Refreshments

Refreshments (coffee, tea, snacks) will be served from stations within The Ampersand lobby.

Interactions

Interactions are throughout The Ampersand. Visit our interactions map under the Interactions Zone section.

Food Allergies

Please note that we cannot guarantee that food will be free from the common food allergens listed below. We regret the inconvenience. For specific concerns, please speak with catering staff on site.

If you have life-threatening chances of reaction, please be sure to bring your epi-pen device and identify yourself to our registration team.

Milk
Eggs
Fish (e.g., bass, flounder, cod, salmon)
Crustacean shellfish (e.g., crab, lobster, shrimp)
Tree nuts (e.g., almonds, walnuts, pecans)
Peanuts
Wheat
Soybeans
Sesame

With a career that spans building a socially-conscious occupational therapy practice and currently managing operations for her family's industrial lighting company, Shaffina Mohamed is an entrepreneur, community investor, and people connector at heart. Shaffina currently leads the Ismaili community engagement with the Aga Khan Garden, Alberta under the Aga Khan Council for Edmonton. With a strong interest in better understanding the parks and gardens restored and developed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture worldwide -- including the new garden in Edmonton opening in October 2018 -- her quest for learning and understanding has led Shaffina to be the visionary for a multi-sensory production ‘Reflections in Paradise’ in an effort to bring awareness about the impact of these spaces on individuals, families, communities, and countries.

What does it mean to design technologies as public worlds? Dr. Pratim Sengupta, Research Chair of STEM Education at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education has been working to understand this question by designing open source and open science technologies in public spaces and public schools through unsilencing hidden narratives and bringing us together. He is the recipient of a CAREER Award (2012) from the US National Science Foundation.

Dr. Sengupta co-presented with Dr. Marie-Claire Shanahan.

What does it mean to say that scientific knowledge and practice belongs to everyone? Dr. Shanahan is an Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. She works to understand how to remake scientific communities and technological spaces to ensure access to knowledge and expertise for all. Her work brings to light how our private worlds and identities can both benefit from and inform scientific practices and the design of technologies.

Dr. Shanahan co-presented with Dr. Pratim Sengupta.