The Department of Computer Science presents
Learn about the industry, ask your questions,
and hear real experiences from professionals from industry-leading companies.
DCS Industry Day is a day where we bring the industry professionals to you.
We're bringing in developers, data scientists, product managers, recruiters and other leading professionals from the industry to help you find a job, internship, and network.
We're planning the event and will release more details closer to March 8th, 2021. Register your interest above and we'll email you when the schedule is released.
March 8 2021
The tale of maintaining two platforms
Daniel Chan, FreshBooksReal-time physics simulations, performance, and open research problems
Mohammad Mohajerani, CM Labs SimulationsCareers in Security Engineering
Ivan Topolcic, DatadogFinding Jobs in Tech
Monarch Wadia, MintBeanGetting the Interview
Andrew Potapov, WishSoftware Panel
Google, Shopify, Quantom Mob, Nuclear Promise X, AmazonAnatomy of a Cloud Application
Mike Davison, Sr. AI Architect, MicrosoftIntroduction to CockroachDB
Irfan Sharif, Technical Staff, CockroachDBInternal Infrastructure to build Legends of Runeterra and League of Legends: Q&A
Guy Kisel, Software Engineer, Riot GamesScaling Stateful Real-time Systems
Justin Li, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, ShopifyOffice Hours with AWS
Dolica Gopisetty, Solutions Engineer, AWSPanel on Data Infrastructure
GitHub, Shopify, GympassMy journey with Kubernetes knowing nothing about Kubernetes
Guinevere Saenger, Software Engineer, GitHubEnso Connect: from class project to VC backed startup
Francois Gouelo, Co-founder/CEO at Enso ConnectJust the tips: Experimenting with entrepreneurship as an engineer
Steve Strates, Staff Software Engineer, PerryStreetBuilding a YC-backed tech company in 2020
Colin Chartier, Founder, LayerCIHealthcare, Industry, and the intersection with AI
Dr. Devin SinghQ&A / Office Hours around AI
Dr. Sahar Rahmani, Senior Director, RBCGeorgian: AI and Fintech + Q&A
Applied Research Scientists, GeorgianMy Journey from Tech to Quantitative Finance and AI
Richard Wu, AI Researcher, Two SigmaHow Pinterest Toronto is Applying AI to Online Shopping
Patrick Halina, Tech Lead, PinterestWe hope to connect students to industry folks to network, find jobs, find internships, and learn a bit about how the industry actually works.
Anyone who has a utoronto.ca account can attend, though the day is focused on students in the Department of Computer Science.
We are still figuring out whether or not we can record some of the sessions.
Some speakers cannot allow the sessions to be recorded, however, due to their employer's policy.
We haven't released registration per event-session yet.
For now, please regsiter your interest here.
Yes. We have a Code of Conduct that people must follow.
Please message either of the organizers on Slack or email us. Your report will remain anonymous outside of the organizers.
Please join us on Slack, listed on the I'm Interested page.
As we approach March 8th, it will be harder to get people signed up to a session.
That said, we are open to new talks. You can email Julian at julian.nadeau[at]utoronto.ca with details!.