News Category: Events
SCWIST co-presents evening with Catherine Roome, COO of BC Safety Authority - May 15, 2008
Along with Women in Engineering (Vancouver Region) and DAWEG, SCWIST is proud to present an evening with Catherine Roome, the recipient of the 2008 Influential Women in Business Award. Catherine will be giving an engaging presentation highlighting the success she has achieved with her career as an engineer and Chief Operating Officer. She will also lead an in-depth view of the career path she has pursued along with the influential people she has encountered at various turning point points in her career.
DATE: May 15th, 2008
TIME: 6 – 9pm
PLACE: YWCA, Welch room 1, 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver
RSVP: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Cost: Free, but space is limited
Beverages, snacks, and sandwiches will be provided. There will be door prizes as well as an opportunity to network. More details can be found on our website (http://www.sfu.ca/~mlahaye/wie_vr.html).
SPEAKER BIO:
Catherine Roome started her career at the University of Victoria where she earned an engineering degree and participated in a co-op placement at the Neil Squire Society. There she developed cutting edge technology for individuals who require mobility assistance to gain access to computer applications via a mouthpiece. In the next stage in her career, she worked at BC Hydro as a Project Engineer and remained there for 15 years. In 2005, she joined the BC Safety Authority as Vice President of Engineering and currently acts as the Chief Operating Officer. In February 2008, Catherine was awarded the Influential Women in Business Award for her numerous accomplishments.
Women in Engineering (Vancouver Region)
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http://www.sfu.ca/~mlahaye/wie_vr.html
Symposium for Women Entering Ecology and Evolution Today (SWEEET) - May 11, 2008
SCWIST is proud to sponor SWEEET, a symposium intended to address issues that influence the advancement of women from postgraduate degrees into academic, government, and industry positions in Ecology and Evolution. The transition into permanent jobs is a critical step during career progression that involves many challenges and concerns that are particularly relevant to women.
Although a forum exists in the US to discuss the issues of advancement and retention (Women Evolving in the Biological Sciences, WEBS, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation), no such forum exists in Canada. SWEEET feels that Canadian women face similar issues and could benefit from an opportunity to discuss these challenges with mentors and each other.
SWEEET 2008 will be a one day symposium on May 11, 2008 at the University of British Columbia, Green College, from 9am – 3pm.
Speakers from both academic and government backgrounds will address:
● Getting a job/postdoc in academia or government
● Navigating family and career responsibilities
● Negotiating
● Effective Grant Writing
● Networking
The symposium will take the format of short presentations by mentors in the field, followed by roundtable discussions.
For registration information please click here.
Celebrating Women’s Health: An evening with internationally known health activist Judy Norsigian
On Thursday April 24th health activist Judy Norsigian will be in Vancouver to talk about the global reach of the now classic book on women’s health Our Bodies, Ourselves. The Director of the Institute of Gender and Health (Canadian Institutes of Health Research), Dr. Joy Johnson, will open the evening with a discussion of the advances in women’s health research in Canada. SCWIST is proud to co-sponsor this free event open to anyone with an interest in women’s health. Guests can attend in person or over the internet via live webcast.
Norsigian is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), the organization that for almost 40 years has provided indispensable, scientific information on women’s health and sexuality. During her evening talk, Norsigian will describe the OBOS “Global Translations and Adaptations” program through images and stories. “Often a direct translation of Our Bodies, Ourselves is not culturally appropriate,” says Norsigian. “We seek to assist women’s groups around the world as they develop cultural adaptations of, or other publications inspired by, Our Bodies, Ourselves for outreach and advocacy in their community, country or region.”
Event Details
Date: April 24, 2008
Time: 6:30pm-10:00pm
Place: Paetzold Auditorium, Vancouver General Hospital
Cost: Free, but space is limited (live webcast also available)
Those who cannot attend in person can watch and ask questions via live webcast. For registration and details, visit http://www.whrn.ca
Speakers include:
• Judy Norsigian, Executive Director and co-founder of Our Bodies Ourselves
• Dr. Joy Johnson, Director of the Institute for Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Dr. Lorraine Greaves, Director of the BC Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
• Dr. Jerilynn Prior, Founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research
Space is limited. To register please visit http://obos2008.eventbrite.com
If you wish to volunteer for the event – please contact SCWIST.
Attention all undergrads - XX evening - March 4, 2008
SCWIST invites women studying SET to the XX Evening networking event at TELUS World of Science on Tuesday March 4, 2008.
Find out how amazing women are making careers in science and technology.
Your $12 entrance fee covers the refreshments and film.
5:15 Registration. Please arrive by 5:30 PM.
For security reasons, no late-comers will be admitted.
5:45 Panel discussion
Hear real success stories and get some good advice.
7:00 Pizza and Networking.
Chat with potential mentors.
8:30 Omnimax film Dinosaurs Alive!
Door prizes!!
Please pre-register by February 29, 2008 by calling Science World at 604-443-7551 or emailing .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
4th Annual Student Biotechnology Network Career Expo + Conference - Feb. 13, 2008
The 4th Annual Student Biotechnology Network Career Expo + Conference
Date: February 13th, 5-9pm
Location: Westin Bayshore, Vancouver
Details: The SBN Career Expo and Conference is the largest biotech event of its kind in Western Canada and is the primary means for students in BC to
learn about the opportunities that exist in the local biotech industry.
Objectives of the Career Expo + Conference
• To provide students with the means to make well-informed career decisions
• To inform students about careers outside of academia via presentations and unparalleled exposure to the individuals and organizations that comprise the local biotechnology industry
• To inspire students to launch career paths in the biotech or pharmaceutical industries
• To encourage development of life skills, most importantly networking and communication which are essential to a successful career in any field
Please visit [url=http://www.TheSBN.ca]http://www.TheSBN.ca[/url] for more info.
Visit SCWIST at the 2008 UBC Life Sciences & Land and Food Systems Career Fair - Jan. 28, 2008
Date: Monday, Jan. 28, 2008
Time: 5:00 – 7:30 pm
Location: SUB Ballroom, UBC
Admission: Free
The Career Fair brings together students and companies, government agencies, NGOs and other organizations to learn more about each other and make valuable contacts. With over 100 exhibitors and 1200 students this is a great way for employers to maximize their exposure to a broad range of potential employees, and for students to practice their networking skills and learn more about the job market.
For more information please visit http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/careerfair/index.html
Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions - January & February 2008
Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions
January and February 2008
SCWIST Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Postdocs
If you are a woman graduate student or postdoc in science or applied science who is making decisions about what to do next…
Mark your 2008 calendar for Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions (see http://www.scwist.ca)
The first workshop of this 4-part series is a FULL DAY, and you will need to attend the first workshop in order to participate in the other three.
Space is very LIMITED. Register early. (Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
NO registration at the door. You must be pre-register
Dates/Times/Costs:
| Title | Date | Time | Cost (SCWIST member) | Cost (SCWIST non-member) | SFU Harbour Centre Room |
| Looking Back to the Future* | Saturday January 12th | 9:00 to 4:00 FULL day | $20 | $30 | 2245 |
| Decision-Making during Transitions | Saturday January 26th | 9:00 to 1:00 | $10 | $15 | 2945 |
| Values: Anchor Yourself during Storms of Change | Saturday February 9th | 9:00 to 1:00 | $10 | $15 | 2245 |
| Your Future Career Story | Saturday February 23rd | 9:00 to 1:00 | $10 | $15 | 1315 |
*To register for the half-day sessions, you must attend the first session. Must be pre-registered.
***ONLY $40 for SCWIST Members who attend all four workshops
Where: SFU Harbour Centre (room number indicated)
Who: Women Graduate Students / Post docs in Science and Applied Science at SFU and UBC
Registration: Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Looking Back to the Future (Saturday, January 12th FULL DAY 9:00 to 4:00)
• Map key events that have shaped your career
• Introduce a model for navigating through change
• Apply a model of decision-making to your transition point
Decision-Making during Transitions (Saturday, January 26th 9:00 to 1:00)
• Explore key influences that help or hinder you during times of change & decision-making
• Re-defining Success and Visioning an Ideal Work Day
• Your Career Story: identify key interests, skills, values and themes that have shaped your career so far
Values: Anchor Yourself during Storms of Change (Saturday, February 9th 9:00 to 1:00)
• Clarify and update your key work values, for life
• Explore the role money plays in career & life decisions
• Identify key themes about success as you prepare to make future decisions
Your Future Career Story (Saturday, February 23rd 9:00 to 1:00)
• Visioning Your Story of Success
• Clarifying the gaps between now and your future career story
• Review of Goals
• Creating an Action Plan
Note: There will be some reflective writing assignments between workshops
These workshops are sponsored by JADE and SCWIST with in-kind support from SFU.
Tools for Transitions: Navigating Change and Making Life-Changing Decisions
How can we use change as an opportunity to make meaningful decisions about our lives and careers? We are often called upon to make important choices during times of change, yet many of us resist moving forward because the experience of change – the transition – is confusing and uncomfortable. Transitioning from post graduate education to professional life may be unsettling yet this change may also hold potential to identify what is most important while letting go of beliefs and values that may not work for you anymore.
During these interactive sessions, you will have a chance to apply a practical model of transition to your own life and career changes in order to deepen your exploration of key career and life questions and to clarify what is important as you make decisions for the future.
During this series of 4 workshops you will have an opportunity to reflect, discuss and actively engage with other women in science and technology. The goal is to learn to identify what you need to put in place before making your next career.
During this series, you will:
• Review past decisions and influences as a way to clarify skills and interests for the future
• Clarify personal and work values
• Explore specific themes such as Money and Success
• Identify constraints that may limit new plans
• Create a grounded action plan for the future
Join us for this series of lively workshops that include discussion, activity, reflection and an opportunity to sort out what is important now, with other women in science and technology. Drawing from her popular career transition course called Working on Purpose Sally will engage you in a way of thinking about change and decision-making, so that you can experience them creatively and with purpose.
Sally Halliday, M.A. RCC (Counselling Psychology) is principal of Sally Halliday Counselling and Consulting Services. In addition to counselling individuals and couples in her private practice and Employee Assistance work, Sally develops and teaches courses at UBC Life and Career Centre. Sally combines her academic research on transitions with her practical experience as a teacher, counsellor and former journalist to help others who are making decisions during times of change. Sally teaches skiing in her spare time.
Creating Connections - Building Bridges Between Students and Industry - Nov. 29th
The Student Biotechnology Network in partnership with SCWIST is proud to present:
Creating Connections – Building Bridges Between Students and Industry
Date: Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm
Location: Floral Hall, VanDusen Botanical Gardens
5251 Oak Street, Vancouver
Registration is available at [url=http://www.thesbn.ca]http://www.thesbn.ca[/url]
$15 early bird (until Nov 22th), $18 until Nov 28th
Limited seating available!
Despite a significant increase in the number of women graduates at all levels in the life sciences, there has not been a concurrent rise in the number of women holding upper management positions within industry or holding professorships at universities. This may be due to a number of factors that will be addressed at Creating Connections. The topics covered will be of interest to everyone, although there will be an emphasis on the female perspective.
Keynote speaker: Colette Rivet Executive Director, BioTalent Canada
About Colette Rivet
Colette Rivet is the Executive Director of BioTalent Canada. She is responsible for the overall management, operations and strategic development of BioTalent Canada, including financial and managerial duties, external relationships and administrative duties. Colette has several years of senior management experience in such positions as Director of Strategic Operations for the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, Strategic Resource Alignment Associate of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Manager of The McLaughlin Centre for Evaluation at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, Professional Liaison at Cangene Corporation, Director of Scientific Resources at the Canadian Blood Agency and Manager of Component Quality, Laboratory Services at the Canadian Red Cross Society.
Colette holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa and National Certificate in Voluntary and Non-Profit Sector Management. She is also a Certified Health Executive, a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, an Advanced Registered Technologist, and a General Registered Technologist.
About BioTalent Canada
BioTalent Canada helps Canada’s bio-economy industry thrive globally. As a non-profit national organization of innovators leading our bio-economy, BioTalent Canada anticipates needs and creates new opportunities, delivering human resources tools, information and skills development to ensure the industry has access to job-ready people.
2007 SCWIST AGM - July 3, 2007
Members are cordially invited to this year’s SCWIST AGM the evening of Tuesday July 3rd, 2007 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Location: BC Hydro Edmonds Skytrain Auditorium
6911 Southpoint Drive BurnabyThere is plenty of free street parking nearby. The office is also steps from the Edmonds skytrain station.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. Paula Gordon presenting “Imaging Breasts: Confronting the ‘Controversies’ of Screening Mammography”.
Please register online before June 28th.
Please note that ONLY those who are members of SCWIST in good standing at the time of the meeting may attend!
Dr. Gordon is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Radiology, in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
She is Chair of the Academic Committee of the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia.
Dr. Gordon is a reviewer for several medical journals and lectures internationally on various aspects of breast diagnosis. She has authored or co-authored numerous publications related to breast radiology, and has a special interest in breast ultrasound and image-guided needle biopsy. In recognition of her achievements, she has been elected Fellow of the Society of Breast Imaging.
She works in Vancouver as Senior Radiologist at the Breast Program at BC Women’s Hospital, as a screener with the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia, and in private practice.
Increase Your Networking Savvy - Skills to Move Your Career from “Good to Great” - May 23, 2007
The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) is proud to present the 3rd Personal and Professional Development workshop for members of 2007!
Increase Your Networking Savvy
*How do you introduce yourself to someone at a reception?
*Do you have a quick answer when someone asks you “what do you do”?
*How do you shake hands when you’re holding a plate and a wine glass?
Marlene Delanghe will direct us through the awkwardness of approaching strangers, and will give us tools to apply at our next meeting, conference, or reception.
Format of the evening:
*Networking Skills Presentation
*Art Gallery Reception to Practice Skills
*Prizes for Networking Savvy
Who can attend? This workshop is open to all who have pre-registered.
Do I have to be a SCWIST member? SCWIST encourages all members and non-members, students and professional women to attend.
When? Wednesday May 23rd 2007 6:30-9:30
Where? Bjornson-Kajiwara Gallery, 1727 West Third Ave, Vancouver
Cost? $15/SCWIST student/unemployed member, $40/SCWIST professional member and $60/non-member
How do I register? Register online
Need more information? Contact Us
Marlene Delanghe is Principle of Career Solutions [url=http://www.career-solutions.ca]http://www.career-solutions.ca[/url], a Human Resources Consulting and Career Coaching Firm that has been in operation since 1989. The firm specialises in the retention and development of organisational talent with recent clients that include Deloitte Touche LLP, Edge Training and Consulting Ltd., Service Canada, Ministry of Forests, Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
Marlene has also assisted numerous professionals achieve their career goals including individuals from some of Canada’s top companies. In addition to her consulting practice, she assists graduate students at UBC Career Services to plan their futures.
Her credentials include a Master’s degree in Psychology and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. She is a member of the BC Human Resource Management Association and serves on the Steering Committee of the Minerva Foundation.
Discussion Panel - Women In Digital Media - It’s not just a guy thing! - May 15, 2007
There are only 10 Women CEO’s of Fortune 500 firms and even fewer involved in the technology sector. In an industry that can hardly boast of having only 30% of females make up it’s workforce we are left begging the questions… Why? Why? and Why?
Join our distinguished panel as they discuss their unique perspectives on working in the dynamic sector of Digital Media. What drew them to the industry? What opportunities and barriers they’ve encountered in fostering their careers? What insights do they have to make this industry more appealing to women?
Stay after the discussion panel for some prime networking. Light snack provided to stave off those afternoon grumblies.
Tuesday May 15th
Doors at 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion at 4:30 PM
Networking until 7:00 PM
Our Host:
Bell Canada
6th floor, 550 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC
Please note that the office tower elevators are locked off at 5:00 PM so late arrivals post 5:00 PM are not possible to accomodate at this time. Sorry.
Our Panel:
Kiana Mohseni – Producer at Electronic Arts
Emma Payne – Founder and President of At Large Media Ltd
Alissa Antle – Assistant Professor, School of Interactive Arts & Technology at SFU
Event Organized by: New Media BC, Wired Woman and SCWIST
Registration Deadline: May 14, 2007
Registration Details: Please use on our online registration system to reserve your seat today by following the link found here.
Energetic Women in Technology Networking Reception - March 27, 2007
SCWIST and DAWEG are partnering with BC Hydro to present:
an energetic women in technology networking reception
Join in an evening of informal storytelling and inspiration. Learn of exciting career opportunities in the energy industry from some of BC Hydro’s leading
women. Connect with other women in industry while enjoying wine and cheese refreshments.
Date: Tuesday March 27th
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Where: 1400 – 666 Burrard Street – Vancouver (Powerex offices)
Registration: RSVP by Wednesday March 21st to Heidi Propp at BC Hydro: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 604 623-3686
Cost: $0
