkton Film Festival and the Saskatchewan Media Producers Industry Association. www.KatrinaGerman.com
Stop talking awesome. Start building awesome.
Jordan and Andrée are young technology entrepreneurs who are great at building awesome products. They are excited to share their experiences with you during Digitized and we couldn’t be happier.
More on Jordan and Andrée:
Jordan is a web developer that loves making ideas come to life. In 2009 he created TaxiMe (www.taxime.ca) which is a website and iPhone app that estimates your cab fare. In 2011 he launched 7shifts (www.7shifts.com) with co-founder, Andrée Carpentier and is loving being his own boss.
Andrée graduated from the University of Ottawa with an International Business degree before moving back to the one and only province that’s hard to spell, but easy to draw - Saskatchewan.
As 7shifts’ co-founder, Andrée has been the driving force behind building 7shifts client base and brand. Not only does she love making sure the clients are happy, she has a knack for figuring out how 7shifts can continue to be an intuitive and time-saving tool.
He can surely find out what you did last summer!
Thomas Roebuck completed his 3rd year computer science program at the University of Saskatchewan a few days ago. He has extensive experience in computer security and forensics. He currently works at Cameco as a computer science intern. We look forward to his presentation on digital forensics.
And the list of our amazing speakers include Katherine Regnier, CEO and Ms. Boss Lady at Coconut Calendar. She will speak about how to get started: Even if you don’t know what you want.
About Katherine Regnier:
Only 2 days after her high school graduation, Katherine Regnier, left her parents farm in order to pursue a career in technology. She believes not knowing what you want can lead to amazing opportunities one step at a time. Katherine will help you identify key questions to ask yourself in making that next move for your future in Saskatchewan.
How do computers see us and speak to us? Two very interesting topics covered by Drs. Mark Eramian(right) and Colin Cherry(left).
About the speakers:
Dr. Mark Eramian has been a professor in the computer science department at the University of Saskatchewan for nearly 10 years. His research is in the area of image processing and computer vision with particular interests in medical image analysis. He has won professor of the year award a few times.
Dr. Colin Cherry is a Research Officer at the National Research Council of
Canada. Before coming to the NRC, he worked in Microsoft Research’s natural language processing group. Colin is interested in helping computers understand and manipulate human language. His work involves automatic translation between languages, and the extraction clinical data from medical documents.
workshops sold out!
Over 350 students have registered to Digitized 2012 and we have reached maximum capacity for hands-on workshops.
If you wish to attend any of the public presentations (track 1 & 2 on the schedule), please do so. No registration is required.
We are excited to announce another speaker, the talented Kim Edgar. Her presentation will be on mobile technologies.
Kim enjoys spending time with Honey, her English Bulldog, and cooking. When she needs to work, she prefers developing iPhone and Android Apps at CollegeMobile. She originally tried her luck as an artist, but decided a career in computer science will guarantee a stable and better-paid job. Kim is originally from Vancouver and moved to Saskatoon to attend the University of Saskatchewan. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 2011.
Great news! Lee Vermeulen will be our speaker covering game development and we couldn’t be happier.
Lee Vermeulen created one of the first Saskatoon-based game companies, AlianTrap, and is responsible for Nexuiz, and Capsized games. He has been nominated and won various awards. Capsized is currently one of the finalists, in two different categories, at the 2012 Canadian Videogame Awards. Capsized has our vote!
