I2Hub EVENTS
Scheduled Events
We are currently updating the speakers list for the Fall.
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Date, 2026 (noon - 13:30 EST)
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Previous Events
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Speaker: Dr Aleta Quinn
October 29, 2025 (noon - 13:30 EST)
Topic: All about Citizen Science
Speaker: Dr Monica Granados
November 14, 2025 (2 - 3:30 pm EST)
Topic: Open Science
Speaker: Tom Goldsmith
May 29, 2025 (11:30 - 13:00 EST)
Topic: Breaking the Policy Paradox: Towards an Outcome-Driven and Inclusive Innovation Agenda for Canada
Food System Hackathon (Fall)
September 26-28, 2025
Telfer School of Management
more information coming soon
January 15, 2025 (13:00 - 14:30 EST)
Topic: Rise and Fall of the Inclusive Innovation Monitor and Lessons for Future Initiatives
Speaker: Daniel Munro
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 (13:00 - 14:30 EST)
Topic: Inclusive Innovation and the Broader Impacts of Science Funding
Speaker: Thomas Woodson
Tuesday, November 12 (13:00 - 14:30 EST)
Topic: What are systemic black boxes in AI systems – considerations for meaningful inclusion and participation
Speakers: Dr. Renée Sieber & Ruth Bankey (Moderator)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 (12:00 - 13:30 EST)
Topic: How Inclusive Innovation Shapes Understandings of Public Problems: Examining Tech for Sanitation and Hygiene in India
Speaker: Shobita Parthasarathy
May 8, 2024 (Recorded)
Topic: What are systemic black boxes in AI Systems: Throwing off their lids for inclusivity.
Speakers: Dr. Cristián Bravo, Dr. Nisarg Shah, and Dr. Ruth Bankey
March 19, 2024 (no recording available)
The I2 Café: Responding to popular demand, the Inclusive Innovation Café series is your chance to get involved in discussions on inclusive innovation on a regular basis.
March 6, 2024 (recorded)
Topic: Distribution Sensitive Innovation Policies: Turning inclusive innovation from rhetoric to action
Speaker(s): Dan Breznitz
February 27, 2024 (recorded)
(Super)Diversity and Inclusiveness in Innovation - Indicators and Insights: Researchers from North America and Europe discuss existing, emerging and potential future approaches to the study of diversity, inclusiveness and industrial innovation, with a focus on issues of measurement.
Joint workshop: ISI Fraunhofer and Telfer
February 20, 2024 (recorded)
Topic: How to translate scientific materials for a policy audience
February 9, 2024 (recorded)
Topic: New approaches and methodologies for measuring impact of innovation policy
Speaker(s): Claudia De Fuentes, Fernando Santiago & Fernando Canto
January 25, 2024 (recorded)
Topic: Science, inclusivity, indigenous economic growth
Speaker(s): Katharina Ruckstuhl & Madeline Judge
Inclusion as a research paradigm
Topic: How research and collaborative initiatives focusing on inclusive education and innovation, including among Indigenous peoples, are informing practice.
Presented by: Sandra Schillo
Transitions towards Inclusive Innovation – People, Planet AND Profit?
Topic: This session aimed to spark an interdisciplinary conversation on innovation paths towards global impact and system transformations.
Presented by: Environmental Studies Assocication of Canada
OSPN Science Policy 101
Topic: Panel on EDI in Research and Policy
Panelists include: Sandra Schillo, Nathalie Podeszfinski, Steffany Bennett, Coen Sanchez, Jason Millar, Olga Pena
Presented by: Ottawa Science Policy Network
4POINT0 2022 International Conference
Topic: Discussant for 4 papers on the topic of: Sustainable/Inclusive/Responsible Innovation Ecosystems
Presented by: Policies, Processes, and Practices for Performance of Innovation Ecosystems