This is a joint meeting of Canadian Society of Senior Engineers and IEEE Life Members Affinity <a href="http://Groups.This" target="_blank" title="Groups.This">Groups.This series of presentations has been occurring for more than 20 years and is now being also advertised to the IEEE Northern Canada Section (NCS) Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) through vTools and other IEEE LMAG's and IEEE members depending upon the topic. At the same time the Canadian Society of Senior Engineers (CSSE) is using their national organization to provide information, the subject and speaker to members across <a href="http://Canada.The" target="_blank" title="Canada.The">Canada.The next meeting will be held on Thursday, October 16, 2025. The meeting will open at 12:30 pm MDT (2:30pm Eastern), with the presentation starting at 12:45 (2:45 pm EDT). The meeting will be held via the Zoom platform with the actual invitations sent the afternoon of Wednesday, October 15. If you plan to attend and be included on the Zoom invite for this meeting please respond to Tom Madsen, [email protected], before noon on Wednesday, October 15.Please note the meeting originates in Alberta which is in the Mountain Time Zone, so if you are in another province you must account any necessary time <a href="http://shift.Title:" target="_blank" title="shift.Title:">shift.Title: Change Over 50 Years in Canadian EnergyPresenter: Dennis McConaghy, BSc and MSc Chemical EngineeringSummary:Dennis will discuss the evolution of the Canadian hydrocarbon production industry over the last fifty years, from the mid 70s through to today, essentially the period of his career in that industry.He will provide special emphasis on how world class production industries evolved from valued elements of the Canadian economy to being beset with political and legal obstruction, putting in doubt its capacity to even sustain its existing scale let alone grow. How did this happen? How could this have happened in Canada? Dennis will offer his analysis from the vantage point of a career that was very much at the center of that change and <a href="http://conflict.Bio:•Native" target="_blank" title="conflict.Bio:•Native">conflict.Bio:•Native Albertan, graduated from the University of Alberta in the mid 70s in Chemical Engineering, MSc 75•Joined the Alberta Research Council in 1975, supporting Alberta industrial development and energy policy•Joined Alberta Gas Trunkline in 1980, and then onto NOVA Chemicals, leading feedstock procurement function into the mid 1990s•Participated in concept and execution of the major Canadian merger of NOVA and TransCanada Pipelines in the late 1990s•Led business and corporate development functions at TransCanada through to 2014, including project development of the Keystone pipeline system, Energy East, LNG Canada, Mackenzie Valley Pipelines <a href="http://project.•After" target="_blank" title="project.•After">project.•After retirement, authored 3 books related to the issues and failure in Canadian climate and energy <a href="http://policy.•Father" target="_blank" title="policy.•Father">policy.•Father of four children, married to the same wife for 45 <a href="http://years.Virtual:" target="_blank" title="years.Virtual:">years.Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/505962

Technical seminar with the following abstract:Future data-intensive workloads, particularly from artificial intelligence, have pushed conventional computing architectures to their limits of energy efficiency and throughput, due to the scale of both computations and data they involve. In- and near-memory computing are breakthrough paradigms that provide approaches for overcoming this. But, in doing so, they instate new fundamental tradeoffs that span the device, circuit, and architectural levels. This presentation starts by describing the methods by which in/near-memory computing derive their gains, and then examines the critical tradeoffs, looking concretely at recent designs across memory technologies (SRAM, RRAM, MRAM). Then, its focus turns to key architectural considerations, and how these are likely to drive future technological needs and application alignments. Finally, this presentation analyzes the potential for leveraging application-level relaxations (e.g., noise sensitivity) through algorithmic <a href="http://approaches.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="approaches.Speaker(s):">approaches.Speaker(s): Naveen Verma, Room: MCLD 3038, Bldg: MacLeod Building, 2356 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4

The IEEE North Saskatchewan Section Computer Chapter is pleased to host a special technical talk by Dr. Rick Kazman, from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. In this timely and thought-provoking session titled "Do We Still Need Architects in the Age of AI?", Dr. Kazman will explore how large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the architectural design process—and what this means for the future of both human and machine collaboration in creative <a href="http://professions.📅" target="_blank" title="professions.📅">professions.📅 Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025🕓 Time: 4:30 – 6:00 PM📍 Location: Engineering Building, Room 2C01, University of Saskatchewan🎟 Admission: Free for students | $5 IEEE members | $10 non-members☕ Light refreshments provided | Open to students, faculty & industrySpeaker(s): Dr. Rick Kazman, Room: 2C01, Bldg: Engineering Building, 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Introduction to Neural Networks Workshop📅 October 16, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM📍 EITC E2-155, University of ManitobaJoin UMIEEE and UMRT for a beginner-friendly workshop on Neural Networks! This event presented by Syed Abraham Ahmed (UMIEEE Vice Chair & UMRT Co-founder & Advisor) will cover the core concepts of neural networks and serve as a starting point for anyone interested in exploring the field of AI and deep <a href="http://learning.The" target="_blank" title="learning.The">learning.The session will feature:-An introductory presentation on neural networks and their applications-A live, interactive demo training a neural net on the classic MNIST handwritten digit dataset using TensorFlow🎟️ Free for UMIEEE and UMRT members💲 $10 for non-membersNo prior experience is required! A laptop is recommended to bring for following the live <a href="http://demo.Room:" target="_blank" title="demo.Room:">demo.Room: 155, Bldg: EITC E2, 75A Chancellors Circle, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2