WiSe Panel Discussion

Monday, October 28th from 1:30 - 3:30 PM

The WiSe Panel discussion will present view-points from top-level leaders in academia, industry and government high
institutions about current and future career opportunities, specifically in different sub-fields of sensors.

The schedule is as follows:

13:30 - 13:40 Welcome and Opening

Prof. Fabrice Labeau, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

13:40 - 14:40 Distinguished Academic and Industrial Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ana Luisa Trejos, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Helen Berney, Analog Devices, Ireland

Dr. Margaret Magdesian, Ananda Devices, Montreal, Canada

Prof. Orly Yadid-Pecht, Calgary University, Alberta, Canada

14:40 - 15:20 Discussions

15:20 - 15:30 Conclusion and Closing

Meet the WiSe Panel Keynote Speakers below!

Prof. Orly Yadid-Pecht

Professor

The University of Calgary, Canada

Prof. Orly Yadid-Pecht

Biography

Prof. Orly Yadid-Pecht completed her D.Sc. in the Technion, Israel institute of Technology in 1995, followed by a National Research Council (NRC) Fellowship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) / California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the US. Then she joined Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Israel and initiated the VLSI center in 1999 at BGU, which became a national center of excellence. In 2009 she became an international centre of research excellence (iCORE) / Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Chair at the University of Calgary, Canada, in the area of Integrated Sensors. Prof. Yadid-Pecht has also been a coach since 2015, and in 2018 she initiated a workshop titled “From Lab to Fulfillment” supporting entrepreneurship, and offered to female faculty at Universities worldwide.

Prof. Yadid-Pecht is the co-author of the first book on CMOS image sensors: “From Phototransduction to Image Processing”, an author of over 200 publications, and has an H index of over 30. She served as the VP Publications of the IEEE Sensors council, was a board member on many IEEE transactions journals, IEEE and SPIE program committees, and other international committees. She was the general chair of the IEEE ICECS held in Israel.

Prof. Yadid-Pecht is an IEEE Fellow since 2007, an SPIE fellow since 2015 and an AIMBE fellow since 2018.

In addition, Prof. Yadid-Pecht holds more than 30 patents, most of which are licensed to companies and creating revenues. She is currently involved in two companies in Calgary, and coaching students and faculty regarding entrepreneurship and starting their own companies.

Affiliation(s)

Professor

The University of Calgary, Canada

The WiSe Panel discussion will present view-points from top-level leaders in academia, industry and government high
institutions about current and future career opportunities, specifically in different sub-fields of sensors.

Prof. Orly Yadid-Pecht

Dr. Helen Berney

Prof. Ana Luisa Trejos

Dr. Margaret Magdesian

Sponsors

Palais des congrès de Montréal

The WiSe Panel discussion will present view-points from top-level leaders in academia, industry and government high institutions about current and future career opportunities, specifically in different sub-fields of sensors.

Prof. Orly Yadid-Pecht

Dr. Helen Berney

Prof. Ana Luisa Trejos

Dr. Margaret Magdesian

Sponsors

Palais des congrès de Montréal

The WiSe Panel discussion will present view-points from top-level leaders in academia, industry and government high
institutions about current and future career opportunities, specifically in different sub-fields of sensors.