SOSCIP Workshop

Event Date: 
Wednesday, March 11, 2020 - 10:30am to 11:30am EDT
Event Location: 
Room E119 (Georgian College) / Via Zoom (Orillia) / Via Zoom (Thunder Bay)

About the Event

On March 11, 2020, Dr. Tibor Turi, Executive Director at SOSCIP Consortium, will be visiting Simcoe County to deliver an information session on the programming and infrastructure that SOSCIP can offer to help drive research and innovation.  

Based in Ontario, SOSCIP is unique as Canada’s only R&D Consortium using advanced computing to drive industry innovation. SOSCIP’s mission is to bring together industrial partners and academic researchers and provide them with sophisticated advanced computing technologies to solve social, technical and business challenges across sectors and drive economic growth. SOSCIP plays a vital role in bridging the innovation divides among industry, academic and government, and facilitating high-impact outcomes and company growth that will be vital to building a sustainable, vibrant economy within Ontario and Canada.

This information session will be held from 10:30am - 12:00pm and open to both faculty, graduate students and industry partners.

The workshop will be held in partnership with Georgian College and hosted on Georgian College's Barrie campus, Hospitality & Tourism Building E, Room E119. For faculty members wishing to participate from the Thunder Bay campus, this workshop can be attended via Zoom in CASES 2005. 

If you are interested in attending this session, please contact Rebecca Heffernan at orillia.research@lakeheadu.ca or ext. 2022, or Lexi Haslehurst at ahaslehu@lakeheadu.ca or ext. 8290 if on the Thunder Bay campus, by Monday, March 2.