About
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.
Schedule
March 8 2021
The tale of maintaining two platforms
Daniel Chan, FreshBooks
Real-time physics simulations, performance, and open research problems
Mohammad Mohajerani, CM Labs Simulations
Careers in Security Engineering
Ivan Topolcic, Datadog
Finding Jobs in Tech
Monarch Wadia, MintBean
Getting the Interview
Andrew Potapov, Wish
Software Panel
Google, Shopify, Quantom Mob, Nuclear Promise X, Amazon
Anatomy of a Cloud Application
Mike Davison, Sr. AI Architect, Microsoft
Introduction to CockroachDB
Irfan Sharif, Technical Staff, CockroachDB
Internal Infrastructure to build Legends of Runeterra and League of Legends: Q&A
Guy Kisel, Software Engineer, Riot Games
Scaling Stateful Real-time Systems
Justin Li, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Shopify
Office Hours with AWS
Dolica Gopisetty, Solutions Engineer, AWS
Panel on Data Infrastructure
GitHub, Shopify, Gympass
My journey with Kubernetes knowing nothing about Kubernetes
Guinevere Saenger, Software Engineer, GitHub
Enso Connect: from class project to VC backed startup
Francois Gouelo, Co-founder/CEO at Enso Connect
Just the tips: Experimenting with entrepreneurship as an engineer
Steve Strates, Staff Software Engineer, PerryStreet
Building a YC-backed tech company in 2020
Colin Chartier, Founder, LayerCI
Healthcare, Industry, and the intersection with AI
Dr. Devin Singh
Q&A / Office Hours around AI
Dr. Sahar Rahmani, Senior Director, RBC
Georgian: AI and Fintech + Q&A
Applied Research Scientists, Georgian
My Journey from Tech to Quantitative Finance and AI
Richard Wu, AI Researcher, Two Sigma
How Pinterest Toronto is Applying AI to Online Shopping
Patrick Halina, Tech Lead, PinterestOrganizers
FAQ
What is the purpose of this day?
We hope to connect students to industry folks to network, find jobs, find internships, and learn a bit about how the industry actually works.
Who can attend?
Anyone who has a utoronto.ca account can attend, though the day is focused on students in the Department of Computer Science.
Will the sessions be recorded?
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.
How can I register for individual sessions?
We haven't released registration per event-session yet.
For now, please regsiter your interest here.
Can I report someone that is behaving unprofessionally or harassing people?
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.
Where can I ask questions?
Please join us on Slack, listed on the I'm Interested page.
I'm in the industry, can I present?
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!.