The Asia-Canada Climate Connection: Deploying AI-Driven CleanTech

Climate AI Innovation Hub: Scaling Climate Solutions with AI Climate challenges have accelerated the need for innovative solutions that drive sustainability, resilience, circular economies and low-carbon transitions. Entrepreneurs play a key role in developing technologies and business models that address environmental issues at scale. This speaker series aims to highlight those innovators, increase awareness of […]

CIFAL York Tech Innovators Summer Camp – August 2026

The Tech Innovators Summer Camp is an immersive, hands-on experience that introduces high school students to the cutting-edge technologies shaping our world. Over five exciting days, participants will explore various transformative technological fields. Through expert-led sessions, interactive workshops and practical projects, students will gain foundational knowledge, develop critical thinking skills and explore potential career paths […]

CIFAL York Tech Innovators Summer Camp – July 2026

The Tech Innovators Summer Camp is an immersive, hands-on experience that introduces high school students to the cutting-edge technologies shaping our world. Over five exciting days, participants will explore various transformative technological fields. Through expert-led sessions, interactive workshops and practical projects, students will gain foundational knowledge, develop critical thinking skills and explore potential career paths […]

Teaching in Focus (TiF) Conference 2026 – “What is the value of teaching: Exploring why we do what we do in our practice”

Teaching in Focus (TiF) 2026 is York University’s pan university conference dedicated to reimagining the future of teaching and learning! Join colleagues who are shaping the culture of teaching and learning across our YorkU campuses. This conference brings together educational leaders, faculty, and graduate students who are exploring, innovating, or implementing scholarly and engaging approaches to […]

Institute for Technoscience & Society Virtual Seminar Series with Yousif Hassan

Join us for an ITS virtual talk titled “The politics of memory: Language technologies and decolonization in South Africa” with Dr. Yousif Hassan (University of Michigan) on Feb. 26 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Yousif Hassan is an assistant professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and School of Information. His research […]

Tech Innovators March Break 2026 Camp: Exploring the Future

The Tech Innovators March Break Camp is an immersive, hands-on experience that introduces school students to the cutting-edge technologies shaping our world. Over five exciting days, participants will explore five transformative fields: drone technology, artificial intelligence, medical device technology, virtual reality, and geographical information systems. Through expert-led sessions, interactive workshops and practical projects, students will […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Intensive

Theme for 2026: AI and Assessment Dates: April 14, 15, & 16Location: Fully Online via Zoom. Links will be provided to registrants via email the week before the Intensive. Designed to take educators through the process of making deep, substantive, robust changes to assessment practices in light of the challenges and affordances of AI, this […]

How AI, IoT, and Satellites Are Redefining Wildfire Management

Climate AI Innovation Hub: Scaling Climate Solutions with AI Climate challenges have accelerated the need for innovative solutions that drive sustainability, resilience, circular economies and low-carbon transitions. Entrepreneurs play a key role in developing technologies and business models that address environmental issues at scale. This speaker series aims to highlight those innovators, increase awareness of […]

Dialogues: AI in the Classroom (In-Person – Jan. 20, 2026, 11:00-1:00 ET)

This event brings York faculty and students together in informal collegial dialogue to discuss how AI is being incorporated into post-secondary education. Conversation will address student and faculty experiences of AI in teaching and learning at York. We will begin with time for the two groups to discuss key issues separately, followed by facilitated time […]

Course Workflows: Streamlining Teaching with AI Support (Online – Jan. 28, 2026, 9:30-11:00 ET)

Join us to review current best practices for ethically embedding AI into postsecondary course workflows, and to explore how instructors are using AI for prep and how students might engage with it across a term. Participants will engage with practical and responsible strategies that can make use of AI tools while staying true to educational […]